ODG231 : Mogul / Wounded Echoes

 

Cover art by Mogul

ODG231: Mogul / Wounded Echoes

Madrid-based producer and multidisciplinary artist MOGUL unveils his new EP, Wounded Echoes, a three-track journey through lysergic sonic landscapes where fauna and flora intertwine in an abstract world of organic emotion and synthetic imagination.

Across its three compositions, MOGUL navigates the blurred edges between Ambient, Experimental, and Industrial music, shaping an immersive experience that unfolds in layers of texture, rhythm, and introspection.

The EP opens with “Slender Nymphs”, a piece that adopts a classic pop structure yet bends it into a surrealist opera, blending melody and abstraction with hypnotic precision. Next comes “Moonlit Canopy”, an organic and emotional voyage through a psychedelic jungle, where the listener is drawn inward by vibrant tones and fluid movement. Finally, “Magnetic Wolf” delves into the industrial and shadowy side of MOGUL’s sound, confronting our most instinctive and animalistic self through distorted textures and mechanical pulse.

With Wounded Echoes, MOGUL crafts a beautiful and introspective form of electronic music, one meant to be experienced in silence, savoring each detail, each resonance, each breath within its immersive soundscape.

MOGUL is a Madrid-based producer, composer, and multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the boundaries of experimental electronic music, weaving together elements of Ambient and Industrial sound. 

Drawing deep inspiration from nature and the animal realm, MOGUL’s music unfolds like a hallucinatory journey through vividly colored or shadowy, introspective spaces.

Having trained across various musical disciplines, MOGUL began as an organic musician leading hybrid projects that blended acoustic and electronic elements. Over time, his creative evolution led him to fully embrace electronic production as his primary medium of expression.

Alternative cover

Digital release on the 12th of December 2025.

Track listing:

1: Slender Nymphs

2: Moonlit Canopy

3: Magnetic Wolf

Itunes, Apple Music, Deezer, etc.:

https://bfan.link/wounded-echoes

And on Bandcamp:

ODG233 : Baby Fire / The Snow Is Falling

 

Cover art by A.L., pic by Philippe Wauquaire

ODG233 : Baby Fire / The Snow Is Falling

Baby Fire aka Dominique Van Cappellen-Waldock has been a fan of Salvatore Adamo since she was a child. She recorded The Snow Is Falling, an English adaptation of his international hit "Tombe la Neige » in collaboration with producer and multi-instrumentalist Déhà. 

In November 2025, the artist announced on social media that she had received personal authorization from Salvatore Adamo for her English adaptation, which he reportedly found "really cool".

Dominique Van Cappellen-Waldock: vocals, English adaptation, concept, artistic direction

Déhà: beats, guitar, bass, synths, backing vox, production, mastering

Baby Fire, alias Dominique Van Cappellen-Waldock, est fan de Salvatore Adamo depuis son enfance. Elle a enregistré The Snow Is Falling, une adaptation en anglais de son tube international « Tombe la neige », en collaboration avec le producteur et multi-instrumentiste Déhà. 

En novembre 2025, l'artiste a annoncé sur les réseaux sociaux qu'elle avait reçu l'autorisation personnelle de Salvatore Adamo pour son adaptation anglaise, qu'il aurait trouvée « vraiment chouette ».

Dominique Van Cappellen-Waldock: chant, adaptation anglaise, concept, direction artistique

Déhà: programmation, guitare, basse, synthé, choeurs, production, mastering

Digital release n the 10th of December 2025.

Tracklisting:

1: The Snow Is Falling

Itunes, Apple Music, Deezer, etc.:

https://bfan.link/the-snow-is-falling

OUW025 : Charles-Eric Charrier / Un

 

Cover art by Charles-Eric Charrier

OUW025 : Charles-Eric Charrier / Un

Charles-Eric Charrier is one of those musicians whose career is difficult to summarize in a few lines, so full of curves, digressions, great leaps, uncertainties, and boldness does it appear.
M.A.N, Charles C. Oldman, Oldman are the remains of the past, the successive stages of a process of metamorphosis, of transformation; today he releases these albums under his own name, a sign that a new stage has been reached. Has the circle come full circle? No, the journey doesn't seem to be over…

 
From Yan Kouton: 'His new album, ‘Un,’ is a breathtaking quest for a sound of exceptional density. Far removed, so very far now, from the technological arsenal, it's closer to a music of origins, or more precisely, to a music closest to its relationship with humanity. Captured by legendary, timeless microphones, these compositions are nonetheless startlingly modern, infused with an almost free-form energy, bordering on experimental hip hop and haunting blues. Charles-Eric Charrier projects his poetry with an absolutely stunning precision, power, and sensitivity. In doing so, he explodes the spoken word genre, propelling it to rarely reached heights.

