La fin des pseudonymes (the record) was released on Thin Consolation in 2020. For the launch party, Antonin teamed up with drummer Olivier Taskin to prepare live versions of his tracks. Due to the lockdowns, this particular configuration gave a single concert, on 14 February 2020, at the Clignoteur in Brussels. Nonetheless, the desire to work together remained and grew with every improvisation session. Other musicians (Fred Aerden and Nicolas Claus) joined the project and the first LP of La fin des pseudonymes (the band) is due in Summer 2023. In the meantime, you can discover their music here: https://soundcloud.com/la-fin-des-pseudonymes

Composition and mix: Antonin De Bemels
Contributing artists: Rachel Langlais https://soundcloud.com/rachellanglais (piano on "Serpentine") and Cha! https://soundcloud.com/florencecha (drums on "Thème de l'oubli")
Mastering: Alexis Oscari

Acheter

La fin des pseudonymes

https://thinconsolation.bandcamp.com/album/retour-des-confins
"Retour des Confins" revisits "La fin des pseudonymes", an album by Antonin De Bemels released in February 2020. It showcases the work of musicians from Belgium (YSWARM, Thomas Turine, the Ephemeral Cover Band), the Netherlands (Cyance), and France (Glabre). "Retour des Confins" is more than just a remix album. Most of the tracks are covers, recreated from scratch, without relying on the original stems. It also includes the original version of "Thème de l'oubli", without the drums present on the album. To cover "Serpentine", a band was formed, and immediately disbanded. It featured Olivier Taskin on drums, Julie Nayer on piano, Hughes Devos on bugle, and David Christophe on bass. This cover is perhaps the most surprising, as it veers from a minimalist synth-pop to jazzy post-rock, reminiscent of Joe Hisaishi's work...

Mastering: Antonin Simon (except 4: exm)
Artwork: Bertrand Panier

Original album : https://thinconsolation.bandcamp.com/album/la-fin-des-pseudonymes

Retour des Confins

The record that gave birth to the band https://soundcloud.com/la-fin-des-pseudonymes
Composition and mix: Antonin De Bemels
Piano; Antonin De Bemels and Alice Romainville
Mastering: Alexis Oscari

Le début de quoi

Composition and mix: Antonin De Bemels
Mastering: Alexis Oscari

Official music video: https://youtu.be/waK6CgizWr0

Histoire naturelle

Composition and mix: Antonin De Bemels
Mastering: Alexis Oscari

Official music video: https://youtu.be/8uBpveTEJvc

Humus

improvised remix of "J.S. Bach: Sonata nach Reinken in A Minor, BWV 965 - 1. Adagio" as played by Ramin Bahrami
from my mix https://www.mixcloud.com/antonindebemels/melancolie-douce-19/

Full mix

Mélancolie Douce XIX Teaser (Bach Remix)

Thème de l'oubli (Original Ambient Mix)

If you like this, please consider buying the release, which comes with three exclusive bonus tracks! -> https://antonindebemels.bandcamp.com/album/comptines

Produced by Antonin De Bemels
Mastered by Antonin Simon

COMPTINEs

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COMPTINE Bis Repetita

"Serpentine" cover by the Ephemeral Cover Band:
- David Christophe (bass)
- Hughes Devos (bugle)
- Julie Nayer (piano)
- Olivier Taskin (drums)

Recorded and mixed by Antonin De Bemels
Mastered by Antonin Simon

Serpentine (Ephemeral Cover Band Cover)

"Thème de l'oubli" by Antonin De Bemels, remix by YSWARM aka https://soundcloud.com/locusts-swarm aka https://soundcloud.com/yas-k

Thème de l'oubli (YSWARM Remix)

"COMPTINE bis" cover by Thomas Turine
http://cosipie.bandcamp.com/

Comptine bis (Thomas Turine Cover)

thinconsolation.bandcamp.com/album/retour-des-confins

Artist : Various
Title : Retour des Confins
Code : TH!N43
Format : Digital

Artwork : Bertrand Panier
Mastering : Antonin Simon

Antonin De Bemels - Le début de quoi (Glabre Cover)

A dub version i made from the track "Comptine bis" by Antonin de Bemels. Out on Thin Consolation. Mastered by exm.

