History Music / ZovietFrance

* DarkerAndEdgier: hard to believe but their 90’s run is usually listed as such, Especially to their move towards dark ambient. ''Shadow, Theif of The Sun'' and ''Digilogue'' come to mind.

* WordSaladTitle: Practically every song they've ever released is a jumbled scrabble word, some of their albums count too. (''Gesture Signal Threat'', ''Misfits, Loony Tunes and Squalid Criminals'', ''A Flock of Rotations'' etc.)

* BreakupBreakout: Robin Storey would eventually go on as a solo artist toward the start of the 1990's and form ''Rapoon''. Whether there was bad blood or creative difference, it has yet to be said yet it is quite evident that their sound had changed by the time of his departure.
** ''Reformed Faction'' (''of Soviet France'') could be seen as a TakeThat to Zoviet France's switch to digital recording or a tribute, but it's still a point of contention.
* {{Corpsing}}: happens in ''Bring Hessa'' from ''The Hessian Album''. Says something when not even the band can take their music seriously.

'''Zoviet France''' (usually written as :zoviet*france: or :$oviet:france:) is an enigmatic collective of post-industrialists and self-proclaimed Droneologists who formed in 1980 near the dreary town of Newcastle upon Tyne. With a career spanning nearly thirty years, they have made a considerable impact on the postindustrial scene, creating haunting and desolate soundscapes with a flare of tribal and ritualistic ambient.

* CorruptedData: a common motif with the group and part of their sound, they rely heavily on the decomposition of both their instruments and even their recording devises to create an air of intangibility. ''Digilouge'' evokes this to a T, from the random clippings and chirpings to the art work dipicting a MatrixRainingCode-like corruption of a computer system.

* {{New Sound Album}}: It's debatable since there albums very considerably. ''Mohnomishe'' can be considered because it switched direction from bat shit insane tribal/musique concrète to more industrial. This Troper feels that ''Shouting at the Ground'' had a considerable influence on their 90's sound.

* ''Shouting at the Ground'' 1988 (arguably their {{New Sound Album}})

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: the ''Charm, Ceremony, Chance, Prophecy'' series comes to mind
* {{Breakup Breakout}}: Robin Storey would eventually go on as a solo artist toward the start of the 1990's and form ''Rapoon''. Whether there was bad blood or creative difference, it has yet to be said yet it is quite evident that their sound had changed by the time of his departure.
** ''Reformed Faction'' (''of Soviet France'') could be seen as a {{Take That}} to Zoviet France's switch to digital recording or a tribute, but it's still a point of contention.

* {{Corrupted Data}}: a common motif with the group and part of their sound, they rely heavily on the decomposition of both their instruments and even their recording devises to create an air of intangibility. ''Digilouge'' evokes this to a T, from the random clippings and chirpings to the art work dipicting a {{Matrix}} like corruption of a computer system.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Their first few albums were made up of enough noise, ritualistic ambient, harsh earsplitting screams and Musique concrète to make Music/{{Frank Zappa}} proud. The latter ones are made up of more Ambient/Drone and are tamer by comparison, but not by much…

!! ''Le musicians de Soviet France'' contain examples of:

* {{Revolving door band}}: Although the musicians who participate in the band prefer to remian annonymous, Zoviet France has been prone to this since its conception. Ben Ponton has been the only consitant member and is currently the other half of the current group, along with Mark Warren.

** ''They're Eating the Passengers''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzMmmr7R5dU]] from ''Misfits, Loony Tunes and Squalid Criminals'' features samples from the cockpit radio of Captain John Testrake and the radio control tower of Beirut International Airport during the highjacking of TWA Flight 847 on June 14, 1985.

** ''Voice print Identification''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbD22kebxpI]] contains over 10 minutes of some of the most obscure vocal samples drawn out into an industrial song, with startling effect.

* {{Sampling}}: a creepy example in ''Ram''[[http://youtu.be/PKsIe4w9w5E]]. Which was from an old telecast of Jim Jones attorney commenting on the Jonestown Massacre, it gets very unsettling when the actual song comes in.

* {{Lucky charms title}}: :$oviet:france: on their first two albums, they would switch the logo constantly throughout the 80's, going from litteral fake symbols that spelt out their name[[https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1422372_699295610095036_915060440_n.jpg]] until around the late 80's to early 90's when they Settled with :zoviet*france:. The art work usually depicts a crescent moon under the asterix.

* {{Industrial}}: of the Tribal/ambient variety.
* {{Live Album}}: Quite a few. ''Vienna 1990'' and ''What Is Not True'' consist of mainly garbled and murkey droning for an hour. One of their bootleg albums is even called ''Live in my livingroom''. When the club that they were scheduled to perform at mistakenly booked someone else, the members of the group's response was, "whose apartment can we play at?"
* {{Harmful to Touch}}: Their debut album ''Garista'' came with a muslin silk inlay that was coated in creosote ''(in large doses it can be quite carcinogenic)''. Also of note are the radioactive Seagull feathers that came glued to the packaging of ''Popular Soviet Songs and Youth Music''. It's debatable if both these items still retain their potency 30 years from their conception, so be warned.
* {{Lighter and Softer}}: Surprisingly they are capable of this, ''Something This Beautiful'' from ''Collusion'' starts off with some of the most beautiful harmonies put to tape and even when it verges into the more frenetic parts it still doesn't lose its softness.

