Artist: Lena
Album: Circonstances / Variations 1-4
Label: Bruit Clair / Sounds Around
Format: Vinyl / digital
Catalogue N°: BC02
Release date: February 2010


Lena is french multi-producer Mathias Delplanque’s dubby techno project. He chose this name in 2000, from the main character of William Faulkner’s novel « Light in August » and released several albums on labels such as Quatermass, Sounds Around and Plush.

Circonstances / Variations is a series of variations around the track Circonstances, from the album Lost-Wax by Lena and the Floating Roots Orchestra  (released in 2008 on Plush).  Without being actual remixes, yet roaming freely from the original track, these variations give Lena the opportunity to develop long, repetitive electronic layers with dub consonances. 
In the wake of Basic Channel productions, but keeping within Lena's own specific richness and sonic complexity, this series is to be unravelled on 3 vinyl EPs.

Tracklisting

1.	Circonstances / Variation 1                    09 :34
2.	Circonstances / Variation 2                    04 :15
3.	Circonstances / Variation 3                    07 :52
4.	Circonstances / Variation 4                    06 :31

File under : dubby techno

www.mathiasdelplanque.com
www.myspace.com/lenafloatingdub


Lena - Circonstances Variation3

Artist: Mathias Delplanque
Album: Parcelles 1-10
Label: Bruit Clair
Format: CD / digital
Catalogue N°: BC01
Release date: January 2010


Mathias Delplanque is a french musician working since the end of the 90’s under various monikers : Bidlo, Lena, Stensil, or simply Mathias Delplanque. He’s also the founding member of several musical ensembles such as The Floating Roots Orchestra, The Missing Ensemble, AAA Men… Amongst his numerous collaborations are performances and albums with Rob Mazurek, Steve Argüelles, Black Sifichi, John Sellekaers, Shahzad Ismaïly etc…

Parcelles 1-10 is his 7th solo album under his own name. This album is the sequel of Le Pavillon Témoin, which was released in 2007 on the Greek label Low Impedance; it is also the first part of a trilogy, the second opus of which, Parcelles 11-20 (Stalker), is presently being produced.

The Parcelles (“Plots of Land” in French) are musical pieces that are halfway between folk, musique concrète and ambient. They were recorded in studio in live conditions (direct soundtakes, no re-recording). Mathias Delplanque uses the computer as an instrument in itself, along with other tools such as the melodica, the guitar, the zither and small percussions. Instruments are played, treated and recorded in the same process, thus giving birth to protean and uneven musical fragments.

The Parcelles series takes place between the last two tracks, n°14 (Le regard) and n°15 (Dérivation) on Le Pavillon Témoin. The track Parcelle 1 marks the beginning of a digression that will terminate – at the end of the 3rd opus of the series – with the last track on Le Pavillon Témoin.

Tracklisting

1.	Parcelle 1		04 :24
2.	Parcelle 2		04 :00
3.	Parcelle 3		03 :51
4.	Parcelle 4		03 :49
5.	Parcelle 5		05 :14
6.	Parcelle 6		03 :57
7.	Parcelle 7		02 :11
8.	Parcelle 8		06 :22
9.	Parcelle 9		05 :25
10.	Parcelle 10	11 :40

File under : live electronics, folktronica, ambient

www.mathiasdelplanque.com
www.myspace.com/mathiasdelplanque



Mathias Delplanque - Parcelle 03

Mathias Delplanque - Parcelle 06

Artist: Mathias Delplanque
Album: Passeports
Label: Bruit Clair / Cronica Electronica
Format: CD / digital
Catalogue N°: BC03
Release date: February 2010


Mathias Delplanque is a french musician working since the end of the 90’s under various monikers : Bidlo, Lena, Stensil, or simply Mathias Delplanque. He’s also the founding member of several musical ensembles such as The Floating Roots Orchestra, The Missing Ensemble, AAA Men… Amongst his numerous collaborations are performances and albums with Rob Mazurek, Steve Argüelles, Black Sifichi, John Sellekaers, Shahzad Ismaïly etc…

Passeports is a series of works based on sounds recorded by Mathias Delplanque between 2007 and 2008 in various locations related to transports in France: train stations, harbours, parkings, transit areas... Passeport 3 (Dieppe) also includes field recordings from a call center in New Delhi. These recordings represent the whole of the raw material and no additional sources were used for this album. The tracks present a combination of concrete untreated sounds and sonorous textures resulting from the manipulation of the original sounds.

