Zoft is a drum/guitar duo from Brussels. They also uses sound sculptures and home made instruments, and sometimes they scream into cheap distorded microphones... All these instruments produces light, so the whole performance is exclusively lihgtened by the music in order to create a loud and cosy intimate ambiance. Their music is energic, heavy and joyfully rythmically twisted and could be described as a mix of jazzcore, free-math-metal and cheap movie tunes. The band was formed in 2008 and was a trio at the beginning. (with a tuba player). Now they play as a duo and have the wish to work as a plateforme where any musicians who wants to join is welcomed, in a kind of free jazz spirit.
BIO: Sarah Register and Andrya Ambro allied as TALK NORMAL in 2007, after years of friendship, and haven't stopped moving. TALK NORMAL is part of a long lineage of musicians who took their tools and ideas outside of the existing comfort zone and created a new one - DNA, Laurie Anderson, Sonic Youth, The Creatures, Public Image Ltd., Cocteau Twins - regardless of whether your ears perceive their presence or influence here. Since their lightning-strike first appearance, TALK NORMAL's sound has stormed upward and outward, referencing few and relating to many, a jarringly songful gale of rhythm and noise supporting pleas and plaints, signal-calls and marching orders. Each show builds on past ones: up-to-the-moment updates of ideas previously stated, new phrasings of old upheavals delivered with increasing focus and joy. Darkness and light; fury, silence, space and sound.
Press quotes :
Pitchfork 7.8.
[“In a Strangeland”] is no carbon copy. Andrya Ambro's drumming is a distinctive combo of clicking energy and depth-plunging stomp, while [the band’s] vocals can handle both desperate screech and matter-of-fact detachment somewhere between Karen O and Kim Gordon…. The assured confidence of "In a Strangeland'' is a result of inspiration, not imitation."
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13662-sugarland/
file under: No wave, DNA, Sonic Youth, Laurie Anderson, Lydia Lunch
L'Héautontimorouménos est un trio belge originaire d'Athus né dans le courant de l'année 2009. Après des débuts difficiles, un premier EP (intitulé "III") et un changement de line up en 2011, Sofian, Denis et Maxime prennent leur envol et enregistrent leur premier album, "Labyrinth Of Time", en février 2013.
Influencé par de nombreux styles, allant du rock progressif au Jazz en passant par de nombreuses expérimentations, ils tentent de délivrer une musique plurielle et vivante à base de loop et d'effets.
Après avoir partagé la scène entre autres avec The Memorials, Casse Brique, Mutiny on the bounty, Talk Normal, 31Knots ... le groupe n'a qu'une envie : partager sa musique sur scène!