Encre

Encre began in 1998, in a student room in Brighton, where Yann Tambour recorded his first track, which would be released two years later by Active Suspension as a 7-inch single, accompanied by a second track recorded while in transit across the English Channel, before moving to Paris at the turn of the millennium. There, over the course of two years, he shaped the singular aesthetic of the first album, blending subtle orchestral samples with the dissonances and noise of musique concrète, whispering and embodying the unspoken aspects of other people’s lives, as if to ward off their violence. Two albums emerged from this long, breath-held journey on the Clapping Music label. A third, a long 45-minute instrumental piece, was released by the Norwegian label Miasmah. Twenty-three years later, Yann Tambour revisits this repertoire on stage, swapping the live post-rock transpositions of the past for chamber music that intersects with contemporary music, colored by subtle noise collages and ethereal jazz.