La Tène
NEWS
- 01/05/2026
La Tène : FR Tour SPRING 2026
La Tène has found the common denominator between the most stubborn rock and ancient – even very ancient -music, whether traditional or not, and brings it to a boil through still yet mesmerizing performances. → On Tour : 26/03 • Bruxelles (BE) • Magasin4 (collab NGHE) 27/03 • Paris (FR) • Rage Sacrée, Petit Bain
- 10/09/2024
La Tène on tour in 2024
La Tène & guests are back, a big sound insect with dull psychedelia, buzzing and rebellious, elastic and grainy! La Tène is a psychedelic gang that bludgeons all boundaries between minimalism (motifs) and maximalism (effects, volume, potency). It’s scree rock filled with silent psalms that rushes past you like an explosive-packed drakkar on a sea
- 13/09/2023
La Tène – new album ‘Ecorcha/Taillee’ + tour 2023 !
Bois, métal, savoir-faire ancestral et expérimentations sonores sont réunis dans la musique étrange de La Tène. Composé de trois membres originaires de France et de Suisse, leur nouvel album ‘Ecorcha/Taillée’ est annoncé sur le label genevois Les Disques Bongo Joe. . La Tène est un gang psychédélique annulant par la frappe toute frontière entre minimalisme (des motifs) et maximalisme (des
- 20/05/2022
La Tène est de retour en mai 2022 (FR/CH) !
La Tène est de retour, gros insecte sonore au psychédélisme mat, bourdonnant et frondeur, élastique et granuleux; à Paris (Petit Bain) avec ‘Tal Coal’ de Maud Herrera le 23, à Bruxelles (Brasserie Atlas) le 24, à Dijon le 25, à Strasbourg (Pelpass Festival) le 26, à Pully (CH – L’Octogone Théâtre de Pully) le 27. Alexis
BIO
Ten years ago, La Tène released their first record, then as a trio with Cyril Bondi, d’Incise, and Alexis Degrenier. A decade, four albums, and multiple collaborations later, the group returns with Moreïne/Déclives—an album that feels as much like a celebration as it does an upheaval. True to its identity, La Tène continues to explore the cracks between tradition and experimentation, between hypnotic drone and repeated gestures, but this time they choose to move onto new ground: the hurdy-gurdy, the group’s emblematic instrument since the very beginning, disappears in favor of a stripped-down setup centered on two electronic percussions and live dub work.
This is not a mere stylistic twist: it is about transforming a constraint into a creative drive. Alexis Degrenier, long associated with the telluric sound of the hurdy-gurdy, can no longer play it. Yet he remains, above all, recognized as a percussionist and composer. With his companions, he decided to inscribe this transition into the very heart of the album: a way of thumbing their nose at fate, of turning a great and beautiful page, and of reminding us that La Tène has always fed on accidents, detours, and bifurcations.
Moreïne/Déclives is a warm and intense album, one that carries forward the band’s uncompromising universe while reshaping it from within. The roughness of wood and metal now resonates alongside electronic textures; the mechanical pulse of machines intertwines with the organic breath of the harmonium; and dub layers blur the reference points like shifting mirrors. Repetition, La Tène’s vital engine, becomes here even more mineral, almost incandescent, carving sonic landscapes that feel at once archaic and futuristic.
This new album also marks an intimate milestone: it is Alexis Degrenier’s final recording with La Tène. He leaves without turmoil or dramatic separation, but as one might step away from a house built together—with gratitude and pride. Neither rupture nor reformation: simply the closing of a cycle, making space for other possibilities. For life, as we know, only turns once—and this record keeps a luminous trace of it.
Moreïne/Déclives is thus both a farewell and a celebration, a culmination and a promise. It tells the story of a group that, for ten years, has refused compromise in order to invent its own language. And if this album is the last with Alexis, it carries within it the certainty that it will continue—beyond its groove—to resonate: for long, loud, and otherwise.
