Fear Drop

Fear Drop is a French paper journal (with an online supplement) founded by Denis Boyer in 1993, devoted to various forms of musical experimentation, mostly located in the grey zone, between abstraction and figuration, revolving around the reflection, description and translation of informal music. Each issue is accompanied by a CD compilation of previously unreleased tracks, most of which are composed for the occasion.

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Fear Drop - Les Pistes Sauvages – Le chant des eaux, de la forêt, de la nuit (+ CD)

Fear Drop #18 – Les Pistes Sauvages – Le chant des eaux, de la forêt, de la nuit (+ CD)

2020

French edition

sold out

The 18th issue of the French magazine for ambient & experimental music revolves around the theme of wild sounds, the singing of the waters, the forest and the night, with William Basinski, L.M. Riek, Jana Winderen, Troum, Yannick Dauby, Thierry Weyd, O Yuki Conjugate, Marc Namblard, Cédric Peyronnet, The Cure, Coil, Michael Begg, Maninkari, Bass Communion, The [law-rah] Collective, B.L. Boysen (with a 13 track CD included).

Fear Drop - Arctic Antiphon – Imaginary Ice Soundscapes (+ CD)

Fear Drop #17 – Arctic Antiphon – Imaginary Ice Soundscapes (+ CD)

2014

French edition

sold out

Fear Drop #17 is dedicated to glacial sounds, between field-recording and music (featuring T. Köner, J. Winderen, A. Tedeschi, K.Schulze, Troum / A. Baker, J. Hudak et S. Mathieu, L. English, Øe & E. Coniglio, Materia Aurora, SleepResearchFacility, L. Marchetti, Tünel, M. Mantra, Penumbra, Lull, Biosphere, Galati, Parhelion, Netherworld, M. Namblard, D. Quin, J.F. Laporte, C. Olan; 55 historical recordings of Inuit music...). With a 10 track CD included.

Fear Drop - La zone grise – Synesthésies et paysage musical (+ CD)

Fear Drop #16 – La zone grise – Synesthésies et paysage musical (+ CD)

2012

French edition

sold out

In Fear Drop #16, on the theme of synaesthesias and the musical landscape: Victor Segalen, Jean Giono, Ernst Jünger, J. K. Huysmans, Michael Prime, Coil, Merzouga, Hervé Moire, La Rivière series (Kaon / Toy.bizarre), M. Namblard, S. Whethman, F. López, Freiband, G. Toniutti, Tarab, P. Juillard, L.-M. Riek, Michael Begg (Human Greed), Steve Roden, Bernhard Günter, Stefan Knappe (Drone Records, Substantia Innominata).

$Fear Drop - Saiwala – Enquête sur l\'esthétique musicale du vent (+ CD)$

Fear Drop #15 – Saiwala – Enquête sur l'esthétique musicale du vent (+ CD)

2011

French edition

sold out

An inquiry into the musical aesthetics of the wind: for buzzing music kinematics, nature and music; from the singing tree to the aeolian harp; Chris Watson & BJ Nilsen; around records by Francisco López, Alan Lamb, Yannick Dauby & Wan-Shuen Tsai, Tarab, Eric La Casa, Leif Elggren, Michael Northam, Bruno Moreigne; the traces of the wind in the work of Cédric Peyronnet / toy.bizarre... (with a 14 track CD included).