Antonin De Bemels - Comptine bis (cyance dub)

Improvised track "mélofaune" as played on May 18, 2023, with:
- Fred Aerden (processed field recordings)
- Antonin De Bemels (groovebox)
- Philippe Van Bellinghen (cello + fx) https://soundcloud.com/philvanb2712

Picture by Pauline De Bemels

Le début

Les Antonymes - Mélofaune

My first impro with Arturia's Microfreak, in combination with the good old TR-8S groovebox...

Video: https://youtu.be/m5G65Ag4I_4

TR-8S + Microfreak impro 01/06/2022

Experimental ambient mix featuring a.o. Brambles, Set fire to flames, Marissa Nadler, Windy and Carl and Kathryn Joseph...

"All the way, oh, the sound, cold and light sounding
All the way, aloud, wait, don't wait, call my name
Oh, the light, oh, sound
The sound lay down, bound
Hold it, sound, unfound
Hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it" (Kathryn Joseph)

Playlist: https://www.mixcloud.com/antonindebemels/haunted-love-story/

Image: https://www.instagram.com/camille.tsering/

Haunted Love Story

https://antonindebemels.bandcamp.com/album/au-ralenti

Au ralenti

Les Antonymes - Au ralenti (instrumental)

Preview of the second EP by https://soundcloud.com/les-antonymes
To support us, please buy the release -> https://antonindebemels.bandcamp.com/album/doctobre

With Hughes Devos (bugle), Christophe Seval (synth), Philippe Van Bellinghen (cello), Olivier Taskin (drums), Antonin De Bemels (groovebox) and poems by Shantala Pèpe and Jean-Philippe Convert

Artwork by Stéphane Jossart

D'octobre

Les Antonymes - D'octobre EP (preview)

Bodies fall in slow motion. Time walks on, in slow motion, as bodies fall. Bodies falling slowly towards the dust on the floor. Visions blurred by clouds of dust. Blurred visions of falling bodies. Tense faces frozen by bodies that fall in slow motion. Eyelids drooping. Eyes no longer wanting to see. The eyes of the bodies waving goodbye to a world with blurred vision. Dust in the eyes of the world. A hand opens and closes on emptiness. A body reaches for the ground. Feet detach themselves from the ground. A tense face crashes into the dust. A thousand grains of dust - of sand - embed themselves in the face of the fallen body. Cries arise, like anxious silences; cries like bodies falling towards the sky. Anxious silences etched into the tense faces. Silence reigning over the bodies that fall in slow motion. The dust embeds itself into the anxious silences, like deep wrinkles to be kept forever.

Les Antonymes - Au ralenti (original)

In the annals of musical history, there exists a lesser-known soundtrack, unwittingly nestled within the burgeoning glitch scene of its time, that retrospectively emerged as a harbinger of the Clicks & Cuts movement, which would take root a year later. The obscure opus in question, shrouded in obscurity, quietly laid the groundwork for a sonic revolution yet to come.

An essential touchstone, proudly acknowledged by its creator, is the seminal album "Kulma" by Pan Sonic, unleashed upon the world in 1997. As one revisits this sonic artifact, its profound influence becomes unmistakably evident, permeating through the fabric of experimental soundscapes.

Rumours, though vehemently refuted, whisper of Carsten Nicolaï's clandestine encounter with a performance of Rivermen during the genesis of his inaugural solo endeavour under the moniker Alva Noto. Such tales, while enigmatic in nature, add layers of intrigue to the already enigmatic persona of the artist.

Beyond the foundational pillars of drone, glitch, post-techno, and post-industrial aesthetics, astute scholars have purportedly discerned faint echoes of the synth-pop ensemble Eurythmics within a fleeting passage of the composition's third movement. Veracious or anecdotal, this purported connection, although unintended by its creator, serves as a testament to the multifaceted tapestry of musical influence.

Rivermen OST (1999) - Part 1

Rivermen OST (1999) - Part 2

This is a tribute to those artists and labels from the end of the 90's / early 2000 that defined my love for experimental electronic music. The concept behind my specific choices here was inspired by some pieces by Lilith/Scott Gibbons and could be summed up by the title of this Lull piece from 1993 called "Journey through underworlds". It's about travelling below ground level, through layers of stone and earth, in the dark, but aiming for light…

NB : this is a re-upload of a mix I made in 2017 for Secret Thirteen's New Blood competition

Playlist :
1. Thomas Köner - Aubrite [Barooni, 1995]
2. Windy & Carl - Depths [Kranky, 1998]
3. Gas - 01 Untitled [Mille Plateaux, 1997]
4. Hazard - The Vibrating Room [Ash International, 1998]
5. Köhn - Niplöhn, Dedzu ! [(K-RAA-K)³, 2002]
6. Fennesz - Super Feedbacker [Mego, 1997]
7. CoH - Decoded : Terminate [Rastermusic, 1998]
8. Fennesz - Traxdata [Mego, 1997]
9. Scott Gibbons/Lilith - Stone-Reciprocal [Sub Rosa, 1992]
10. Silk Saw - No Twists No Turns [Ant-Zen, 2000]
11. Panasonic - Hetken [Blast First, 1995]
12. CoH - Solool [Rastermusic, 1998]
13. Panasonic - Graf [Blast First, 1995]
14. Hazard - Tangled Mass [Ash International, 1998]
15. Lull - Journey Through Underworlds [Rawkus, 1993]
16. Nurse With Wound - Soliloquy For Lilith I [Idle Hole Records, 1988 / United Dairies, 1993]
17. Lilith - Clay [Sub Rosa, 1992]
18. Köhn - Nigewöhne [(K-RAA-K)³, 2002]
19. David Grubbs / Mats Gustafsson - Apertura Pt. 2 [Blue Chopsticks, 1999]
20. Calla - Truth About Robots [Sub Rosa, 1999]
21. CoH - Speaking Tones [Rastermusic, 1998]
22. Disjecta - Gammi [Warp Records, 1996]
23. Lilith - With Both Fists: Part 4 [Sub Rosa, 1994]
24. Köhn - Hahver [(K-RAA-K)³, 2002]
25. Panasonic - Urania [Blast First, 1995]
26. Rob(u)rang - IL(A)TAYATE [Noise Museum, 2000]
27. CoH - Space Odyssey Revisisted [Rastermusic, 1998]
28. Disjecta - Conviction Hic [Warp Records, 1996]
29. Köhn - Stampertje [(K-RAA-K)³, 2002]
30. Panasonic - Teurastamo [Blast First/Mute Records , 1996]
31. Pita - Seven Tons Revised [Mego, 1996]
32. Köhn - De Kohning [(K-RAA-K)³, 1999]
33. David Grubbs & Mats Gustafsson - Apertura Pt. 2 [Blue Chopsticks, 1999]
34. Bernard Parmegiani - Transition [Agon, 1997]

Through Underworlds

Live session with my TR-8S one sunday morning...

Live session 125bpm 11/02/2024

Live session with my TR-8S one sunday morning...
Painting by Jean-Claude De Bemels

Live session 130bpm 11/02/2024

Rivermen OST

Rivermen OST (1999) - Part 3

If you like this, please consider buying the release: https://thinconsolation.bandcamp.com/album/la-place-des-yeux
by @les-antonymes

Credits:
- Frederic Aerden (processed field recordings)
- Antonin De Bemels (groovebox, spoken word)
- Hughes Devos (bugle, flute, piano)
- Olivier Taskin (drums) @olitaski

Artwork: Stephane Jossart

À la place des yeux

Les Antonymes - En forme de boules

"Qui me reflète sinon toi-même je me vois si peu
Sans toi je ne vois rien qu’une étendue déserte
Entre autrefois et aujourd’hui"

Paul Eluard, "Je t'aime" (extract)

This was the 21st episode in my Mélancolie Douce mix series
You can listen to the previous installments on Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/antonindebemels/
And please follow me here if you'd like to hear the new ones 🤍

