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]

FOUDRE! emerges as a rare seismic supergroup 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 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.

FORTHCOMING >> VOLTÆ (CHTHULUCENE)
Limited marbled/black vinyl+digital edition
NAHAL018/ZZ85 | Release Date : October 25th, 2024

SOLD OUT >> FUTURE SABBATH
Limited black vinyl+digital edition
NAHAL009 | Release Date : January 15th, 2021

SOLD-OUT >> KAMI
Limited frosted beer vinyl+digital edition
GZH86 | Release Date : November 18th, 2018

SOLD OUT >> EARTH
Limited blue vinyl+digital edition
GZH71 | Release Date : February 17th, 2017

SOLD OUT >> AMOR MUNDI
Limited tee-shirt+digital edition
BLWBCK067 | Release Date : October 15th, 2016

SOLD OUT >> MAGNUM CHAOS
Limited cassette+digital edition
BLWBCK061 | Release Date : June 6th, 2015

/ We spin around the night consumed by fire /

Secular music & photography — 1/2 of https://soundcloud.com/nahalrecordings — Founding member of https://soundcloud.com/oiseaux-tempete (Sub Rosa) https://soundcloud.com/foudrenoise (NAHAL Recordings/Gizeh/BLWBCK) https://soundcloud.com/le-reveil-des-tropiques (Music Fear Satan) https://soundcloud.com/therustleofthestars (Gizeh) https://soundcloud.com/farewellpoetry (Gizeh)

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Contact : dali@totalblamblampromo.com

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

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Saåad is an experimental project based in Toulouse, France

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

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