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]

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

TV Control Center, also known as KET, is an intimate creative space dedicated to performing arts, experimental music and documentary.
It is located in Kypseli, a diverse urban neighbourhood of Athens.
It was founded in May 2012 by Fotini Banou and Dimitris Alexakis at a place that used to operate as an old TV repair shop. Angeliki Karampela joined the team in November 2015.
The dimensions of the space — a high ceiling semi-basement which can host from 50 to 100 people — and the fact that it is not organized as a traditional theater or concert hall make it a space for creative exchanges and sharing rather than simple cultural consumption.
As a multidisciplinary space, it welcomes from October to June a wide range of events: theatrical & dance performances, experimental concerts, workshops, public debates with health workers or LGBTQI activists.
Since its opening, KET has received no financial support from the Greek State and voluntarily stands at a distance from the big private foundations. Its main source of revenue is based on a box-office split with the artists.

📺 tv control center
Kyprou 91A, Kypseli, Athens
📍 http://surl.li/dkhzh
☎ 213 00 40 496 | 69 45 34 84 45
✉ info@polychorosket.gr
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Instagram > https://www.instagram.com/tvcontrolcenter/
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1/2 https://soundcloud.com/mensonges-sur-loire
1/2 LAME (Live Argilo-Machino Electronique)

'Sillon' EP 07.03 sur https://soundcloud.com/runlevel-runlevel



2024 :

06/06 : Prairie 2 w/ Cléa Bonnard (Paris)
08/03 : Duchesse (Nantes)
09/02 : Le Phénicien (Nantes)

2023 : 
01/12 : Duchesse (Nantes)
23/11 : Les Ateliers du Vent w/ Telenoia (Rennes)
14/09 : Le Café de l’Orangerie (Nantes)
25/08 : 44 Tours (Nantes)
16/06 : Le Ferrailleur (Nantes)

2022 :
13/08 : Fish & Chic #4 (Ile de Batz)
06/08 : Chant du Tombereau (Derval)
30/07 : Fish & Chic #3 (Ile de Batz)
16/07 : Fish & Chic #2 w/ Dj Varsovie (Ile de Batz)
09/07 : Fish & Chic #1 (Ile de Batz)
02/07 : Astropolis (Brest)
13/05 : Uzine Bar (Rennes)
18/03 : Le Marquis de Sade (Rennes) w/Filmmaker*
10/03 : POL’n (Nantes) w/ Leroy Se Meurt*
19/02 : CO2 (Nantes)

2021 :
03/12 : Le Gazoline (Rennes)*
18/09 : Secret Place (Finistère)*
15/07 : Private Place (Sarthe)*

2020 :
31/01 : Penny Lane (Rennes)*
30/01 : Le Chantier (Rennes)*
03/01 : Le Ferrailleur (Nantes)*

2019 :

14/12 : La Fée Verte (Rennes)*
21/06 : Le Ferrailleur w/ Buzz Kull (Nantes)
15/06 : Jardin Moderne w/ Crystal Geometry (Rennes)*
02/06 : Macadam w/ Ed Isar  (Nantes)
16/05 : Le Chantier (Rennes)
03/05 : 1988 Live Club (Rennes)*
29/03 : 1988 Live Club w/ Mind Matter (Rennes)
28/03 : Combi Bar (Rennes)
23/03 : CO2 (Nantes)
21/03 : Alex Taverne (Rennes)*
09/03 : Le Ferrailleur w/ Swift Guad (Nantes)
28/02 : Le Chantier (Rennes)*
12/01 : Café de Rennes (Rennes)
04/01 : 1988 Live Club (Rennes)

*Avec le groupe Depht Mod

2014 – 2018 : 
Une quarantaine de dates à Rennes, Nantes, Lorient, Angers, Brest, Guingamp.
Avec Codex Empire, Paul Birken AZF, Anetha, Acronym, Defekt….

Releases : 

https://soundcloud.com/ritmofatale
https://soundcloud.com/dearsoil
https://soundcloud.com/bansheesrecords
https://soundcloud.com/domeastropolis
https://soundcloud.com/csc-records
https://soundcloud.com/nfrwhite
https://soundcloud.com/nocturnal-frequencies-2016
https://soundcloud.com/carceres-records
https://soundcloud.com/roster-fbm
https://soundcloud.com/vincenzopizzi
https://soundcloud.com/rafalerecords
https://soundcloud.com/3000reign/

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🇵🇸🧠PhD neuroscience (KCL)
༺ electronic music composition (Berklee Online)
🎶lavta/setar/guitar/mandolin
༺ podcasting
༺ sound design 🇬🇧𓍯𓂃

Inspiration: Nicola Cruz, Portishead, Uji, Beth Orton, Four Tet, British Folktronica, Nick Drake, Miles Davis, Nina Simone, Hossein Alizadeh, Iranian Setar and Art Music

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

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