TheEliteExtremophile
Janus is a lot to take in. The music is dense as hell, and I can see why it's taken Le Grand Sbam six years to put this record out. This is both a thrilling and challenging listen that has a lot to offer on repeated plays.
Full review here: wp.me/pawrNb-2kh
Janus
by Le Grand Sbam
Danieljones147
Danieljones147
Everytime you think these guys can’t possibly have another level to go to they just up the ante again and again. As dense, bizzare, theatrical and alien this is, the first word that comes to mind is beautiful, and that beauty can be overpowering. This is as you would expect beautifully performed (Poil live in London 2023 is my gig of the decade) and stunningly recorded. Yet another classic to add the Dur et Doux legacy.
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Praised be the Tshishma, whatever that means.
Favorite track: Hypnose I.
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital AlbumAn album from Janus, Opéra Chthulu.
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
3 panels, spine 6mm, die-cut in the center
Includes unlimited streaming of Janus via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.Download available in 24-bit/44.1kHz.ships out within 10 daysPurchasable with gift card€14 EUR or more
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Poupée Léonisse
00:21
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Ouverture
03:53
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Tshishma
00:21
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Tourbifouette II
06:29
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Mécanique des trous
00:26
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Ragga II
02:43
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Phase Méduso-Végétative
00:35
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Mécanique des pompes
03:01
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Hypnose I
03:59
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Gaz Cloub
00:21
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Duopodes II
04:01
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Flakoku
00:18
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Tourbifouette I
05:38
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Ragga I
02:23
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Zone Trouble
01:10
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Symbiotshish II
08:02
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Hybrose
00:44
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Epilogue
03:50
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about
Janus
a philo-zoophic, zoopunk, Chthulu, ecofeminist album.
or how to reconnect with the living world through our flatulence?
In JaNuS, a Chthulu opera composed by Antoine Arnera, the Grand Sbam Orchestra, with humor and poetry, sets out on a journey to reconnect humanity with the living world.
It explores compost, fossils, and the dead through novel practices, in a triple homage to the courageous scientist Jean-Pierre Petit, the ecofeminist biologist and philosopher Donna Haraway, and Matshish Kapéu, a powerful spirit of the Innu people who uniquely expresses himself through farts—a trivial breath transformed into cosmic language.
This new opus by Le Grand Sbam, an excerpt from the opera Janus, revolves around a major cycle: the hybrose. A collective ritual of hybridization of the living, where waves, rhythmic loops, and organic flows dissolve us into a multiple entity—a holobiont.
Each track acts as an initiatory stage: through hypnosis, trance, and ragga, it invokes our invisible double, essential to the balance of life—the tshishma.
To bring this sensory libretto—co-written by Thomas Arnera and Antoine Arnera—to life, Le Grand Sbam deploys a rich sonic palette—acoustic, electric, and vocal—embodied by 23 musician-actresses.
a philo-zoophic, zoopunk, Chthulu, ecofeminist album.
or how to reconnect with the living world through our flatulence?
In JaNuS, a Chthulu opera composed by Antoine Arnera, the Grand Sbam Orchestra, with humor and poetry, sets out on a journey to reconnect humanity with the living world.
It explores compost, fossils, and the dead through novel practices, in a triple homage to the courageous scientist Jean-Pierre Petit, the ecofeminist biologist and philosopher Donna Haraway, and Matshish Kapéu, a powerful spirit of the Innu people who uniquely expresses himself through farts—a trivial breath transformed into cosmic language.
This new opus by Le Grand Sbam, an excerpt from the opera Janus, revolves around a major cycle: the hybrose. A collective ritual of hybridization of the living, where waves, rhythmic loops, and organic flows dissolve us into a multiple entity—a holobiont.
Each track acts as an initiatory stage: through hypnosis, trance, and ragga, it invokes our invisible double, essential to the balance of life—the tshishma.
To bring this sensory libretto—co-written by Thomas Arnera and Antoine Arnera—to life, Le Grand Sbam deploys a rich sonic palette—acoustic, electric, and vocal—embodied by 23 musician-actresses.
