Seila Chiara News&Blog

On the Banality of Lies and Idiocy

2024-11-08

We wrote a song back in 2010, to which I added some lyrics in 2011 during the Arab Spring, that I later updated in 2016 after Trumpâ€™s first election. The song was originally not meant to be on the album, but our very good friend Tonio (basically the sixth member of the band) convinced us otherwise.

â€¨I never thought it would be the first song that we released from this album weâ€™ve been working on for years on end, with wearying perseverance, which will probably be our final and posthumous release.

â€¨More importantly, I hoped this song would never be relevant again, but here the f we are.

â€¨The song title is a reference to Hannah Arendtâ€™s work on the â€œbanality of evilâ€.

Practice extracts

2019-01-07

Since we don't have much to share, here are two extracts from our recent practices, showcasing parts of our upcoming album.

Journal Entry #2

2015-10-28

Hi there,
We made another one of these diary-things, where we kinda talk about Arab punks, reverb nobs, shitty Parisian transportation, the number 90; where we gradually learn how to clap our hands to a rhythm and eat cheese-croissants to the crowing of a rooster.
This is our way of sharing something when we don't have anything to share. It's something.

Journal Entry #1

2015-03-24

Nicolas was really motivated to film and edit, so we're also trying some sort of "series" that we're simply calling "Journal Entry", where we'll film some of the things we're up to once in awhile.

This first one - hopefully not the last - was filmed last November (as you can see we're already super efficient at doing this...), where we worked overnight on a new song in our home studio. This can give you a glimpse of the direction our music is going, as the latest released material was written back in 2010.

Something to Intersect With Reality

2015-03-20

Almost 4 years ago, we went on tour with our friends from Nonrem, and Kimiyuki from Tokyo Jupiter Records. We filmed a bunch of things but never took the time to put them together, until Nicolas found the courage to make a short film out of them, when learning about Hideyoshi's sickness. We were able to send him a rough draft shortly before he passed away, though we're not sure he was able to watch it.

So here it is, finally finished... I tried to subtitle it in English as best as I could (as a few different languages are spoken), let me know if you catch some mistakes.

The title "Something to Intersect With Reality" is in reference to Nonrem's last album title, loosely translated. I thought it perfectly matched the feeling of going on tour and meeting all the wonderful people that shared this experience and helped us make it possible.

Working on our first full-length album

2013-07-23

We're not very talkative these past months, but that's because we're writing our first full-length album. It will probably be a long process, as we've all got quite time-consuming jobs.

So yeah, we're still here and active, just secretly in our dim-lit, oven-like rehearsal room.

See you when we're done.

Our release party in Lyon

2012-10-19

We did a release party for "Rive" on September 26th at home in Lyon, to finally present the album to our friends and families. This was a special show for us, since we played every single song we've written so far, during a show that lasted almost 2 hours. Weirdly enough, everyone stayed the whole way!

Here is the setlist we played :
White Elephants
Fatuity Fair
Standing Up on Swings
The Mutiny of All Your Gestures
Gaea
Brace Yourself! This Is I We're Leaving
Smitten Kitten
Stories Like Ants in New York
Katie, Bar the Door
Fine
Epilogue Day (DÃ©but)
Mice on Drugs in Pretty Cages
Red Tape
That Way Madness Lies
This Is the Party

Anyways, we really had a wonderful time, so thank you to everyone who came along and made it so wonderful.

If you want to see what it was like, here are 4 songs that were filmed during the show :

Smitten Kitten

Brace Yourself! This Is I We're Leaving

The Mutiny of All Your Gestures & Gaea

Standing Up on Swings

Our next show will also be in Lyon, on November 13th, where we will be opening for Dillon's beautiful voice on the boat La Marquise.

2 live videos from our show in Clermont-Ferrand

2012-07-10

Here are two live videos of songs from our latest release "Rive", that we uploaded a few weeks ago, from the show we did in Clermont-Ferrand at the Raymond Bar on May 5th, 2012 :

Fine

Smitten Kitten

Concert with Dillon in Lyon postponed to November

2012-04-20

The show in Lyon with Dillon had to be postponed due to health problems from Dillon. The show will be held on November 13th instead of April 24th, still on a Tuesday, still on the Marquise boat in Lyon. Checkout the facebook event for more information.

You can buy the 10\"

2012-02-28

Rive 10\" is available for sale through us for 10â‚¬. Send us an email to seilachiara.orga@gmail.com if you want a copy.

You can also find it through our record labels and in a bunch of different distros.
Moment of Collapse (Germany)
Communication Is Not Words (France)
Tokyo Jupiter Records (Japan)

(The lyrics booklet contains French translations)