"How To Live In Small Spaces"

Brocoli, 2015, 4 tracks
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This full length opus is a quiet suite of four long, instrumental pieces composed for dance shows: two for piano, two for electronics. more

"Far From Any Road / Ichi"

I Will Play This Song Once Again Records, 2014, 2 tracks
CDR / 7"   

2 tracks re-recorded for every buyer. more

"Kogetsudai"

Brocoli, 2013, 6 tracks
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Kogetsudai is Sylvain Chauveau's tenth solo record, the second of a trilogy initiated by Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) (2010), where the song structure is dismantled and reconstructed on the fringe of silence. Like the second verse of a haiku poem. more

"Simple (Rare and unreleased pieces 1998-2010)"

130701 / FatCat, 2012, 18 tracks
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Simple’ is a selection of works for cinema, composed between 1998-2010. A diverse, yet fully cohesive collection of out-of-print, rare, and unreleased tracks, the album spans stark / minimal electronic drones, processed guitar explorations, variously-sized Chamber pieces, spare solo piano, and two 40-piece string orchestra recordings. more

"Abstractions"

Flau, 2012, 7 tracks
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"I've been remixing songs by other artists since 2001 and it's something I always like to do. This year, in collaboration with the Flau label, I've decided to compile my favourite remixes and to release them on one CD. more

"Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)"

Type, 2010, 7 tracks
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This 47 minutes piano piece is an attempt to place spare notes or chords in the right sonic space with depth and retraint. "Touching Down Lightly" was recorded and mixed by John McEntire in Chicago. more

"Touching Down Lightly"

Creative Sources, 2009, 1 track
CD 

This 47 minutes piano piece is an attempt to place spare notes or chords in the right sonic space with depth and retraint. "Touching Down Lightly" was recorded and mixed by John McEntire in Chicago. more

"Nuage"

Type, 2007, 19 tracks
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Music for Sébastien Betbeder's films "Nuage" and "Les Mains d'Andréa". This release rests its focus on largely untreated works for a small ensemble including viola, cellos and piano, and some electric guitar performance. more

"S."

Type, 2007, 5 tracks
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"S." sees Chauveau taking a daring new direction since his last record, the breathtaking and lushly orchestrated set of Depeche Mode covers "Down to the Bone", and moving away from the haunting strings and piano work of his best known works he has stepped into the world of minimal electroacoustics. more

"Down to the Bone" (An Acoustic Tribute to Depeche Mode)

Ici d'Ailleurs, 11 tracks, 2015 (originally: DSA, 2005), 11 tracks
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Eight years of epic creation, fourteen musicians involved, the fifth solo record from Chauveau is a cover record of Depeche Mode songs in chamber music. It’s also the one where Chauveau comes back to the vocals and gives a name to his team of collaborators : ensemble Nocturne, like Nick Cave has his Bad Seeds, or Pascal Comelade his Bel Canto Orquestra. more

"Des Plumes dans la Tête"

Les Disques du Soleil et de l’Acier, 2004, 22 tracks
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Those chamber music short pieces were composed for the original soundtrack to the film "Des Plumes dans la Tête" (Feathers in my Head) by Belgian director Thomas de Thier. The album is a selection of compositions featuring in the movie, with the addition of pieces that were not kept in the final cut. more

"Un Autre Décembre"

130701/Fatcat, 2003, 12 tracks
CD 

This short-length record is Chauveau’s contribution to the famous english label FatCat (Sigur Ros, Mum...). "Un Autre Décembre" was one of the first releases on the label’s modern classical imprint 130701, which became later the home of Max Richter and Hauschka. more

"Nocturne Impalpable"

Les Disques du Soleil et de l’Acier , 2001, 19 tracks
CD  

Melodic, quiet chamber music mixed with sparse electronic sounds: "Nocturne Impalpable" was Chauveau's manifesto. The result allowed him to be discovered by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Christian Fennesz, and BBC’s John Peel. more

"The Black Book of Capitalism"

Type, 2008 (originally: Noise Museum, 2000 / re-issue DSA, 2002), 13 tracks
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First solo album for Chauveau, with three main ideas: to stay as close as possible to the abstract beauty of "silence’"; to make sure that each sound committed is absolutely necessary; and to find his own roots within his cultural and personal history. more

Sylvain Chauveau also plays with Arca (with Joan Cambon, avant-rock band), 
0 (experimental music ensemble, with Joël Merah and Stéphane Garin) and On (with percussionist Steven Hess, minimal improvised music). more