Zone Nord

[Peterson]

I've got a couple of releases from this project, but others are out of my price range, even though they're easily available on YouTube. Sadly, there's next to no information on this project and I have never found an interview. Most reviews I've read of his stuff are basically as clueless as I am.

Anyone have any information regarding this amazing minimalist project?

[davenpdx]

Agreed that Zone Nord is a very interesting project. Really wish somebody could arrange reissues of the pricey, out-of-print stuff!

Sadly, there's next to no information on this project and I have never found an interview.

There was a Zone Nord article/mini-interview in the first issue of As Loud As Possible magazine.

[HongKongGoolagong]

I have the Salbutanol CD-R but want to keep it. It was just some anonymous-seeming and unknown experimental sounds passed on to me at the time like so many other tapes and CD-Rs over the years but something in it made me intrigued and hold onto it to give it another listen sometimes. The ALAP article is interesting reading. Talk about an obscurist with a very slow work rate.

[Johann]

I don't even know i could go as far to say it was a mini interview in ALAP, ZN didn't really say anything haha, one line answers to every question. I have a feeling that's why there had to be so much filler and input from the person who interviewed/wrote for the article. ZN sounds like an interesting project, I've only heard bits and pieces of his work but found it all enjoyable.

[impulse manslaughter]

Picked up the 12" last year but have to listen to it again..

[Bloated Slutbag]

Salbutanol is everything it's cracked up to be, a fully composed realization of epic, industral-strength, proportion. I'd like to know to how much of this acclaim we may attribute to the "raw materials and noises provided by Daniel Lowenbruck / Tochnit Alpeh".

I actually just recently pulled out Zone Nord while considering additional recommendations for the Ferial Confine and similar thread, as I recall that when Zone Nord was first advertized in the RRRecords catalog, possibly for the Pure series, the project name was given as "Zone Nord (F. Douris)". So for the longest time I assumed Zone Nord to be an Francois Douris project. Later, saw the name "Jean-Luc Angles", was confused.

My first exposure was the Pure release, Roferon A. Though far from what I was generally favoring at the time, as a listener,  I was nevertheless blown away by the incredibly heavy, grit-flavored, textures. Unique to say the least.