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OURSWAMP

Baton Rouge, Belgium

About

HOPEN (Childe Grangier) : electronics, field recordings, percussions, voices.


JEROME PARESSANT: Clarinets, vocals, electronics, guitars, percussions, harmonica. Mixs.Mastering.

"OURSWAMP"

We could have entitled the album, TOM & JIM'S FIRES...
Try to imagine Jim Jarmusch and Tom Waits, lost in some murky swamp area. They're guzzling moonshine in a godforsaken ans sleazy hole, telling each other wild tales while the Aphex Twin and Albert Ayler jam with Screaming Jay Hawkins...
Welcome to the swamp, their swamp, OUR SWAMP. Listen to your own ghosts and let it become... your swamp.

TAGS :Wild, Noisy, Dub, Blues, Dub of the night pussies.

OURSWAMP is a project build by:

HOPEN
Who is Childe Grangier is a sound artist based in Switzerland.
Using architectures of hazard and chance, influenced first by sounds, daily noises and music experimentation from Zappa, Autechre, Luc Ferrari, Subrosa label and not especially musicians a lot of his interest is coming from the image world, story telling, poetry, reading or living theater from the 70s to now. The idea is to produce and share a moment, a journey of experimental living music...
More there: www.irrigationworks.net

and

JEROME PARESSANT
Initially a songwriter, Jerome Paressant has explored the field of electronic music in confrontation with jazz improvisation since 1998. The outcome of this musical research was the creation of ABRAXAS PROJEKT
... Parallel to Abraxas Projekt, Jerome Paressant has collaborated on several projects that combine music, theatre and dance. He has pursued a rock project with Jas and a strictly electronic project with DoWnTaO, whose second album "VERTIGO (opus11)" will come out in 2008. J.Paressant has been collaborated with many artists and musicians including Dominique A., Mathias Delplanque (LENA), Charles-Eric Charrier (OLDMAN), Alain Belamiri (OBAKE), LYS, la S.T.P.O, Catherine Letinturier, Christophe Héridel ...
J.Paressant is (was ??) also writer.
More there: Abraxas Projekt

DoWnTaO

J.Paressant web site (in french)

Here are their respective Releases:

HOPEN:
2008 : "The next Town is a wolf" (CLIMAX SERIE, digital E.P, oceanik creations)
2007: HOPEN aka LAWN LLION STEP.1 Out on Audioactivity Netlabel
2007: HOPEN vs Henri Death "SHI" Out on LEEP records
2007: One track with LENA "Deja Vu" on his new album "The Uncertain Trail" Out on SoundsAround
2007: NetRelease "Nine in Bohmem" Out on Plexrecords