O I S E A U X - T E M P Ê T E
UNWORKS & RARITIES (2012-2015)
SUB ROSA | Out May 13th - June 03rd 2016

"This is the volume I​ of UNWORKS & RARITIES, a new serie ​compiling unreleased and miscelleanous pieces by OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE. Following their two acclaimed first albums (ÜTOPIYA?, 2015 & S/T, 2013), UNWORKS & RARITIES is putting up more than a collection of outtakes. Pushing​ new boundaries, this opus crystallizes precious moments of sonic bloom, from ambient soundscapes to free-noise and krautrock inflected improvisation. Including previous guests as Gareth Davis on bass clarinet and G.W.SOK (ex The Ex) on vocals, UNWORKS & RARITIES features also Christine Ott on Ondes Martenot and drummers Ben Mc Connell, ​Sylvain Joasson & Jean-Michel Pirès.​ A cinematic and poetic voyage orchestrated by the core​ duo Frédéric D. Oberland & Stéphane Pigneul. "
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'Oiseaux-Tempête is plumbing the depths of their vast archives to polish jewels of jazzy noise and well-paced post-rock.'
EXCLAIM (CA)

"Unworks & Rarities donne dans l'ascensionnel sanglant, la montée métaphysique, le renversement de toutes les valeurs de la pop érigé en sentiment. Fatalement, c'est du lourd, et c'est très impressionnant." 
THE DRONE (FR)

'Beautifully atmospheric'
KALTBLUT MAGAZINE (DE)
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Frédéric D. Oberland | mellotron, electric guitar, field recordings, alto sax, reed organ
Stéphane Pigneul | moog analog synth, electric bass VI & guitar, bow
Christine Ott  | Ondes Martenot 
Gareth Davis | bass clarinet
G.W.Sok | guest vocals on "The Strangest Creature On Earth"
Ben Mc Connell | drums ​
Sylvain Joasson | percussion
Jean-Michel Pirès | drums

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All tracks composed and performed by Oiseaux-Tempête
Recorded live between 2012&2015 by Samuel Navel at Studio Gang, Paris - by Benoît Bel at Mikrokosm, Lyon - by Guillaume de la Villéon at Magnum Diva & Petit Bain / Edited and mixed by Oiseaux-Tempête at Magnum Diva / Mastered by Harris Newman at Grey Market, Montréal
Photographs by Frédéric D. Oberland / Artwork by Moutain 
Produced by Oiseaux-Tempête

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Folks,

'Where words fail, music speaks' used to say Hans Christian Andersen. 
Last year in 32 albums to heal your soul, with links to purchase and to keep the bands alive. 
Hope that 2016 will bring some new light for all of us.
Peace,
Frédéric

