5.21.09 - Les Paradisiers - "More Tales from the Garden" out now...




Presented as a vinyl + digital download set, the debut from Ô Paradis/Thomas Nöla lovechild Les Paradiers creates an exotic jungle of fear giving way to ecstacy, perdition meeting paradise.

CLICK COVER TO HEAR 4 SONGS FROM THE ALBUM

Also, you can now cover up your body with something perhaps more pleasing to the eye:




Les Paradisiers shirts available in THE SHOPPE.

And...

3 outstanding acts play New England's premier den of sin. You'll attend? Well, of course you shall.

5.28.09 - Out now on Eskimo Films...



"NÖLA COMES ALIVE!"
dirs. Thomas Nöla & A.Wolanin
Starring Thomas Nöla et son Orchestre

    A wide-ranging CD/DVD set of Thomas Nöla et son Orchestre's varied live incarnations and theatrical music videos.

    A CD documents a short-lived 3 piece garage band line-up from 2008 along with a short solo acoustic set. Along with 4 music videos, the DVD contains snippets from Nöla's 2007 harmonium-based set in Leipzig and a performance of the album "The Rose-Tinted Monocle" in its entirety performed by Le Orchestre at its purest.

This release is housed in a 7" chipboard arigatopak with a show flyer.


FEATURED ON THE DVD:
"The Rose-Tinted Monocle LIVE"
"Live in Leipzig"

Music videos for:
"All The Queen's Men"
"The Rose-Tinted Monocle"
"Lady Grey"
"Frontenac Martini View"


DVD TECHNICAL DETAILS:
- NTSC
- Region free
- 75 min.

CD TRACKLISTING
1. Hello, friends & Enemies
2. Is Vanity a Sin?
3. Kinderbund
4. Champagne Days
5. Sandra Lindsey
6. Bei Mir Bist du Schön
7. Henry Pelham
8. Iron Gate
9. On the Red Tree Hill

10. Vanity is a Sin!
11. Children in the Fall
12. In the Poppy Fields
13. Pink Room
14. Hello, Friends & Enemies
Encore: So Long, Lale Andersen (w/ David E. Williams)


5.15.09 - The Quicksand Fontanelle


    Be there and celebrate this monumental endeavor into improving mankind this Friday June 5th at GERM Books & Gallery in Philadelphia. You'll be pseudo-glad you did.

    As well...




4.23.09 - Polly Eurothane EP out now...

Out now on Disques de Lapin:

Polly Eurothane - "Governor Penguin" miniCD-R EP - LPN12
DOWNLOAD FOR FREE HERE
or BUY IT FOR A SONG IN THE SHOPPE

    A curious and very limited 5 song release from the Geb Powers (Et Son Orchestre live bassist) project. These bare songs use acoustic guitar and vocals only, and were recorded in a moldy basement by Thomas Nöla in 2006, resulting in an organic peek into a strange mind. Each simple mini CD-R comes with a hand-drawn/painted cover that varies with each copy. No two are alike. Take a risk, why don't you? 50 copies exist and that's that.

TRACKLISTING:

1. Pound One Down
2.  Counterfeit Love

3.  All the Hollow
4.  Earth Mode
5. Dr. Wing



4.21.09 - "Frontenac Martini View"




2.27.09 - 'Every Missing Duck is a Duck Missed' OUT NOW! YES WE CAN!!!



   
 
$10+ (CD) or $6.66 (MP3)

    Tragedy renders the monster human.  Williams’ 5th full length release is decidedly his most eclectic.  Largely inspired by the grief and futility following the illness and death of his girlfriend, the album veers from somber piano ballads to electronic dirges to at least one gran
diose epic with virtuoso live drums, odd time signatures and dissonant tone clusters (while still remaining catchy!)

    Longtime cohort Jerome Deppe gets the longest guitar solo of his career as well as his VERY FIRST harmonica solo (in the deceptively titled hoedown “Kill Yourself in Cape May”).   There are also 4 cover tunes and a witty Zevonesque take on the life of Idi Amin.   A local and national cast of musical luminaries* fleshes out the sound of David at his most organic and confessional.


