
Orion Music Workshop (Orion)
Independent child of the new European hybrid music, Orion Music Workshop has been Tom Val's
solo project for nearly five years now. His music seems to wander
through a maze of distorting mirrors, avoiding the trap of
categorization: folk? industrial? jazz? Out of time, like watching a
dreamachine turn upside down in a megalithic enclosure. Ancient
evocations of the flute, detuned synthesizers, pantraditional rituals,
fragile improvisations. The filiation with the French experimental
musicians of the 70s and 80s (DDAA, Pascal Comelade, Vox Populi come to mind) is never far away, and neither is that with their unclassifiable contemporaries (here and there, we think of Nina Harker, Radiante Pourpre, la Fureur De Vouivre...), a stage set in the bizarre and DIY Hexagon.

Shelter
Shelter is the alias of Alan Briand, Paris-based musician, DJ and artist. Above all, he releases records, more than fifteen since 2016, on the labels Growing Bin, International Feel, Séance Centre, Antinote, Emotional Response, and Les Disques Omnison as well as on his own label Protopost.
Shelter plays electronic music tinged with Indian influences,
krautrock, ambient and English dub. He operates in an assumed
psychedelia, outside of time, where the instruments are symbolic, the
chords distended, the improvisation is synthesized.

HWYUIOD
After Shelter & Orion's first collaboration Here's where you understand it's only dreaming, Thomas Riguelle (who played guitar on La Lunga Strada Di Sabbia (Di Giornio)) definitely joined the trio. It became HWYUIOD, followed by a few dates in Paris, London and more. Their debut album "The Window" was released on Les Disques Omnison & Protopost in 2025.

Tone Vitmn C
Lotte Van Dyck (modular synthesizer) and Tom Val (flute, percussions, various electronic effects) coined the Tone Vitmn C
duo in Summer 2023 after meeting at a poetry event in Paris. They
joined their forces in psychedelic electronic jams, with krautrock and
techno influences, as well as a common fascination for german
philosophy & CCRU. Their first tape Fetisch Charakter was released in a few copies available at their first gig in late 2023, soon followed by the Ideologiekritik LP on Les Disques Omnison.

Turner Williams Jr.
Turner Williams Jr. is an
American artist and musician living in Marseille. He plays the shahi
baaja, an amplified typewriter zither that uses metal keys to alter the
pitches of its strings. Like Williams, this instrument is an
electrified transcultural mutation of the 20th century. His
autodidactic practice & technique emerge from a stubborn practice
of automatism, accident & listening. His music refracts the shahi
baaja’s hybrid nature through a delirious, personal process that is as
scattered as it is syncretic. His second LP Ensoleillée was released on Les Disques Omnison, as well as the volcanic Krakatoa with Shelter & Orion in 2025.

Céleste Gatier & Leandro Barzabal
Céleste Gatier and Leandro Barzabal
are two figures on the experimental, improvised and noisy Parisian
scene, noted for the performative dimension of their respective
approaches. Their duo plays on the fragility of electroacoustic
devices, between creation and destruction, silence and explosion. The
meeting of polarities generates an electric arc, unstable and intense -
a disruptive air field, like when lightning strikes the atmosphere. Their debut album Meditate & Destroy was released in 2024 on Les Disques Omnison.

Los Pélieu Lovers
Rouen, 2024. Under the influence of reading aloud some poems by french beat poet Claude Pélieu while music was playing in the room, and despite finding much tributes to his work online, Los Pélieu Lovers
decided to do a record in praise of him. Rather than a usual music
& poetry reading, that could have been an obvious choice, the trio
decided to apply Pélieu’s techniques and style into the form of an
album. Automatic writing, cut-up, degradation, collages… You can see
where it goes. Result is completely freeform, landscape is changing
everytime. Bird singings below a detuned piano, destroyed voice loops,
flutes comes in and out, bait and switch… As every single Tom Val’s project rule : expect the unexpected. What could go wrong ?

Lutèce 162
The duo band of Tom Val and Background (Haxo, Ritaline Tsouko). Experimental explorations influenced as much by bass music than shoegaze and krautrock. Their debut LP is planned for the end of the year on Les Disques Omnison & Syrinx Music.