credits
released June 19, 2026
Léo Margue - Conductor
Pauline Laurendeau - Vocals
Caroline Sentis - Vocals
Agnès Potié - Vocals
Louise Perret - Vocals
Jessica Martin Maresco - Vocals
Olivier Germain Noureux - Vocals
Ismaël Colombani - Vocals
Antoine Mermet - Vocals
Thomas Arnera - Vocals
Lucie Leker - First Violin
Fany Fresard - Second Violin
Dorothée Royez - Viola
Emilie Martin - Double Bass
Clélia Bobichon - Clarinet
Pierre Horckmans - Bass Clarinet
Pierre Glorieux - Bassoon
Nathalie Cornevin - Harp
Mihaï Trestian - Cimbalom
Romain Baret - Electric guitar
Boris Cassone - Electric guitar
Matthieu Lemennicier - Electric guitar
Antoine Arnera - Keyboards
Guilhem Meier - Drums and percussion
Benoit Lecomte - Electronics
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CET ALBUM EST UN EXTRAIT DE JANUS, OPERA CHTHULU
JE DÉDIE JANUS À MON PÈRE ET MA GRAND MÈRE,
ANDRÉ SAWIKA ARNERA
MUSIQUE | ANTOINE ARNERA
TEXTE | THOMAS & ANTOINE ARNERA
DIRECTION | LEO MARGUE
PRODUCTION | ISIS GUNTHER & ADRIEN ARNERA
COMMUNICATION | JUDITH SAUREL & MARIE DESBENOIT
GRAPHISME | ANTOINE ARNERA
MISE EN PAGE | PIERRE CHANEL
ENREGISTRÉ PAR PIERRE OLIVIER AU 3 GRAND MÈRES (PASSY 21), NICOLAS GUAGLIANONE À L'AMPLI (LE CREUSOT), ADRIEN LAMBERT & GUILLAUME PUISSANT AU THEATRE DE LA RENAISSANCE COULLINS 63)
MIXAGE & MASTERING | R3MY BOY
UN GAAND MERCI A GUILLAUME BAILLART, MAUD CHAPOUTIER, LOLA ROUBERT CÉCILE MACHIN, KAMILLE FAU, THEO VACHERON, FLORIAN BARDET, MARIE DESBENOIT, ISABELLE DOUARD, LE THEATRE DE LA RENAISSANCE
MERCI A DONNA HARAWAY, JEAN-PIERRE PETIT, ALAIN DAMASIO POUR LEUR SOURCE DIINSPIRATION 200. PUNR, CHTHULULULULULULU
Léo Margue - Conductor
Pauline Laurendeau - Vocals
Caroline Sentis - Vocals
Agnès Potié - Vocals
Louise Perret - Vocals
Jessica Martin Maresco - Vocals
Olivier Germain Noureux - Vocals
Ismaël Colombani - Vocals
Antoine Mermet - Vocals
Thomas Arnera - Vocals
Lucie Leker - First Violin
Fany Fresard - Second Violin
Dorothée Royez - Viola
Emilie Martin - Double Bass
Clélia Bobichon - Clarinet
Pierre Horckmans - Bass Clarinet
Pierre Glorieux - Bassoon
Nathalie Cornevin - Harp
Mihaï Trestian - Cimbalom
Romain Baret - Electric guitar
Boris Cassone - Electric guitar
Matthieu Lemennicier - Electric guitar
Antoine Arnera - Keyboards
Guilhem Meier - Drums and percussion
Benoit Lecomte - Electronics
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CET ALBUM EST UN EXTRAIT DE JANUS, OPERA CHTHULU
JE DÉDIE JANUS À MON PÈRE ET MA GRAND MÈRE,
ANDRÉ SAWIKA ARNERA
MUSIQUE | ANTOINE ARNERA
TEXTE | THOMAS & ANTOINE ARNERA
DIRECTION | LEO MARGUE
PRODUCTION | ISIS GUNTHER & ADRIEN ARNERA
COMMUNICATION | JUDITH SAUREL & MARIE DESBENOIT
GRAPHISME | ANTOINE ARNERA
MISE EN PAGE | PIERRE CHANEL
ENREGISTRÉ PAR PIERRE OLIVIER AU 3 GRAND MÈRES (PASSY 21), NICOLAS GUAGLIANONE À L'AMPLI (LE CREUSOT), ADRIEN LAMBERT & GUILLAUME PUISSANT AU THEATRE DE LA RENAISSANCE COULLINS 63)
MIXAGE & MASTERING | R3MY BOY
UN GAAND MERCI A GUILLAUME BAILLART, MAUD CHAPOUTIER, LOLA ROUBERT CÉCILE MACHIN, KAMILLE FAU, THEO VACHERON, FLORIAN BARDET, MARIE DESBENOIT, ISABELLE DOUARD, LE THEATRE DE LA RENAISSANCE
MERCI A DONNA HARAWAY, JEAN-PIERRE PETIT, ALAIN DAMASIO POUR LEUR SOURCE DIINSPIRATION 200. PUNR, CHTHULULULULULULU
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Le Grand Sbam is a collective of creation, research and musical experimentation that defends living music in all its richness, complexity and universality.
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