All tracks composed and performed by Oiseaux-Tempête
To be released October 28th 2022 via Sub Rosa & NAHAL Recordings
2xvinyl / CD Digipack / Digital

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1. Black Elephant (w/ Ben Shemie)
2. Partout Le Feu
3. Terminal Velocity
4. Voodoo Spinning (w/ Radwan Ghazi Moumneh)
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5. The Crying Eye — I Forget (w/ Radwan Ghazi Moumneh)
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6. A Man Alone In A One Man Poem (w/ G.W.Sok & Jessica Moss)
7. Waldgänger
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8. Nu.e.s Sous La Comète
9. Dôme (Live at Oscar Niemeyer’s Abandoned Fairgrounds)
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10. Bonus CD : Horizon Rouge (Ad Lib)

Frédéric D. Oberland: electric guitar, mellotron, flute, alto sax, analog synths, hurdy-gurdy BAB V, sea shell, rhodes, piano, vocals, percussion
Stéphane Pigneul: modular & analog synths, electric bass VI & bass, drum machine, vocals, percussion
Paul Régimbeau (Mondkopf): drum machine, analog & modular synths, vocals, electric guitar, hurdy-gurdy BAB V, percussion
Jean-Michel Pirès (Bruit Noir): drums and percussion on tracks 1, 2, 4, 6 & 8
Ben Shemie (SUUNS): vocals on track 1
Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Jerusalem In My Heart): electric buzuk on track 4, vocals on track 5
G.W.Sok (The Ex): vocals on track 6
Jessica Moss (A Silver Mt. Zion): electric violin on track 6
Racha Baroud: vocals on track 9
Roy Arida: percussion on track 9

Recorded at Mer/Noir, Hotel2Tango, Mikrokosm, Magnum Diva, Contre-Terre & 5th Chamber, Oscar Niemeyer’s Dôme in Tripoli - Lebanon, Montreal - Canada, Paris, Lyon - Europe by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, Benoît Bel, Jean-Charles Bastion, Jean-Charles Bastion, the band // Arranged & edited by Oiseaux-Tempête except track 9 edited by Grégoire Orio & Grégoire Couvert 
Mixed by Jean-Charles Bastion at Mer/Noir, Paris
Mastered by Harris Newman at GreyMarket Mastering, Montreal
Lacquer cut by François Terrazoni at Parélies, Paris

Photographs by Frédéric D. Oberland
Graphic design by Mountain
Handwritten font by Thibault Proux

WHAT ON EARTH (Que Diable)

Black Elephant (feat. Ben Shemie)

Preorder now on Juno: https://bit.ly/3TrGBHm

Tantalisingly difficult to categorise, Oiseaux-Tempete return with their sixth studio album, dense and challenging - but also rewarding - as ever and we have the pleasure of premiering one of the cuts from it.
The project is Paris-based but features members of much celebrated acts like SUUNS and Jerusalem In My Heart, and this LP seems to revolve around  centrepiece 'A Man Alone In A One Man Poem', an 11 minute epic of sequencer throb, frantic live drumming and dark poetry.  At the other end of the spectrum, the sonic purity of 'Terminal Velocity' - almost entirely made up of violin notes - and Tortoise-like ambient piece 'Waldganger' provide calming counterpoints.  Unpredictable and unprecedented throughout, however, this is a treat for those who like their music atmospheric and adventurous in equally generous amounts.

 More from the label: https://bit.ly/3TxYB2H

PREORDER

PREMIERE: Oiseaux Tempete - Nu.e.s Sous La Comète [Sub Rosa]

Frédéric D. Oberland (FR — ZamZamRec, IIKKI, NAHAL Recordings)

Des océans opaques, des cieux déguisés de nuées, des continents qui se cherchent : c’est à la surface de cette anatomie de la durée que pérégrine Frédéric D. Oberland, depuis la jeunesse, les groupes et les rêves, au travers de pratiques multi-instrumentistes farouchement autodidactes, vers la litanie pulvérulente du monde.

" Dans les vents solaires qui disperseront la poussière de vos précédentes incarnations, vous reconnaîtrez la clameur. "

« Solstices » est le quatrième opus solo de l’artiste, lui-même en circulation entre les groupes qu’il a cofondés : Oiseaux-Tempête, FOUDRE ! Le Réveil Des Tropiques, FareWell Poetry.

Tape / CD / Digital OUT March 3rd, 2023
Pre-order now via bandcamp > https://zamzamrec.bandcamp.com/album/solstices

Frédéric D. Oberland - Panspermia Pneuma

Discover: @fyzika0
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Can you explain a bit about yourself?
Fyzika - "I am a DJ and producer influenced by many genres such as drum and bass, dubstep/140, and breakbeat. Growing up on the Internet has exposed me to a variety of sounds that resonate with me deeply. Dark, sci-fi, and industrial soundscapes serve as the primary motif for my choice of sound."

