Who ? Sébastien Biset, historian of art and musician from Belgium. I created Sepia Hours in 2004, with a first Ep on the Belgian netlabel Sundays in Spring. After a second release on SiS, I've worked for other netlabels with a few releases on Social Fashion Records (Belgium, 2005), Beat is Murder (Austria, 2006) and Polymorphic Music (England, 2006). The belgian label Matamore released my album 'When we'll cross these days, these seasons and their closes' in march 2007, and you'll find some of my last records on Fausse(s) Couche(s) (for instance 'Incidents', spring 2007 ; and 'A journey with my ego... now now now I'm rising', summer 2007).
Sepia Hours is an indietronica, experimental and post-modern songwriting project, an emphasis on fragmented forms, discontinuous narratives, and random-seeming collages of different materials. It appears that research on the voice had come to a dispersion of the words in certain pieces. Words become echoes, they appear and disappear again; the voice is sometimes somewhere between singing and whisper mixed with the guitar airs and electronic lines. Sometimes, whispers become screams (a kinf of post-habsolute-hardcore). Blurry low key vocals and screams wander through some interesting soundscapes created from gently slipping amalgams of guitar lines, splintered minimalism and the odd unexpected sonic detour. The landscape of sound is very serene ; the mood can be calm, peaceful or deeply dark. Dreamy vocals, howls, and ambient grooves, layers and melodies continue to appear, a series of interconnecting lines move with the waves of music. Harmonies and playful quality made it accessible… Between instrumental minimalism, indie songs, experimentation and electronics, whispers, howls and veiled samplers, between attempts and unavoidable errors, sounds investigations try to come as pure organic material.
I'm also active in several cultural structures, associations and institutions ; among them, the platform Fausse(s) Couche(s) (releases, performances, exhibitions, etc.) which promotes music - and art - while widening this field with a broader reflexion on our contemporary culture, its problems and directions. We propose net-releases, texts, events, performances. We are not a label, not a webzine, not an artistic collective, not, not not. Artistic facts as (non-)collective production, 'pratiques de l'usure' and moving bar, multi-field propositions, a core and individual prospects.
2004. "Five Thousand Steps"2005. "Naive Curse to leave a Mark"2005. "Octember 05"2006. "Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing"2006. "Linear / Smooth changes"2007. "When we'll cross these days, these seasons and their closes" -- CD ALBUM on MATAMORE : www.matamore.net
2007. "Incidents"2007. "A journey with my ego... Now now now I'm rising" -- download on www.fausses-couches.net
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