This music is much more than just music. It carries indefinable emotions, by turns terrifying and hypnotic. Incredibly present, it settles in all its apparent simplicity, its rigor, and, in the same movement, its sonic accidents.
So many escapes into an inner world that we so desperately try to keep at bay to avoid suffering. “UN” offers no escape. It brutally confronts us with the unfathomable. There is something viscerally shamanic in these songs, which oscillate between darkness, urban rationality, and the total mystery of nature—in the broadest sense—which acts as an irresistible call.'
 

Either a unique self musically and with his texts or at times influenced by a variety of great composers, 'Un' is a collection of pieces that tell who Charles-Eric is today through 17 intense pieces.
 
Even if you don't speak French, you will not stay insensitive to his voice and music.
Have a listen!

The album is in 4 parts, A and B entirely composed by Charle-Eric, and C and D composed with collaborators or on their ideas and arranged by Charles-Eric.

Charles-Eric has been collaborating and touring with a lot of bands:
Sidi Touré « Koïma » (Thrill Jockey, soon), Lena & The Floating Root Orchestra (Plush, 2008), Rob Mazurek, The Clogs, Rhys Chatham, Jérôme Paressant « Under the House » (Oceanik Creations, 2009)…and more…

He has also published a lot of books.

Deux Violons:

Sais-tu:

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jérôme Cousin at Studio Vetter.

Cover design by Smith Smith

Painting by Charles-Eric Charrier

Digital release on the 5th of December 2025.

Track listing:

A1. Petit &… ( Charrier)

Percussions, voix, basse : Charles-Eric Charrier

A2. Entre tes cuisses (Charrier)

Piano : Jérôme Cousin

Violon : Dominique Queffélec

Alto : Jean-Charles Queffélec

Electronique, piano, voix : Charles-Eric Charrier

A3. Call Ray (Charrier)

Electronique, piano, voix : Charles-Eric Charrier

A4. Interlude (Charrier)

Electronique, basse : Charles-Eric Charrier

A5. War Nigaud (Charrier)

Piano : Jérôme Cousin

Violon : Dominique Queffélec

Alto : Jean-Charles Queffélec

Percussions, électronique, basse, voix : Charles-Eric Charrier

B1. Deux violons (Charrier)

Piano : Jérôme Cousin

Violon : Dominique Queffélec

Alto : Jean-Charles Queffélec

Electronique, piano, voix : Charles-Eric Charrier

B2. 8 (Charrier)

Voix : Béatrice Temple

Piano : Jérôme Cousin

Voix, basse, électronique, kalimba : Charles-Eric Charrier

B3. Sais-tu ? (Charrier)

Guitares : Laurent Komlanvi Bel

Piano, percussions, électronique, basse, voix : Charles-Eric Charrier

B4. Clos (Bel, Charrier, Cousin)

Piano : Jérôme Cousin

Batterie, percussions, guitars: Laurent Komlanvi Bel

Basse : Charles-Eric Charrier

C1. Sui Généris (Temple Gilda)

Piano : Gilda Temple

C2. Tu Flotte Frère (Charrier/Richard)

Electronique : Nicolas « Covalesky » Richard

Basse, piano, voix : Charles-Eric Charrier

C3. Self (Charrier/Richard)

Electronique : Nicolas « Covalesky » Richard

Piano, voix : Charles-Eric Charrier

C4. Walt is dead (Charrier/Temple Béatrice)

Voix & orchestration : Béatrice Temple

Piano, voix : Charles-Eric Charrier

D1. Mordu (Temple Béatrice)

Voix : Béatrice Temple

Guitare : Jérôme Cousin

Basse : Charles-Eric Charrier

D2. Soleil Fantôme (Charrier/Bel)

Voix : Charles-Eric Charrier

D3. Is this a dream? (Bel)

Basse, percussions, guitares : Laurent Komlanvi Bel

Clavier : Jérôme Cousin

Piano : Charles-Eric Charrier

D4. & (Charrier/Temple Gilda)

Piano, orgue & orchestration : Gilda Temple

Voix : Charles-Eric Charrier

Itunes, Apple Music, Deezer, etc.:

https://bfan.link/un-1

And on Bandcamp:

OUI059 : Rec1_Sat1_ / Rec1_

 

Cover art by Pierre Mariscal

OUI059 : Rec1_Sat1_ /  Rec1_

This project started from the meeting between Lydie (see also ODG200 and ODG203) and Damien Thonnard in July 2022 during a contemporary jazz workshop given by Bo van der Werf. 

