Paul Régimbeau – SIDE-LINE

Renaud Bajeux debuts on Nahal Recordings with ‘Magnetic Voices From The Unseen’ – check it out

Bernard - Side-Line Staff — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 11:31:28 +0000

(Photo by Frédéric D.Oberland) Out now via the French label Nahal Recordings is the first album of French musician Renaud Bajeux.

The album, “Magnetic Voices From The Unseen”, is made from magnetic field recordings – using two electromagnetic coils. He further recorded hard drives, phones, computers, mouse devices, screens, etc, trying to acknowledge this infra-reality merging industrial noise music and harmonic chants.

Here is the Bandcamp embed to listen to the album (where you can also get the album on vinyl):

Magnetic Voices From The Unseen by Renaud Bajeux

Trained as a cellist and sound engineer Renaud Bajeux works as a cinema sound designer and has been regularly collaborating with INA-GRM (Groupe de Recherches Musicales) for the last ten years. His music can be described as the crossroad of ambient, field recording and noise music.

For our regular readers, Nahal Recordings was created in 2018 by producer Paul Régimbeau (Mondkopf, Autrenoir, Extreme Precautions, FOUDRE!) and multi-instrumentalist / photographer Frédéric D. Oberland (Oiseaux-Tempête, Le Réveil des Tropiques, FOUDRE!, FareWell Poetry, The Rustle Of The Stars). With this label they want to produce – and we quote – “weird and wonderful vinyl records and physical objects (patches, silkscreen prints, T-shirts and the like) in limited editions”.

The project is also performing live, here is a live (in 2 parts) which Bajeux did at Live at the Chateau Perché Festival last Summer:

Bernard - Side-Line Staff

Chief editor of Side-Line – which basically means I spend my days wading through a relentless flood of press releases from labels, artists, DJs, and zealous correspondents. My job? Strip out the promo nonsense, verify what’s actually real, and decide which stories make the cut and which get tossed into the digital void. Outside the news filter bubble, I’m all in for quality sushi and helping raise funds for Ukraine’s ongoing fight against the modern-day axis of evil. Besides music I’m also an SEO and AI content flow specialist and have an interest in everything finance from stocks to crypto. There is music in everything!

side-line.com

Mondkopf – They Fall, But You Don’t (CD Album – In Paradisum)

Inferno Sound Diaries — Wed, 17 May 2017 18:15:23 +0000

Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, electronics, cinematographic. Background/Info: French musician Paul Régimbeau has now been active for many years under the Mondkopf moniker. The band released multiple albums and EP’s. “They Fall, But You Don’t” is the fifth album of Mondkopf, which has been released on their own label In Paradisum. Content: Mondkopf creates a dark-ambient sound universe, which is joined by numerous sound effects and experimental treatments. The tracks progressively evolve towards a more cinematographic format, which is now accentuated with passages sacred chants and then pure astral sounds and effects. The work is quite diversified, but always focused around dark sound manipulations and haunted atmospheres. + + + : If Mondkopf can be easily considered as a dark-ambient inspired project, this work definitely doesn’t sound like a classic release in the genre. Paul Régimbeau likes to manipulate noises, which are joined by obscure ambient parts. The main strength of the work is hiding behind the impressive sound creation. I however like the somewhat haunting style supporting the tracks. Speaking for myself I’m more into both debut tracks, which are less cinematographic-like and more into pure sound experimentation showing the most intelligent side of the work. – – – : I like the progression running through this work although the final part becomes a little less repetitive and predictable. The soundtrack style is now taking over, but is somewhat suffering from creative ideas right at the final track. Mondkopf clearly doesn’t sound as the most accessible project from this scene, but is that a real problem? I don’t think so. Conclusion: Mondkopf might be seen as the French answer to the numerous Scandinavian and North American bands dealing with dark-ambient music. It’s a different kind of ambient, which is more sophisticated and revealing a different approach in sound creation. Best songs: “Vivere, Part I”, “Vivere, Part II”. Rate: (7). Band: www .facebook .com /Mondkopf Label: www .inparadisum .net / www .facebook .com /inparadisumrecords

Read the news on ‘They Fall, But You Don’t’.

Inferno Sound Diaries

I have been working for over 30 years with Side-line as the main reviewer. My taste is eclectic, uncoventional and I prefer to look for the pearls, even if the bands are completely unknown, thus staying loyal to the Side-Line philosophy of nurturing new talents.

www.side-line.com

Mondkopf returns with dark atmospheres on the upcoming LP ‘They Fall, But You Don’t’

Bernard - Side-Line Staff — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 19:00:45 +0000

The acclaimed french DJ & producer Paul Régimbeau, better known under his artist name Mondkopf, finally returns with fresh material. The new Mondkopf LP, “They Fall, But You Don’t”, will be released on February 27th via his own label In Paradisum Records and we have been given an exclusive preview tonight. You can order the release right here on vinyl, CD and as download. Regular readers will remember this act very well, Mondkopf has been prominently featured on Side-Line in the past years due to his very dark and unique approach of french touch techno. Although that scene is not often well perceived by the industrial scene, know that instead of the commercially popular tunes, Mondkopf was able to offer that scene its much needed credibility via his past albums, EPs and singles, all of which showcase a different musical side of the project. The new album is the follow-up to “Hadès” (2014) and this time focusses on the dark side of ambient soundscapes (with not a single beat this time) with an approach that we have described in the past as being slick but ultimately vividly rough. The advantage of Mondkopf lays in the fact that he never copies what he has done in the past. The project is constantly evolving, hence why he could take the liberty to leave the beats out of the equation this time. Each track was recorded during one night so you could consider it to be like a diary, a compilation of precise moments. Paul Régimbeau started his career releasing remixes and singles during the exploding french electro scene but has been picked up by the industrial underground too, not in the least thanks to Side-Line which was the first scene magazine to feature the band in its news months before others would. Here’s a Mondkopf track which you should for instance have in your playlist Creating very filmic scores, it doesn’t come as a surprise that Régimbeau has already completed 2 musical scores as well, namely for the full length movies “Papa Lumière” by Ada Loueilh (2011), and “Bridgend” by Jeppe Rønde (2015). This new LP clearly follows in those steps. Note that just before the new Mondkopf record will be released, another special project that Régimbeau is involved in will see the light of day. Foudre’s debut LP will be released next month by Gizeh Records (home to Nadja , Christine Ott, FareWell Poetry, A-Sun Amissa etc). It’s a live recording of a soundtrack the band did for the film “Earth” by Ho Tzu Nyen taken from a performance at the Saint-Merri Church in Paris.

Read the review of ‘They Fall, But You Don’t’.

Bernard - Side-Line Staff

side-line.com