"Butterfly In The Snowfall" with Butterfly in the Snowfall
Home Normal, 2014, 5 tracks full-length album
CD / Download
Butterfly in the Snowfall is Vanina Andréani (violin,
kalimba, juno), Sylvain Chauveau (vocals, harmonium, rhodes) , Cyril
Secq (guitars & bowed guitars, juno, rhodes)
and Guillaume Wickel (clarinet, bass clarinet, metallophone).
This comes in a new 4 panel thick card package designed by Christian
Roth and Ian Hawgood, in an edition of 500.
CD edition Includes unlimited streaming of Butterfly in the Snowfall
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and
more.
"Soñando" with 0
Matamore, 2014, 7 tracks
LP
Composed and performed by Joël Merah (acoustic guitar),
Stéphane Garin (percussion) and Sylvain Chauveau (acoustic
guitar, glockenspiel). Recorded and mixed by Joël Merah.
LP edition includes unlimited streaming of Soñando via the
free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
"Palimpsest" with Stephan Mathieu
Schwebung, 2012, 8 tracks
LP / Download
Cover versions of Smog songs on Stephan Mathieu's compositions.
Featuring I Break Horses, Wild Love, Chosen One, Palimpsest, Your
Wedding, Prince Alone in the Studio and more. Sylvain Chauveau: vocals
/ Stephan Mathieu: viols, piano, french horn, cymbals, Farfisa organ,
radio, processing. LP sold with 24Bit download code. Limited run of 500
copies only.
"17'16 for Morris Louis" with 0
Chat Blanc Records, 2012, 18 tracks
3" CD / Download
A suite of ultra-short acoustic and electronic compositions by the 0
collective, inspired by the work of American painter Morris Louis.
Assembled and mixed by Sylvain Chauveau, also featuring JF
Brohée, Maxime Bodson, Stéphane Garin, Maxime
Lê
Hùng and Joël Merah.
"By" with Arca
Novel Sounds, 2011, 12 tracks
2 x CD
Double album by Arca with 1 CD of songs written during the creation fo
a dance show based upon the famous 1982 football world cup game France
vs West Germany, and 1 instrumental CD featuring the soundtrack of this
dance show by choreographer Pierre Rigal. Mixed by John Mc Entire
(Tortoise) in his studio in Chicago.
"On Ne Distinguait Plus les Têtes" with Arca
Ici d'Ailleurs... , 2007, 10 tracks
CD
Turning point in Arca’s music : their ambient, organic
avant-rock turns to songs with Chauveau’s vocals nearly all
along the album. With lyrics in English by french artist
Félicia Atkinson – and one by Andy Richards. Music
by Joan Cambon and Sylvain Chauveau, with JP Isnardi (electric guitar),
Woody Peguilhan (drums), Benoît Génot (viola).
Where the band sounds like no one else.
"Angles" with Arca
Les Disques du Soleil et de l’Acier, 2003, 10 tracks
CD
Second album by Arca, pushing further their instrumental avant-rock,
with samples of Francis Bacon’s voice, Denis Robert, Sam
Peckinpah’s “Straw Dogs” and Kiyoshi
Kurosawa’s “Kairo”. Music by Joan Cambon
and Sylvain Chauveau, with Julien Brandwyk (drums),
Géraldine Devillières (cello), Matthias Meier
(clarinets) and Widy Marché (guitars). Includes a booklet
with photos by Karine Fages.
"Cinématique" with Arca
Les Disques du Soleil et de l’Acier
, 2001, 10 tracks
CD (out of print)
Debut work by Arca, the collaboration of Joan Cambon (programming,
bass,
sampler, keyboard, guitar)
and Sylvain
Chauveau (guitars, keyboard). Electronic and organic post-rock using
loads of samples
(Night Of The Hunter, Albert Camus, Stranger Than Paradise, Stalker,
The Clash, La Jetée...).
"Something That Has Form and Something That Does
Not" with On
Type, 2010, 5 tracks
CD
Improvised pieces by On featuring Steven Hess (percussion,
electronics), Sylvain Chauveau (prepared guitar) and Stephen Fiehn
(prepared guitar), then mixed by Christian Fennesz.