LINE-UP
Alexis Degrenier : percussions, electronics (former member, see press release)
Cyril Bondi : drums, percussions
Laurent Peter / D’incise : Indian harmonium, electronics
Guilhem Lacroux : guitar
Jérémie Sauvage : bass
Louis Jacques : cabrette, bagpipes
Jacques Puech : cabrette
Étienne Foyer : sound
With the financial support of Pro Helvetia, la Fondation Suisa, la Fondation SIS, la République, Canton de Genève, and l’Adami
LINKS
PRESS
The Quietus
“La Tène’s music isn’t fundamentally about improvisation – rather the focus is on incremental change within a strict framework (for La Tène, a single album equals one track to a side). That starts as a wheezy waltz, like a dusty clockwork mechanism springing to life, draped with ribbons of drone and with Lacroux’s 12-string picking out an endlessly cycling eight-note motif and cabrettes (bagpipes) start to lead the dance.” Rockfort – David McKenna
The Wire
“Though La Tène’s music is based on finding inspiration in past melodies, Ecorcha/ Taillée feels decidedly of the moment. It’s music meant to be felt intrinsically, to be guided through the present with. In its ever-looping movements and chaotic detours, there’s a feeling of careless abandon, a call to let loose and surrender to now.” – Vanessa Ague
Bandcamp Big Ups
“La Tène is another example of this cyclic, repetitive trance music, but it’s mainly acoustic instrumentation which I think is really interesting. You don’t often hear that as new music” – Stephen O’Malley
CONTACT
Booking : Julien Bitaudeau
Promo : Amaury Cornut & Bongo Joe
TAGS
- 22
Sept.
2026La Tène
Liverpool (UK)
House Show - 23
Sept.
2026La Tène
Glasgow (UK)
The Glad Cafe - 24
Sept.
2026La Tène
Newcastle (UK)
Cobalt Studios - 26
Sept.
2026La Tène
London (UK)
Cafe OTO (prom. Baba… - 27
Sept.
2026La Tène
Norwich (UK)
St Lawrence’s Church (prom.… - 07
Nov.
2026La Tène
Vevey (CH)
l’Oriental (orga. Live in… - 08
Nov.
2026La Tène
Genève (CH)
Bongo Joe - 18
Nov.
2026La Tène
Hamburg (DE)
Hafenklang - 'Off the… - 19
Nov.
2026La Tène
Aarhus (DK)
Phono - 20
Nov.
2026La Tène
Copenhagen (DK)
Alice (prom Final Descent) - 21
Nov.
2026La Tène
Malmö (SE)
Inkonst
'Ecorcha / Taillée' (Teaser, 2023)
'L'Abandonnée' feat. J.Puech & L.Jacques (2018)
'La Maléja' feat. G.Lacroux & J.Sauvage (2018)
'Danse de l'Ortha' feat G.Lacroux & J.Sauvage (2018)
'Pa di issime' (2017)
'La Tardive' (2017)
'La Thouraz di Sopra' (2016)
DISCOGRAPHIE
Moreïne / Déclives
Les Disques Bongo Joe2025
LP / CD / Digital
Ecorcha/Taillée
Les Disques Bongo Joe2023
LP / CD / Digital
Abandonnée/Maleja
three:four records & Les Disques Bongo Joe2018
LP / CD / Digital
La Tardive/Issime
three:four tecords & Les Disques Bongo Joe2017
LP / CD / Digital
Vouerca/Fahy
three:four records2016
LP
Past shows
- DateCountryCityVenuewith
- 05/08/2026FranceSaint-Aignan (41)New Trad Fest (complet)Neiges Percées, La Jaunée et Mai Mai Maiinfos event
- 05/07/2026FranceNantes (44)Portevent (orga. Boum Bomo)Mirouf (DJ Set), Marina Damjanović (DJ Set)infos event
- 05/06/2026FranceFelletin (23)La Baraque à Meliès event
- 05/05/2026FranceClermont-Ferrand (63)Chez Raymondeinfos event
- 03/27/2026FranceParis (75)Festival Rage Sacrée, Petit Bain (complet)Milkweed, Duo Ruut, Stick in the Wheel, DJ Startup, Mukhayyar (DJ set)infos event
- 03/26/2026BelgiqueBrussels (BE)Magasin4 (collab NGHE)Chien Ferinfos event
- 11/29/2025SuisseGenève (CH)Festival Akouphène, Cave12SETT, Reona Tape Dance, Daniel Zea & l'Ensemble Protoninfos
- 11/28/2025ItalieBologna (IT) Casa di Quartiere Saffi (orga. NUAL)Ignatzinfos event