 

*-- these include:
Jerome Deppe
Miss Adrina
Lora Bloom (Radio Eris, Temple of Bon Matin)
Kenneth Brune (Black Landlord, Pros from Dover, After Dinner Mints)
Tristan Deppe
Ruston Grosse (Silveth)
Thomas Nola
Lisa Sunshine (Radio Eris, Temple of Bon Matin)



TRACKLISTING:

1. Ich Hatt'Einen Kameraden
2. Save a Chair for Jennifer

3. Here Comes the Cold Narrator
4. Haiku, Interrupted
5. Do I Love You as Much as I Did When You Weren't Sick?

6. Séance Gossip (Gossip Séance)
7. Kill Yourself in Cape May

8. Petals Open, Quickly Close, Cops Say
9. Hymn to the Genius of Idi Amin

10. Relentless and Unrelenting
11. Lather
12. Suicide Bomb
13. Summer Wasn't Made for You and Me
14. The Unconscious is Cold

 15. Hello, Young Lovers
16. Their Paper Cranes Ablaze
17. Closing Suite for my Deceased


PRE-ORDERS SHIP OUT NOW...


As well...



2.14.09 - Hello, Young Lovers!

    Show that special someone how much you somewhat like them this Valentine's Day with a digital download of the new David E. Williams album "Every Missing Duck is a Duck Missed"...available now for the romantic price of only $6.66.

BUY HERE:

OR IN THE SHOPPE

    This digital download is encoded at the pristine 320kbps rate and comes with the lyrics and artwork. Step into the future!

   The physical version of the album is still available for pre-order and will be released on 2.27.09 right here at eskimofilms.com.


ALSO...

NOTE: You can now WEAR Thomas Nöla et son Orchestre! Be the first in your ghetto to wear the mournumental new "Mr. Monocle" black armband.



Perhaps a moth has eaten a hole out of your cardigan. Cover it with a delightful (and free) patch!



  Either can be added to any order in the shoppe.


1.20.09 - Ooooooh lawdy! We gots a whole messa updates...

1. "Every Missing Duck is a Duck Missed" available for pre-order now...





Disque will ship immediately upon release...scheduled for 2.27.09


As a bonus, pre-orders receive a DVD-R of the universally adored video
for "Summer Wasn't Made for You and Me". ACT NOW!

WANT TO SEE THE MAN IN THE FLESH? WELL, LUCKY YOU! WE'LL ALL BE CELEBRATING THE RELEASE ON THE FOLLOWING DATES.

- NEW YORK CITY - 2.27.09 - @ LUCKY CHENG'S - 24 1ST AVE. - 9PM
- PHILADELPHIA - 3.6.09 - GERM BOOKS & GALLERY - 2005 FRANKFORD AVE - 7PM

THESE ARE NOT TO BE MISSED


2. Brand new Thomas Nöla et son Orchestre video for "The Rose-Tinted Monocle"

More to come?????
Yes.


3. Be teased by the new "Happy Birthday, Cake Eater" teaser:


4. EPISODE 1 OF THOMAS NÖLA'S 'THIS FERAL PLANET'
In this episode, we explore the exotic environs of Mexico City...


5. You can now watch Thomas Nöla's first film (a puppet musical, nonetheless) for FREE online. It's a document of childlike innocence and whatnot. Where others went to film school, he did this...and ESKIMO FILMS was born.

It stands as a flawed masterpiece...raw perfection. Note all the name changes on the actors since the original 2003 release...

JACK
Starring: Thomas Nöla, Stavo Craft, Melissey Castevet, Dave Martel,
Geb Powers, Dustin T. Rooney

REEL 1


REEL 2


REEL 3


REEL 4


Feel free to download these files and burn them to a disque.

6.
A bunch of new Eskimo Films (p.s...they're SILENT!)...

"Lovell Island"



"Roma"



"Middle Massachusetts (part one)"




THAT'S QUITE ENOUGH FOR NOW. You're welcome.


1.3.09 - New David E. Williams music video!!!!







