Frank Rabeyrolles: " If we could fly" (Unreleased/ Free Download)

Taken from upcoming limited 7inch on Wool Recordings
Available end of Oct/ Nov
Berlin amazing Iconoclast Moonwheel.
http://www.wool-recordings.com

Moon Wheel: "Prosopagnosia"

Artwork: Tomas Dutter
https://www.tomadutter.com

Links 
https://www.frankrabeyrolles.com/
https://www.facebook.com/frankrabeyrolles
https://www.instagram.com/frankrabeyrolles/
https://frankrabeyrolles.bandcamp.com



English 
We no longer count the albums of Frank Rabeyrolles nor his nicknames`(Franklin, Double U)  It is undoubtedly to a completely different temporality that he dedicates his work as an obsessive and frenzied craftsman. With “A ghost by the sea” Frank plays with nostalgia of 2000 Electronica  and Retro futuristic soundscapes.
Deep Electronic textures and landscapes meet "Ambient" experimentations. This album returns with a new Psychedelic introspective instrumental vibe creating a link between elements like air, water, wind and interiority. Synths, indistinct guitars, crackling sounds  are working together creating an existential experience somewhere between tension, nostalgia  and peaceful feelings. Abstract passages are always connected to a poetic research and never try to be demonstrative.
It’s been produced at home with the help of Julien Josserand for the mix and mastering. Artwork is by French Drawer Thomas Dutter.`It ‘s released on Wool Recordings.

Français
A ghost by the sea qui sortira ce 17 Septembre 20121 est la suite de Materia Prima sorti en Septembre 2019. Ce disque entre l’album et l’EP marque clairement le retour de Frank Rabeyrolles à une musique instrumentale Electronique tissée autour de nappes et de strates. Au cœur de ces 6 morceaux se joue une tension entre intériorité/ extériorité, chaos/ plénitude. Chaque morceau est relié à un tout organique et à une recherche Poétique . Les instruments que ce soit les Synthétiseurs ou les guitares sont le catalyseur d’un désir de décrire un monde à la fois empreint de réminiscences enfantines, mais aussi en devenir perpétuel, un monde mécanique/ organique qui échapperait à son créateur dont on ne capturerait que des sensations fragiles et qui nous renverrait à notre modeste condition, à une forme de nudité. On l’aura compris A ghost by the sea et ses plages qui s’étirent lentement dénuées de repères rythmiques classiques tient plus d’une déambulation sonore  que d’une démonstration calculée. La musique de Frank Rabeyrolles n’est pas là pour prouver, convaincre mais suggérer un espace sensible et fragile qui aime se dérober.

Frank Rabeyrolles: A ghost by the sea

First Dancable Remix of "Cold Dreamer" taken from the Upcoming album. 

Franklin: "Cold Dreamer" (Lockhart RMX)

Frank Rabeyrolles : Boat Songs/ Wool Recordings/ Le  Vinyl Truck

On sait finalement peu de choses au sujet de Frank Rabeyrolles.
Personnage discret et du genre inclassable de la « nouvelle » scène musicale hexagonale, il se fait remarquer en 2004 avec Life behind the window, premier album de son projet Double u. Sa musique rêveuse et hybride, oscillant entre pop, électronique et songwriting étonne et séduit. Il défraie les chroniques à ne citer que Les Inrockuptibles et Libération et se hisse album du mois dans Trax.
Artiste prolifique et insatiable, Frank Rabeyrolles persiste et signe en sortant une solide succession d’albums sous Double u d’abord puis Franklin, un nouvel alias qui traduit aussi son besoin de mutation perpétuelle. Sa manière de créer au gré des années, et décennies désormais, pourrait être vue comme une aspiration au rituel artistique mû de passion mais aussi comme nécessité existentielle ...
Fin 2011, c’est sous son véritable nom que Frank Rabeyrolles décide de sortir un nouvel album et avec lui, une volonté de se mettre un peu plus à nu. Entre Pop Expérimentale, Folk Lo fi, Ambient, Frank n’a jamais eu envie ni besoin de choisir. Au contraire, après avoir révélé en 2019 un projet ouvertement Indie Pop autour des saisons, il livre l’année suivante un disque totalement instrumental, étiré et hypnotique, mix de syntés analogiques, de textures et d’enchevêtrements sonores, Materia Prima.
Sa suite arrive en 2021 avec A ghost by the sea, un disque qui s’affirme Ambient doté par ailleurs d’une obsession mélodique et contemplative qui est une marque de fabrique depuis ses débuts.
 
