Shelter & Orion - Here’s Where You Understand It’s Only Dreaming
(OMNISON06, PRPO3310 / May 2024)


25€ - 100 copies (SOLD OUT)

"Thank God the counterpoint exists, and it's bloody exciting. Far from re-enacting the revolution, the brilliants Alan Briand (Shelter) and Tom Val (Orion Music Workshop) join forces in a jam-sessions style, as in before Internet age, like ageless musicians searching for nothing but their own pleasure in hijacking everything they can get their hands on to create an improbable future. Already responsible for their own adventurous records, these two discreet builders are constructing an unsuspected elsewhere. An ageless scene that draws on noise, German rock, pioneering techno and more, a non-jazz of scholars who forget everything to perpetuate a purifying ritual. In this great bath, the ear finds Durutti Column unplugged in an art gallery, a certain electronic blues. An inhabited ambient (that's so rare) where the unheard invites itself into happy nightmares where rusty Indian tablas found at a prehistoric rave party intermingle. In short, we rediscover the innocence of the early days, the desire to fight with the time, to do a lot with a little. Away from the machine to rediscover a little magic at your fingertips. The spirit of libertarian jazz plugged into a jack, and much more besides." (Maximilien Douche / Oedipe Purple)

A co-production with Protopost
Music and production by Shelter (Alan Briand) and Orion (Tom Val)
Recorded at Studio 121
Thomas Riguelle : Guitar on track 2
Théophile de Pennanster : Bass guitar on track 3 and 4

"The brilliant Les Disques Omnison continues to bury its way into deep into the underground of self-made European fringe music.  Here a meeting of minds from label owner Tom Val (aka Orion) and store owner / Protopost label head owner Shelter.  With all the hallmarks of a strange 80s privately released LP from your wildest imagination, the duo carve out four 10min+ improvised jams that skirt the fringes of krautrock, fourth-world ambience, free-jazz and post-punk all imbued with a heavily stoned psychedelic aura.  The tradition of French prog / space-rock feels within touching distance - Pôle, Philippe Grancher, Heldon, that crazy Alain Meunier record, Ariel Karma or their more contemporary countrymen Tanz Mein Herz.  But there’s something unmistakably new at work here.  Unhurried, totally absorbing and subtly cosmic expanses that each feel infinite within their own atmospheres. Europe Endless!" (All Night Flight)

"4-long free-form improvised jams shaped by the renowned multi-instrumentalist Alan Briand (aka Shelter) and the tireless digger and label owner Tom Val (aka Orion); the outcome is a kraut-ish beast with hints of fourth-world ambience, free-jazz and Space Rock. Another great aural effort by the never disappointing French Psychedelic Underground!" (Cave Argento)