* DistinctDoubleAlbum: ''[[http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=100568 Popular Soviet Songs and Youth Music.]]'' The album contains two cassettes packaged in a clay pot. Included in said pot is a Muslim-silk American flag with Hammer and sickles in place of stars, an instruction sheet in English, French and Spanish detailing the various uses of the pot (i.e. improvised musical instrument.) Oh yeah… Did I mention the ''Radioactive seagull feathers'' glued to the back?

* DistinctDoubleAlbum: ''Popular Soviet Songs and Youth Music''[[http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=100568]]. The album contains two cassettes packaged in a clay pot. Included in said pot is a Muslim-silk American flag with Hammer and sickles in place of stars, an instruction sheet in English, French and Spanish detailing the various uses of the pot (i.e. improvised musical instrument.) Oh yeah… Did I mention the ''Radioactive seagull feathers'' glued to the back?

** ''Angels Pin Number'' could count too.

Zoviet France (usually written as :zoviet*france: or :$oviet:france:) is an enigmatic collective of post-industrialists and self-proclaimed Droneologists who formed in 1980 near the dreary town of Newcastle upon Tyne. With a career spanning nearly thirty years, they have made a considerable impact on the postindustrial scene, creating haunting and desolate soundscapes with a flare of tribal and ritualistic ambient.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Their first few albums were made up of enough noise, ritualistic ambient, harsh earsplitting screams and Musique concrète to make {{Frank Zappa}} proud. The latter ones are made up of more Ambient/Drone and are tamer by comparison, but not by much…

* {{New Sound Album}}: its debatable since there albums very considerably. ''Mohnomishe'' can be considered because it switched direction from bat shit insane tribal/musique concrète to more industrial. This Troper feels that ''Shouting at the Ground'' had a considerable influence on their 90's sound.

* {{Harmful to Touch}}: Their debut album ''Garista'' came with a muslin silk inlay that was coated in creosote ''(in large doses it can be quite carcinogenic)''. Also of note are the radioactive Seagull feathers that came glued to the packaging of ''Popular Soviet Songs and Youth Music''. Its debatable if both these items still retain their potency 30 years from their conception, so be warned.
* {{Lighter and Softer}}: Surprisingly they are capable of this, ''Something This Beautiful'' from ''Collusion'' starts off with some of the most beautiful harmonys put to tape and even when it verges into the more frenetic parts it still doesnt loose its softness.

* {{Lucky charms title}}: :$oviet:france: on their first two albums, they would switch the logo constantly throught the 80's, going from litteral fake symbols that spelt out their name[[https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1422372_699295610095036_915060440_n.jpg]] until around the late 80's to early 90's when they Settled with :zoviet*france:. The art work usually depicts a crescent moon under the asterix.

* DistinctDoubleAlbum: ''Popular Soviet Songs and Youth Music''[[http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=100568]]. The album contains two cassettes packaged in a clay pot. Included in said pot is a Muslim-silk American flag with Hammer and sickles in place of stars, an instruction sheet in English, French and Spanish detailing the various uses of the pot (i.e. improvised musical instrument.) oh yeah… did I mention the ''Radioactive seagull feathers'' glued to the back?

* {{Breakup Breakout}}: Robin Storey would eventually go on as a solo artist toward the start of the 1990's and form ''Rapoon''. Whether their was bad blood or creative difference, it has yet to be said yet it is quit evident that their sound had changed by the time of his departure.
** ''Reformed Faction'' (''of Soviet France'') could be seen as a {{Take That}} to Zoviet France's switch to digital recording or a tribute, but its still a point of contention.

* DistinctDoubleAlbum: ''Popular Soviet Songs and Youth Music''[[http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=100568]]. The album contains two cassettes packaged in a clay pot. Included in said pot is a Muslim-silk American flag with Hammer and sickles in place of stars, an instruction sheet in English, French and Spanish detailing the various uses of the pot (i.e. improvised musical instrument.) oh yeah…did I mention the ''Radioactive seagull feathers'' glued to the back?

* {{Live Album}}: Quite a few. ''Vienna 1990'' and ''What Is Not True'' consist of mainly garbled and murkey droneing for an hour. One of their bootleg albums, ''Live in my livingroom'' is {{Exactly What It Says on the Tin}}. When the club that they were schedualed to perform at mistakenly booked someone else, the members of the group's response was, "whose appartment can we play at?"

!! ''Le musicians de Soviet France'' contains examples of:

* HellIsThatNoise: lordy, torchered screams and the jarring wall of sound instrumentals usually figure prominentaly. Look no further then ''Garista'' for the {{Ur Example}} of this trope.