Who ? Sébastien Biset, historian of art (researcher, lecturer) and (a kind of) musician from Belgium. I created Sepia Hours in 2004, with a first Ep on the Belgian netlabel Sundays in Spring. After a second release on SiS, I've worked for other netlabels with a few releases on Social Fashion Records (Belgium, 2005), Beat is Murder (Austria, 2006) and Polymorphic Music (England, 2006). The belgian label Matamore released my album 'When we'll cross these days, these seasons and their closes' in march 2007, and you'll find some of my last records on Fausse(s) Couche(s) ('Incidents', spring 2007 ; 'A journey with my ego... now now now I'm rising', summer 2007 ; 'Moments & Places 01-03.08', end of winter 2007-08 ; and 'Seven Drifts', a fieldrecording album (le Roeulx), march-april 2008, cd-r 80mm-size, also downloadable).

Sepia Hours is an indietronica, experimental and post-modern songwriting project, an emphasis on fragmented forms, discontinuous narratives, and random-seeming collages of different materials. Between instrumental minimalism, indie songs, experimentation, noise and electronics, fieldrecordings, whispers, howls and veiled samplers, between attempts and unavoidable errors, sounds investigations try to come as pure organic and visceral material.

Because I want to develop Sepia Hours as an 'extra- or para-musical' project, I also work with various materials and anecdotes. So you'll find some of my works on Fausse(s) Couche(s) platform (photographs, books, videos, texts, performances, etc.), and on a few occasions I collaborate with various theoretical and/or artistic publications.

I'm also active in several cultural structures, associations and institutions ; among them, the platform FAUSSE(S) COUCHE(S) - DES PRATIQUES DE L'USURE ET DES MANIERES D'ETRE LA... We propose anecdotes, net-releases, texts, events, performances and various kinds of works. We are not a label, not a webzine, not an artistic collective, not, not not. Artistic facts as (non-)collective production, 'pratiques de l'usure', 'manières d'être là' and mobile bar ('How to enjoy a Salmanazar'), multi-field propositions, a core and individual prospects. You can also take a look at my work with MNÓAD, another parallel platform I created with Jean DL.

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