Sleep Party People - the bedroom project of Brian Batz - is like one of those fairy tale gems that keep radiating magical colours when it’s dark, that actually grow bigger and brighter when nighttime falls. It's something special and important and utterly beautiful.

With the aid of an old drum machine, a piano and a guitar, a unique dreamlike universe arises. With traces of My Bloody Valentine shoegaze, Cocteau Twins mystique and Flaming Lips idiosyncracy the result is hard to define. But who cares?

THE ALBUM
Sleep Party People’s eponymous debut album was received in home country Denmark with great accThelaim and called “one of the strangest and most beautiful released in a long, long time”, “a hazy, dreamy and wondrous debut album” by two of the largest newspapers in the country.

The album is a collection of songs including both piano lullabies, instrumental songs and what seems like pop hits from a strange, better dimension. It has a depth and a grandeur that harkens back to the big dark albums of circa 20 years ago by The Cure, My Bloody Valentine or Slowdive while remaining extremely modern.

LIVE
Taking a bedroom project live is always tricky, so Brian Batz has gone all out: With an orchestra of 5 friends - all clad in bunny masks - the adventurous sound is enlarged and expanded live. The band is at times gentle and at times ferocious, and has - like the album - received 5 star reviews in Denmark. The five bunnies were also handpicked by The Antlers to follow them on their Scandinavian tour in march.

Wires. A lot of wires. But at the end, blasting instruments : a
guitar, a saxophone, drums, machines …

Skiv could have been such a tweaky “turn-that-button” band, but their roots made of brass, skin and strings are pushing them beyond. On stage as well as on their new release, sinusoidal waves are linking drum breaks with
saxophone riffs. Feets are whacking on pedals and furious strings are filling any empty split second !

We are no more talking about a particular class of music. This is not jazz, not rock, neither electro : here we are listening to a pure new breeding of musical inspiration,sweat, breath and agility.

 

Since 2004, the Lille-based collective group of musicians, filmmakers, actors, visual artists, around multidisciplinary and multifaceted projects.  Promoting the mixing of genres and improvisation, they develop since 2004 formulas based on the interactions between these video and audio components.  Result of residential research and creations, each service is more about performance than the traditional concert. The various media used totally immersing the audience into their world.  Inspired as much scenes free jazz, rock, electronic and noise they create for both musical scenes for the performing arts, a single result.  Gilles GAUVIN: bass, double bass, electronics  Philippe MARTINI: Video  Jason VAN GULICK: drums, percussion.  Jean-Baptiste RUBIN: saxophone