"wunderbar grosszuegige Perkussionistenplatte ****" - Le Musterkoffer.de

"Food for thought. En van een bijzondere, minimale schoonheid." - subjectivisten.org

"... it is like the best Can record never made combined with a Konono No.1, but recorded lovingly to slightly worn cassette tape. Really, experimental music fans, post rockers and indie kids should unite hand in hand and praise the genius of Thomas Belhom for putting together such an earth shaking collection of innovative drum music. (...) Huge recommendation." boomkat

Download the album from iTunes: here

Cheval Oblique is Belhom's 5th solo record. All homerecorded basic tracks with sparse studio overdubs. What seems lose and lush improvised is carefully composed. Belhom is one uncomparable musician and Cheval Oblique is a Spaziergang of a record.

There are guests.  The brilliant Pierre Favard  laying down a sun-ra-esque organ on Who's Who. There is bassist Volker Zander on Porto Cesareo. There are Cecile Legare and Jerome de Pascual on trombone and trumpet on Electrolyse. Some very carefully placed field recordings are the only moments on the record, where spoken language appears.

Biography
Belhom got a drum set for his 14th birthday. "The happiest moment in my life." After living way too long with hippie parents and their circus friends, "I got sick of it, I became Hardcore." Belhom moves to Paris, plays in Hardcore and Punk bands, forms a improv theatre and music group, besides this starts working as pyro technician in the Catalan theatrum monstrum La Fura dels Baus. He experiments with "straight edge" and "being a scooter driving mod". He reads Lacan, listens to The Kinks, Huesker Due, Chet Baker. Belhom moves to Tucson, Arizona, to live a dream with his musical partner Naim Amor. It's the end of the 90s and the question is Where is a real place? The Amor/Belhom Duo is looking for Cadillacs and dry emptyness in opposition to Ibis Hotel Paris trash. The scene in Tucson: urban camouflage, thrift store economics, Spoke era Calexico, Al Foul, Al Perry, Bob Log III. Belhom falls in love with painter Viva Yazon. They marry and move back to Le Mans into a post 9/11 world with "fucking borders"

The good thing about booking shows for Thomas Belhom is club owners know him, love him. He toured a lot. He played with Naim and his Amor/Belhom Duo all over the US and EU. Thomas backed up David Grubbs or the French singer Red, for a while Belhom was the drummer for the Tindersticks.

But Thomas Belhom is best in his own element, when he sets the tone of a night, when he switches from loop to beat, from sticks to brushes, from Jazz to Gamelan, when he swings and sings around on his drum stool.

more here www.thomasbelhom.com

Vinyl: Sold Out
CD: order here