Fly Pan Am 2019
FLY PAN AM ANNOUNCE UK TOUR DATES, NEW ALBUM C’EST ÇA OUT NOW VIA CONSTELLATION
LISTEN TO THE SINGLE “EACH ETHER”
Fly Pan Am have announced March 2020 UK tour dates in support of their new album C’est ça out now on Constellation – their first visit to the UK in over 14 years.
About the album, C’est ça is a brilliant return to form for Fly Pan Am – an album of renewed vitality and experimentation where rock structures underpinned by J.S. Truchy’s trademark rapid-fire bass and Félix Morel’s disciplined, ascetic drumming are submerged beneath waves of processed guitar by Roger Tellier-Craig and Jonathan Parant, with fluorescent noise treatments and sonic vandalisms wrought by all four. “Distance Dealer”, “Each Ether” and “Interface Your Shattered Dreams” nod to important influences like MBV and Hüsker Dü, while collapsing into/out of themselves in various ways. “One Hit Wonder”, “Bleeding Decay” and “Discreet Channeling” vault some of Fly Pan Am’s earliest reference points into the present: namely, the intrepid proto-Kosmiche of This Heat and Can, and later style-adjacent torchbearers like Boredoms, Flying Saucer Attack and Trans Am.
But Fly Pan Am have always and reliably been much more than the sum of their influences and of their own constituent parts. C’est ca is terrific slab of restless, conceptual, psych-cosmic noise rock that could come from no other band, forged by four musicians with long histories both together and apart. Following years of sonic exploration in all sorts of other projects and guises, whether in rock/punk/pop groups like Pas Chic Chic, Feu Thérèse, Avec Le Soleil Sortant De Sa Bouche and Panopticon Eyelids (to name just a few) or through a wide range of experimental electronic and audio-art projects – including Roger Tellier Craig and J.S. Truchy each with solo releases on Root Strata, and Truchy having run the Los Discos Enfantasmes label for several years – Fly Pan Am have reconvened with all four original members and made a new record sparkling with the creative buzz of lifelong artistic intensity, dialogue and friendship.
Fly Pan Am UK Tour dates
19 March – Groningen, NL @ Vera
20 March – Brussels, BE @ M4
22 March – Bristol, UK @ Colston Hall
23 March – Brighton, UK @ Rose Hill Arts
25 March – Glasgow, UK @ Broadcast
26 March – Manchester, UK @ Deaf Institute
27 March – Chelmsford, UK @ Hot Box
28 March – London, UK @ Cafe Oto
