FOUDRE! = Frédéric D. Oberland + Mondkopf + Saåad
"Voltæ (Chthulucene)" to be released by NAHAL Recordings & ZamZamRec
October 25th 2024 — Vinyl/Digital — artwork by Brulex

Booking: sylvain@afx.agency (FR) / damien@julia.agency (Benelux)
Promo: dali@totalblamblampromo.com / maria@modernmatters.net
Vinyl/Digital pre-order: https://bit.ly/foudre-voltae
Previous discography: https://foudrenoise.bandcamp.com

"FOUDRE! emerges as a rare seismic force created in 2015 by three major activists from the independent scene: Frédéric D. Oberland (Oiseaux-Tempête), Romain Barbot (Saåad), and Paul Régimbeau (Mondkopf). They are portrayed by international press as "super-depth sounders", "laboratories of the unheard generating a fascinating sonic magma with rugged beauty", or "Badalamenti and Vangelis covered in dust and gravel". Their collective ethos is characterized by an insatiable appetite for urgency, boundless experimentation, and the spontaneous combustion of live performances.

"Melancholic. Intense. Deep. Epic. “Voltæ (Chthulucene)” is a tribute to electricity and telluric forces, a complete celebration of life, a symbiosis for an epistemic shift. “Voltæ (Chthulucene)” is the sixth opus by FOUDRE!, a trio featuring core members from Oiseaux-Tempête, Saåad & Mondkopf. 
As the first work recorded in studio, “Voltæ (Chthulucene)” is the virtuosic result of a recording session orchestrated by Camille Jamain, sound engineer and acoustician. The album emerges as a powerful electronic masterpiece, consisting of 8 tracks whose narrative dimension evokes the score of a sci-fi movie, transporting us through the labyrinths of a neo-Lovecraftian vision, into a post-AKIRA world where human and non-human life could (re)become possible, where all forms of (sur)living beings could cohabit once again... 

Since their purely exhilarating experience at the Visions Festival in 2019, FOUDRE! has undergone a delightful metamorphosis. The creative forces of the three-headed monster get unleashed. The musicians seek less the mental than the physical, embracing a frantic, corporeal, and direct turn. With “Voltæ (Chthulucene)”, the trio, identified as drone ambient, takes a twist resolutely post-techno. Emancipatory alloy of English rave, punk urgency, and electronica, with strange and electrifying echoes of ancient trad sounds. Hybrid and telepathic orchestra, composed of analog synthesizers and modular systems organically connected to acoustic instruments (baglama, winds, percussion, vocals), forming a kind of neural network twinkling at the heart of the night. 

Between contemplation, lightning flashes and illumination : the pulse, the rhythm. Hallucinated time fraction, progressing through a 3D landscape, stroboscopic and technicolor effects. A tale of struggles and resistances on universal and microscopic scale, images of cybernetic fauna and flora, a psychedelic futuristic delirium where hybrid characters of human/machine/vegetable could start to dance, mutate, and merge within everything around them. 

An intensity, an elegance reminiscent of Pita’s records on Editions Mego, the originality and intelligence of the music of Autechre, the legendary electronic abstract duo from Manchester, the energy and fervour of Black Dice, the technoid noise rock trio from Brooklyn, as well as the softness and beauty of the Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. 

The album cover is signed by Brulex, featuring creatures and chimeras, with a concrete and colorful stroke, in correspondence with the album and the U-turn of FOUDRE!, decisive and brilliant."

Voltæ (Chthulucene)

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FOUDRE! "Visions from Zūrūtetsu" [NAHAL Recordings & ZamZamRec]

Avec les sept morceaux de 'Visions', Bulie Jordeaux dessine une balade, une errance sonore aux rencontres étranges qui entremêlent réel et rêverie. Sept tableaux aux accents synth pop et dub où des rythmes oniriques frôlant la faille cosmique se tissent avec des sonorités parfois célestes et éthérées, parfois caverneuses et inquiétantes.

