La Belle Brute

La Belle Brute is a label founded in 2016, focused on Art brut and outsider music, which aims to make singular recordings heard and share atypical record objects for all curious ears.
The label is run by Olivier Brisson (psychomotrician in public psychiatry, musician, solo or with friends—Pascal Comelade, My favorite Sideburns Orchestra, BoyGirl, Julien Bancilhon, Bole...—, involved in the promotion of "pratiques brutes de la musique": label, concerts, workshops, meetings of the festival Sonic Protest), Julien Bancilhon (psychologist, musician and instrument maker) and Matthieu Morin (graphic designer, musician and collector of art brut).

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14 titles

Les gens du 110
GEM (vinyl LP)

2024

A sonic adventure, where the Coax musicians' collective merges with the vibrant spirit of the Groupe d'Entraide Mutuelle de Montreuil, a mental health peer-help structure nicknamed "Les gens du 110". The ebullient, motley crew explores uncharted sonic territory, inspired by a series of workshops at the GEM, amid sculptures, frescoes, odds and ends, cries and laughter...

Jean-Marie Massou
Sodorome – Volume III – Les Romans de Massou (vinyl LP)

2024

La Belle Brute's fourth release dedicated to "Art Brut" French artist Jean-Marie Massou, which delves his "novels", a series of sound fictions, created over the last two decades of his life, intertwining striking narratives via spoken text accompanied by collages of sound effects, music, and ambient sounds.

The Wild Classical Music Ensemble - Hell Gate (vinyl LP)

The Wild Classical Music Ensemble, Lee Ranaldo
Hell Gate (vinyl LP)

2022

A wild improvisation session by the Belgian experimental rock band born from the meeting of five artists with mental disabilities, with the guitarist and co-founder of Sonic Youth.

The Wild Classical Music Ensemble - Hell Gate (CD)

The Wild Classical Music Ensemble, Lee Ranaldo
Hell Gate (CD)

2022

A wild improvisation session by the Belgian experimental rock band born from the meeting of five artists with mental disabilities, with the guitarist and co-founder of Sonic Youth.

Astéréotypie
Aucun mec ne ressemble à Brad Pitt dans la Drôme (vinyl LP)

2022

The third album of the band formed by four autistic singer-singers, an educator-guitarist more passionate about art brut than educational techniques, and three musicians from the band Moriarty.

Jean-Marie Massou
La Citerne de Coulanges (CD)

2022

Jean-Marie Massou's double album presenting, in a raw way, the recordings made at the end of the 1970s in a giant tank.

Fantazio, Les Turbulents
Cosmic Brain (vinyl LP)

2020

The meeting between the double bass player and singer Fantazio and the workers of a centre providing care through employment in Paris.

$Pascal Comelade - Alex Barbier chante... (vinyl 10\$

Alex Barbier, Pascal Comelade
Alex Barbier chante... (vinyl 10")

2019

Recording of a duo that used to perform only once a year at the Plouc festival in Fillols (France), with Pascal Comelade at the piano and toy-piano and the comic artist Alex Barbier singing, in drag, female realist songs from the 1920s.

Puce Moment
ORG (vinyl LP)

2019

An album of the electronic music duo whose pieces are composed to be played on the big mechanical organs of the Café des Orgues in Herzeele (Flanders).

$Peür - Pëur (vinyl 10\$

Peür
Pëur (vinyl 10")

2019

The noise duo Peür meets Didier Bourgoin (text and voice).

Acid Mothers Reynols
Vol.1 (vinyl LP)

2020

sold out

The meeting between the Japanese group Acid Mothers Temple and the Argentinian group Reynols, a major figure of art brut practices with its trisomic drummer-singer, Miguel Tomasin.

We Are The World (vinyl LP)

2019

sold out

Compilation realized within the framework of the "Rencontres de Pratiques Brutes de la Musique" by the association Sonic Protest.

Jean-Marie Massou
Sodorome – Volume I (vinyl LP)

2016

sold out

First double album of the "art brut" sound artist Jean-Marie Massou, mixing field recordings, laments and messages to humanity, recorded by himself on his cassette recorders.

Jean-Marie Massou
Sodorome – Volume I (CD)

2016

sold out

First double album of the "art brut" sound artist Jean-Marie Massou, mixing field recordings, laments and messages to humanity, recorded by himself on his cassette recorders.