UZHUR
s/t
LP NAHAL014


Pre-order : https://uzhur.bandcamp.com/album/s-t

Performed live, recorded and mixed at studio Mer-Noir by Jean-Charles Bastion (vocals, synths, modular) and Romain Poirier (drum machine, bass guitar, feedbacks).
Additional drums by Arnaud Rhuth (Le Réveil des Tropiques) (Xulon)
Additional synths by Mondkopf (Genus)
Mastered by James Plotkin
Laquer by François Terrazzoni
Photographs by Marie Quéau
Design by Thibault Proux

http://www.nahalrecordings.net/nahal014/

GENUS (featuring Mondkopf)

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)

Order

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

BLACKTHREAD
'The Way You Haunt My Dreams'
LP NAHAL006

Pre-order: https://bigwax.fr/fr/nahal-recordings/music/the-way-you-haunt-my-dreams 

Blackthread is Pierre G. Desenfant
Béatrice Morel Journel sings on Ghost
Frédéric D. Oberland plays piano on I Live In A Tree
Remi Dulaurier plays drums on I'll Keep Daydreaming...
Stephane Pigneul plays guitar on Got To Give Me Shelter

Recorded by Pierre G. Desenfant
Mixed by Johannes Buff at End Note Studio
Mastered by James Plotkin
Photographs by Gaël Bonnefon
Graphic design by Thibault Proux

PR: julie.gamberoni@gmail.com 
LABEL: nahalrecordings@gmail.com

The Way You Haunt My Dreams

Blackthread - Good Evening Blues (NAHAL006)

RENAUD BAJEUX
Magnetic Voices From The Unseen
LP NAHAL007

Generating beautiful noise-laden soundscapes and harmonic songs from magnetic fields via electronic devices, this is the symphonious and powerful debut album by experimental sound-artist & regular Ina-GRM collaborator, Renaud Bajeux.

All tracks composed, performed and recorded by Renaud Bajeux 
Mastering by James Plotkin 
Graphic Design by Thibault Proux 
Manufactured by Kuroneko Phonogram Manufacture

Special thanks to Charlotte Sanson, Emmanuel Richier and Antoine Gilloire for their careful listening and to Frédéric D. Oberland and Paul Régimbeau for their fortifying enthusiasm.

Limited Vinyl & Digital Edition -> https://nahalrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/magnetic-voices-from-the-unseen

Magnetic Voices from the Unseen

Renaud Bajeux - Leaving The Nest [NAHAL Recordings]

CHRISTINE OTT 
 Chimères (pour Ondes Martenot)  
LP NAHAL008

PRE-ORDER VINYL / CD
-> https://bigwax.io/collections/nahal-recordings/products/chimeres-pour-ondes-martenot

PRE-ORDER DIGITAL
-> https://nahalrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/chime-res-pour-ondes-martenot

In this unprecedented album, entirely conceived using only the legendary instrument Ondes Martenot, the composer Christine Ott tells a cosmic journey with cinematographic colours, which rubs shoulders with electronic stars and caresses incandescent planets. A sonic and sensual magma produced by Paul Régimbeau (Mondkopf) & Frédéric D. Oberland (Oiseaux-Tempête), radiant, as if weightless.

℗ & © NAHAL Recordings
 Cat.no.NAHAL008 - all rights reserved  
Format: LP Vinyl / Digital
Release Date:   May 22nd 2020

All music composed & performed on Ondes Martenot Dierstein by Christine Ott  
Effects and live processing by Frédéric D. Oberland & Paul Régimbeau   
Recorded & mixed by Romain Poirier at Mer Noir, Paris, between Winter 2018 and Autumn 2019  
Edited, arranged & produced by Paul Régimbeau  & Frédéric D. Oberland 
Mastered by James Plotkin  
Original chemigrams artwork by Fanny Béguély  
Graphic design by Thibault Proux 

Special thanks to Jean-Loup Dierstein, Mathieu Gabry, Loraine Bouchet, Alice Butterlin, Renaud de Foville, Julie Gamberoni.

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PR: alice.nahalrecordings@gmail.com 
LABEL: nahalrecordings@gmail.com

Christine Ott - Darkstar [NAHAL Recordings]

BEN SHEMIE
303 DIARY
 EP NAHAL011

Composed and performed by Ben Shemie // Recorded at Hotel2Tango in Montreal by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh // Mixed by Ben Shemie // Mastered by Philip Gosselin @ Le Lab Mastering // Artwork by Marie-Douce St-Jacques // Graphic design par Thibault Proux

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PR: alice.nahalrecordings@gmail.com
 LABEL: nahalrecordings@gmail.com

After releasing two albums on Hands in the Dark in 2019 and 2020, Ben Shemie continues his solitary sound explorations, amidst his work with SUUNS, unclassifiable Canadian band blending krautrock, drone and electronic explosions for more than ten years. His 303 Diary, sonic journal composed during the few blurry months we now call the “first lockdown”, is based around the TB-303, mythical synth and sequencer that conjures up both acid house and Detroit techno. Fascinated by this instrument, which was key in the development of certain electronic music genres in the 1980s and 1990s, Ben Shemie delivers his own vision of it: distorted, deeply poetic and full of life. 

For lovers of travel, encounters and the unexpected, the lockdown imposed by a worldwide sanitary crisis could not be received otherwise than with frustration. A tightened framework where artists had to face solitude and doubt. For Ben Shemie, the adoption of a new companion marked the beginning of a project, inevitably linked to his environment, in frenetic mutation. 

“I wrote this music in Paris over the lonely months of mid 2020 during varying degrees of confinement, quarantine, and uncertain times. I was mostly in my flat with my girl, fighting to stay motivated and not lose faith. Far from Montreal, my closest friends, my family, and my band. I decided to buy a 303 synth, which I've always wanted. As one of the most iconic sequencers of all time, it has appeared on some of my favourite releases and is the backbone of acid music, the Detroit techno scene (my favourites) and some of the freaky Aphex Twin jams that were my first introduction into electronic music. To be honest, its a 'fake' 303. Its not the original Roland TB-303 from the 1980s. I can neither afford, nor care to own vintage gear like that. Like most of the electronic gear I use, its cheap, its an approximation of something legitimate, and it borrows a lot from my guitar roots, where I own a lot of random effect boxes. I didn't start writing this music as a diary. I wrote it because composition is somewhat of an addiction.” – says Ben Shemie.

Filled with a psychedelic energy, the five tracks of 303 Diary, recorded at the end of Summer in just six hours in Montreal’s Hotel2Tango with the help of Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Jerusalem in My Heart), navigate between liquid melodies, aerial moments and robotic voice effects. An intoxicating pop full of madness, where senses are tickled by the irresistible acid riffs of the TB-303. For the first time, Shemie invites a musician to join him. Didem Başar brings her touch of kanun – traditional zither heard in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia – on the track “Didem” where the fury of Western electronic music meets the untouchable beauty of oriental plucked strings. A dialog he enjoys including in his projects since many years, be it with SUUNS or solo. This EP is also a place of experimentation on the voice, which becomes an instrument like any other, pitched, coated with effects, muffled, sometimes tangled in the layers of synths. As with his previous albums, 303 Diary is the occasion for Ben Shemie to deliver a deeply personal and curious project, centered around performance, where urgency and intimacy open a gate to new horizons.

303 Diary

Ben Shemie - Everything is Spinning [NAHAL Recordings]

Curated by multi-instrumentalist/photographer @fredericdoberland and producer @mondkopf

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