Composé par @bulie-jordeaux
Mix & master par Arsene Roy
Illustration & graphisme par Philippine Bordeaux

Release de l'album & de la cassette le 5 juillet sur @wombwombmusic & @grande-rousse-disques : granderoussedisques.bandcamp.com/album/bu…-visions

Release party à Bruxelles le 3 juillet avec @bulie-jordeaux (pop déviante) + Solina Lapsus (Illbient / Crooked minimalism) + @catherine-danger (Experimental dub) <3
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ENG : With the seven tracks of 'Visions', Bulie Jordeaux draw a stroll, a sound wandering with strange encounters which intertwine reality and reverie. Seven scenes with synth pop and dub accents where dreamlike rhythms bordering on the cosmic fault are woven with sounds that are sometimes celestial and ethereal, sometimes cavernous and disturbing.

Composed by @bulie-jordeaux
Mix & master by Arsene Roy
Illustration & graphism by Philippine Bordeaux

Release of the digital album & tape on July 5 on @wombwombmusic & @grande-rousse-disques : granderoussedisques.bandcamp.com/album/bu…-visions

Release party in Brussels on July 3 with @bulie-jordeaux (deviant pop) + Solina Lapsus (Illbient / Crooked minimalism) + @catherine-danger (Experimental dub) <3
www.facebook.com/events/456508327008773

Bulie Jordeaux - Vacarme

Scrying the Lanscape XX

Inspired by elemental forces, the 20th edition of Scrying the Landscape sets itself
alight, opening with a flint-spark before rising into an all-engulfing, uncontrollable blaze.
From the magenta heat of a torrid flame to the dying ember, fire is an unwieldy element
– simultaneously destructive and life-giving. In recent years, wildfires have decimated
landscapes in the Californian Sierra Nevada, the Australian coast, and the ancient
forests of Ukraine. Yet fire is also symbiotically implicated in all forms of existence. In
many places, controlled or prescribed burnings have been part of millennia-old cultural
practices, binding local communities to the land, clearing dead foliage to make way for
new life, with the ashes feeding the soil.
Fire has long captivated human understanding, inspiring myths and theories about its
origins and eQects. In the medieval hypothesis of phlogiston, a combustible, alchemical
entity was thought to be contained within bodies. This early theory points to Western
science’s struggle to grasp the process of oxidation, as well as a deep-rooted
fascination with fire’s power and metamorphic potential.
Scrying the Landscape XX is punctuated by exerts of Gregory Whitehead’s ‘Lovely Ways
To Burn’ (1990). The hybrid documentary play weaves together a witness account of an
execution by electric chair; memories of burns, fires and suburban oblivion; and an
imaginary philosopher contemplating the phenomenology of fire, neurobiology, and
ecstatic death.
[Image: video still from Eiichi Yamamoto’s Beladonna of Sadness, 1973]

Scrying the Landscape w. Elina Tapio, Hannah Pezzack [07.09.24]

Vita in cuoio

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Current Moon Phase 032 w/ ΔreamCcore Invites EƎ (19.11.24)

New Le Jazz Est Dangereux episode, with Che Vuoi, Brussels-based musician & DJ as a DJ guest!

Rinse France Podcast

Tom Val : Le Jazz Est Dangereux With Che Vuoi - 24 Novembre 2024

Une sélection de musiques qui m&amp#39;enchantent ces temps ou qui me hantent depuis longtemps. Il y a pas mal de trucs acoustiques avec des sons qui vibrent et aussi un peu d&amp#39;électronique. Des voix jolies. Ci-contre un polatouche de Sibérie. Bonne écoute  (:


ANTIRÖSTI w/ DJ Chèvrefeuille  (29/11/24)

Interpolation of threshold, memory, place.


A Swarm Of Butterflies Encountered On w/ Demetrio Cecchitelli (29/11/24)

Bringing the far eastern experience to her DJ sets, Casper is a sound of the times. Blending bass music with techno and implementing experimental, ambient and downtempo genres too, Casper’s sets have a unique way of careening into other styles while remaining resolutely focused, but not restricted to, just the club. 

Casper @ Kiosk Radio 02.12.2024

CP/BW LP2

A1. Nightclub Foot
A2. The Plop Shop
A3. Stammer Time
A4. Symbionese Take Out 
A5. Aylmer's Glue
B1. Sewer Sex
B2. Henry The Huffer
B3. Vertical Probation
B4. A Thing That Thinks
B5. Rodzina Manekinow

Collaboration between Corporate Park and Beau Wanzer.
Recorded in Denton, TX.

CP/BW - LP2 (snippets)

All booking inquiries:
mbwanzer@yahoo.com