Loreau, Bertrand

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: Bertrand Loreau + Frederic Gerchambeau
P: 2017
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 ...
So we find brilliant Berlin School music here.

Artist: Bertrand Loreau + Olivier Briand
P:  2013
The style of Bertrand combines delicate sequenced lines and romantic -acoustic like- feelings although Olivier Briand works more on strong analog atmospheres, powerful and complex analog improvisations and often goes through avant-gardism, always exploring new directions and influences including traditional music. The two musicians have each one a strong personality but also many common points. They like to play acoustic piano, to work on subtle harmonies, to play expressive and delicate improvised solos in a jazz-like way, having always the Berlin school style of music as a main background influence. It took a long time before they decided to sign a complete album together. But now it is done with “Interferences” and with the help of Lambert Ringlage and Patch Work Music. “Interferences” is the best invitation that you can dream of, to go inside the universe of two of the best electronic french musicians, who have succeeded in listening each other and combining their differences for recording an original electronic landscape.

Artist: Bertrand Loreau
P: 2015
This is a hommage a Nantes the French town.
Loreau returns to his traditional style of melancholic melodies, and nostagic feelings.

Artist: Bertrand Loreau
P: 2006
Music with a classical feeling. Some guestmusicians like Olivier Briand join the lineup for this CD. They all produce an emotional melodic style, that cover a wide range of electronic music.
The synthesizersounds are the main basic structures and some orchestralsounds like flute and oboe are added.

Artist: Bertrand Loreau
P: 2019
In 1981 not many synthesizers existed at that time, as well not many artists of electronic music have been become famous. Besides Jarre and Vangelis Schulze and Tangerine Dream have been the very few who were well known.
At this time Bertrand Loreau already composed his first works seeing himself only as a simple amateur trying to imitate Klaus Schulze who was major influence. With synthesizers like the Multiman S and the Korg MS 20, Bertrand created sounds that still have their attraction today. Despite some little sound restrictions at some points (the cassette recordings have been done with an ordinary tape equipment), the music is still touching, as Bertrand is realizing 28 years later. The topic of the CD is Endless Sorrows. Feelings that are regarded as a burden without end.
Sometimes electronic music is able to describe such kind of emotions of misery much better than words can describe. It can be a relief for the artist and for the listener to see difficult emotions expressed in music. These analog sounds in the Klaus Schulze style are excellent for fans of the cosmic psychedlic style of the 70s.
 

Artist: Bertrand Loreau
P: 2017
French artist Bertrand Loreau presents a double-CD-compilation of his best melodic, peaceful, romantic and introspective titles (released and unreleased) he has created over the years. Bertrand Loreau learned to play classical music as a child but stopped to play the piano during his adolescence and became a fan of progressive rock music, especially of Pink Floyd. He started to play electronic music at the beginning of the 80s, being influenced by Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream that he discovered in the middle of the 70s. Though he regularly returns to making berlin school music, produced and distributed by MUSEA and Spheric Music, he also occasionally develops a melodic style during his musical life. He often records short tracks based on improvisations on the accoustic piano.Years after years Bertrand Loreau composed many little pieces in the vein of Vangelis, Enya, Mike Oldfield, etc. However Bertrand has his own universe due to the influence of the classical music he listened to when he was a child. After 35 years of musical creation and because of his recent Spheric Music releases Bertrand is often seen as a berlin school musician. With « Finally » he wants to bring together a selection of melodic tracks which are, at his point of view, a good introduction to his intimate and sometimes mystic feelings that make him an original artist within the berlin school scene. Bertrand Loreau asked the great french designer Jean-Loïc Mellin to create beautiful paintings for « Finally ». They remind Bertrand of his interest in progressive rock music and illustrate the world of peace and hope which have been created from his electronic instruments.
« Finally » is a 40 - track - double CD and a way to share with us a delicate and sensitive musical landscape.   

Artist: Bertrand Loreau
P: 2023
With "Full Moon In Fall", Bertrand Loreau returns to his Berlin School track. With a French "Retro One" synthesizer, which is similar in design to a Minimoog, Bertrand composes wonderful analogue sounds and sequences that are familiar from Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream. You dive back into the 70s and sometimes think you hear Edgar Froese sitting at the synthesizers or experience Moondawn (Schulze) anew.

Artist: Bertrand Loreau
P: 1998
The title Jericoacoara corresponds to the name of a little village situated in the north east of Brazil.
In 1998, Bertrand met a young Brazilian girl, who came to Nantes to learn French. Now, they are married. One day, from Brazil, Bertrand's wife, Luciana, sent him a picture from Jericoacora. Bertrand discovered the picture as he was recording a very tranquil piece of music. He decided to call the music "Imagine Jericoacoara" and finally gave the name "Jericoacoara" to the CD itself.
Bertrand wanted to create a very homogeneous CD. The music is completely relaxing. The ambiance corresponds to the will of producing an even more quiet and more tranquil music than before, with the intention of being very close to the taste of Bertrand's wife.
The track "Another Prophetic Step" is an adaptation of the music "Prophetic Step" created by Bertrand's friend Olivier Briand.
The music "Submarine" exists under the name "Experience" in the CD "Musik Sky" by Christophe Poisson.

