The past few months have been great in terms of the project. The Feu Follet discography has grown by three releases in 2008, thanks to the support and dedication of various labels and personalities. Triple Bath published "fogbank", an extremely dark and ominous record created using samples from Norwegian Noise act Bjerga/Iversen. Gruenrekorder presented "paradis paysan", a delicate conceptual work, in a beautiful, autumnal digipack. And I've had the pleasure to work with Saxophonist Rent Romus on "grid" (as ministry of rites), an album which infuses a lively FreeJazz spirit into the Feu Follet sound. Even though my activities as a journalist have meant that I have been unable to spend any time promoting these releases, the reponse they have received from publications such as AllAboutJazz, Sonomu, Heathen Harvest and Connexion Bizarre has been wonderful. And for the same reason, copies of all the abovementioned records are still available from me directly.

In the meantime, "The Icicle Lectures Vol. 1" has sold out its first pressing for a while now and we're investigating plans of reprinting it, making it available as a digital download or presenting it in a different format. A complete follow-up to that album has been finished, changed around, re-recorded and finally shelved for the moment. Right now, it looks as though it may reappear in a completely new form sometime in the not too distant future.

More importantly, with the advent of "Nuages Sur La Nuit", a double CD on Tosom (see next blog entry), Feu Follet will most likely be taking a break from recording for a while. I have plans of setting up a new project, which will extend what I've been doing into new genres and add new ideas and structures. More soon.