Frédéric D. Oberland Exclusive

A sublime abstract selection from the versatile Frédéric D. Oberland.

Includes well-known as well as rare or unreleased ambient, modern-classical, experimental, post-rock, spoken-word, field-recordings, movie soundtracks, I tried to compile this small selection of cinematic and wide-reaching tracks as a sort of remedy for dream-hungry insomniacs. Or, more modestly, to cure my own insomnias.

In the words of Mr Bukowski:

‘How to round off a tape, who knows? I hope that I haven’t bored you too much.poetry tends to bore. (…) The real artist must elsewhere, riding bicycles in the hidden hills, I don’t know… (…) Down like stairways, up like smoke…. (…) Goodbye,babies, goodbye!’

Track List:

00.00 Animal Hospital – “Good Times”
02.30 Peter Broderick – “Piano & Toy piano”
06.26 Winter Family – “Garden”
08.27 Gregor Samsa – “XXX”
12.45 The voice of Charles Bukowski – “Grammar of Life”
13.06 Glenn Gould – “Bach (JS): Piano Concerto #5 In F Minor,Largo”
15.30 The voice of Guy E.Debord – “In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni”
15.57 Svarte Greiner – “The Boat Was My Friend”
20.10 Glissando – “We are depleting”
21.51 Bing and Ruth – “Rails”
29.41 Brian Harnetty & Bonnie Prince Billy – “And Under The Winesap tree”
32.42 Colin JohnCo – “Lips”
34.41 Innocent X – “Nord”
35.46 Extract from the movie “La Maman et la Putain” by Jean Eustache
40.32 Ryuichi Sakamoto & Christian Fennesz – “Cendre”
43.39 Laurie Anderson – “World Without End”
46.26 Max Richter – “Sarajevo”
50.03 The voice of Charles Bukowski – “Bukowski says Goodbye”
51.09 Set Fire To Flames – “Steal Compass_Drive North_Disappear”
57.11 FareWell Poetry – “A Small Love Story”

The Artist:

Frédéric D. Oberland (b. 1978) is a composer, multi-instrumentist and sound artist residing in Paris, France.
His work combines electroacoustic research and sensitive improvisations to form original and imaginary soundscapes playing with time, memory and the elements. As a member of the french experimental cinema workshop “L’Etna”, he has composed some original sountracks for experimental and documentary film/video artists like Augustin Gimel, Hugo Verlinde, François-Xavier Drouet,Jayne Amara Ross,David Bart & Laurence Balan, Mikaël Rabetrano, Othello Vilgard, Delphine Lest. or the “Label Ombres” collective.

Founding member of the bands Medecine Music, 21 Love Hotel and Hommage à Altagor, he is currently working on the recording of his new project “FareWell Poetry”, a collective of musicians and and a poet/filmmaker.
From indie to modern classical to drone and shoegaze, spoken word and experimental film, FareWell Poetry’s EP ‘Hoping for the Invisible to Ignite’ will be out in 2010.

More info :

www.myspace.com/fredericdoberland
www.myspace.com/farewellpoetry

Discography:

HOMMAGE A ALTAGOR – Frédéric D.Oberland, Colin JohnCo, Dave Ollife & Seb ElZin | CD/MP3 (2010, CJC)
OMBRAGES – Colin JohnCo & Frédéric D.Oberland | CD/MP3 (2008, CJC)
OUR HEARTS BELONG TO THE STORM – 21 Love Hotel | CD/MP3 (2008, OOTB/Pias)
21 LOVE HOTEL vs KID LOCO – 21 Love Hotel | 7″/MP3 (2008, OOTB/Pias)
COSMOGONIES – Hugo Verlinde | DVD (2008, Lowave)
DERNIERE ADRESSE PARISIENNE – Elisa Point, Frédéric D.Oberland & Ed Roll | CD/MP3 (2007, LEEP)
THE DELIGHT OF CHILDHOOD – Medecine Music | CD/MP3 (2007, LEEP)
BLACKLIGHT – Label Ombres | DVD (Lowave, 2007)

Compilations:

LA VIE ANTIQUE NE FUT QUE SILENCE – FareWell Poetry : “In the bold jaws of beartraps” | CD/MP3 (2009, CJC)

Guest Appearances:

NEO-LOVE – Colin JohnCo | CD/MP3 (2010,Lft)
WE HEAR VOICES – The Fitzcarraldo Sessions | CD/MP3 (2009,GreenUnitedMusic/Pias)
THE SWEET DEMISE OF THE BOOZEHOUND – Three Black Eyes | CD (20O9,FLMNH)
HALF-MOON – Nicolas Laferrerie | CD/MP3 (2009, CJC)
TONE DEAF – NicolasTone | CD/MP3 (2008, TRHP)

To purchase some of these records :

www.colinjohncorecords.free.fr
www.lowave.com
www.thorsrubberhammer.com