Gerchambeau, Frederic

Artist: Frederic Gerchambeau & Bertrand Loreau
P: 2020
Frédéric Gerchambeau and Bertrand Loreau are two prominent (and current) members of a genre called Berlin School, which, since its birth in the late sixties, has spread throughout Europe - and elsewhere - and still offers us great reminders and nods to what we were already able to do with synths, well before the era of all-digital. If this "school" - it is more discreet in this millennium, and if its teachers and students have grown - some have died, like Edgar Froese - the "hard-liners" who perpetuate gender and analogy against the winds and (raz-de) tides (those of electronica, techno, etc.) are also able to renew it. And, we hope to reach a new audience that was not even born in the early days of analog synths ...
This is part 2 of their journey toghether. 2 Pieces of great Berlin School ! So we find brilliant Berlin School music here.

Artist: Frederic Gerchambeau & Bertrand Loreau
P: 2018
Catvaratempo is the new album from Frédéric Gerchambeau and Bertrand Loreau. It is a new combination of Fréderic's experimental sequences with Bertrand Loreau's sensitive universe. Because of their differences the two composers create an unique landscape of sounds and sequences. They built a bridge between berlin school and more experimental, or even avant-garde music. Catvara » means the number "four" in a very old language, the Sanskri. The four tracks are like four different spiritual ways on four different mountains, to get closer to the common world of peace and love. The two musicians want to go back to the spirtit of the seventies, when Berlin School was like a door opened to new sounds and atmospheres and could be heard as a search for cosmic connections. This CD will be a great experience for all fans of old analog sequences and pads that will catch the spirit of Klaus Schulzes Timewind or Tangerine Dream Rubycon. Feel invited to explore this innovative blend of electronic impulses. Mastered by Michel Geiss

Artist: Frederic Gerchambeau + Zreen Toyz
P: 2011
Liking pushing aside the notion of composer or musician, the French artist Zreen Toyz (born in 1954) often presents himself as Sound Sculptor or Sound Poet. After few years in classic training on piano and percussions, he does not appreciate the stifling conformity of the academy and turns to the improvised musics. The continuation of its training is essentially self-taught. He crosses composers as Luc Ferrari and Ilhan Mimaroglu, but his meetings with Herman Poole Blount, more known under the name of Sun Ra, and the improvised electronic musics, in particular that of Tangerine Dream (period 1970-1975) and that of Conrad Schnitzler (he meets him in Berlin in 1973), are really determining for his sound experiments. Since his first pieces created in 1970, he works the sound material following inspiration of the moment, a raw and instinctive approach by stratification where any imperfection or sound incident become a harshness on which to hang on atmospheres or reflections. In this way, he creates impalpable and timeless landscapes where vibrations, noises, and collages erase the structure of the piece.

Artist: Frederic Gerchambeau + Zreen Toyz
P: 2015
Sometimes experimentel and sometimes full of ideas with a lot of analogue sounds.

Artist: Frederic Gerchambeau
P: 2025
2+2 is a musical odyssey with a total duration of just under 37 minutes, forming a diptych with the album Slow Life. It is also a manifesto for creative freedom, an ode to off-piste, experimental music that remains musical, electronic music that doesn't forget to be adventurous and exploratory.

Artist: Frederic Gerchambeau
P: 2026
Air Trip Music continues, in its own way, the lineage of my previous solo albums, which were already inspired by the work of American minimalists Steve Reich and Terry Riley. To put it more clearly, you won't find melodies or pads here, only improvisations created on an analog sequencer itself integrated into a Eurorack modular system equipped with a powerful echo device. On top of this foundation, as embellishment and added pleasure for the ear, various additions created with Audacity are layered. This excellent free software thus serves as both a recording studio and a sound laboratory. Air Trip Music consists of five tracks, each offering a rich and transformed sequential improvisation. This listening experience should be peaceful and attentive in order to gently and smoothly follow the evolution and meanderings of each of these musical improvisations, which total just under 70 minutes. It is also a manifesto for creative freedom, an ode to off-piste, experimental music that remains musical, electronic music that doesn't forget to be adventurous and exploratory.

Artist: Frederic Gerchambeau
P: 2024
Alcheringa is a vast musical odyssey, lasting a total of 72 minutes, with the theme of what the Australian Aborigines call the Dreamtime. The Dreamtime, Alcheringa, is the central point, the fundamental axis around which the cosmology and mythology of this people is articulated. Alcheringa is everywhere, at the beginning of everything and at the center of everything.
The Dreamtime is timeless and both here and now. Alcheringa is indescribable yet our ultimate reality. The Great Rainbow Serpent reigns supreme over the Dreamtime.

Artist: Frederic Gerchambeau
P: 2019
Four long Modulartracks, that fascinate only through the little changes within the music.

Artist: Frederic Gerchambeau
P: 2009
Four long sequencertracks, that fascinate only through the little changes within the music.

Artist: Frederic Gerchambeau
P: 2024
Astral Pop was born from my musical collaboration with Guillaume Paul, whose keyboard playing, both clear and efficient, and artistic sensitivity, sometimes animated by poetic subtleties, sometimes carried away and vibrant, I immediately appreciated.
He is the real hero of this short 45-minute album. I only wanted, through my sequences, to be a springboard for his inventive layers and his always beautifully melodic and well-constructed solos.