enfer boréal
Rennes, France
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About
Enfer Boréal is the solo project of Maxime Primault.
contact enferboreal(at)gmail(dot)com
now on myspace : myspace.com/enferboreal
Also member of Saturn Finger, with Jani Hirvonen (Uton, Aan). Visit myspace.com/saturnfinger for more infos, music...
SATURN FINGER (Enfer Boréal + Uton) 13 Juin 2009 à la Bascule à Rennes
07 June 2009 Rennes ENFER BOREAL with HOWL
14 June 2009 Bruxelles SATURN FINGER
16 June 2009 Cafe OTO LONDON SATURN FINGER with BURIAL HEX
24 June 2009 Stuttgart
28 June 2009 Lyon Grrnd Zero RURALFAUNE COLLECTIVE with POCAHAUNTED
DISCOGRAPHY :
solo :
L'espace des éternités possibles (Ikuisuus 2007) www.ikuisuus.net
Les plumes noires 3" (First person 2008) www.frstprsn.com
Cloud Matter Inside Your Bones (267 lattajjaa 2008) http://www.dlc.fi/~hhaahti/267lattajjaa/
Eldorado (Cut Hands 2008) http://www.cuthands.net
Enfer Boreal (Ruralfaune 2008) www.ruralfaune.co.nr
Noiseless moonbeam thrill (Housecraft 2008) www.housecraftrecordings.com
Seven ways 3" (Centre of wood 2008) www.myspace.com/centreofwood
Devotion (Peasant Magik 2009) www.peasantmagik.net
The way of the masks (Tape Drift 2009) www.tapedrift.com
The birth of Venus Cdr (stunned records 2008) www.stunnedrecords.blogspot.com
compilations :
v/a - Cris et Chuchotements (Crier dans les musées! 2007) myspace.com/crierdanslesmusees
v/a- You get so alone (Harha askel 2008) harha-askel.blogspot.com
v/a- Pins of light (Folkwaste records 2009) http://www.folkwaste.com/
collaborations :
Uton - Radio olio ( om ha sva 2008-collaboration on 2 tracks) www.ikuisuus.net/omsha.htm
soon :
La prochaine maladie (Akoustic desease 2009) www.akousticdesease.tk
ADN () DNA (Crier dans les Musées! 2009) myspace.com/crierdanslesmusees
Continents perdus (Phantom limb 2009) www.phantomlimbrecordings.com
L'exil intérieur CD (sound&fury 2009) http://www.soundandfury.com.au
Saturn Finger-s/t (Crier dans les musées! 2009) www.myspace.com/crierdanslesmusees
Anla Courtis / Enfer Boreal / Antony Milton / Uton collab
v/a morphic field recordings (Pacific soma 2009) http://pacificsoma.blogspot.com
ENFER BOREAL-THE BIRTH OF VENUS CDR
2009 STUNNED
Please choose your destination (France, Europe, World) before buying
Enfer Boreal, "The Birth of Venus"
Written by Henry Smith
Sunday, 15 March 2009
With a slew of recent releases on homespun label luminaries such as
Housecraft, Tape Drift, Peasant Magik and now Stunned, France's Enfer
Boreal (aka Maxime Primault) has been hard to ignore of late. That he
is partaking in Stunned's glorious first anniversary run is testament
to the successes of both parties this past year and to honor it he
releases one his best yet, a moist and brittle set of drones which far
outshine the too often pallid results achieved by less finely attuned
tacklers of texture.
On this unfortunately limited morsel, Primault takes the warm and gushy
drone approach often squandered by lesser tacklers of texture and
infuses it with his own distinct organicism. Where many opt for clear
and rich synthesizer squelching, his is a mellow and moist drone that
slips inside the earlobes with ease despite the work's deeply detailed
nature. Never one to forsake the work in the name of scale, the album
opens with the restrained beauty of the first untitled track. Hovering
gently, the piece would serve all too well as the soundtrack to some
cave-dwelling crystal palace. With warm and longing loops ebbing and
receding against a thick mat of static downpour and whispered wind
sweeps, the work is given enough space to unfold once the materials are
present, letting it meander long enough to coax out some pretty placid
lucid dreams.
To be fair though, that's hardly the case on only the first tune. All
five of the untitled tracks here are steeped in an airy loneliness that
focuses far more on mood than effect. Guitar plucks drip across endless
hums on the second track while the fourth track fades in to a mat of
phasing loops that suggests the cosmic without losing sight of
humanity. It is this capability that pushes the material beyond most
basement dwellers' explorative potential, as Primault exhibits again
and again his mastery of craft and attuned sense of loops that change
meaning when left to interact.
The lone odd man out here is certainly the third track, which presents
a decidedly grimmer take on Primault's sound. Snugged neatly in the
middle of the album however, its industrious backing and glitchy
smatterings segue neatly between the album's two halves. It is perhaps
a necessary and smart change of pace to an album that, at its worst,
comes dangerously close to losing its listeners in its drapings.
Yet that is hardly cause for distress; the veils of sound explored on
here are rife with change. It just takes patience to uncover its
layers. When the closing track enters with a thick knot of gravel, it
is offset by steelpan-sounding melodies that softly meld on to the
rough background and drag it into another space entirely. Closing
things on this note is suiting; half way between thick and thin, full
and empty, awake and asleep, it perfectly ties together all of the
contradictions that are woven so well here. It is releases like this
that display the true potential of the homegrown labels, and it is a
shame that only 100 people will be able to here this warmly created
package.
http://www.brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7441&Itemid=64
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May 26, 2009
eldorado reviewed on Animal Psi
A 2008 release by Maxime Primault as Enfer Boréal, ‘Eldorado’ offers a fantastically idiosyncratic read of the legend, sketched in abstract ambience with heavy doses of soothing drone. Never stirring much of a tension, these evocative tracks create an alien musique …
May 20, 2009
Two new reviews : ADN / DNA + The Way Of Masks
Enfer Boreal "adn () dna"
Crier Dans Les Musees
My immediate first impression of “adn () dna” was of its sheer quietness. And I mean this in just about every sense of the word – it is unassuming, subtle, and I had to turn up stereo to hear what was going …
Apr 8, 2009
Seven Ways reviewed
Review from 3" Seven ways, released on Centre of Wood, recorded in Nepal last year...written by Henry Smith and published on both Ear Conditionned Nightmare and Foxy Digitalis (links below).
"With a slew of releases recently on label luminaries such as Peasant …
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