Hey friends,

We’ve been pretty silent since august, we’re sorry for that. Some news to come soon, we have some “news”, but we need some more time to get things straight. If bökanövsky has been silent, we where all realy busy with side projects, studies, work, and daily life stuff. Be sure we’ll come back stronger than ever!

After more than a year and a half, the split is out now !!! We have been trought every shit: booklet problems, covers problems, records problems, money problems and coordination problems… But the split is out know I guess this is the most cool thing !

2 new songs for bökanövsky, and 1 new for Lakmé !

The covers has been silkscreaned at the 103 in Grenoble, by Mélo, Sylvain and Clément aka “the trainee”. There are several colors for the covers: black, black red, pink etc…
The covers and booklet has been designed by the talented friend: Hugues: Puzzle records/12xu/ex. flying worker (this is to look cool).

About the booklet: he his pretty heavy and big, the split theme was psychiatry, and mental illness. Several text from people from the band and the labels involved. And 2 interviews (not a band interview) an interview of people, concerning the split theme. (1 made by lakmé, 1 made by bökanövsky)
All the french text where translated in english by Cédric (And it was a fucking amazing and big work !!!)

4€ hand by hand

Please order your copy trought those labels, who where more than patient and understandable:

Codex / http://www.myspace.com/codexrecords (SLOVAKIA)
Revolution summer / http://www.myspace.com/revsum (CZECH REP)
Waking the dead / ??? (CZECH REP)
Pure heart / http://www.myspace.com/pureheartrecords (CZECH REP)
Quatuka / http://www.myspace.com/quatukarecords (POLAND)
Shove / http://www.myspace.com/quatukarecords (ITALY)
Désertion / http://desertionrecords.wordpress.com (South of FRANCE)
Petit chantier / http://www.myspace.com/petitchantierrecords (North west of FRANCE)
Il limene / http://www.myspace.com/inliminerecords (ITALY)
J’apelle les flics / ??? (Center of FRANCE)
OSK / http://www.myspace.com/oskrecords (RUSSIA)

Please get an ear on the new band of members of lakmé: GATTACA, they totaly rule ! (http://www.myspace.com/gattacaxvx)

Last but not list, it was a big pleasure to share that split with our friends lakmé, the “theme” was really interesting, and it was a new way for us to “work” on a split. Thanks to everybody, people, labels, friends who helped out in any way.

Hi everyone, just few words. We’re curently looking for some videos or pictures from the U.S tour. If some of you catched something from a show or party please we would really appreciate having it and use it. We’re curently making a video from the tour, and trying to have as maximum as feature possible. Send your stuff at contact AT bokanovsky DOT com . Thanks a lot !!!!”

Hey,

We’re back from tour. There’s a lot to say, maybe we’ll write a report and you’ll find interest in it, maybe… We just feel like we did something incredible, as far as we’re concerned… To fly above ocean and continents with your best friends, to play everyday on another continent. That seems to be insane or amazing, we just can’t decide!

Our deepest thoughts go to Maladie for making it real, that is such a big “work”, a question of trust and everything we cannot describe, and it was so impressive to watch them playing!

We’re now back home, going back to our everyday life. And it’s harder than expected. We have plans and ideas, but we’ll check this out a bit later!

Making a list would be neverending, just be sure we’re all thinking of you. To everyone we met just thank you for everything including kindness, hospitality, food, shows, kisses, hugs, drinks, laughs, jokes (even the bad ones), games (caaaaps), stories, sightseeing, freeways and rest areas!

This is stucked in our minds forever!

Hugs, kisses and love!

Design by Elmer

We were 4, we are now 5 !!! Pretty exiting news. Nicolas joined the band, and will be handling the second guitar. Nicolas recorded us since the beginning, he his more than a simple guy for us. It’s in a natural and sincere decision that we and he decided to join the band.
We are very happy about it. Nicolas should be playing guitar on our shows in the region, and we are all hoping that he will be able to come on tour with us in the states. That would be SIQ !

New record out soon on PUREPAINSUGAR (France/Europe) & FLOWER OF CARNAGE (Japan). Tape version available soonish too on ALLERGIC TO FUN (Usa)

1. We stumble (24′33)

Please mail those labels if you want some more infos about it:
www.purepainsugar.com
www.flowerofcarnage.com
www.myspace.com/allergictofun

We Stumble

Pics by François OLLIVIER.

We finished recording !!!

We can’t say it was easy, but we feel that we did something new, we took our time, we thought a lot, and in the end that recording session was really different from the others. We had the computer to crash down on the first week, and we lost 2 tracks with vocals on the second week. But like we said, in the end we finished it ! Sure there are plenty of things we could have done better, but we really wanted to sound quite like “live”.
For now on, the record has to be mixed and mastered by Jack Shirley at the Atomic Garden recording studio in San Francisco (Siq!!!) and it will be released on vinyl by 2 amazing people, that we took time to know in the past years: Séb from Purepainsugar in France and Momo from Flower of Carnage in Japan. The sweet and cute friend Julien from Daïtro is handling the artwork. We are so stocked of what these people are doing with us, sincerely, we are more than happy!
And of course, all this work wouldn’t have been possible without, once again, the precious help and the patience of our friend Nicolas (who recorded all our previous songs too).We really admire your patience and your friendship! THANK YOU !
Now it’s time to get back in our tiny rehearsal room, the summer heat will start to make us suffocate. We will play some shows in the region, don’t hesitate to ask us to play in your house, kitchen, favorite Irish pub or rehearsal room !

Ps: A big thanks to the friends who came and did sing with us, you rule!”

Ps 2: some pictures we took from the recording session are here.

Hello folks,
What’s new ? Well, nice weather back, it’s getting warmer, and we can already hear the sweet summer days calling us! We started recording our new record, we did bass and drums last week-end, and started the guitars… Unfortunately the computer just broke down, the good thing is that nothing is lost, the bad thing is that the computer is fucking dead… So our friend Troipe, who is recording us since the beginning of the band will buy a new one quite fast and hopefully next week I’ll be able to finish the guitars, then we will start recording vocals. That record will be released by PurePainSugar from France and maybe a friend in Japan, but not sure at 100% yet, and available for the U.S tour! We are more than happy to be able to share that record with such kind, great and influencing friends! Also Jack Shirley from the Atomic Garden studio will be mixing and mastering the new record. We are also glad and more than happy to be able to share that with him, the thing that rejoice us is that we will meet him hopefully on the U.S. tour. Being able to share that record with friends that care for us and people we will meet in “real” life is something we really wanted to do!
Ok that’s all for know, expect some audio samples for end of April, hopefully! In the meanwhile, coco will enjoy the nice weather while he works in the woods, Pierre is going to enjoy his new apartment terrace, romain will start his ritual of eating on the beach during his lunch break, while clement will start to work on his future school exams haha!
Take good care
Ps: On va jouer quelques concerts ici et là avant juillet, venez faire la fête avec nous !