Hadrien Pierson and Guillaume Ruelland joined them shortly afterward to form the current quartet. 

Between written and improvised parts, they compose music through which each can express themselves in their own language while remaining aware that a collective universe unites them.

The central point around which the project is structured is the rhythmic aspect of music. Through metrical superpositions, shifting accents, and polyrhythms, the musicians attempt to approach another space and time, in which listening is multiplied. 

It is at the heart of this creative process that unique and specific improvisational contexts emerge.

This is their first proposal. Enjoy!

Lydie Thonnard : flutes

Damien Thonnard : guitar

Guillaume Ruelland : bass

Hadrien Pierson : drums

Digital release on the 28th of November 2025.

Track listing:

1: Bonne nuit

2: Praxis

3: Paprika

4: Bledard from Paris

Itunes, apple Music, Deezer, etc.:

https://bfan.link/rec1

And on Bandcamp:

OUI062 : Machine Mass Trio / As Real as Thinking

 

Cover art by Elisabeth Waltregny

OUI062: Machine Mass Trio / As Real as Thinking

Originally born as a side-project of douBt, this new trio led by Tony Bianco (on drums and loops) and Michel Delville (on guitar, bouzouki and live effects) also includes emerging Belgian talent Jordi Grognard on saxophones, bass clarinet and flute. “As Real as Thinking” is an amazing mix of fiery licks, catchy themes, telepathic rhythms, shamanic soundscapes and processed loops -- testifying to the band’s compositional flair and extraordinary musicianship.The music is meaningfully condensed -- consistently powerful without being overwhelming -- and will appeal to fans of progressive jazz, world music and rock audiences with an ear for the unusual. The CD sounds alternately groovy and meditative, trancy and punkish, modern and ethnic, cloudy and clear. It also features an explosive 18-minute duet between Bianco and Delville (guitarist also with MoonJune Recording artists' The Wrong Object) -- showcasing the musicians’ seemingly boundless energy, and extraordinary capacity to listen to each other and improvise over insane chord, rhythm and time changes while handling live electronics.

Originally released on Moonjune records in November 2011.

Tony Bianco: drums, percussion, loops
Michel Delville: guitar, synth guitar, bouzouki, electronics
Jordi Grognard: tenor sax, flute, bass clarinet, electronic tempura
Recorded October 18, 2010 by Sacha Symon at Dans Ma Cabane Studios, Liège, Belgium.
Mixed and mastered by David Minjauw at Studio Simonne, Brussels, in the Summer of 2011.
All tracks recorded live in the studio with no overdubs. All music performed by MMT except “Falling Up”, which is a joint improvisation by Bianco and Delville.
Produced by Mass Machine Trio. 
Executive Producer: Leonardo Pavkovic.

Digital release on the 25th of November 2025.

Track listing:

1: Cuckoo

2: Knowledge

3: Let Go

4: Khajurao

5: Hero

6: UFO-RA

7: Falling Up

8: Palitana

9: Ruder - Bandcamp only bonus track

10: Ruder - alternative mix feat. Saba Tewelde - Bandcamp only bonus track

Itunes, Apple Music, Deezer, retc.:

https://bfan.link/as-real-as-thinking

And on Bandcamp:

OJP083 : Alessandro Ciccarelli - Cristian Maddalena / Spiritual Exercises for a Young Unsui

 

Cover art by Alessandro Ciccarelli

OJP083: Alessandro Ciccarelli - Cristian Maddalena / Spiritual Exercises for a Young Unsui

Eleven improvisations for trombone and shamisen (a Japanese three-stringed instrument) form the spiritual exercises through which Ciccarelli and Maddalena explore fragments of melodies, timbral textures, and onomatopoeic sounds enriched by instrumental preparations.

The interaction between the two instruments unfolds in a delicate balance of analogies and contrasts, where the trombone and shamisen engage in a dialogue that oscillates between introspection and dynamism. This relationship creates a mutable sonic landscape, blending references to tradition with gestures of daring experimentation. Each track offers a profound and unpredictable listening experience, inviting the audience to embark on a sonic journey that delves into the intimate connections and creative tensions between the two instruments.

