[node-l] Crisis In The Credit System - the Film and the Song

[rachel.baker at artscouncil.org.uk]

Petit Mal 
Crisis In The Credit System

Emusic:
http://www.emusic.com/album/Petit-Mal-Crisis-in-Credit-System-MP3-Download/1
1290115.html

iTunes:
http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum
?id=291752367&s=143444

Myspace
www.myspace.com/petitmalpetitmal

Crisis in the Credit System - the first (and only) great pop song about the
financial crisis. Combining an elegiac-compulsive piano riff, twanging
synths and waves of spooked electronics with sparse, melancholy vocals this
is a unique and addictive electro anthem for the end of capitalism as we
know it.

Petit Mal, AKA Ben Seymour and Melanie Gilligan, fuse '80s synth pop and
'00s electronica to create emotional, intelligent and irresistible new
music. Poetic, oblique and compelling, Crisis in the Credit System collides
a Pet Shop Boys-style pop drama with autistic vocal repetition a la Lora
Logic and ends up somewhere completely unique and contemporary. 

"They've got that arty/accessible duality down pat, the sort that early '80s
synth-duos used to have, so that before you even realise it, you're humming
and moving along to ideas that are quite high-falutin' and complex." 
The Guardian - Band of the Day
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/sep/10/newbandoftheday.387.petit.mal>

Crisis in the Credit System was written four years before the credit crunch,
when Petit Mal became obsessed with the mysteries of the global financial
system. Given the increasing presence of economics in culture and of culture
in the economy, Melanie decided it would be interesting to make a pop song
based on a prophecy of financial apocalypse. 

Crisis in the Credit System is featured in a 4-part fictional film of the
same name that Melanie has scripted and directed, released online September
29th. Making the connections between 'Northern Rock' and 'Das Kapital', the
film fuses philosophy and The Financial Times with an original  soundtrack
and extra dialogue from Ben. 

http://www.crisisinthecreditsystem.org.uk/

Ben and Melanie already have a cult following as members of London musical
collective Antifamily. 

Excited critics and devoted fans described their debut album as an instant
classic. Similar accolades can be expected for the forthcoming album from
Petit Mal to be released later this year. 




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