- 10/25/2025FrancePoitiers (86)Le Confort Moderne (& Nage Libre)Rachel Langlais & Mélanie Loiselinfos
- 09/07/2025BelgiqueAlost (BE)RoskotAnouk Kellner, Arthur Chambry, ludu duinfos event
- 11/10/2024Irlande Belfast (UK)The Black Box (orga. Moving On Music)infos event
- 11/09/2024IrlandeDublin (IE)The Lost Lane (orga. Enthusiastic Eunuch)Méabh McKennainfos event
- 11/08/2024BelgiqueBruxelles (BE)Les Ateliers ClausImane Guemssyinfos event
- 11/07/2024Grande-Bretagne London (UK) Café OTOBradford Bailey (DJ)infos event
- 09/20/2024AllemagneLeipzig (DE)Seanaps Festival, WestflügelSofia Borges, Yosa Peit, Malu (dj)infos event
- 09/19/2024AllemagneBerlin (DE)90milinfos event
- 07/14/2024FranceCarhaix (29)Festival des Vieilles Charruesinfos event
- 06/15/2024SuisseGenève (CH) Baz'Artinfos event
- 02/24/2024FranceRennes (35)Antipode (ANNULÉ)Lankum, CRAZEinfos event
- 12/01/2023France Brest (29)Festival NoBorder, La CarèneMeral Polat trio, Toudonnerinfos event
- 11/13/2023BelgiqueBruxelles (BE)Goûte Mes Disques 15th birthday, La Source Beer CoActe Bontéinfos event
- 10/04/2023HongrieBudapest (HU)UH FestRien Virgule, Her()man's Pussyinfos event
- 10/03/2023République SlovaqueBratislava (SK)A4 infos event
- 02/24/2023FranceLyon (69)Le Périscopeinfos event
- 02/23/2023FranceGrenoble (38)La BobinePerrine Bourelinfos event
- 02/22/2023SuisseGenève (CH)Festival Antigel, Cave 12 (co-orga Bongo Joe)Société Étrangeinfos event
- 02/04/2023FranceNantes (44)Pôle Étudiant (orgas. Pannonica, Pôle Étudiant / Nantes Université et la Soufflerie)Ava Mendozainfos event
- 09/29/2022FranceStrasbourg (67)Musica, Sonic Temple à l'Église St-Paul (soirée co-programmée avec le Sonic Protest)Ellen Fulmann, Tristan Perich, György Ligeti par Shin-Young Leeinfos event
- 05/27/2022SuissePully (CH)L'Octogone (orgas. l'association du salopard & Plateforme10)infos event
- 05/26/2022FranceStrasbourg (67)Pelpass Festivalinfos event
- 05/25/2022FranceDijon (21)Quartier Libre des LentillèresLynhood
- 05/24/2022BelgiqueBruxelles (BE)Brasserie AtlasVica Pacheco, Ladr.ache event
- 05/23/2022FranceParis (75)Petit Bain'Tal Coal' de Maud Herrerainfos event
- 05/21/2021AllemagneMoers (DE)La Tène & guests - Moers Festival (STREAMING ARTE)infos event
- 12/06/2018FranceParis (75)CENTRE CULTUREL SUISSEinfos event
- 07/22/2018PortugalSines (PT)FMM / Porto Covo - Largo Marquês de Pombal (ANNULÉ)Meridian Brothersinfos event
- 07/20/2018FranceCarhaix (29)Les Vieilles Charrues (ANNULÉ)infos event
- 06/01/2018SuisseDüdingen (CH)Festival KilbiGuest !infos event
- 05/19/2018FranceJoué-les-Tours (37)Le Temps Machine (ANNULÉ)Sourdureinfos event
- 03/09/2018FranceGrenoble (38)La Bobine (ANNULÉ)Phoenician Driveinfos event
- 02/24/2018FranceAgen (47)LE FLORIDASourdure, François Dumeauxinfos event
- 11/28/2017SuisseDüdingen (CH)Bad BonnRazeninfos event
- 11/27/2017SuisseLausanne (CH)Le BourgRazeninfos event
- 10/24/2017SuisseGenève (CH)Cave 12guestinfos
- 10/15/2017BelgiqueBruxelles (BE)La Compilothèque event
- 10/14/2017Pays-BasLa Haye (NL)Mondriaan Jazz Festival event
- 09/29/2017FranceBordeaux (33)Uppercut festivalinfos event
- 09/22/2017FrancePlateau de Millevaches (19)Fête de la montagne
- 07/14/2017SuisseMontreux (CH)Jazz Festival Montreux, Château de Chilloninfos event
- 06/29/2017FrancePoitiers (86)Festival Bruisme #7, Petit Cabaretinfos event
- 05/26/2017FranceChabeuil (26)Festival Rencontre entre les mondes, Centre Culturelinfos event
- 04/21/2017FranceMetz (57)La BAM / Les Trinitaires / EPCC Metz en ScènesAquasergeinfos event
- 03/31/2017FranceNantes (44)Festival Variations, le lieu uniqueinfos