Photograph by Daisuke Yokota, extract from “Nocturnes” (2012)
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​32 for 2015 (no-order)
ADAM BRYANBAUM WILTZIE - Travels in Constants Vol 24 - DL (Temporary Residence)
ALIF - Aynama-Rtama - LP (Nawa Recordings)
ASTRÏD - The West Lighthouse Is Not Sa Far - CD (MonotypeRec)
AUN - Fiat Lux - LP (Cyclic Law)
BEAK> - <KAEB Split EP - LP (Invada)
BERANGERE MAXIMIN - Dangerous Orbits - LP (Crammed Discs)
BING & RUTH - City Lake - 2xLP (RVNGnl)
COLIN STETSON & SARAH NEUFELD - Never Were The way She Was - LP (Constellation)
DAVID TOOP - Yanomami Shamanism, Songs, Ritual, 1978 / Lost Shadows In Defence Of The Soul - LP (Sub Rosa)
DRAME - S/T - 2xLP (Platinum Records)
DR (DR)ONE - Lyrebird - LP (Gonzaï)
ENABLERS - The Rightful Pivot - LP (LancashireAndSommerset)
ESMERINE - Lost Voices - LP (Constellation)
GIL SCOTT HERON - Nothing New - LP (XL Recordings)
GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR - 'Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress' - LP (Constellation)
JACKSON C. FRANK - The Complete Recordings Vol. I - 2xLP (Badabing) 
JULIA KENT - Asperities - LP (Leaf) 
LARAAJI - Ambient 3: Day Of Radiance - LP (Glitterhouse)
LAST EX - S/T - LP (Constellation)
LIBEREZ - All Tense Now Lax - LP (NightSchool)
LOW - Ones & Sixes - LP (Sub Pop)
MÄTISSE - Kairos - CD (In Paradisum)
MAURICE LOUCA - Salute The Parrot - LP (Nawa Recordings)
MAX RICHTER - Sleep - LP  (Deutsche Grammophon)
NESET ERTAS - Ölümsüz Türküler 1 - LP (Bayar)
SHYE BEN TZUR, JONNY GREENWOOD & THE RAJASTHAN EXPRESS - Junun - 2xLP (Nonesuch)
STEPHEN O'MALLEY & ONCEIM - Gruidés - LP (DDS)
SUNN O))) - Kannon - LP (Southern Lord) 
TANZ MEIN HERZ - Territory - LP (Standard In-Fi)
THE NECKS - Vertigo - LP (NorthernSpyRecords)
TOEPLITZ-COGNARD-BERROCAL - Disséminés ça et là - LP (Trace Label) 
TOMORROW WE SAIL - Saturn - DL (Gizeh Records)

​*** PEREGRINUS UBIQUE ***
     2014-2015
     Analog 24x36 - B&W

Pèlerinage (pè-le-ri-na-j'), Pilgrimage. Taken from the Old French, pelerin, from Late Latin pelegrinius , from Classical Latin peregrinus "foreigner". 
A journey of devotion to a sacred place. But how, to reach, to hold out one's hand? What else is there for us to seize but the insatiable trace of the ceaseless movement which makes the beat of the universe resound and our frail bones tremble? Each and every movement exposes us. Mutation, metamorphosis, our secret hope.

An open door. An invitation to wander. Six moments to pause, to drift  to travel with the soul intention of loosing oneself. A closed door. Giving way to introspection. Giving way to all that is yet to come. 

​​Deluxe Limited Edition Photozine + CD to be out November 16th on Gazza(r)ra & VoxxoV
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​PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION at Galerie Balades Sonores, Paris - November 05th -> 30th 2015​
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Piezography prints realized by Ryan Boatright - Atelier Boba 
​Hahnemühle Museum Etching Paper 350gsm 100% Cotton Natural White
Wood Frames by CIRCAD

With LOVE
Frédéric

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Meow meow,

Happy to be back with my band Oiseaux-Tempête for the release of ÜTOPIYA?, our third opus on Sub Rosa and the second chapter of a trilogy around Mediterranean Sea and myths. The travels move this time to Istanbul and Sicily providing the food for its urgent energy and indomitable drive. Yusuf Sevinçli took the admirable cover photograph, and I personnaly shot the photographs including in the inside artwork.

"Hautement toxique." NOISEY - FR
"Cinematic, political, dynamic and nuanced" 8/10 EXCLAIM! - CA
"Un disque à l'énergie brute" LES INROCKS - FR
"Etourdissant" 8.5/10  NEW NOISE MAGAZINE - FR

BUY THE 2xVINYL EDITION + DIGITAL / CD via Sub Rosa

Side A
01. Omen: Divided We Fall
02. Ütopiya / On Living (feat G.W.Sok)
Side B
03. Someone Must Shout That We Will Build The Pyramids
04. Fortune Teller
Side C
05. Yallah Karga (Dance Song)
06. Soudain Le Ciel
07. I Terribili Infanti
Side D
08. Portals Of Tomorrow
09. Requiem For Tony
10. Aslan Sütü (Santé, Vieux-Monde!)
BONUS ON CD and DOWNLOAD CODE ONLY
11. Palindrome Series (Live at Saint-Merry)

Frédéric D. Oberland: electric guitar, mellotron, piano, dark energy, critter&guitari pocket piano, dukar, alto sax, field recordings // Stéphane Pigneul: electric bass VI, acoustic & electric guitars, sampler, analog synth, drum machine // Ben Mc Connell: drums, percussion // Gareth Davis: bass clarinet // featuring G.W. Sok on track 2 (The Ex, Cannibales & Vahinés) on vocals, reading poetry by Nazim Hikmet, featuring Karel Doing on track 11 on optical sound noise.