Passeports is Mathias Delplanque's 8th solo album under his own name. It follows the line of albums such as Ma chambre quand je n’y suis pas (Montréal) (Mondes Elliptiques 2006), L’inondation (Mystery Sea 2008), La Plinthe (Optical Sound 2008), Ma chambre quand je n’y suis pas (Paris) (Taâlem 2009)…
This record is co-produced with portuguese label Cronica Electronica (www.cronicaelectronica.org)

Cover painting by Steve Roden

Tracklisting

1.	Passeport 1 (Nantes)                            8 :38
2.	Passeport 2 (Lille)                                 7 :18
3.	Passeport 3 (Dieppe)                            8 :35
4.	Passeport 4 (Nantes)                            1 :07
5.	Passeport 5 (Lille)                                 4 :45
6.	Passeport 6 (Nantes)                            7 :01
7.	Passeport 7 (Nantes)                          12 :35

File under : soundscape, musique concrète, drone music

www.mathiasdelplanque.com
www.myspace.com/mathiasdelplanque


Mathias Delplanque - Passeports 07 (Nantes)

Mathias Delplanque - Passeports 03 (Dieppe)

Artist: Lena
Album: Circonstances / Variations 1-4
Label: Bruit Clair / Sounds Around
Format: Vinyl / digital
Catalogue N°: BC02
Release date: February 2010


Lena is french multi-producer Mathias Delplanque’s dubby techno project. He chose this name in 2000, from the main character of William Faulkner’s novel « Light in August » and released several albums on labels such as Quatermass, Sounds Around and Plush.

Circonstances / Variations is a series of variations around the track Circonstances, from the album Lost-Wax by Lena and the Floating Roots Orchestra  (released in 2008 on Plush).  Without being actual remixes, yet roaming freely from the original track, these variations give Lena the opportunity to develop long, repetitive electronic layers with dub consonances. 
In the wake of Basic Channel productions, but keeping within Lena's own specific richness and sonic complexity, this series is to be unravelled on 3 vinyl EPs.

Tracklisting

1.	Circonstances / Variation 1                    09 :34
2.	Circonstances / Variation 2                    04 :15
3.	Circonstances / Variation 3                    07 :52
4.	Circonstances / Variation 4                    06 :31

File under : dubby techno

www.mathiasdelplanque.com
www.myspace.com/lenafloatingdub

Lena - Circonstances Variation 4

Artists: Stéphane Garin & Sylvestre Gobart
Album: Gurs. Drancy. Gare de Bobigny. Auschwitz. Birkenau. Chelmo-Kulmhof. Majdaneck. Sobibor. Treblinka.
Labels: Bruit Clair (PARA_SITE) / Gruenrekorder
Format: CD (x2) 
Catalogue: N° BC06
Release date: March 2011

Recent pictures and sound recordings realised on the grounds of confinement, deportation and extermination of the second world war, in france and in poland...

Garin-Gobart - Chelmno-Kulmhof (excerpt)

Lena : "Circonstances / Variations 1-4"
4 tracks EP
Label BRUIT CLAIR
http://www.bruitclair.com
http://www.myspace.com/lenafloatingdub

Lena - Circonstances Variation 1

Artist: Emmanuelle Gibello
Album: Labyrinthe (c104 goto N901)
Label: Bruit Clair
Format: CD / digital
Release date: January 2011

Labyrinthe (c104 goto N901) is the first official release by Emmanuelle Gibello, previously known for her live electronic performances. This record puts together works produced in various contexts. "Bamboo Cry" was recorded in 2010 for "Impronet", a project of "Cadavre Exquis" initiated by Anton Mobin for Arte Radio. "Crashtest #10" is the 10th live performance Emmanuelle gave for the "Placard Festival" (headphones sessions) in july 2002 in Paris. "Pour faire peur aux enfants dans le noir" was produced in the shape of the "Locked Out" project curated by Jean-Philippe Renoult and Dinah Bird and was initially broadcast in May 2009 for the Journée de la Création Radiophonique. "Random Erratum" was recorded live at Le Chat Noir (Paris) in december 2009. This work is an hommage to Marcel Duchamps's "Erratum Musical", and features sounds from the 3 first pieces. The last two tracks both use the Yi King as a compositional tool.


Emmanuelle Gibello - Pour faire peur aux enfants dans le noir

<a href="http://www.bruitclair.com/index.php">Bruit Clair</a> is a record label dedicated to sound art, electronic and electroacoustic music. 

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Catalogue 

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D'Incise - <a href="http://bruitclair.com/bc_catalogue_bc07.php">Akènes</a>
BC07 / CDR + Digital 

Stéphane Garin & Sylvestre Gobart - <a href="http://bruitclair.com/bc_catalogue_bc06.php">Drancy. Gare de Bobigny. Auschwitz...</a>
BC06 / 2 CD / 15 photos

Emmanuelle Gibello - <a href="http://bruitclair.com/bc_catalogue_bc05.php">Labyrinthe</a>
BC05 / CD + Digital 

Guillaume Laidain - <a href="http://bruitclair.com/bc_catalogue_bc04.php">Instants Mobiles</a>
BC04 / CD + Digital / 9 photos 

Mathias Delplanque - <a href="http://bruitclair.com/bc_catalogue_bc03.php">Passeports</a>
BC03 / Digisleeve CD + Digital 

Lena - <a href="http://bruitclair.com/bc_catalogue_bc02.php">Circonstances / variations 1-4</a>
BC02 / Vinyl + Digital 

Mathias Delplanque - <a href="http://bruitclair.com/bc_catalogue_bc01.php">Parcelles 1-10</a>
BC01 / Digisleeve CD + Digital 

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Forthcoming 

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