- 03/24/2017FranceMontreuil (93)Festival Sonic Protest, La MarbrerieOrgue Agnès, Golden Orioleinfos event
- 03/23/2017FranceCherbourg (50)Le Point du Jour
- 03/18/2017FranceNiort (79)Festival Nouvelle(s) Scène(s)infos
- 01/29/2017SuisseBienne (CH)
- 01/27/2017SuisseLausanne (CH)Théâtre 2.21infos
- 01/26/2017SuisseBasel (CH)Plattfoninfos event
- 01/25/2017SuisseDüdingen (CH)Bad Bonn event
- 11/10/2016FranceBourges (18)Festival Bandits Mages, Théâtre Jacques Coeurinfos event
- 11/06/2016FranceParis (75)Le Point Éphémère - Festival WorldStock #4, Fête SouterraineArlt et le duo Puech/Gourdoninfos event
- 10/20/2016BelgiqueBruxelles (BE)Ateliers Clausinfos
- 10/19/2016FranceReims (51)Hall de la Cartonnerieinfos event
- 10/18/2016FranceLille (59)La Malterieinfos
- 10/17/2016FranceTours (37)Le Grilloninfos event
- 10/16/2016FranceBrest (29)Le P'tit Minouinfos event
- 09/03/2016FranceRivières (81)Festival Baignade Interdite, Piscine d'Aiguelèzeinfos event
- 08/28/2016FranceLe Mans (72)Les siestes Teriaki (Parc)
- 08/26/2016SuisseGenève (CH)Les Bains des Pâquisinfos
events
- 22
Sep
2026La Tène
Liverpool (UK) • House Show - 23
Sep
2026La Tène
Glasgow (UK) • The Glad Cafe - 24
Sep
2026La Tène
Newcastle (UK) • Cobalt Studios - 26
Sep
2026La Tène
London (UK) • Cafe OTO (prom. Baba Yaga's Hut) - 27
Sep
2026La Tène
Norwich (UK) • St Lawrence’s Church (prom. The Holloway) - 07
Nov
2026La Tène
Vevey (CH) • l’Oriental (orga. Live in Vevey) : carte blanche Cyril Bondi - 08
Nov
2026La Tène
Genève (CH) • Bongo Joe - 18
Nov
2026La Tène
Hamburg (DE) • Hafenklang - 'Off the Radar club' - 19
Nov
2026La Tène
Aarhus (DK) • Phono - 20
Nov
2026La Tène
Copenhagen (DK) • Alice (prom Final Descent) - 21
Nov
2026La Tène
Malmö (SE) • Inkonst
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'Ecorcha / Taillée' (Teaser, 2023)
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'L'Abandonnée' feat. J.Puech & L.Jacques (2018)
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'La Maléja' feat. G.Lacroux & J.Sauvage (2018)
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'Danse de l'Ortha' feat G.Lacroux & J.Sauvage (2018)
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'Pa di issime' (2017)
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'La Tardive' (2017)
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'La Thouraz di Sopra' (2016)
NEWS
- 01/05/2026
La Tène : FR Tour SPRING 2026
La Tène has found the common denominator between the most stubborn rock and ancient – even very ancient -music, whether traditional or not, and brings it to a boil through still yet mesmerizing performances. → On Tour : 26/03 • Bruxelles (BE) • Magasin4 (collab NGHE) 27/03 • Paris (FR) • Rage Sacrée, Petit Bain
- 10/09/2024
La Tène on tour in 2024
La Tène & guests are back, a big sound insect with dull psychedelia, buzzing and rebellious, elastic and grainy! La Tène is a psychedelic gang that bludgeons all boundaries between minimalism (motifs) and maximalism (effects, volume, potency). It’s scree rock filled with silent psalms that rushes past you like an explosive-packed drakkar on a sea
- 13/09/2023
La Tène – new album ‘Ecorcha/Taillee’ + tour 2023 !
Bois, métal, savoir-faire ancestral et expérimentations sonores sont réunis dans la musique étrange de La Tène. Composé de trois membres originaires de France et de Suisse, leur nouvel album ‘Ecorcha/Taillée’ est annoncé sur le label genevois Les Disques Bongo Joe. . La Tène est un gang psychédélique annulant par la frappe toute frontière entre minimalisme (des motifs) et maximalisme (des
- 20/05/2022
La Tène est de retour en mai 2022 (FR/CH) !