"Second Souffle" with On
Brocoli, 2007, 5 tracks
CD
Full length album where the lowercase improvisations of Steven Hess
(percussion, prepared piano) and Sylvain Chauveau (prepared guitar,
piano) are transformed, processed and mixed by French composer
Pierre-Yves Macé. Which immediately became Vital
Weekly’s album of the week.
"Your Naked Ghost Comes Back at Night" with On
Les Disques du Soleil et de l’Acier, 2004, 7 tracks
CD
First album by the duo of Steven Hess (percussion) and Sylvain Chauveau
(prepared guitar), recorded in Chicago. Their reductionist improv has
been then reworked and mixed by Supersilent’s Helge Sten (aka
Deathprod) in his studio in Oslo, and turned to grey, large monochromes
of quiet sound.
"La Musique en Mouvement Contraire" with 0
no label, 2011, 8 tracks
CDR
A live recording of 0 performing pieces by 0, Philip Glass, Rachel
Grimes (Rachel's), Morton Feldman, and La Monte Young.
"Mary Ann's Theme / Mouvement de Neige" with 0
no label, 2008, 2 tracks
CDR
New musical direction for the french quartet : this self-released EP is
a step towards more melodic and shorter pieces. Featuring a cover of a
Morton Feldman piece, re-arranged by Joël Merah, and a
composition by Maitane Sebastian. With Stéphane Garin
(accordion, vibraphone, glockenspiel, organ), Maitane Sebastian
(cello), Joël Merah (guitar, bugle) and Sylvain Chauveau
(glockenspiel, piano).
"Music of Wheel" with 0
Creative Sources, 2007, 6 tracks
CD
“Music of Wheel” is a written composition
by 0’s Joël Merah for four performers (piano, cello,
trombone & percussion, electric guitar). Dice throws by each
musician during the piece wether allow him to go on with his score or
make him mark a pause. Those chance operations make every version
different from all the others, and the duration always changes (from 30
minutes to more than two hours). Three versions were recorded and 6
fragments were selected on this album. “Appealing
music” - The Wire.
“Passacaille” with 0
Idiosyncratics, 2007, 1 track
Download
A ten minute piece composed by Joël Merah to download for free
on
www.idiosyncratics.net : Maitane Sebastian (cello), Stéphane
Garin (metals, glockenspiel), Joël Merah (prepared guitar),
Sylvain Chauveau (electric guitar).
"4'33''" with 0
Onement, 2006, 5 tracks
CDR
(out of print)
First ever record with 5 different versions of John Cage’s
influential “4’33” performed in various
venues (an empty house, a hill in the country, a cellar, a forest...)
and respectful of the composer’s original score. As the
musicians have not to play their instrument, this CD appeared as a
collection of field recordings of places where the piece was performed,
outdoor or indoor. Limited run of 100 copies, numbered by hand, out of
print.
"The Absence (Sometimes Repeated)" with Rainier
Lericolais
Brocoli, 2011, 2 tracks
7"
The two tracks on The Absence were built from Sylvain vocal recording
sessions for his album Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)
(Type / 2010), Rainier added his delicate arrangements of piano,
xylophone, cello and weird electronics, in a similar vein to his
previous single, Intangible. Featuring Pierre-Yves Macé
(piano, xylophone), David Sanson (piano), Lili Kim (vocals). Limited
edition of 500 numbered copies.
"Roman Anglais" with Félicia Atkinson
O Rosa Records , 2008, 4 tracks
CD (out of print)
Debut album by artist Félicia Atkinson: sweet, mesmerizing
spoken words over loops of ambient guitars. Words by Félicia
Atkinson, music by Sylvain Chauveau. Recorded in Paris and Montreal.
Sylvain
Chauveau made solo records on labels such as Type, FatCat, Nature
Bliss, Creative Sources recordings, and Les Disques du Soleil et de
l'Acier: minimal compositions for piano, strings, wind
instruments,electronics,
and sometimes voice. more