(Post Rock, Experimental, Arabic, Free Jazz, Krautrock, Psychedelic) [WEB] Oiseaux-Tempête (Oiseaux-Tempete) - AL - 'AN ! الآن (And your night is your shadow — a fairy-tale piece of land to make our dreams) - 2017, FLAC

Frédéric D. Oberland : electric guitar & hurdy-gurdy (BAB V), field recordings, mellotron, alto saxophone, dukar, analog synths, percussion, flute
Stéphane Pigneul : electric bass VI & guitar, moog, modular system & analog synths, drum machine, field recordings, percussion, piano
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Mondkopf: analog synths on tracks 1, 4, 8, 9, 10 , 11, 12 & 13
Sylvain Joasson : percussion & drums on tracks 1, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10 & 11
Charbel Haber : electric guitar on tracks 3, 5, 6 & 11
Sharif Sehnaoui : acoustic guitar & percussion on tracks 2 & 7, electric guitar on track 8
G.W.Sok : narration on track 11
Tamer Abu Ghazaleh : vocals on track 6
Abed Kobeissy : electric buzuk on tracks 2, 7 , 8 & 13
Ali El Hout : bandir on tracks 2 & 7
Youmna Saba : oud on tracks 3, 5 & 6
Pascal Semerdjian : percussion & drums on tracks 3, 5, 6 & 11
Stéphane Rives : soprano saxophone on tracks 1, 4 & 11
Blackthread: modular synth on track 11
Grégoire Orio & Grégoire Couvert : additional field recordings on tracks 7, 10 & 11
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All tracks composed and performed by Oiseaux-Tempête // These are some live epiphanies improvised between Middle-East and Europe during the year of chaos 2016 // Eastern sessions recorded by Fadi Tabbal at Tunefork in Beirut - Borj-Hammoud // Western sessions recorded by Christophe Chavanon at Kerwax, Brittany / by Jean-Charles Versari at Poptones, Paris / by Oiseaux-Tempête at Mar Mikhael & Magnum Diva, Beirut - Paris // Field recordings shot in Lebanon between March and October 2016 // Poems by Mahmoud Darwish extracts from 'The Offering' and 'Red Indian's Penultimate Speech to the White Man' // Edited by Oiseaux-Tempête at Magnum Diva // Mixed by Jean-Charles Versari & Oiseaux-Tempête at Poptones // Mastered by Harris Newman at GreyMarket, Montreal // Photographs by Frédéric D. Oberland // Artwork by Mountain // Produced by Oiseaux-Tempête

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Относительно новый апрельский альбом французских мистиков. Как очевидно из названия и альбома и треков — господа очень тяготеют к арабской культуре. Да настолько, что часть материала записывалась в Ливане при участии большого количества местных и не очень музыкантов. Всё это вылилось в гремучую смесь из фри-джаза, краутрока, шугейза и арабской музыкальной традиции. Звучит это просто магически. Монументальная работа, будто сошедшая со страниц Говарда Лавкрафта и его историй про «безумного араба» Абдула аль-Хазреда.
На пластинке вы услышите огромное количество инструментов: от саксофона до бузуки и бандира. На одном из треков стихи палестинского поэта Махмуда Дарвиша читает палестинский же фолк-певец Тамир Абу Газала. Видимо, всё творчество коллектива — это реверанс колониальному прошлому Ливана и Алжира под протекторатом Франции.

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'A monumental album experience' EXCLAIM! - CA
'An impressive series of builds leads to a howling, wailing climax. Oiseaux-Tempête is French for storm petrels, and they've unleashed some engaging musical havoc on their journey across the Mediterranean to clasp hands in Lebanon.' THE WIRE - UK
"Oiseaux-Tempête s'est posé sur les eaux troubles du Liban. Trois escales en Méditerranée et trois albums pour un groupe qui navigue à l'instinct, comme attiré par le désordre, sans jamais tombé dans le panneau de l'orientalisme." MOUVEMENT - FR
"Un univers qui n'a pas d'égal dans notre Hexagone." NOISEY / VICE - FR
'Oiseaux-Tempête creates a stormy stratosphere of their own design.' IMPOSE MAGAZINE - USA
"Leur art possède quelque chose de viscéral, presque inconscient. Il ne laisse pas indifférent, prend aux tripes et emporte." LE FIGARO - FR
"It's weighty material, musically and thematically" THE QUIETUS - UK
"Adjectifs à employer : catatonique, post-apocalyptique, tellurique, allégorique, cathartique, hypnotique" GONZAÏ - FR
'Una delle cose più belle in cui mi sia imbattuto negli ultimi anni.' THE NEW NOISE - IT
"Al-'An! est certes un disque sombre mais aussi le plus riche et le plus fascinant des chats de cette odyssée postmoderne" MAGIC, REVUE POP MODERNE - FR
'It’s not often that one gets to experience such rich, improvised textures" THE ATTIC MAGAZINE' - AUS
"Un écrin musical bercé de considérations géopolitiques, une approche pulsative, hypnotique mais toujours sensible" NEW NOISE MAGAZINE - FR
"Peu de disques, cette année, sauront dégager autant de majesté, de puissance et de fièvre que ce nouvel album" GIVE VIOLENCE A CHANCE - FR
'Met hun nieuwste album besluit de instrumentale free-rockgroep Oiseaux-Tempête een zinderende trilogie, die de luisteraar meedogenloos de zilte diepte onder de zeespiegel inzuigt. Laat je niet misleiden door de aanvankelijk kalme klanken: de orkaan is nooit ver weg.' GONZO CIRCUS - NL
"Une énorme gifle, une vague longue et profonde pour laisser exploser une foule d'émotions en un choc assourdissant et d'une puissance tout à fait jouissive" XSILENCE - FR
'So yes ~ this instrumental site is interested in what Oiseaux-Tempête has to say, but more importantly, how they say it ~ with or without words, but with grace, energy, creativity and perseverance, worthy traits to possess in this or any world, no matter what the climate.' A CLOSER LISTEN - USA
"De tels disques sont des joyaux, des œuvres presque divines tant elles transcendent l’humanité qui nous anime." INDIEPOPROCK - FR
"Maintenant on vit, maintenant on suit cette musique douce et grisante qui serpente tranquillement dans un dédale de murs couleur sable, puis on s’envole dans une grande bourrasque électrique, typique du groupe, et on retombe comme dans un panier de serpents, les instruments soufflent, sifflent, mettent en garde. Le traditionnel et le moderne se rencontrent dans un respect mutuel." MOWNO - FR

In O I S E A U X - T E M P Ê T E ([wazo-tɑ̃.pɛːt] - Storm Petrel), Frédéric D. Oberland and Stéphane Pigneul have chosen a name, a call from the sea, of almost totemic quality. First, perhaps, it offers the suggestion of journeys over great distance, the distant hymns of fortune-tellers and gravitydefying acts of the oracles. Yet at the same time, comes the idea of earthly chaos, a willing reference to the telluric frenzy that darkens the sky yet also, paradoxically, brings promise of a radiant tomorrow. Since 2012, the core duo beside drummers Ben Mc Connell, Sylvain Joasson or Jean-Michel Pirès have been making instrumental and free-music that's heavy, provocative, and in no way intended for just a casual listen. On their DEBUT album (2013), they intertwine their creative process with the photographer Stéphane C. in order to document the existential conflict caused by the political and economic turmoil in Greece. The year after, the band invited a selection of kindred spirits and remixers to lend their talents to RE-WORKS featuring Scanner, Justin Small's Do Make Say Think, Saåad, Witxes. For ÜTOPIYA? (2015) the travels moved to Istanbul and Sicily, the group expanded with the addition of Gareth Davis & GW Sok (The Ex's former vocalist). Compiling b-sides and previously unreleased material, UNWORKS & RARITIES (2016) features also ondes martenot's virtuoso Christine Ott. Partly recorded in 2016 in Beirut, Lebanon, AL-'AN ! (And Your Night Is Your Shadow - A Fairy Tale Piece Of Land To Make Our Dreams) is bringing their Mediterranean voyage to the serendipity of epiphanies and joyful collisions - mixing free, rock and Middle-East sonorities, and featuring Sharif Sehnaoui, Charbel Haber, Mondkopf, تامر أبو غزالة, GW Sok, عبد قبيسي & Ali El Hout, Youmna Saba, Stéphane Rives...