Raoul Sinier is available for live sets. Please contract agency@thecentrifuge.co.uk with offers stating date, location, budget and other artists on the bill.
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Live Recording:
New EP on Tigerbeat6:
meow174 Raoul Sinier – The Melting Man EP by Tigerbeat6
Biography
Raoul Sinier is without doubt a unique artist. He juggles music, illustration and animation with a freewheeling talent. The race of fantastic creatures that escape from Raoul Sinier’s imagination seem to be characterised by the same wavering reason found in human beings. The artist breathes absurd and derisory life into whale-men, animals, robots and other creatures in a dark and twisted world.
His music captures emotions and nails then down somewhere, on a familiar door. This kidnapping curiously liberates the listener and enables their penetration into the very sophisticated musical universe of the musician.
The power of the inspiring alchemy is ever increasing with its captivating melodies and ultraviolent rhythms. Films, animation… the videos he conceives and directs invent a wild form of multiplexing into which are plunged atypical images and music which follow an improbable script.
But beyond the fury of monsters and the screaming music is the exacerbated sensitivity of a demanding individual, totally refractory to the intellectual arts world. For several years now the artistic activity of Raoul Sinier has been gently spreading its way across the borders of Europe…
Press Excerpts
Rockarolla
Radiohead may have made their own, angsty ter- ritorial pissings over the genre of existential glitch pop with Kid A, but Raoul Sinier presents a genuine challenge to their throne. The stereotype of the electronic musician meekly hunched over a laptop is squashed by a Pythonesque giant foot, so epic are some of these tracks.
The Wire
This blend of the whimsical and the disquieting characterises the album as a whole: fairground flourishes are knitted to brooding industrial shades by crisply sculpted breakbeats and vintage keyboards trace out imperiously ascending prog patterns. Sinier is based in Paris and his music belongs to same strange corner of the French imagination as the film Delicatessen.
XLR8R
Raoul Sinier, the Bo Jackson of the multimedia world, is the epitome of a hardworking man. In addition to producing intricate, gritty sound structures that fall somewhere at the meeting point of IDM, hip-hop, and breakcore, the Paris-based artist also happens to be damn good at illustration and animation as well. WTF!
Liability
Le succès critique est d’ores et déjà présent sur le net. Ailleurs, on peine à lui ouvrir les portes. Pourtant, Raoul Sinier est surement l’une des meilleures choses qui est arrivée à la musique électronique hexagonale. Tremens Industry en est la preuve vivante. Album complet et sans vraiment de faiblesses, il s’impose à nos oreilles comme une évidence. Encore faut-il que ce soit le cas pour tout le monde.
Goûte mes Disques
Raoul Sinier vient de frapper un très grand coup dans la fourmilière électronique, jusqu’à parier sur Tremens Industry comme le disque IDM/electronica de l’année. Absolument essentiel.
Inpress Magazine
The joy is that you never really know where Ra is going to take you next, at one moment drawing upon melancholic Boards of Canadaesque wisps with cute synth lines, the next fracturing the same tune up into digital chaos. Inspired and original, there is not one false step on Raoul Loves You.
BBC.co.uk
(…) and sound-masher Ra unleashes one of the most brilliantly heavy and strangely funky pieces of electronica we’ve heard in ages on the picture-disc-only Ev.Panic (Planet Mu).
Cuemix-magazine
“Huge Samurai Radish” is what I expected from Raoul Sinier, but don’t get me wrong I expected that he astonish me again and again. A brilliant album – that leaves with more appetite and a roaring stomach.
Raoul Sinier is an absolute breathtaking phenomenon. His music is made to loose words – and words aren’t made to describe his all-embracing art. I think the secret behind his genius is that he thinks about every move he make and while he thinks about his moves he acts.
PopMatters
Sublight managed to pull over a few names from Britain itself, including The Gasman and Somatic Responses. Ra, a visual artist and musician hailing from Paris, is not only one of the latest examples, but one of the more promising new arrivals.
Make no mistake, Brain Kitchen announces the presence of Raoul Sinier in the league of Miguel Depedro (kid606) and Guillermo Scott Herren (Prefuse 73, Savath + Savalas) as leaders of the circuit bending fusion of hip-hop bravado and broken electronics.
Gothtronic
What do you get when apparant opposites such as breakcore and downtempo are merged and topped with abit of glitch? Ra aka Raoul Siniers from France knows the answer and fully expands on this on his second album. What he shows here is truly phenomenal.
With this album Raoul earned himself a place between people like Kid606 or Venetian Snares for real. A masterpiece of modern electronics.
Excaim!
Ra has no regard for traditional song structures, a technique that’s rampant in underground electronic circles, but one that he’s definitely mastered the nonchalance of.
Trax
Un long maxi pour prouver – une nouvelle fois – combien Raoul Sinier est l’une des plus fines lames de l’electronica. L’ensemble est gavé d’imagination et le style immédiatement reconnaissable. Rarement chez ceux qui ont fait du flou musical un signe d’intelligence, on trouve la charge émotionnelle de ces fresques noircies à la chaux.
dMute
Toujours ambigu, Wxfdswxc2 fait donc passer les échafaudages de Raoul loves you en 3D et fascine par sa largesse de vue. Le visionnage et l’écoute achevée, on est comme revenu d’un voyage mythique, chargé de sensations mélangées, que seule une nouvelle séance permettra de resaisir.
PopNews
Plus de deux ans après, avec “Wxfdswxc2″, un disque plus réussi encore, il complète la démonstration. Raoul aime la noirceur, la rudesse et les aspérités, il ne se contentera jamais d’une mélodie lisse, d’une nappe immaculée, d’un fond méditatif. Avec lui, ça glitche et ça dérape, ça sautille et ça pare en vrille, ça rabote le cortex et ça ramone les oreilles, c’est plein de guitares sales et d’électronique mal élevée. Mais tout ce bruit n’est pas un cache-misère. Les sons sont vraiment bien, ils ont du sex-appeal.
Sutemos
I just love geniuses. This album is meant for those who are sick of everyday banality, boring melodies, fake art and artificial tenderness. Master Ra will take care of you.
Mowno
Un peu plus loin, caché derrière un amas de caillasses, Ra l’attend, couché, l’oeil dans le viseur, prêt à lancer quelques-unes des plus belles batailles d’une guerre contre le formatage et la facilité. Non pas que ce disque soit difficilement audible, loin de là, plutôt que son univers n’est pas aussi accueillant que sa musique est dangereusement addictive. (…)
Beaucoup croient avoir tout entendu du mélange musique électronique et hip hop. “Wxfdswxc2″, et son malin plaisir de faire sonner le moindre détail à la juste cause d’un univers si particulier, pourrait bien leur faire revoir leur jugement.
Ra n’est pas encore le nom que l’on donne à un petit Dieu. Mais cela pourrait bien venir. “Raoul Loves You” est un premier album époustouflant de créativité et de maturité. Parions que dans un futur proche, Sieur Sinier saura sans aucun doute poser son empreinte sur la scène électronique française. Pas de mal lorsqu’on manie le sampler comme le pinceau…
