Lieutenant Caramel

Lieutenant Caramel is the alias of Philippe Blanchard, a French composer born in 1961 who works from his own studio in Annecy, in the French Alps. Blanchard makes musique concrète and noise from sounds he records while travelling, from Syria and Iran to Ukraine, and calls himself a hunter of sounds. He is a figure of the French industrial underground and a co-founder of the Noise of Snow festival in Annecy. Lieutenant Caramel's early records include Hommage au feutre, issued on Ache and later on RRRecords.