Painting by Jean-Claude De Bemels

1	Ventre de biche - California Love On The Beach
2	Prairie - Cut Me Open https://soundcloud.com/prairiehounds
3	La fin des pseudonymes - Porte matin https://soundcloud.com/la-fin-des-pseudonymes
4	Caterina Barbieri - Myuthafoo
5	Flygmaskin - Altérer https://soundcloud.com/flygmaskin
6	Alexandre Tharaud, Michel Portal - Ma plus belle histoire d'amour
7	Les Antonymes - Mélofaune https://soundcloud.com/les-antonymes
8	Gia Margaret - Cicadas
9	Flygmaskin - Au bonheur des morts
10	Arcade Fire, Owen Pallett - Song on the Beach
11	Caterina Barbieri - Math of You
12	Flygmaskin - Choral
13	Sophie Hutchings - Hutchings: Half Hidden
14	Gia Margaret - A Stretch

Mélancolie douce XXI

"Sweep away the broken glass
Some things were never meant to last
Don't cut your skin on things that linger in the past
Be sure to clear away the shards
Lest a piece should pierce your heart
Taking splinters with your fingers is an art" (Matt Elliott)

This was the 20th episode in my Mélancolie Douce mix series
You can listen to the previous installments on Mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/antonindebemels/
And please follow me here if you'd like to hear the new ones 🤍

Drawing: Sandrine Nicaise

1	Antonin De Bemels - Le début de quoi (Glabre Cover)
2	Harold Budd, Brian Eno - First Light
3	Alva Noto - A Forest
4	nthng - Unfinished
5	Antonin De Bemels - Comptine bis (Thomas Turine Cover)
6	Yasmine Hamdan - Hal
7	Joep Beving - Etude
8	Brian Eno, Jon Hopkins, Leo Abrahams - Abandoned Ship
9	Tomberlin - easy
10	The Cure - All Cats Are Grey
11	Antonin De Bemels - Serpentine (Ephemeral Cover Band Cover)
12	Matt Elliott - Song of Consolation

Tracks 1, 5 and 11 taken from https://thinconsolation.bandcamp.com/album/retour-des-confins

Mélancolie douce XX

"If only tonight we could sleep
In a bed made of flowers
If only tonight we could fall
In a deathless spell
If only tonight we could slide
Into deep black water
And breathe
And breathe…" (Robert Smith)

Mix enregistré le 1er février 2023, pour L.

Image: Jean-Claude De Bemels (Oosduinkerke, 1964)

1	Dmitry Evgrafov - Evgrafov: Unasked Questions
2	Aphex Twin - # 3
3	Clarice Jensen - Love
4	Bachar Mar-Khalifé - Amal
5	Rodolphe Coster - Birdstroke
6	Ramin Bahrami - J.S. Bach: Sonata nach Reinken in A Minor, BWV 965 - 1. Adagio
7	nthng - Son
8	Sophie Jamieson - The Weight Comes
9	Plaid - Perspex
10	Low - I Remember
11	Burial - Forgive
12	Easter - Bone Marrow Stem Cell
13	Alessandra Celletti - Truman Sleeps
14	Nine Inch Nails - A Warm Place
15	The Cure- If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
16	Moses Sumney - Doomed
17	Vanessa Wagner - Celeste
18	Dulces Exuviae, Bor Zuljan - La Canción del Emperador
19	Marika Hackman - I Follow Rivers

Mélancolie douce XIX

In connection with her vampire short ‘shemortelle’, https://soundcloud.com/shelbatrajashari organised a happening in nadine. She invited some friends, collaborators, and dj’s for an evening with live performances. A celebration of the collective ritual and ‘raving’ as a sacred form of soul-searching.
https://index.nadine.be/shemortelle-happening/

All tracks in this mix were composed and/or produced by me and could be found here: https://antonindebemels.bandcamp.com/ or there: https://thinconsolation.bandcamp.com/

Drawings on flyer: Judith De Bemels

Dj set @ SHEMORTELLE HAPPENING 15/03/24

"Jamais d’autre que toi en dépit des étoiles et des solitudes
En dépit des mutilations d’arbre à la tombée de la nuit
Jamais d’autre que toi ne poursuivra son chemin qui est le mien" (Robert Desnos)

Mix enregistré le dimanche 17 mars 2024

Image: "Nuage de paille" (Jean-Claude De Bemels, 1975)

1 https://soundcloud.com/les-antonymes - À la place des yeux
2 Múm - Slow Down
3 Jóhann Jóhannsson, Hildur Guðnadóttir - Jóhannsson: Good Night, Day
4 Serge Reggiani - L'amoureuse (Paul Fort)
5 Serge Reggiani - Je t'attendais ainsi qu'on attend les navires (René-Guy Cadou)
6 Low - Down
7 Ludovico Einaudi, Daniel Hope - Einaudi: Sarabande
8 Serge Reggiani - Ô temps suspends ton vol (Alphonse de Lamartine)
9 CLARAGUILAR - Primer raig
10 La Dispute - Thirteen
11 Hood - Experiments in Silence
12 Eartheater - Airborne Ashes
13 Dasha Rush - Light and Dust
14 Serge Reggiani - Ô beau visage sombre long et doux (Oscar Milosz)
15 Poppy Ackroyd - Pause (Reimagined by Hinako Omori)
16 Büşra Kayıkçı, Vincent Delerm - Follower (feat. Vincent Delerm)
17 Caterina Barbieri - Perennial Fantas
18 Hania Rani, Ólafur Arnalds - Woven Song — piano reworks
19 Actress - Hit That Spdiff ( b 8 )
20 Antoine De Schuyter - Drauma
21 Sophie Hutchings - Back Of Beyond
22 Serge Reggiani - Jamais d'autre que toi (Robert Desnos)

Mélancolie douce XXII

"La nuit n’est jamais complète
Il y a toujours puisque je le dis
Puisque je l’affirme
Au bout du chagrin une fenêtre ouverte
Une fenêtre éclairée
Il y a toujours un rêve qui veille
Désir à combler faim à satisfaire
Un cœur généreux
Une main tendue une main ouverte
Des yeux attentifs
Une vie la vie à se partager." (Paul Éluard)

Mix enregistré le 26 octobre 2022, pour L.

Image: Bettina Grolleau -> https://grolleaubettina.wixsite.com/gravures or https://www.instagram.com/bettgrll/

1	Yael Naim - Shine
2	Fluxion - You Are
3	Anika Noris - Little 15
4	Keith Jarrett - Part XI (Live)
5	Sam Haven - Heaven Sent
6	Bill Evans, Jim Hall - I Hear A Rhapsody
7	Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Prowler
8	Laura Marling - What He Wrote
9	Keeley Forsyth - Bring Me Water
10	Ramin Djawadi - A Forest
11	David Lang - I Lie
12	TWO LANES - Phases (Aparde Remix)
13	Daniele Luppi, Greg Gonzalez - Last Drink
14	Tamino - You Don't Own Me
15	Stranded Horse - So High
16	Brambles - Unsayable

Mélancolie douce XVIII

If you like this, please consider buying the release:
https://thinconsolation.bandcamp.com/album/la-place-des-yeux

All compositions by https://soundcloud.com/les-antonymes :
- Frederic Aerden (processed field recordings)
- Antonin De Bemels (groovebox, spoken word)
- Hughes Devos (bugle, flute, piano)
- Olivier Taskin (drums) @olitaski

Artwork: Stephane Jossart
Mixing, Mastering:  @antonindebemels

Les Antonymes - À la place des yeux

"Dans nos cœurs comme des tambours
résonnent le sang et la vie
La fenêtre donne sur toujours
Et l'horizon est infini
Au loin, les souvenirs
Au loin, les souvenirs"

(Mansfield.TYA)

Image: "Femme bouquet" (détail) par Priscilla Beccari -> https://priscillabeccari.com