Watch the new video for David E. Williams' "Summer Wasn't Made for You and Me"...just one of many delightful tracks from his forthcoming Every Missing Duck is a Duck Missed. Get it via Disques de Lapin SOON, why don't you? Release date: Februaryish.

12.31.08 - Happy birthday to me.

DOWNLOAD FOR FREE


To celebrate his 29th year of existence, Thomas Nöla proudly releases "Songs for Children Vol. 2" for free. Bookended by two covers (Lee Hazlewood's "Glad I Never" and Stavo Craft's "Wavelength in your Tower"), this gem also includes two reprises and a previously unrecorded song.

Lucky you.

THOMAS NÖLA ET SON ORCHESTRE
"Songs for Children Vol. 2" - MP3 EP - LPN10

1. Glad I Never
2. In the Poppy Fields (reprise)
3. Oh No, It's Raining!
4. Henry Pelham (reprise)
5. Wavelength in Your Tower




12.6.08 - Out now...

Disques de Lapin Presents:
"Rabbits in Your Stocking" LPN9 - CD-R

Your Christmas wishlist was horribly incomplete...until now. Celebrate the holiday that has the highest suicide rate in style with Disques de Lapin's x-mas epic "Rabbits in Your Stocking", a showcase of Lapin artists and friends of Lapin ringing in the season of snow.

Featuring the already-known Lapin acts Stavo Craft, Oval Portraits, Polly Eurothane, the can't and the Universes, the album also features fresh face Jim Ether. Love Demian of O Paradis? Well, you'll hear him twice, under his usual moniker as well as in a preview of the future Demian/Nöla supergroup Les Paradisiers. Not enough for you?!? Then you'll certainly enjoy two tracks by Naevus and their earlier incarnation Winter...all the way from the crumpet fields of England, no less.



You want more? Try on a track from Jerome Deppe's new album, or his comrade David E. Williams as he offers up a version of "I Believe in Father Christmas" that will make you thirsty for soy nog and hungry for cyanide. Perhaps a Thomas Nöla et son Orchestre carol co-written by Ernest Hemmingway will do it for you. No? Well, the child-like melancholy of Miss Moonshine's "Stile Nacht" WILL!

Presented in a hand-stamped chipboard arigatopak, "Rabbits in Your Stocking" is sized to fit in almost any stocking. Order right away for delivery before XXXmas.



TRACKLISTING:

1. Jim Ether - "Good Morning Jessica"
2. David E. Williams - "I Believe in Father Christmas"
3. The Universes - "Ballistic Missletoe"
4. Oval Portraits - "MotherPlease"

5. O Paradis - "Angeles de Arena Secan sus Corazones"
6. Winter - "Brown is the Colour"
7. Jerome Deppe - "Rose Madder"

8. Polly Eurothane - "Pookie Xmas Jerry"
9. Les Paradisiers - "Shoot the Moon"
10. the can't - "Sunday With Jacky (In Denton)"
11. Stavo Craft - "Sing:Snow:Seasons"
12. Naevus - "The Orchard"

13. Thomas Nöla et son Orchestre - "Merry Christmas, Good Luck &             Goodbye"
14. Miss Moonshine - "Stile Nacht"
15. ?






AND MORE!


CALENDAR OF LIVE HAPPENINGS:

5.30.09 - Thomas Nöla et son Orchestre - live at Nick's Bar - Worcester, MA

6.5.09 - "The Quicksand Fontanelle" opening and reception - Philadelphia, PA

8.8.09 -
Thomas Nöla et son Orchestre + Walter Sickert & THe ARmy of BRoken TOys, David E. Williams - live at Nick's Bar - Worcester, MA


































  • THOMAS NÖLA & FRIENDS - "THE QUICKSAND FONTANELLE - IMAGES FROM THOMAS NÖLA AND HIS NEW ENGLAND LAPINS" - FINE ARTS EXHIBITION - JUNE & JULY '09 IN PHILADELPHIA, PA
  • THOMAS NÖLA ET SON ORCHESTRE - "TRES PATHETIQUE" - album - 2010
  • DISQUES DE LAPIN PRESENTS - "MONKEES IN THE RABBIT HOLE" - CD -  2010