Music composed & performed by Oiseaux-Tempête // Recorded live by Benoît Bel between the 17th and the 19th of March 2014 at Mikrokosm, Lyon // Except G.W Sok's vocals recorded by Anthony Laguerre at Centre Culturel André Malraux, Vandoeuvre-Les-Nancy // Edited & mixed by Oiseaux-Tempête during Summer & Autumn 2014 at Magnum Diva, Paris // Mastered by Harris Newman at GreyMarket, Montréal // Produced by Oiseaux-Tempête & Benoît Bel // Cover photograph by Yusuf Sevinçli // Inside photographs by Frédéric D. Oberland // Graphic design by Mountain

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Dear friends,

I had the pleasure to be recently interviewed by the lovely Marie Richeux for 'Les Nouvelles Vagues' program broadcast on the French national radio France Culture during a special week dedicated to Greece. Alongside some talkings about the Greek artistic trips we did Stéphane Charpentier and I in 2012, I did an exclusive playlist including some marvelous music I found there, from my friends Underwater Chess and May Roosevelt to Roza Eskenasi, Socrates Drank The Cronium, Naytia, Angelique Ionatos, Katerina Fotinaki & Gaspar Claus...
Enjoy!
Frédéric xo

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As a last news for 2014, this crazy remix of Sleeping Land (Part.I) (extract from 'The Rustle Of The Stars' album) by the great Max Cooper! Can't believe it's nearly 4 years since we we're preparing the 'wall of sound' for this in a freezing church in Leeds. Deep thanks to my friend and bandmate Richard Knox and to all the nice people who followed us during the making of the album and the successive tours with this project: Angela Chan, Eleanor May Irving, Tim Hay, David Ramsay, Lidwine, Florence VJ Fawcett, David Bart...

Some words by Max Cooper:

"One of the most beautiful pieces of music I've been lucky enough to work with this year, out today as a free download for you below. It is an important piece of music to me personally, partly because it was the result of a chance string of events driven by my love of the original track and a fortuitous meeting with Frederic D. Oberland, one half of The Rustle of the Stars with Richard Knox. And partly because I love the intensity and feeling of the original which I have tried to convey in my own way with little regard for the usual rules of making music - ambient strings arrangement at one end, and a drum and bass wall of sound at the other, because that's what I felt was required to communicate the emotions I found in the original piece, inspired by a musical passage through the North Pole explorer diaries. It's very winter-y. And I'm very pleased Richard and Frederic agreed to allow me to give the remix away for free to anyone who would like to hear it this Christmas!"

The limited vinyl version of the original 'The Rustle Of The Stars' album is sold out since 2012 but you can still ORDER the digisleeve CD through Gizeh Records and stream the whole album below.

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Oiseaux-Tempête was recently interviewed by Marie Richeux for 'Pas La Peine de Crier' program broadcast on the French national radio France Culture.

"Ils s’appellent Oiseaux-Tempête. Ce nom comme leur musique, ce peut être le vol de l’oiseau avant la tempête. Ou l’oiseau qui est une tempête. Ce peut être une nouvelle chose dont le nom s’invente, et prend le costume de deux mots que l’on croyait connaître, et qu'en fait on décrouvre. Comme on atteste de l’existence d’un nouvel être."

