First, Odran Trummel is my real name, so if you laugh at it, you offense me and my respectable ancestry. I am a little bit Dutch, a little bit French, more French than Dutch, a lot more indeed.
I live in the Loire valley, very beautiful, surrounded by viniards and white castles. If you want to go and visit, book a room in Louishill, Montlouis in French, that is where I belong.
I play a lot of music, first of all as a drummer in some kind of weird jazz band performed by musicians (saxophone, bass, and drums) who can't play jazz, but who like to jam all together, and in the end, it sounds a bit like jazz, but it is still not jazz. We call this band Epsilon Sigma Club.
But the songs you might already be listening to are my own stuffs. I perform all the instruments (apart from the saxophone on Shinkansen) and I record it on my own, which involves it is very personal music. I don't know how to define it, perhaps pop music with a pinch of britfolk guitar.
When I find myself on a stage, I play with my fellows from Epsilon Sigma Club, or sometimes, all alone. I go boom boom tchack in the mic to make people clap their hands, that is always a huge source of satisfaction. I love gigs.
I am part of a small indepedent label called Another Record (Jullian Angel, the Wedding Soundtrack, Dana Hilliot and his Friends, Half Asleep.) ; we all share the will to share our music. Have a look at the website, http://www.another-record.com
Since Down Louishill (2005), it seems that the Franco-Dutch Odran Trümmel, now based in London, has taken the bull by its horns. Along with Andy Bishop (bass / saxophone) and Fabien Qwan Hyu (drums), Odran swapped his slim troubadour suit for a colourful and baroque armour that suits him perfectly. The folky guitar and wooden tones Odran first came out with are now reinforced by a solid but subtle drumming and twisted bass lines. Holy Phenomenon, a schizophrenic album with multifaceted songs, features peaks and ravines, psychedelic heat waves and chilling harmonies, punk rock assaults and jazzy truces. As performers, the band fools around with these contradictions, showing up on the corner of your street for acoustic guerilla gigs, or performing on stage with 200,000 volt batteries plugged straight into their spine. Odran and co are now evolving in a parallel world occupied by cannibals, mad-doctors, fallen wrestlers, mutants and loonies you'd be truly inspired to catch up with.
Désolé, je me présente en anglais pour que les non francophones comprennent, ça ne veut pas dire que je n'aime pas les français et leur belle langue. Bien au contraire.
Depuis Down Louishill (2005), le franco-hollandais et londonien d'adoption a semble-t-il pris le taureau par les cornes. Entouré désormais de Andy Bishop (basse / saxophone) et de Fabien Qwan Hyu (batterie et percussion), Odran a troqué son costume de timide troubadour folk pour une armure bariolée et baroque qui lui va comme un gant. Si la guitare folk et les sonorités boisées des débuts ne sont jamais loin, le son bénéficie désormais d'une réelle épaisseur faisant la part belle à une rythmique tantôt directe, tantôt alambiquée et toujours centrale. Album schizophrène, morceaux à tiroirs, Holy Phenomenon est donc le résultat d'un choix : celui des nuances, des pics et ravins, des vertiges psychédéliques aux redescentes planantes, des accélérations punky aux doux ralentissements jazzy. Sur scène, le trio se joue de ses contradictions, alternant guerrilla gigs acoustiques à la volée et concerts électriques tendus comme un ressort. Mêlant une certaine virtuosité et un vrai goût pour l'absurde, Odran Trümmel et les siens évoluent désormais dans un monde parallèle peuplés de cannibales, de savants fous, catchers déchus, mutants et d'aliénés qu'il ne tient qu'à vous de rejoindre.
