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The Electrowave project TourdeForce is founded by Christian Ryder (electronics) and Eric Raven (vocals) in Bergamo - Northern Italy, in the year 2004.
The original duo option for [TDF] was meant to be a right balance choice after problems and questions of precarious stability into their previous projects (went over genres like heavy metal, gothic rock and industrial/experimental), but also a sort of relative maturity reached in the music composition process.
Sure that the use of technology and electronic devices in music does not imply a lack of creativity or absence of feelings in music, [TDF] communicates the suffering in the West progressive decadence, the death of tragic feeling, the difference between art and truth, the interior emptiness, the dark side of love: music as expression of inner-space and introspection.
In their beginning phase TourdeForce follow the lines of Northern Europe Electronica with a considerable influence from the Eighties; their lyrics themes, inspired by Freud and James Joyce but also by Romantic culture contain quotations from literature (Le Fanu, Shakespeare, Sartre, James Ballard, H.P.Lovecraft, Antonin Artaud, Italo Svevo, August Strindberg) and Cinema (Roman Polanski, Andrej Tarkovskij, Clint Eastwood, David Cronenberg, David Lynch and more...)
Their first demo, released in 2004, gets some good reviews; into the Italian magazine :Ritual: it is judged as demo of the month and TourdeForce has a little interview in a column for best emerging bands.
In 2005 their song "Wedding in Fusion" appears on the free compilation on-line Italian-Body-music vol.2 (http://www.italian-body-music.tk).
In the same year Max Raiden from Scavenger joins [TDF] as supporting live guitarist.
In 2006 and early 2007 TourdeForce works at their new release: the title of record is "Omnes Feriunt, Ultima Necat" (Ancient motto referred to the Hours): a dramatic and melancholy work based on research of melody through New Wave influence, Eighties and Nineties electronic music.
Considered as a Net Release the album gets very good reviews and it gives [TDF] some more visibility into the alternative electronic music panorama; in 2007 TourdeForce opens for Client performance in Milan (27th april).
In 2008 [TDF] come back in studio working at some new heterogeneous material, with the clear purpose to avoid any genre cataloguing attempt. The upcoming album has got a provisional title: A Lifetime of Colours.