03 03 2003 + Hibou release hib00 : Delphium
4th album "Dead On The Inside"
Dead On The Inside spins its own complex web of mutating basslines,
orchestral weirdness, analog urban waves and tribal grooves.
Deconstructed and challenging, feminine voices sometimes emerge from the core
of the stucture.
The 12 tracks cover the wide artistic range of English artist Jonathan Forde.
The deep ambient / industrial touch is still there lurking, but now violently
contaminated by venomous melodies.
22 03 2003 + Artooz festival, Limoges, France
01 11 2003 + Hibou release hib01 : Delphium 5th
album "Nowhere Left To Fall"
Through which kind of chessboard is Delphium dragging for this fifth face-off
? Indeed, from the very start, the listener/player loses the very few landmarks
Delphium had been sparingly providing us with so far.
(Very) few beats, a single 64 minute track splitting up into 25 units whose
perimeter remains to be clearly defined, a sound path full of twists and turns,
a somehow ironic album title, everything in Nowhere Left To Fall suggests
manipulation.
The listener, trapped like a pawn on Delphium’s musical chessboard, effortlessly
yields to the temptations of this sound maze. Throughout the journey; he will
try to identify the nature of the environment surrounding him. Is he on a drifting
Russian satellite in outer space?
Does this happen underground or at the bottom of an almost unfathomable grey
ocean?
Only Delphium masters the topography of this industrial universe. Unless he
shared his secret with the Cafus-women on the CD cover.
01 11 2003 + Les Sixièmes Observatoires
Fear Drop festival, Evreux, France
29 11 2003 + Boréales Digitales festival,
Caen, France
Thanx : Jonathan F. - Denis & Virginie B. - Peters B. - Generous
donators
Hibou wanted to promote the avant-gardists forms of art in general and the innovative
musics in particular.
Hibou was an association “loi de 1901” born in October 2002, dismounted
in 2006.