Ciel Bleu et Petits Oiseaux is a noise label based in France. They release new cassettes on a regular basis and are passionate about the noise (anti-music) genre. The label owner, Mieczko Kampuchéa, kindly accepted to answer my questions. Here's the result. PSJ: What got you into the noise anti-music genre?I have a Black Metal background, which leads me to the spheres of the Dark Ambient scene. I’ve really started when I discovered the Nordvargr/Drakh project. Then the Nordvargr discography followed and most notably the immense “Hypergenome666” between Nordvargr, B.S.E and Kenji Siratori. I liked what Mr. Siratori...

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Artist: Chihei Hatakeyama + Corey Fuller Album: Euphotic Label: White Paddy Mountain Genre: Ambient, Drone As active as Chihei Hatakeyama seems these days, his musical partner here, Corey Fuller seems to be the opposite. His debut 'Seas Between' was already released in 2009 and his second solo release will be out later this year. Together with Tomoyoshi Date he has a duo called Illuha, which has four albums so far, all released by 12K. He lives in Tokyo, but was born in the USA, which makes it easier, I guess, to hook up with Chihei Hatakeyama to do...

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Artist: Taavi Tulev Album: Rand / Beach Label: Self-Released Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Experimental Just like last week's releases by Alphatronic, I have a CD here, which I thought I saw before already. Like it's predecessor 'Kuku!' this new work by Taavi Tulev comes in a digipack with a separate sheet of stickers which you can stick on the cover yourself, but upon closer inspection this turns out to be a beach. Maybe Tulev took my advise from the previous review and decided this to change the twenty-one minute of a forest into an one hour recording of a...

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Artist: Gregory Büttner Album: Wenn Uns Jemand Hört - Sag - Wir Haben Einfach Kurz Luft Geschnappt Label: 1000Füssler Genre: Experimental, Noise On his own label 1000Füssler, Büttner has a new release with 2 slightly older pieces and the first one is the title piece, which he translates as 'if somebody hears us - tell them - we only had to catch a breath', and its music to a performance piece by Anja Winterhalter and it's from 2010. What the performance was about isn't mentioned, which is perhaps a pity as now it remains a piece of music,...

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Artist: Of Earth And Sun Album: Uncoiled Label: Malignant Records Genre: Ambient, Noise, Dark AmbientThere's something inherently creepy about Of Earth And Sun's music. The sound of the bone trumpets offered on most of the tracks are spooky to say the least! They are the main ingredient of Matthew Hunzeker's music (the guy behind this project) as you can hear them buzzing throughout all the tracks of Uncoiled. Of Earth And Sun's artistic expression is a cross between well recorded harsh noise (and I stress on “well recorded”), dark drone and ritualistic music. All the tracks on the...

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Artist: Marc Matter aka Voiceover Album: Nervous Breakthrough Label: Tanuki Records Genre: ExperimentalThis is a Chrome C25 cassette release of highly abstract music made with turntables, voice and effects. The first track, “Nervous” (on side A), is a very erratic and unpredictable abstract noise track. Think bleeps and bloops without any added “space” effects (reverb, echo). The second track (on side B), named “Breakthrough”, is lower in tones and more “ambient” in style than “Nervous”. We can hear the resonance of the vocal cords vibrating in slow motion mixed with itchy rhythmic noises. There's an organic quality to...

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Artist: Shelby Bryant Album: Shelby Bryant's Wurst Music Label: Tanuki Records Genre: Experimental, Indie PopShelby Bryant's music is a mix of rock pop with electronic ornaments. Wurst Music is a fun album, not to be taken seriously. Some of the tunes reminds me of old organ and vocal music from the fifties with a added pop twist. The kind of music you now find at thrift stores. I have the impression they are making fun out of these type of records. In its liner notes, Shelby Bryant tells us that music making is a group thing he likes...

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