Artist: Bertrand Loreau
P: 2012
In France Bertrand Loreau is one of the most talented artists in the field of progressive electronic music. On this album you hear a hint of Jarre, a hint of Schulze, a hint of Froese and a good patch of french emotion that supply a great harmonic and dreamy charme.  To be recommended to all fans of traditional electronic music (end of 70s, early 80s), who like the old sounds of Hoenig, Froese (Stuntman-era) or the early Jarre- and Schulze classics. Come on, let us go on a journey through the past of the vintage synthesizer sounds of the 80s.

Artist: Bertrand Loreau
P: 1994
The titles were inspired by places in the region of Batz sur Mer, it's a region where Bertrand spent much time when he was a young man. The track "Départ pour le Four" make think to a journey on the sea, from the Croisic to the lighhouse of the Four.
The title "Au Revoir" wanted to say : "I hope to come back with a new CD but I am not sure, at this moment, that the CD will exist one day".
The outside of the booklet is a painting from Monique Hascoët, specially composed for the CD. This watercolour is a description of a village called "Saillé" which is in the centre of the region of the marais salants of Batz sur Mer and Guerande.
The pictures of the booklet were taken by the professional photographer, Xavier Bareault, in the region of Batz-sur Mer of course.
Bertrand thanks Philippe Brodu who is a specialist in application of informatic for music and his advice was very helpful

Artist: Bertrand Loreau
P: 2022
Comparable to: Vangelis
Bertrand Loreau's new album has a special spirit. Though someSequences shimmer through again and again, now sensitivity and melodies are more in the foreground. After several CDs on different labels, the new CD is now a very personal one, because it is dedicated to Bertrand's mother, who died some time ago. Bertrand imagines her in a world in which love is like a light that surrounds her. On this album you can find thoughtful, sad, warm and calm tracks for dreaming, for longing, for touching, tender feelings and for attentive listening.
A sequencer track was created together with Lambert.

Artist: Bertrand Loreau
P: 2011
Thirteen pieces filled with his outstanding feelings emmenent us in an electronic trip in tones sometimes close to acoustics. Musical, poetic and electronic, Morceaux Choisis solidifies the perception with a finely elaborated music where the composer and synthesist of Nantes shows off a surprising knowledge by handling styles which overlap in a surprising harmony. Whether it’s melodious or progressive Berlin School, electronic melodies or classical music, Bertrand Loreau weaves beautiful musical paintings which touch inevitably our feelings, the mark of a great composer.

Artist: Bertrand Loreau
P: 2020
Stephen Ingrand from NRSynth, the creator of the Retro One, asked me several times if I would like to play at home with one of his electronic creations. I accepted his proposition when I felt it was a good moment for me to try to record a whole CD with only one NR Synth synthesizer. Today with the help of computers and programms it is quite easy to play many tracks with only one instrument, even if it is monophonic. I did the music of this CD with the idea to express, once again, my personal sensitivity, and at the same time, with the idea to show to fans of analog synthesizers, and Berlin School music, the very wide sound possibilities of the monophonic instrument available from NR Synth. The music of this CD has no other ambitious than to share the pleasure I had to play the classic analog sounds offered by the great Retro One synthesizer.

Artist: Bertrand Loreau
P: 2002
Listening to old tapes, and to some others which were recorded at the time of creating the albums, gave me the idea of producing a new CD composed of old remixed tracks, with more recent materials added. "Passé composé" is a puzzle of unfinished music, which recapitulates ten years of musical creation. So we find a wide range of tracks with alot of different electronic styles, just from light experimental till finest Tangerine Dream school style.

Artist: Bertrand Loreau
P: 1992
"Prière" is an assemblage of tracks which were composed at different periods. "Léone, pour une Poignée d'Accords" is, obviously, a tribute to the composer Ennio Morricone, enjoyed by Bertrand and Bernard. The tracks "Aux Frontières de l'Anaconda" and "En attendant Christophe Poisson" were realized in 1989. "En attendant Christophe Poisson" is a tribute to a friend of Bertrand, who died in 1986. Christophe Poisson had played with Bertrand in the middle of the eighties, especially during a concert in a little town, St Etienne de Montluc, close to the suburb of Nantes. The music "Simulacre" now exists, in a new version called "Simulacre of Dream" in the CD "Passé Composé". Bertrand had the bad habit of forgetting to give titles to his compositions until they were chosen to be published. This the reason why a few tracks like "Rêve lové" were named by Bertrand's friend Bernard Ballet.The CD is dedicated to Klaus Schulze. Bertrand particularly admires the authenticity of the German musician.
Bertrand thanks "all his friends who love and play electronic music". He was thinking of his friends Olivier Briand, Jean-Christophe Allier, Lionel Palierne and Christian Gerard who later got together for the creation of the CD 'Patch Work Music'.

Artist: Bertrand Loreau
P: 1985 / 2009
This is great Berlin School style music by this french artist, which was composed in 1985 and finally now saw the light of day in 2009. The music is melodic with lots of old sequences and an real vintage atmosphere. One very good artist from the french electronic music scene.

Artist: Bertrand Loreau
P: 2021
A wonderful analog Berlin School release by one of France his best EM acts