CURRENT RELEASE: 

Philippe Petit: Needles In Pain (Pict. Disc vinyl album + Digital/ Alrealon Musique - MAY 2013)

http://alrealonmusique.bandcamp.com/album/needles-in-pain-alrn036

NEEDLES IN PAIN is a "symphony for turntables" executed live using 3 turntables + 1 extra tonearm built for Philippe and allowing to catch 2 different sounds from the same "prepaired" vinyl. Indeed the basis for "Needles In Pain" comes from unique vinyl units which Philippe Petit uses during his musical sets. Filled with field recordings, textures which have mutated with each playing, creating an organic maturation in sound that time slowly developped... Textures gradually changed with each playing taking advantage of the patina of age, elaborating an alteration in the sound. An echo of the past to which Petit adds more and more vinyls' warm cracklings... 

"I love to play live and onstage I play an Electric Psalterion + "Triple Caterpillar" Drum Guitar + turntables + an amplified wood-tablet, a washboard-like kitchen tool, various glass/knives/inflatable balloons... I also love to process textures w/ my laptop (prepaired strings, various clicks & electro-acoustic or field recordings forming a tapestry of sound) to create a deep sound assemblage. 
Topping it all I play my prepaired vinyls. 
Assaulting turntables to take advantage of the vinyl material to fondle released sounds, raking the needle across the record's grooves, rubbing their stylus on paper, cardboard, metal to process unusual noises and textures… Headbutting... Dancing... Enjoying to perform and entertain my audience."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIzLuUxlOKs