Brume
A Treatise On Ethnography
*200 copies limted edition * Brume/C Renou: Analog & digital electronics, percussion, metal, DIY wind instruments, amputated electric guitar, acoustic guitar, voice, electronic toys, tape (reel to reel & cassette), field recording, 60's radio, tv, effects, etc... + mix.Pat' Blanch: paintings (front/back cover). Necessary thanks to Ferns Recordings and Paul Lavigne for making this project possible.Comp./Rec./Mix. at Brume Rec., between 2020 & 2022.
Brume Featuring Vrischika
*Limited edition of 500 copies. Packaged inside an A5 sleeve. 2022 stock.* Second co-operation by Brume and Vrishika after the MCD out on Brume's own label.An ethno-industrial moisture with a wide range of ambients.
The Sun / The Rain
*2022 stock. Limited edition of 107 copies including an orange 7" vinyl.* Note from the label: OEC made an error with the mastering of this album. We received a master from Mr Renou (Brume) which wasn’t in the conditions to be sent to the pressing plant and therefore we was burning a new disc. By doing this we entered by mistake a series of pauses between the tracks. We didn’t altered the music, didn’t cut any sound but, as said, entered a pause by each and any ID. That error on the master is 10…
Autoportrait
100 copies on clear vinyl. Reissue of a cassette released in 1991 by La Légende des voix. A sound self-portrait harsh and tortured also using some texts. Brume (Christian Renou) is a prolific French musique concrete composer/sound sculptor who has won himself a place of his own with his crossover between sound collages, electro-acoustics and noise. His compositions rely on dense, rapid-fire montage and wed cacophony and dynamics, emphasizing both the elements of discontinuity and continuity. Why…
Ainsi Soit-il!
Limited edition of 250. Alone, you have to listen to Brume alone, and lie down far from the neon lights, traffic, and gossip, with your lights filtered. In the dominating dark and night, Brume carries an atomized reality to a world where chaos rhymes with spatial waverings, where atmosphere is devoid of impurity, rich with rhythms and sonorities, and dense with emotions, for a mysterious -- but undoubtedly innovative -- energetic trip. Rich, complex, and experimental Ainsi Soit-il!envelopes us. …
Unstable
The involvement in the improbable challenge of a collaboration with another musical entity takes on its full meaning when the two characters have radically different personalities ! In 2001, the merger of Brume with the American project Bastard Noise could have seem surreal ! One works in the field of Musique concrete, and the others in what we can call Power electronics, making their own sound generators (DIY). The first album of this association materialised with a very successful CD! 2012… po…
Bruitisme
New 2015 material from French experimentalists Vivenza, Brume, Le Syndicat, and Lieutenant Caramel. This is their own updated, contemporary vision of the Bruitism sounds and texts. Jean-Marc Vivenza has theoretically and politically linked himself with the Italian Futurists and Russian Constructivists since the mid '70s. Originally released in 1984, his series of Fondements Bruitistes d'Action (Bruitist Foundations of Action) recordings were inspired by the relationship between the technological…
Friction
“Friction” is a compression of the two first official tapes of Brume, “Frikture” 1985 and “Le jour du cochon” 1986/87, also including an unreleased that closes the end of side A of this vinylic reissue. A very experimental period, electro-ethnico-indus orientated because Brume went from “all analogical” to the first numeric tests, electroacoustic, to make an hybrid synthesis until today with the computer.
Two characters
Through more than 25 years of existence, the french composer Christian Renou, aka Brume, has developed a unique 'handwriting' style within the experimental underground, something one may call 'atmospheric musique concrète'. It is the marriage of many concrete sounds, hand-played acoustic instruments and electronic drones noises that are arranged in a manner somewhat akin to a 'narrative' - highly emotive and often evolving in a dramatic way. We are delighted to have received two tracks for the S…
Xerxes
New album by Brume (Christian Renou), who is a prolific French musique concrete composer/sound organizer who has been releasing CDs and cassettes worldwide. Renou is remarkable because he engages in elaborate concrete compositions without the academic pretension that surrounds much of the work in this style. More info later. Xerxes was the King of Persia in 500 B.C. and could be considered today as a symbol of « blitzkrieg ». His aggressive instincts allowed him to defeat the Greek army in a qui…
Glossy black fruits
A powerful exemplar of long time electro-acoustic artist, Christian Renou. Glossy Black Fruits was composed in two parts and features contributions from G. Guiggia & Mamma Baer + KHJ.
Anthology Box
'Accident de chasse', 'I'm... I come... I was...', 'Schiluuk', 'Stable', 'Electrocoagulation tapes', 'Les victimes sont dangereuses', 'Moll', 'Lost in karrack', 'Early tracks', 'Live with or without audience', 'In death we trust!' (extract), 'Program T.4' (extract), 'Drug' (revised), 'The prehistoric tapes'. The best way to enter into the world of brume aka Christian Renou, French composer of musique concrete.