C’est au terme de cette même année - prolifique est un euphémisme - que le songwriting le pique et qu’il enregistre en trio, à la fois en live et en studio, Boat Songs, un disque de balades douces amères, en clair obscur, construites autour de guitares claires et concises et d’une voix pure, presque thérapeutique.
On y retrouve des thématiques comme la fatalité d’une fuite hors du monde, le rapport au temps, l’amour versatile, tantôt rédempteur tantôt aliénant, menant à la perte de soi-même. Cette tension permanente à échapper au temps qui passe, au mouvement mais aussi à la plénitude, aux grands espaces, constitue le fil rouge de la musique de Frank Rabeyrolles et explique également ce Démon - dans le sens Hubert Selby Jr du terme - de la mutation perpétuelle...
qu’on aura de cesse de saluer finalement dans toutes ses incarnations.
Boat songs malgré ses atours n’est pas un disque sombre. Il se prête à cultiver une savante et douce schizophrénie entre tendresse, rondeur sonore, échos, spleen et espoirs. Boat songs pourrait même s’envisager comme un road trip car les grands espaces californiens et l’atmosphère psyché late sixties ne sont jamais très loin... avant il faudra se méfi er de l’océan.
Boat Songs, sortie sur toutes les plateformes le vendredi 25 novembre 2022. Single et Clip Merry go round, disponible le 10 octobre 2022.

Uncool

Raining Sand

Even Space

I wish

Post of post

Surfing to nowhere

Question of Time

Merry go Round

Saddest

Frank Rabeyrolles: "Beauty and smile"

This song is taken from "upcoming" album to be released in May 2015 on Wool Recordings. Spread it.

Suddenly Sunshine: "Stormy kid"

Composed, produced, mixed by Frank Rabeyrolles 
Mastered by Lucien Dallaglio
Artwork: picture: Grégoire Edouard/ Additional Graphism Romain Oudin.


Frank Rabeyrolles: "Phosphorus"

Free demo track taken from "Built to Swim" album session 
It won't be on the album

Frank Rabeyrolles" " Serial feelings" (Unreleased Demo)

Frank Rabeyrolles: "Kindergarten"

Frank Rabeyrolles": "opal"

Free Download Track. That one is taken from "Built to Swim" album session but won't be featured on it. "Built to Swim will be finally available on the 26th of February on Wool Recordings.
Rémi Saboul My Tiger Side is playing "Additional guitars"
Composed, played, produced by Frank Rabeyrolles 
Masterd by Lucien Dellaglio. 

Frank Rabeyrolles: "Emergent land"

Frank Rabeyrolles: "windows "

Demo 
featuring Jean Baptiste Morel/ (Double Bass)

Frank Rabeyrolles: "Second Chance"

Featuring Remi Saboul (MyTiger Side ) on Guitars & Laurie Bellanca (Vocals)


Frank Rabeyrolles: "Sick"

Frank Rabeyrolles: "Something"

composed, produced, mixed by Frank Rabeyrolles
Mastered by Lucien Dallaglio
Artwork: Picture: Grégoire Edouard/ Additional Graphism: Romain Oudin

Frank Rabeyrolles : "Third Skin"

Taken from Upcoming Single to be released on Wool Recordings on the 21th of August. Nice treatment of uk artist Pilote. 
https://soundcloud.com/pilote-1
Visual: Fabien Dendievel




Suddenly Sunshine: "Brother Lou's Love Colony" ( PILOTE RMX)

Avalanche: Frank Rabeyrolles
Rmx by Dirty Knees 
Dirty Knees is www.stephanekouchian.com and www.arthursapirstein.com
Artwork: Picture: Grégore Edouard/ Additional Graphism: Romain Oudin.
Mixed by Krikor  
Mastered by Benjamin Joubert

Frank Rabeyrolles: "Avalanche" (Dirty Knees Rmx)

New Rmx from "Avalanche" by First Kiss. Free Download
"Avalanche" (Original) will be featured on Frank Rabeyrolles's album to be released in February

Frank Rabeyrolles: "Avalanche" (FIRST KISS RMX)

Frank Rabeyrolles: "L. translation"

My Tiger Side is actualling working on a vinyl release of a remixes EP which will include the original "SNOWBALLS-EP" (released this winter on digital format only https://mytigerside.bandcamp.com/) as well as a large collection of remixes by talented french and international artists such as : Julsy, Panda Transport, Guilhom Songs, Le Super 
Homard, Frank Rabeyrolles, K.K. Ponyboy, Connasse and some other surprises..
Biography:

Frank Rabeyrolles :
Apart from his prolific musical output, we actually know very little about the person Frank Rabeyrolles a man with a PHD in Philosophy and endless love for stange analog machines. Discovered in 2005 with "Life behind a Window" under the Double u alias, Frank is a veteran in the indie electronic scene in France where's he's been receiving rave reviews from the press with is dreamy song writing. International press caught on too and equally fell for his Garlic charm ( Debug, XlR8R, The 405, Lodown Magazine, Dublab…). In fact since his first album, Frank Rabeyrolles has been frenetically productive, releasing a new record every year initially  as Double u then Franklin and also under his real name all through his own label Wool Recordings  after few collaborations with Karat, S Kollektiv, Plug Research. 
It's time to talk about the new album. In "Built to Swim" Frank 's music is always a bit familiar and somewhere completely different from French Production. Influenced by European Kraut Rock but also by Folk songwriting and early electronic music he's often described as a Lofi Chameleon somewhere floating between the  Songwriter and the Producer. There is always something emotive about all his songs, a sadness veiled behind all the instrumentation.. This new album captures the creativity of electronic music without  trying to sound absolutely new or arrogant, Frank's work is more into transforming his emotions, his own kaleidoscopic visions into deep textures and fragile soundscapes. Most of the tracks have been created first with a piano then moved slowly into more arranged electronic pieces. Somewhere also influenced by "Pop Music Codes" Frank loves to play, create new disturbing contrasts always  playing with the idea of "identity. What's pop ? what's experimental? nobody knows for real and is the question really interesting? 



My Tiger Side " Snow Flake" (Frank Rabeyrolles RMX)

Exclusive Rmx by Frank Rabeyrolles. Taken from upcoming album of Suddenly Sunshine.

Suddenly Sunshine : Till the end of time" (FRANK RABEYROLLES RMX)

Taken from Upcoming album "Apart" / April 17th 2017

Frank Rabeyrolles: "Love Translation"

Frank Rabeyrolles: "Apart"

Unreleased Track 
more here:
https://frankrabeyrolles.bandcamp.com
Additional Guitars: Rémi Saboul.

Frank Rabeyrolles: "Down"

Laetitia Sadier "Resistance dans l'ombre"

Free Track .
Artwork : Claire Martine
Mastered by Carl Saff / Saff Mastering
Release date: 17th October 2018
Contact : frank@wool-recordings.com

Franklin: "You" (Bonus track / Free MP3) featuring Sarah Lucide

First Rmx of the song "Listening to Tago Mago" it's free to download and exclusive. 
The song is the first single of Frank Rabeyrolles's album 
Lockhart is a young and talentous Parisian Producer delivering a very shiny, gorgeous and dancable version of the song. Here's his Soundcloud 
http://soundcloud.com/lockhartlockhart
contact:nicolasoundsgood@gmail.com 
contact Frank@ frank@wool-recordings.com

FrankRabeyrolles "Listening to Tago Mago" (Lockhart Rmx)

Warren Hildebrand (aka Foxes in Fiction) and Thomas Meluch (aka Benoît Pioulard) have been acquaintances for a number of years, brought together by their shared presence on Brooklyn's Moodgadget imprint.  Meluch's first-ever release was the Enge 7" (2005) for that label, and Hildebrand later made a splash with his debut LP Swung from the Branches (2010).  During a solo tour of North America in 2010, Meluch played Hildebrand's hometown of Toronto and invited him along on the following day's journey to Montreal, during which the two became fast friends and the idea of a collaboration began to take shape.  Some months later they finally began exchanging songs and files, eventually building up to the two epic pieces heard on this, their debut 7" for Wool Recordings.
"Since a young age, Thomas Meluch has been fascinated by natural sounds and the textures of decay. He began playing piano before his feet could reach the pedals, and for more than a decade has sought to create a unique sonic environment by combining remnants of pop song structures with the lushness and unpredictability of field recordings. A veteran drummer of a half dozen bands and an avid collector of instruments and analog devices, Meluch relies on guitar and voice as the bases for his work as Benoît Pioulard."


Foxes in Fiction+ Benoît Pioulard: "Ground glass" (Limited 7 inch)

Wool Recordings is a collaborative label featuring artists like Laetitia Sadier, Castanets, Com Truise, Benoit Pioulard, Foxes in Fiction, Frank Rabeyrolles, Peter Broderick,Suddenly Sunshine, Franklin,  Isan, Giant Claw, Sarabeth Rucek......Quality and collaborations are our Ethos.

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