1	Dakota Suite & Quentin Sirjacq - Nu Dat Deze Dag Voorbij Is (1)
2	Susanna - The Willow Song
3	Dakota Suite & Quentin Sirjacq - Nu Dat Deze Dag Voorbij Is (2)
4	Douglas Dare - Red Arrows
5	Chatham Baroque - Gaitas
6	Ivo Dimchev - Traveling Light
7	Chatham Baroque - Ausente del Alma
8	Daniel Hart - Whatever Hour You Woke
9	Alfred Deller - François Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres: Première leçon (1)
10	Emily Wells - David's Got a Problem
11	Chatham Baroque - Folías
12	Nina Simone - Why Keep On Breaking My Heart
13	Dave - Black
14	Douglas Dare - The Piano Room
15	Mansfield.TYA - Petite Italie
16	Adrianne Lenker - Terminal Paradise
17	Alfred Deller - François Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres: Première leçon (2)
18	J. Ralph & Antony - Manta Ray
19	Jordane Tumarinson - Éléphant blanc
20	Blue Hawaii - Follow
21	Keaton Henson - Party Song
22	Alfred Deller - François Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres: Première leçon (3)

Mélancolie Douce XVII

"Long afloat on shipless oceans
I did all my best to smile
'til your singing eyes and fingers
Drew me loving to your isle" (Tim Buckley)

"Nous nous aimons et nous vivons
Nous vivons et nous nous aimons
Et nous ne savons pas ce que c’est que la vie
Et nous ne savons pas ce que c’est que le jour
Et nous ne savons pas ce que c’est que l’amour." (Jacques Prévert)

Artwork: Sandrine Nicaise

Playlist:

1	John Prine - Falling in Love Again (feat. Alison Krauss)
2	Grouper	- Driving
3	aYia	- Crystal
4	Hughes Aufray	- De velours noir
5	Dodie	- dot
6	Vetle Nærø	- And There She Stood
7	Sarah Mary Chadwick	- Always Falling
8	Víkingur Ólafsson	- Badzura: Muse d'eau
9	Emika	- Dilo 22
+ "Droit de regard" de Jacques Prévert dit par l'auteur
10	Noël Akchoté	- Le Mépris (d'après Georges Delerue)
11	Serge Reggiani	- Cet amour (d'après Jacques Prévert)
12	Woodkid & Nils Frahm	- Winter Morning I
13	Sea Oleena	- If I'm
14	Jon Hopkins	- Wintergreen
+ "Je suis comme je suis" de Jacques Prévert dit par Madeleine Renaud
15	Jacques Prévert	- Les enfants qui s'aiment
16	Lucinda Chua	- Until I Fall
17	Kate davis	- True Love Will Find You in the End
18	Grouper	- Thanksgiving Song
19	Ex:Re	- Misery Is a Butterfly
20	Alfred Deller	- Music for a while (Purcell)
21	Broken Twin	- The Aching
22	Max Richter	- Richter: Mirrors
23	Sohn	- Song to the Siren
24	Vetle Nærø	- Stuck in a Dream
+ "Chanson" de Jacques Prévert dit par Simone Signoret
25	Noël Akchoté	- Falling In Love Again

Mélancolie Douce XVI

https://thinconsolation.bandcamp.com/album/la-fin-des-pseudonymes

Artist : @petiteportedebronze
Title : La fin des pseudonymes
Code : TH!N35
 Format : CDr

Artwork : Bertrand Panier
Mastering : Alexis Oscari

Antonin De Bemels - Comptine bis

https://thinconsolation.bandcamp.com/album/la-fin-des-pseudonymes

Composition: Antonin De Bemels
Piano: https://soundcloud.com/rachellanglais
Mastering: Alexis Oscari
Artwork: Bertrand Panier

Serpentine

Antonin is an artist from Brussels. After finishing art school in 1997, he made a name for himself as a video artist, working with choreographers and electronic musicians of the more adventurous persuasion. He also writes, draws and makes masks. But rigth now, his focus is on music. He composes music for dance and theatre, such as recently for Estelle Delcambre's "Marée haute". In 2020, he releases a solo LP entitled "La fin des pseudonymes", followed by a remix album called "Retour des Confins" in 2023. That same year, back from the lockdowns, Antonin also releases two Eps with his new project https://soundcloud.com/les-antonymes and the one and only album from the late band https://soundcloud.com/la-fin-des-pseudonymes

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