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Delighted that Jacky Evrard asked me to be part of the jury of the next edition of Côté Court Film Festival, taking place between 11th and 25th of June 2014 at Ciné 104 in Pantin. Over the past years, I received twice in this festival the award of the best original soundtrack (Mictlan, 2013 & L'Annonciation, 2011) and performed live few times with my collective FareWell Poetry. I will be honored with the two other members of the Experimental Competition jury, to make the 2014 awards for the Grand Prix Côté Court and for the Best Original Soundtrack. Cheers!

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Hi folks,

Our Oiseaux-Tempête's debut album get recently remixed by a lovely bunch of friends and talents:  Scanner | Justin Small (Do Make Say Think) | Leopard Of Honour | Saåad | Witxes | May Roosevelt | Dag Rosenqvist (Jasper TX) | Colin Johnco | Machinefabriek | AUN | Richard Knox (A-Sun Amissa) & Cyril Secq (Astrïd). These "re-constructed" versions are now available on a limited release called Re-Works, in a collective effort by Sub Rosa, Balades Sonores and the band. 

BUY THE LIMITED VINYL EDITION + DIGITAL via Sub Rosa
12" colored vinyl: chrystal clear+red or chrystal clear+blue housed in printed deluxe PVC bag, includes a download card with bonus tracks.
Please note that all LP colors are slightly different and unique, depending the amount of red and blue mixed with the initial chrystal clear!

Side A
1 Nuage Noir (Leopard Of Honour remix) : 4’15
2 Call John Carcone (Scanner remix) : 5’33
3 La Traversée (Saåad remix) : 4’50
4 Opening Theme (Ablaze in the Distance) (Dag Rosenqvist remix) : 4’54
5 Nuage Noir (May Roosevelt remix) : 3’34

Side B
6 L’Île (Colin Johnco remix) : 4’44
7 Buy Gold (Beat Song) (Witxes remix) : 5’32
8 L’Île (Aun remix) : 4’25
9 Ouroboros (Harris Underwater from Do Make Say Think remix) : 6’59

Download Bonus Tracks
10 Kyrie Eleison (Machinefabriek remix) : 3'53
11 Silencer (Richard Knox & Cyril Secq remix) : 5'43

Mastered at Le Laboratoire Central, Brussels
Artwork by Iam Sailor & Brian Cougar
"Oiseaux-Tempête" original album released on Sub Rosa (2013)
by Frédéric D. Oberland, Stéphane Pigneul, Ben McConnell, Stéphane C. & Benoît Bel

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The crazy team from Le Réveil des Tropiques just released the first opus of some live recording vinyl series in association with Music Fear Satan label. Following their acclaimed first album released in 2012, this live vinyl edition captures the electric improvisation of the quintet at his best: wild, fragile & full of passion.

LE REVEIL DES TROPIQUES - Nantes// France Implosion Tour// Hallucinations Scéniques Vol.I
MUF027

Stéphane Pigneul (bass)// Mathieu Philippe de L'Isle Adam (keyboards, guitar)// Frédéric D. Oberland (guitar, alto sax, theremin)// Arnaud Rhuth (drums)// Adrien Kanter (guitar, keyboards)

Recorded live at Livresse in Nantes on the 22th of march 2013// Mastering & lacquer by Matthieu Berthet// Photo & graphic design by Léa Neuville// Logo by Cuore Di Cane

BUY THE LIMITED PINK VINYL + DIGITAL via Music Fear Satan
STREAM THE WHOLE ALBUM via Noisey / Vice

JOUR 18: Livresse. Une belle voix comme à la radio. "T'as vu Thom Yorke? Son œil il s'est presque remis droit tout seul". Tatoo palmiers. Léa. Gaillard. Gabriella, Caroline, Alex et les perchants miaow. Set épique, jusqu'au commissariat. La bamboule. Refoulé du BPM. "Moi aussi j'suis une machine à riffs". Hint. "C'était un garçon-lune, t'as vu?" Un petit enfant en pleurerait. Brouillard. Réveil à la fraîche, la logeuse du bonheur. Déjeuner braderie. Un mec déguisé en condom. "Y'a une place spéciale en enfer pour ce genre de promoteurs immobiliers". Wawak. RDT-voiture-maison-tristesse-Paris. Merci papa boss.

