Lambwool | fr

Lambwool is a one man project conducted by Cyril Laurent, a french musician.

He began in the early 90's with a metal oriented band called Moon Revolution based in Marseille. In 1996, he released an ep entitled "French Kissin" under the name The Soul Lives in Berlin, a project in the vein of Ministry.

Lambwool was born in 2000, with Dead Can Dance, Tangerine Dream, Labradford, and "Heaven Deconstruction" by The Young Gods as main influences.
His first demo, "Half Alive" (2001) won the D-Side Magazine's tremplin. The following year, he released a second demo, "UnBorn".

In 2005, his first album "Fading Landscapes" (featuring a photo book by Peter BENGTSEN) is released on Divine Comedy Records. Lambwool music is made of dark-ambient pieces, that call meditation and introspection. The album was "Album of the month" in Elegy Mag and has been noted 9/10 in the infamous Orkus Mag.

In 2008 the second album has been released on DC Records, called "...and the angel is gone". This album is based on the departure and solitude and is still illustrated by enigmatic pictures of Peter BENGTSEN. It includes a guest appearance of Sigma on vocals for one track. This album has been classified "best French dark ambient album ever" by the famous electro french mag D-SIDE. and elected "Best French Album 2008" by the also famous NOISE Magazine.

Also in 2008, a split album with BABYLONE CHAOS and LE DIKTAT was released on OPN Records. An original project mixing 3 completely different universes to create one world. Playing with indus, electro and ambient pieces, this is an unique experience.

In 2009 was very busy and full of projects...The first is a DEPECHE MODE Cover on the ELECTRONIC MANIFESTO 3- TRIBUTE TO MUTE RECORDS, with a special guest. (a M-TRONIC Records release)

Then, 2 featurings on the last KULFI album "5th Estate" (one track on the vinyl version released on DIVINE COMEDY Rec, the second on the CD version)

In September 2009, "Mono", a brand new record is born on OPN Records. It's an Lp vinyl release in limited edition. This release is composed by a long piece of music cut in two parts, as it was done on the Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and all the electro ambient scene of the 70's albums. Once again, Peter BENGTSEN has made the cover of this special release.

In the summer of 2012 will be released "A sky through the wall", a brand new album that also celebrates 10 years of Lambwool works. This album will include a bonus CD full of unreleased and rare tracks. Later, Lambwool will be part of the wonderful project "Terres Neuves" of Jerome Sevrette (who did the artwork of the new album), mixing pictures, writing and music featuring And Also The Trees, Jerome Tcherneyan from Piano Magic, Aswefall, Ulan Bator...and many more artists.


DISCOGRAPHY:

-"Half Alive" (Ep-autoproduction CD-R) -2001
-"UnBorn" (Ep-autoproduction CD-R)-2002
-"Fading Landscapes" (Divine Comedy Records) -2005
-"...and the angel is gone" (Divine Comedy Records) -2008
-"Shi" -Split album BABYLONE CHAOS-LAMBWOOL-LE DIKTAT (Digipack -OPN Records- 2008)
-"Mono" (LP- OPN Records- 2009)
-"A Sky Through the Wall" (OPN Records -2012)

V/A and APPEARANCES:

-D-SIDE Sampler n11 -2002 ("Insects")
-HOLEG & THE SPIES: "Reality Drift"-2003 ("Time")
-"AXC LABS" (feat. Remain Silent) (Axess Code)- 2004 ("Daedalus")
-"A.L.P.H.A" (Geska Records) -2005 ("This Location")
-"La Brocante" (Abyssa Netlabel)- 2006 ("Your Picture")
-HIV+ feat. LAMBWOOL: "Cold Venus in Furs" (track on the album "We're all haunted houses" -Divine Comedy Rec/ Caustic Records)
-"ELECTRONIC MANIFESTO-A French tribute to Mute Records (M-Tronic)- 2009 ("Photographic" feat. Sonia S -Depeche Mode Cover)
-CRUISE [Ctrl]"Red or Blue-The remixes" (Meka Records) -2011

...and more to come... .