The word "Unsui" (literally meaning "clouds and water" in Japanese) is closely associated with Zen Buddhism and refers to itinerant monks or novices on their path to spiritual enlightenment.

The metaphor of "clouds and water" evokes a state of constant motion and transformation, free from attachment, like clouds drifting across the sky or water flowing through rivers—embodying the principle of impermanence and detachment. Similarly, the music of Ciccarelli and Maddalena in Spiritual Exercises for a Young Unsui unfolds as a continuous flow, exploring sonic territories that dissolve and reassemble in an unpredictable and profoundly evocative dialogue.

Alessandro Ciccarelli: trombone, tuba

Cristian Maddalena: shamisen
Composed and performed live by Alessandro Ciccarelli and Cristian Maddalena

Mixed and mastered by Alessandro Ciccarelli and Cristian Maddalena
Cover photo by Alessandro Ciccarelli

Alessandro Ciccarelli, trombone, tuba:

Organizer of sounds, trombonist, and electronic musician. Over the years, he has performed in various musical settings, spanning across genres, in both small and large ensembles, performing in Italy and abroad. In recent years, he has focused his research primarily on open and aleatoric forms, improvisation in electronic and electroacoustic music.
He carries out electronic experimentation in solo with the nom de plume Elnath Project.
He has also shared and shares paths with Giovanni Di Cosimo, Theo Jörgensmann, Alessandro Sbordoni, Massimiliano Viel, Gabby Fluke-Mogul, Roy Paci, Barbara De Dominicis, Eva Grieco, Oshima Koshiro, Damāvand, Tetsuroh Konishi, Milena Punzi Anfossi and many other known and less known reckless experimenters of sound.

Cristian Maddalena, shamisen:

Composer and performer who blends tradition and innovation, specializing in Japanese kabuki theater music and live electronics. A shamisen player and vocal and physical experimenter, he explores sonic and theatrical languages to create works that bridge East and West.
Collaborations include: Marco Colonna, Fabrizio Spera, Steve Baczkowski, Denis Doufur, Barbara de Dominicis, Elio Martusciello, Lamberto Pignotti, Antonio Rezza.

Digital release on the 21st of November 2025.

Track listing:

1: Exercise 1

to

11: Exercise 11

There is a limited cassette edition of the album for 10€.

Writte at: aleciccarelli@gmail.com

Itunes, Apple Music, Deezer, etc.:

https://bfan.link/spiritual-exercises-for-a-young-unsui

And on Bandcamp:

OMT018 : Cheikh Bayefall / Hey Man

 

Cover art by A.L.

OMT018: Cheikh Bayefall / Hey Man

'Hey Man' is sung in Wolof with vocals by renowned artist Metzo Diatta, the song speaks of the mirror effect of human beings, of how what we see of ourselves is not interchangeable.
It's the perpetual battle of life: 'you against yourself.'

Cheikh  Bayefall is a singer, songwriter, percussionist, composer, musical director and dancer
born in 1978 in Louga - Senegal.

A multifaceted artist, Cheikh Bayefall bears the stage name of this branch of Mouridism, a large Muslim brotherhood in Senegal of which he is a member, and which helps him cultivate essential qualities as an artist: humility and a certain taste for self-sacrifice. Artistic biography:
His passion for music continues to push him forward, particularly through his participation in the group AFRICAN TOUCH, with which he gained recognition during a performance at the Saint-Louis Jazz Festival. In 2012, 2013, and 2014, he performed alongside jazz greats such as Jerry Gonzalez, Javier Colina, Raymondo Amador, Antonio Carmona, Randy Weston, El Hambre, Maria Alba, Michaela Rabitsch & Robert Pawlik, among others.
Numerous stage opportunities then opened up to him, and he performed in theaters and cultural centers across Europe, both solo and with others. He traveled to Madrid, Cordoba, Bern, Lausanne, Paris, Millau, Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, Brussels, Gembloux, Hasselt, Antwerp, Milan, Turin, Bassano del Grappa, among others. In 2008, he sang alongside Bebe, a famous Spanish artist, for the soundtrack of the film "Princesa de África." In 2009, the Afro- Flamenco project was organized in Dakar.

That same year, a similar collaboration was launched with the embassies of the United States (cultural section), Sweden, and Austria.

A hundred live concerts later, Cheikh Bayefall is releasing his new single before an album coming in spring 2026.

Digital release on the 19th of November 2025.

Track listi,g:

1: Hey Man

Itunes, Spotify, etc.:

https://bfan.link/hey-man-2

And on Bandcamp: