Posted In: experimental
Welcome ZÖJ
Posted On: 26th of July, 2023
Posted In: Gelareh Pour, Brian O'Dwyer, Persian experimental music, Kamancheh, Qheychak Alto, Drums, Melbourne, Cross-cultural music, intercultural music, Tradition, Continuum, current
ZÖJ is the ongoing musical conversation between Australian-based Iranian master of the Kamancheh Gelareh Pour and Brian O'Dwyer.
Ethically grounded in interculturalism, ZÖJ seeks to contribute to modern of sustainable and nurtured cross-cultural collaboration and the development of new Australian Music.
Their debut album FIL O FENJOON has been in production since 2021 and will see the light in November 2023.
KEDA releases 3rd album
Posted On: 11th of February, 2023
Posted In: KEDA, Mathias Delplanque, E'Joung-Ju, Korea, Experimental Music, Ambient, Dub, Traditional, Geomungo, Electronics, Parenthèses Records, Festival Printemps Coréen, Compagnie Linga, John Sellekaers, Flow, Continuum, France, Korea, Brussels, Nantes, contemporary dance, Switzerland, Suisse, current
Invited by Compagnie Linga to compose the musical score of the dance production 'Flow' and perform it live, KEDA created a mesmerizing soundtrack, in which E’Joung-Ju stirs up lively rhythms and melodic fragments of the Korean geomungo, like an electric bass, which Mathias Delplanque captures and mutates in ambient and noise collages, ensuring a hypnotic pull.
Watch the trailer
L'OMBRE DE LA BETE
Posted On: 17th of June, 2022
Posted In: François Robin, Mathias Delplanque, Veuze, Bretagne, Duduk, Mizmar, A la Zim Muzik, electronics, experimental music, Parenthèses Records, Tradition, Continuum, Xango Muzik
Hello friends,
It's been a long time in the making so we are particularly thrilled to share with you the BIG news that our newest release, proudly co-produced with À La Zim Muzik, is now up for PRE-ORDER.
François Robin & Mathias Delplanque are L'OMBRE DE LA BÊTE , an immersive exploration of the organic sound of the VEUZE.
Expect drone flirting with krautrock and traditional music.
The album will see the light on July 1st, coming in a beautiful 4 panels digisleeve with inserted 4 pages booklet, all designed by French visual artists Quentin Faucompré
Until then, 2 tracks are available on both Bandcamp below.
https://lombredelabete.bandcamp.com
https://parenthesesrecords.bandcamp.com
PR welcomes
Posted On: 8th of December, 2021
Posted In: Parentheses Records, L'ombre de la bête, France, Nantes, Traditional music, britany, bretagne, veuze, Mathias Delplanque, François Robin, A la Zim, bagpipe, cornemuse, electronic music, experimental music
We’re thrilled to welcome L'ombre de la bête to the Parenthèses roster in partnership with french A La Zim!
L'ombre de la bête is a duo made of Mathias Delplanque (electronics) and François Robin, master of the Veuze, a Breton bagpipe found traditionally in southeastern Brittany and in the northern part of the Vendée, particularly around Nantes.
Their music takes inspiration from the traditionals of that region flirts with krautrock, drone and traditional music.
Their album will see the light in spring 2022.
Stay tuned...
...10 & 10...
Posted On: 6th of May, 2021
Posted In: Parentheses Records, Compilation, Anniversary, Mark Cain, Patrick Graham, John Sellekaers, Masonik, Mathias Delplanque, Philippe Foch, François Robin, L'Ombre de la Bête, Compagnie Linga, KEDA, E'Joung-Ju, GRM, Experimental Music, Ambient, Soundscape, Soundtrack, World Music, Traditionnal, Geoumungo, Percussion, Australia, Canada, Belgium, Quebec, Brussels, Nantes, France, Perth, Fremantle
On December 3 2020, Parenthèses Records turned 10 years with the date marking our first release, « The Vedantic Chapter » by Perth-based sound and visual arts collective Masonik.
12 releases came out in this time-lap (yes, we like to take it slow), all encapsulating the label’s core artistic vision but most of all 12 albums that were true collaborative efforts leading to enduring friendships.
To celebrate the big 10, PR is proud to release two free compilations:
...10
10...