La Tène est de retour, gros insecte sonore au psychédélisme mat, bourdonnant et frondeur, élastique et granuleux; à Paris (Petit Bain) avec ‘Tal Coal’ de Maud Herrera le 23, à Bruxelles (Brasserie Atlas) le 24, à Dijon le 25, à Strasbourg (Pelpass Festival) le 26, à Pully (CH – L’Octogone Théâtre de Pully) le 27. Alexis
BIO
Ten years ago, La Tène released their first record, then as a trio with Cyril Bondi, d’Incise, and Alexis Degrenier. A decade, four albums, and multiple collaborations later, the group returns with Moreïne/Déclives—an album that feels as much like a celebration as it does an upheaval. True to its identity, La Tène continues to explore the cracks between tradition and experimentation, between hypnotic drone and repeated gestures, but this time they choose to move onto new ground: the hurdy-gurdy, the group’s emblematic instrument since the very beginning, disappears in favor of a stripped-down setup centered on two electronic percussions and live dub work.
This is not a mere stylistic twist: it is about transforming a constraint into a creative drive. Alexis Degrenier, long associated with the telluric sound of the hurdy-gurdy, can no longer play it. Yet he remains, above all, recognized as a percussionist and composer. With his companions, he decided to inscribe this transition into the very heart of the album: a way of thumbing their nose at fate, of turning a great and beautiful page, and of reminding us that La Tène has always fed on accidents, detours, and bifurcations.
Moreïne/Déclives is a warm and intense album, one that carries forward the band’s uncompromising universe while reshaping it from within. The roughness of wood and metal now resonates alongside electronic textures; the mechanical pulse of machines intertwines with the organic breath of the harmonium; and dub layers blur the reference points like shifting mirrors. Repetition, La Tène’s vital engine, becomes here even more mineral, almost incandescent, carving sonic landscapes that feel at once archaic and futuristic.
This new album also marks an intimate milestone: it is Alexis Degrenier’s final recording with La Tène. He leaves without turmoil or dramatic separation, but as one might step away from a house built together—with gratitude and pride. Neither rupture nor reformation: simply the closing of a cycle, making space for other possibilities. For life, as we know, only turns once—and this record keeps a luminous trace of it.
Moreïne/Déclives is thus both a farewell and a celebration, a culmination and a promise. It tells the story of a group that, for ten years, has refused compromise in order to invent its own language. And if this album is the last with Alexis, it carries within it the certainty that it will continue—beyond its groove—to resonate: for long, loud, and otherwise.
LINE-UP
Alexis Degrenier : percussions, electronics (former member, see press release)
Cyril Bondi : drums, percussions
Laurent Peter / D’incise : Indian harmonium, electronics
Guilhem Lacroux : guitar
Jérémie Sauvage : bass
Louis Jacques : cabrette, bagpipes
Jacques Puech : cabrette
Étienne Foyer : sound
With the financial support of Pro Helvetia, la Fondation Suisa, la Fondation SIS, la République, Canton de Genève, and l’Adami
LINKS
PRESS
The Quietus
“La Tène’s music isn’t fundamentally about improvisation – rather the focus is on incremental change within a strict framework (for La Tène, a single album equals one track to a side). That starts as a wheezy waltz, like a dusty clockwork mechanism springing to life, draped with ribbons of drone and with Lacroux’s 12-string picking out an endlessly cycling eight-note motif and cabrettes (bagpipes) start to lead the dance.” Rockfort – David McKenna
The Wire
“Though La Tène’s music is based on finding inspiration in past melodies, Ecorcha/ Taillée feels decidedly of the moment. It’s music meant to be felt intrinsically, to be guided through the present with. In its ever-looping movements and chaotic detours, there’s a feeling of careless abandon, a call to let loose and surrender to now.” – Vanessa Ague
Bandcamp Big Ups
“La Tène is another example of this cyclic, repetitive trance music, but it’s mainly acoustic instrumentation which I think is really interesting. You don’t often hear that as new music” – Stephen O’Malley
DISCOGRAPHIE
Moreïne / Déclives
Les Disques Bongo Joe2025
LP / CD / Digital
Ecorcha/Taillée
Les Disques Bongo Joe2023
LP / CD / Digital
Abandonnée/Maleja
three:four records & Les Disques Bongo Joe2018
LP / CD / Digital
La Tardive/Issime
three:four tecords & Les Disques Bongo Joe2017
LP / CD / Digital
Vouerca/Fahy
three:four records2016
LP
CONTACT
Booking : Julien Bitaudeau
Promo : Amaury Cornut & Bongo Joe