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In ancient Greek religion and myth, Dionysus (; Ancient Greek: Διόνυσος Dionysos) is the god of wine-making, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre. He was also known as Bacchus ( or ; Ancient Greek: Βάκχος Bacchos) by the Greeks (a name later adopted by the Romans) for a frenzy he is said to induce called baccheia. As Dionysus Eleutherios ("the liberator"), his wine, music, and ecstatic dance free his followers from self-conscious fear and care, and subvert the oppressive restraints of the powerful. His thyrsus, a fennel-stem sceptre, sometimes wound with ivy and dripping with honey, is both a beneficent wand and a weapon used to destroy those who oppose his cult and the freedoms he represents. Those who partake of his mysteries are believed to become possessed and empowered by the god himself.His origins are uncertain, and his cults took many forms; some are described by ancient sources as Thracian, others as Greek. In Orphic religion, he was variously a son of Zeus and Persephone; a chthonic or underworld aspect of Zeus; or the twice-born son of Zeus and the mortal Semele. The Eleusinian Mysteries identify him with Iacchus, the son or husband of Demeter. Most accounts say he was born in Thrace, traveled abroad, and arrived in Greece as a foreigner. His attribute of "foreignness" as an arriving outsider-god may be inherent and essential to his cults, as he is a god of epiphany, sometimes called "the god that comes".Wine was a religious focus in the cult of Dionysus and was his earthly incarnation. Wine could ease suffering, bring joy, and inspire divine madness. Festivals of Dionysus included the performance of sacred dramas enacting his myths, the initial driving force behind the development of theatre in Western culture. The cult of Dionysus is also a "cult of the souls"; his maenads feed the dead through blood-offerings, and he acts as a divine communicant between the living and the dead. He is sometimes categorised as a dying-and-rising god.Romans identified Bacchus with their own Liber Pater, the "Free Father" of the Liberalia festival, patron of viniculture, wine and male fertility, and guardian of the traditions, rituals and freedoms attached to coming of age and citizenship, but the Roman state treated independent, popular festivals of Bacchus (Bacchanalia) as subversive, partly because their free mixing of classes and genders transgressed traditional social and moral constraints. Celebration of the Bacchanalia was made a capital offence, except in the toned-down forms and greatly diminished congregations approved and supervised by the State. Festivals of Bacchus were merged with those of Liber and Dionysus.
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Vampire en Pyjama [2016]
Song | Duration |
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Chanson d'été | 3:22 |
I Follow Rivers | 3:15 |
Jack et la mécanique du cœur [2014]
A Town Called Panic [2009]
Song | Duration |
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Surfin' Frog | 4:13 |
Le Tour, Vol. 4 [2009]
Song | Duration |
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Tais-Toi Mon Cœur | 2:37 |
Monsters In Love/ Western Sous La Neige [2008]
Song | Duration |
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Coiffeur D'Oiseaux | 2:57 |
Tokyo Montana | 3:05 |
Longboard Blues | 4:02 |
Deguise En Pas Moi | 2:07 |
Mc Enroe's Poetry | 2:51 |
Don Diego 2000 | 3:33 |
Surfin Frog | 3:02 |
Coffin Song | 2:12 |
Petit Colorado | 3:23 |
Anorak | 3:08 |
I Love You | 1:11 |
Longboard Train | 3:40 |
Song For Jedi | 3:01 |
La Mécanique du Coeur [2007]
Haiku/Western Sous la Neige [2006]
Song | Duration |
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45 Tours | 3:27 |
La Petite Princesse aux Seins Ecrasés | 3:03 |
Sick Philarmonic Body | 2:53 |
Nicholsong | 1:56 |
Wedding Idea | 1:13 |
Pyjama | 2:20 |
Asshole Car Orchestra | 3:04 |
Coccinelle | 3:40 |
Lune Bulle et Only Knees | 3:24 |
Mandarine | 2:42 |
Built for Myself | 2:56 |
Train a l'Americaine | 3:16 |
Coiffeur D'Oiseaux | 2:57 |
Tokyo Montana | 3:05 |
Longboard Blues | 4:02 |
Deguise en Pas Moi | 2:07 |
MC Enroe's Poetry | 2:51 |
Don Diego 2000 | 3:33 |
Surfin Frog | 3:02 |
Coffin Song | 2:12 |
Petit Colorado | 3:23 |
Anorak | 3:08 |
I Love You | 1:11 |
Longboard Train | 3:40 |
Song For Jedi | 3:01 |
Rodeo |
Whatever the Weather Acoustic/Electric [2003]
Song | Duration |
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Arthur | 6:26 |
Petit Colorado | 3:38 |
Anorak | 3:41 |
Surfin Frog | 6:49 |
I Love You | 4:09 |
Song for Jedi | 5:03 |
Lady Bird | 3:26 |
Broken Tit's | 2:38 |
Coccinelle | 5:20 |
Coiffeur d'Oiseaux | 3:21 |
Polar Girl | 1:05 |
Don Diego 2000 | 5:19 |
Longboard Train | 5:03 |
45 Tours | 4:29 |
Coffin Song | 5:41 |
Tokyo Montana | 4:37 |
MC Enroe's Poetry | 4:05 |
New Eye Blues | 5:17 |
Longboard Blues | 5:49 |
Ciel en Sauce | 1:50 |
Wet | 5:13 |
Wedding Idea | 1:57 |
Whatever the Weather: Concert Acoustique [2003]
Song | Duration |
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Arthur | 6:27 |
I Love You | 4:09 |
Petit Colorado | 5:22 |
Mc Enroe's Poetry | 4:05 |
Don Diego 2000 | 6:50 |
Anorak | 3:41 |
New Eye Blues | 5:17 |
Surfin' Frog | 6:48 |
Song for Jedi | 5:03 |
Surfin Frog | 3:34 |
Longboard Blues | 5:49 |
Lady Bird | 3:26 |
Ciel En Sauce | 1:50 |
Broken Tit's | 5:03 |
Coccinelle | 5:19 |
She Is the Liquid Princess | 3:23 |
Coiffeur d'Oiseaux | 3:42 |
Wet | 5:13 |
Polar Girl | 3:22 |
Tokyo Montana | 4:37 |
Wedding Idea | 1:57 |
Longboard Train | 1:43 |
45 Tours | 4:52 |
Coffin Song | 5:41 |
Western Sous la Neige [2002]
Song | Duration |
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Coiffeur d'Oiseaux | 2:57 |
Tokyo Montana | 3:05 |
Longboard Blues | 4:02 |
Déguisé en Pas Moi | 2:07 |
MC Enroe's Poetry | 2:51 |
Don Diego 2000 | 3:34 |
Surfin Frog | 3:02 |
Coffin Song | 2:12 |
She Is the Liquid Princess | 2:46 |
Petit Colorado | 3:23 |
Anorak | 3:10 |
I Love You | 1:11 |
Longboard Train | 3:40 |
Song for Jedi | 3:01 |
Rodéo | 7:39 |
Haiku [1999]
Song | Duration |
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45 Tours | 3:27 |
La Petite Princesse Aux Seins Ecrasés | 3:02 |
Sick Philarmonic Body | 2:53 |
Nicholsong | 1:56 |
Wedding Idea | 1:13 |
Poissons Egal Stickers | 3:38 |
Poissons+ Stickers | 3:37 |
Pyjama | 2:20 |
Asshole Car Orchestra | 3:04 |
Coccinelle | 3:40 |
Lune Bulle Et Only Knees | 3:24 |
Mandarine | 2:41 |
Built For Myself | 2:56 |
Train A L'Americaine | 3:16 |
Poe M/Lady Bird/Mrs Squeeze/Brillant Sound | 17:12 |
Poe-M | 17:12 |
Happening Songs
Song | Duration |
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Wet | 2:16 |
No Sense Words Harmony | 2:04 |
Polar Girl | 1:11 |
Can I? | 2:51 |
Children of My Walk | 2:21 |
Flying Cake | 2:45 |
Still Bleeding | 3:02 |
New Eye Blues | 3:13 |
Screamin' Like an Egg | 2:22 |
Sad Smiling F... | 3:02 |
Old School Recordings
Song | Duration |
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Polar Girl | 1:41 |
No Sense Words Harmony | 1:50 |
Wet | 4:05 |
The Sun is Blue Like the Eggs In Winter
Song | Duration |
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Fais Pas Si | 2:22 |
Frog - Electric Torch | 2:05 |
Wet [Remix] | 2:42 |
Ciel en Sauce | 1:34 |
Plastic Fear | 2:37 |
Arthur | 2:31 |
Broken Tit's | 1:56 |
I'll Shot My Bed | 1:44 |
Like a Dead Horse One/Dead Ships Party | 1:55 |
Unknown Album
Song | Duration |
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Song for Jedi | 3:01 |
La Panique Mécanique | 4:06 |
When the Saints Go Marchin' In | 2:51 |
L' Homme Sans Trucage | 3:24 |
Flamme a Lunettes | 5:11 |
Thème de Joe | 2:14 |
King of the Ghost Train | 2:19 |
Mademoiselle Clé | 2:57 |
Poissons+ Stickers | 3:37 |
Candy Lady | 3:51 |
45 Tours | 3:27 |
L' Ecole de Joe | 2:59 |
Coccinelle | 3:39 |
MC Enroe's Poetry | 2:51 |
Poe-M | 17:12 |
She Is the Liquid Princess | 2:46 |
Rodéo | 7:39 |
Amigo Bronco | 3:47 |
Johnny Cat | 2:39 |
Like a Dead Horse One/Dead Ships Party | 1:55 |
Guerrier de porcelaine | |
Frog - Electric Torch | 2:05 |
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