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The track "Kyrie Eleison" from Oiseaux-Tempête (Sub Rosa 2013) is included in the Wire Tapper CD (Anthology of Underground Music Volume 34) with The Wire: Adventures In Modern Music Magazine issue 362!  

CD + The Wire N°362: ORDER
DOWNLOAD: ORDER

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The first Oiseaux-Tempête album is now available to order (CD) and to pre-order (2xLP) through the SUB ROSA website! 

CD | 8 page digipack
SR381
barcode 5411867113812
release date: 13.11.13

2xLP | GATEFOLD SLEEVE 350 Gr
limited edition red/black marbled vinyl + download voucher
SRV381
barcode 5411867333814
release date: 22.11.13

And soon in all the good record stores via Forced Exposure (US), Cargo (UK), Differ-ant (FR), Family Affair (IT), Boomkat (UK), etc.

Deep thanks to all the people who believe in this project, to my bandmates Stéphane Pigneul, Ben Mc Connelll, Stéphane C. for his stunning visual work, Benoît Bel at Mikrokosm in Lyon, Harris Newman, Guy-Marc and Fred at Sub Rosa. This album is dedicated to the beautiful souls we met travelling in Greece between 2012 and 2013. 
YAMAS!

You can stream the whole album from 06.11.13 till 13.11.13 through FLUID RADIO (UK), GONZAÏ (FR) and SON OF MARKETING (IT).

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Delighted to make some guest appearances on two friend's new releases: Witxes 'A Fabric Of Beliefs' and Orla Wren 'The Book Of The Folded Forest'. Thank you Maxime and Tui!

WITXES - A Fabric Of Beliefs 
2xLP / CD available on Denovali
Playing electric saxophone and percussion with Nicolas Laferrerie on the track  'The Apparel' 

ORLA WREN - The Book Of The Folded Forest 
CD+DVD available on Home Normal
Playing electric guitar on the track 'Things You Cannot Keep'

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Last but not least, 'The Freemartin Calf' is finally OUT on Gizeh Records as a deluxe and limited edition 180g LP+DVD! 

Jayne Amara Ross wrote the poetry and directed the film on Super 8. I composed and performed the soundtrack with my friend Gaspar Claus on cello. Maxime Champesme did the mixing on analogue console, Nils Frahm the mastering on tape. And many many people gave their help and support during the long making process of this. Thanks to them and thanks to Jayne for offering me to work on her beautiful film. 

The Freemartin Calf is a labour-of-love film and soundtrack, created in the home workshops of filmmaker Jayne Amara Ross and composer Frédéric D. Oberland, with the significant contribution of cellist Gaspar Claus.

Written in 2008 as a deliberation on the creative process, the film relates a day in the life of a young girl and her mother as they brave two very separate realities governed by the desire to both reject, and conform to, the societal roles imposed upon them.

Shot on super 8 between 2009 and 2010 and scored during the spring and summer months of 2010, The Freemartin Calf is imbued with a delicate fragility synonymous with the inner experience of its protagonists.

Limited Edition deluxe vinyl of 300 numbered copies.
180g heavyweight vinyl, DVD of the film, 8 page booklet including the original script, download of the soundtrack plus an additional exclusive bonus download of the soundtrack being performed live at the Saint-Merry Church in Paris, April 2011. Housed in a black paper inner sleeve and packed to reverse printed black and white outer sleeves. A very special limited edition release, from the founding members of FareWell Poetry.

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FOR VALUSKA: A MIXTAPE BY JAYNE AMARA ROSS & FREDERIC D. OBERLAND 

Maya Deren, Werner Herzog, Godard for Sarajevo, Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, Bob, the Horror, Jane Campion & Hilmar, beautiful Grandrieux, Institute Benjamenta, Deleuze et les idées, Miss Misery, Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver, Solaris, William Blake, the Pink Room… All these musicians, filmmakers, actors, writers that made us want to make and score films.