Unnatural
Posted On: 18th of March, 2020
Posted In: Patrick Graham, John Sellekaers, Parentheses Records, Unnatural, Remix, Leafy Suburbs, Lyndon Blue, Debashis Sinha, Mathias Delplanque, Lawrence English, Tamar Kasparian, Percussion, Ambient, Abstract, Experimental Music, Soundtrack, Tradition, Continuum, Belgium, Canada, Australia
After three singles and their accompanying remixes, we're very excited to share with you UNNATURAL by Canadian percussionist and improviser Patrick Graham & Belgian sound artist John Sellekaers.
The album is available from our our Bandcamp HQ including two bonus tracks and from all streaming platforms.
Next of Kin
Posted On: 25th of January, 2020
Posted In: Patrick Graham, John Sellekaers, Parentheses Records, Unnatural, Remix, Leafy Suburbs, Lyndon Blue, Percussion, Ambient, Abstract, Experimental Music, Soundtrack, Tradition, Continuum, Belgium, Canada, Australia
Next of Kin, the third single taken from "Unnatural", the fiercely imaginative collaboration between Patrick Graham & John Sellekaers, translates once again the duo's shared aesthetic to play on timbres and textures. A sparsely populated, sonically inquisitive track with the electronic treatments slightly more upfront creating cavernous resonances that engage the listener into a sonic containment.
At the remix control, we find Leafy Suburbs. His take on Next of Kin isn't one easy to pin down. A syncopated monochromatic disorienting pulse traverses micro sound manipulations that leave the listener with an overall feeling of cosmic weirdness.
Innerland
Posted On: 18th of December, 2019
Posted In: Patrick Graham, John Sellekaers, Parentheses Records, Unnatural, Remix, Debashis Sinha, Percussion, Ambient, Abstract, Experimental, Music, Minimal Techno, Tradition, Continuum, Belgium, Canada
Innerland is the second single announcing "Unnatural", the collaborative effort between Patrick Graham & John Sellekaers that will see the light in February 2020.
Worked around Patrick' improvisations with cymbals and other percussions, Innerland offers a total different narrative than the one of Lacuna's with John again subtly sculpting the palette creating wonderfully uncluttered sonics...enabling the smallest details to find air.
A percussionist with a distinctive voice, Debashis Sinha has long been a fixture on Canada’s creative music scene as an acoustic and electronic musician, exploring the many different ways traditional and contemporary tools can inform each other.
While keeping the atmospheric and sometimes cavernous feel of the track, his remix manages to bring it to the minimal techno realm.
Lacuna
Posted On: 27th of November, 2019
Posted In: Patrick Graham, John Sellekaers, Unnatural, Remix, Mathias Delplanque, Percussion, Ambient, Abstract, Experimental Music, Dub, Tradition, Continuum, Belgium, Canada
Taken from Unnatural, the forthcoming album by Patrick Graham & John Sellekaers due on February 25 2020, Lacuna is the first of a series of three singles released each month for free with their accompanying remixes.
The track testifies of the dynamic at work between Canadian percussionist/improviser Patrick Graham and Belgian sound artist John Sellekaers where the vast percussion-based sound palette is sculpted to create a dark and enigmatic soundtrack, a physical sound immersion into some imaginary ritual.
We've asked our dear friend and close collaborator Mathias Delplanque (KEDA - Foch/Delplanque) to give Lacuna the remix treatment. His re-envisioning of Patrick & John's sustained tones injects the original with pulse and dub elements (reminding of his work as Lena) without losing the sense of space present in Lacuna but framing it into new territories.
Give it a spin HERE
KEDA announces new album
Posted On: 31st of January, 2018
Posted In: KEDA, Mathias Delplanque, E'Joung-Ju, Korea, France, Geomungo, Festival Printemps Coréen, Experimental Music, World Music, Tradition, Continuum
KEDA is back with a new release entirely recorded live on May 27 2017 at Festival Printemps Coréen in Nantes while improvising on a painting created in real time by Korean cartoonist Keum Suk Gendry-Kim.
On Live at Cosmopolis, KEDA embraces a noisier and full-on improvised approach placing the duo amongst a rising tide of korean musicians/projects currently making a name for themselves as true adventurers such as multi-instrumentalist Park Jiha, post-rockers Jambinai, Pansori maestro Bae il Dong or Danso player Hyelim Kim to name a few.
The album is out on January 26th and is made available as a FREE download via our Bandcamp HQ.