Can you explain a bit about the track?
Fyzika - ""Descent" was my first time making a proper dubstep track. I learned as much as a could from the production styles I've heard from releases in labels such as Deep, Dark, and Dangerous (DDD). I've also incorporated a few switchups into breakbeat, techno, and house to convey a sense of progression towards something. The title itself is meant to convey this idea as well, a descent to somewhere."

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION VOL 1 | TRACK 2/50

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Fyzika - Descent

The Summoning Of The Kraken

BLWBCK061 | Release Date : June 6, 2015
Limited to 66 copies
C40 / 6 panels J-CARD

FOUDRE! is a new experimental project created by Frédéric D. Oberland (Oiseaux-Tempête, FareWell Poetry, Le Reveil des Tropiques), Romain Barbot (Saåad) & Grégory Buffier (Saåad, Autrenoir, Mondkopf). This, their debut cassette, compiles their first meetings and rehearsals. The resulting "Magnum Chaos", almost 40 minutes of total improvisation, is like the centre of a black-hole, a total, almost oppressive collapsing of  the trio's energies. Experimental, noise, drone, dark-ambient, electronic, lo-fi, chiaroscuro, these varying aesthetics converge to create a darkened room full of flickering stars and fading shadows. "Magnum Chaos" is too dense and too rich to be considered a demo tape. It is, rather, a sincere recording of the birth of a project. A recording where unedited events and audio clips are there to document and remind that for all the hours of fine tuned arrangements there must also be the pure expressions of three musicians in a free environment.

Music improvised & recorded by Frédéric D. Oberland, Grégory Buffier & Romain Barbot / Oct.14 – Toulouse, France. (Dozen Bows & Concorde39 studios)
Mixed by Frédéric D. Oberland / Apr.15 – Paris, France. (Magnum Diva studio)
Mastered by James Plotkin / May.15
https://foudrenoise.bandcamp.com

A2 - Cellarius

INFOS / ORDER 
http://shelter-press.org/cv-jab-zin-taylor-thoughts-dot-travels-surface/
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Thoughts of a Dot as it Travels a Surface is the title of an album derived from a series of wall drawings begun in 2014 by multi-disciplinary Paris-based artist Zin Taylor. Drawn in simple black-and-white, the large-scale pieces depict linear landscapes populated with rough-hewn objects: potted cacti, sculptural boulders, steaming stone baths. Taylor describes the project as “a psychological backdrop,” utilizing the reductive yet narrative techniques of caricature and illustration to achieve an abbreviated, associative form of visual storytelling. Or in his words: “Think of it as haze collecting along the surface of the wall.”

Upon completion of a particularly ambitious 90-meter panoramic wall drawing, experimental composers Christina Vantzou and John Also Bennett were invited to interpret the work as a musical graphic score. The result was a forty minute live performance in two parts, which was multi-track recorded and then mixed down into a 10-track album. Each piece and title corresponds to a specific section or object in the wall drawing. Vantzou, though based in Brussels, is best known for a string of enigmatic solo recordings for the American ambient imprint Kranky, while Bennett has explored electronic sound design in a variety of capacities, including as one third of Brooklyn synthesizer outfit Forma. Working under their initials – CV & JAB – they attempted to translate Taylor’s elusive gestural lexicon into sound. The results are appropriately minimal, malleable, and mysterious.

Opener “Cactus With Vent” sets the tone: insectoid murmurings and fractured crystalline tones seesaw in and out of focus, eventually disappearing within a wash of churning water. Each composition flows unbroken into the next, much like Taylor’s continuous line, emphasizing fluidity, curvature, and connectivity. “Hot Tub” introduces a mesmerizing synthetic flute-like raga, pirouetting above muted jungle noises and a babbling brook. Subsequent songs skew softer and stranger, alternately meditative (“Large Suess Plant”) and miasmic (“Tombstones”), remote vistas mapped with hieroglyphic frequencies.

The recordings, like Taylor’s nuanced mini-murals, exude a subtle but restless energy, rarely lingering too long in a fixed formation. The whooshing astral synthesizer of “Alfred Hitchcock Haze” dissolves invisibly into the smeared, somber séance of “Rock House With Door,” which in turn evaporates amongst the menagerie of chattering printers, running water, and shepherd tone whispers of “String of Objects With Planter.”

More so than in past projects, here Vantzou and Bennett mask their presence, allowing textures and tonalities to tangle or unspool with minimal intrusion. The effect is naturalistic, impersonal, and intriguing. Even the few passages of relatively emotive classical piano (“Brick With Modern Form,” “Fingers Of Thought”) are played with an air of otherworldly detachment, as though such beauty was materializing purely of its own accord.

Recorded Live at Westfälischer Kunstverein in Münster, Germany May 6th, 2017. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D+M. Clear purple vinyl housed in reverse board-printed inners and double-width spine jacket. Comes with a 180CM. leporello reproducing the original 9000CM. walldrawing. First edition of 700 copies worldwide.

CV & JAB — ZIN TAYLOR 'Fingers of Thought' (SP092)

Softer Than Before

Having recently signed to FatCat’s 130701 imprint, and following closely on from Deutsche Gramophon’s release of Jóhann Jóhannsson’s ‘Last and First Men’ project which Yair co-composed, Yair Elazar Glotman & Mats Erlandsson’s sophomore album ‘Emanate’ is a powerful and stunningly executed extended duration work that utilises a fantastic ensemble cast and continues to explore their ideas of a 'displaced sound’ - combining electronic and acoustic sound sources through both analogue and digital means to create an ambiguous composite work, a music that sounds neither clearly electronic or acoustic, existing instead in some in-between space.

In many ways, the idea of a longform music is unsuited to and out of phase with our times. And yet, there is recent evidence of a reaction against this – witness the rise of the practise of mindfulness and the cultural elements of a ‘slow living’ movement; the huge success of Max Richter’s marathon 'Sleep’ project; and the emergence of an expansive musical niche that draws from drone, electroacoustic and classical traditions and prioritises a more immersive, durational sound worlds - see artists like Kali Malone, Ellen Arkbro, Clarice Jensen, Abul Mogard, William Basinski, Claire M Singer, and labels like Longform Editions and XKatedral. Music here is intended to function not as ambient backdrop to other activities but as a deep listening, intensive immersion.

Aligned with these approaches, Glotman & Erlandsson’s work is suffused with a chromatic density and a tendency towards an edgy darkness that puts it closer to Hildur Guðnadóttir’s ‘Chernobyl’ score or Jóhannsson’s ‘The Miner’s Hymns’. It shares that same brassy, bass heavy weight and glowering, simmering sense of tension as well as a similar, sliding feeling of instability. Its authors cite the influence of  Renaissance vocal polyphony; Giacinto Scelsi’s ‘Pranam II’; György Ligeti’s 1967 piece ‘Lontano’ (heard on the soundtrack to Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’ and Scorcese’s ‘Shutter Island’); as well as American composer Ingram Marshall, and Iceland’s Valgier Sigurdsson. Gorgeously recorded, beautifully focused and measured throughout, ‘Emanate’ is a texturally rich, deep spectrum exploration that flows and unfolds almost seamlessly throughout its fifty-minute span to create an energy field which feels simultaneously static and yet continually shifting.

Emanate

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Yair Elazar Glotman & Mats Erlandsson - Procession

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[wazo-tɑ̃.pɛːt] // Frédéric D. Oberland & Stéphane Pigneul // sometimes Abed Kobeissy - Ali El Hout - Ben McConnell - Ben Shemie - Blackthread - Charbel Haber - Christine Ott - Gareth Davis - Grégoire Couvert & Grégoire Orio - G.W.Sok - Jean-Michel Pirès - Jessica Moss - Mondkopf - Pascal Semerdjian - Radwan Ghazi Moumneh - Sharif Sehnaoui - Stéphane Charpentier - Stéphane Rives - Sylvain Joasson - Tamer Abu Ghazaleh - Youmna Saba

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'WHAT ON EARTH (QUE DIABLE)'
2xLP | CD | DL on SUB ROSA & NAHAL RECORDINGS (2022)

'TLAMESS (Sortilège) OST'
LP | CD | DL on SUB ROSA (2020)

'FROM SOMEWHERE INVISIBLE'
LP | CD |  DL on SUB ROSA (2019)

'طرب TARAB'
2xLP | CD | DL on SUB ROSA (2018)

'AL-'AN ! الآن' 
2xLP | CD | DL on SUB ROSA (2017)

'UNWORKS & RARITIES' 
LP | CD | DL on SUB ROSA (2016)

'ÜTOPIYA ?'
2xLP | CD | DL on SUB ROSA (2015)

'RE-WORKS'
LP+DL on SUB ROSA & BALADES SONORES (2014)

'OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE'
2xLP | CD | DL on SUB ROSA (2013)

Black Elephant (feat. Ben Shemie)

Oiseaux-Tempête

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