Our own creativity aside, without this delicious jumble of people we simply wouldn’t be who we are, or have the desire to keep on with the daily slog.

Here is our little prayer of thanks to cinema. – Jayne & Frédéric, September 2013.

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Dear all,

This is a new project I have been working on for some months now, following two trips in Greece I did last year with my friend and photographer Stéphane C. I then began to work with the awesome Stéphane Pigneul and Ben Mc Connell on a kind of musical Odyssey. 
The band that emerged from this work is called Oiseaux-Tempête and I'm happy to share this first track from the forthcoming album: "Opening Theme (Ablaze in the Distance)"!

Recorded live in three days by Benoît Bel at Mikrokosm Recording Studio, Lyon, in October 2012
Frédéric D. Oberland / guitar, dark energy, keys, alto sax, field recordings, voice

Stephane Pigneul / bass VI, sampler, analog delay, voice

Ben Mc Connell / drums, percussion

Stéphane C. / field recordings, pictures, videos

OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE (FR/US)  is an instrumental, free rock & ambient trio formed in Paris in 2012 by musicians Frédéric D. Oberland, Stéphane Pigneul (both members of FareWell Poetry and Le Réveil des Tropiques) and Ben Mc Connell (Beach House, Rain Machine, Au Revoir Simone, Marissa Nadler).
The trio's process is interwoven with that of filmmaker and photographer Stéphane C., who travelled to Greece to document life there (an experimental documentary is in preparation). Conceived as a musical and visual project, this first album was recorded in direct reaction to videos projected in the studio space, a formula that is also carried over into a live setting, resulting an emotionally charged vision and eliciting visceral and cerebral response to the floundering failures of the dysfunctional West.

Oh. Bonus. Last week we performed a show in the beautiful St-Merry church in Paris, for the "Temps Zero" Paris edition. Eric Chenaux and Gareth Davis were there. Gareth joined us to play a couple of songs with his bass clarinet. Some vibrating moments in the church with a friendly crowd. We thought the recording of the show was fucked, but miracles do happen, and we managed to salvage a few things. So here it is, the last track of the show is now availablel to listen to, a haunted 16 minutes live version of "Ouroboros". Enjoy!

Recorded live at église Saint-Merry, Paris, by Oiseaux-Tempête on the 26th of April 2013

Thanks to the lovely Les Rendez-Vous Contemporains de St-Merry, Balades Sonores, Le Plac'Art, Dali, Jayne, Guilhem, Baptiste, Eric Chenaux, Baphomet and all the photographers of the Temps Zero Fotoprojektions.

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Recorded 4 years ago with Colin Johnco (Dr (Dr)one, Pacific Salmons, FareWell Poetry), Seb El Zin (Anarchist Republic of Bzzz, Ithak) and Dave Olliffe (Heligoland, Sealight), 'Hommage à Altagor' is finally available to stream and to download for free!

At the margins of the French lettriste movement, Altagor (pseudonym of Jean Vernier) formerly a mechanic and miner, then writer of thrillers, created 'Métapoésie' poetry composed of invented words, therefore abstract. Also an instrument builder, he accompanied his poetry readings on the pantophone, a stringed, bowed instrument.

More than 40 years after, with the help of the galerist Alain Oudin, Colin and I played this amazing instrument out of the limbo for two special performances, joined by Dave and Seb on guitars.
A strong memory for a vibrating tribute. ENJOY.

Recorded live @ La Société de Curiosités
Previously released on 50 limited CD-R copies via CJC records, 15 May 2009

Colin Johnco : pantophone
Frédéric D. Oberland : pantophone
Dave Ollife : guitar
Seb El Zin : guitar

Deep thanks to:
Sébastien Lecordier, Marc Vernier, Alain Oudin, Eric Périer

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