I like this. I like everything about it.
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Angine de Poitrine
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Piet De Ridder
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Angine de Poitrine
I like this. I like everything about it.
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scherzo
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Re: Angine de Poitrine
That is one of the stranger things I've seen and heard in a while. In a good way. I'm utterly mesmerized by both the music and the performance.
Very cool - thanks for sharing!
(I should be going to sleep, but I need to hear Sherpa a fifth time first...)
Very cool - thanks for sharing!
(I should be going to sleep, but I need to hear Sherpa a fifth time first...)
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scherzo
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Re: Angine de Poitrine
...no one else?
I've become weirdly obsessed with this band. They've been in constant rotation since I came across them in this thread, Sherpa probably has upwards of 300 plays on Spotify at this point, and I still watch the KEXP performance regularly - still cracks me up every time! I say weirdly because I don't normally go for this sort of thing. Microtonality in particular typically just makes my brain hurt in a bad way. But for whatever reason, I really like this. Really like it.
Anyhow - the new album was just released. I stayed up late staring at the countdown timer just so I could listen as soon as possible. It's really good. We've already heard much of the material at KEXP and on the singles, but the new stuff is also delightful.
As an aside: don't know if this is of interest to anyone, but according to rumors on the Interwebz (not officially confirmed as far as I know but it seems highly plausible) these guys previously played in a band called La Poexe. It's also a guitar-and-drums duo, stylistically different (more noise, less weirdness, no microtonal stuff) but also has a lot of similar sensibilities. Stylistic influences ranging from disco to sludge metal. But mostly metal and noise.
One of their more easy-listening tracks. I like it - check it out. It's good.
I've become weirdly obsessed with this band. They've been in constant rotation since I came across them in this thread, Sherpa probably has upwards of 300 plays on Spotify at this point, and I still watch the KEXP performance regularly - still cracks me up every time! I say weirdly because I don't normally go for this sort of thing. Microtonality in particular typically just makes my brain hurt in a bad way. But for whatever reason, I really like this. Really like it.
Anyhow - the new album was just released. I stayed up late staring at the countdown timer just so I could listen as soon as possible. It's really good. We've already heard much of the material at KEXP and on the singles, but the new stuff is also delightful.
As an aside: don't know if this is of interest to anyone, but according to rumors on the Interwebz (not officially confirmed as far as I know but it seems highly plausible) these guys previously played in a band called La Poexe. It's also a guitar-and-drums duo, stylistically different (more noise, less weirdness, no microtonal stuff) but also has a lot of similar sensibilities. Stylistic influences ranging from disco to sludge metal. But mostly metal and noise.
One of their more easy-listening tracks. I like it - check it out. It's good.
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Piet De Ridder
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Re: Angine de Poitrine
Angine de Poitrine has made the national news here — on this very day, yes — because there are a few concerts planned in Belgium later this year. (The fact alone of a far-beyond-the-fringe-of-the-mainstream band making the national news over here, is already highly unusual and thus remarkable.) The news item (very well written as it happens, but there’s no point in linking to it as it’s in Dutch) also mentions La Poexe as a very likely dry run for Poitrine. I hadn’t heard any music of La Poexe though, so thanks for that, Scherzo!
Rick Beato had to ask his audience, a week or so ago, to stop sending him mails about Angine de Poitrine. Several hundreds a day he says he got, clogging up his in-box. He didn’t have all that much of interest to say about the band I thought, but one thing he said is true: you can’t plan this.
Depression, pessimism and professional fatigue stalk the music industry and most record companies have no clue anymore what to do, let alone the energy and the budgets to do it, and then, out of the Canadian blue, this happens: a strange two-man band playing weird, jarring, microtonal music — as unlikely to be broadly successful as anything you can imagine — and, moreover, completely devoid of anything that suggests a willingness to compromise for the sake of commerciality or formulaïc manageability. And this turns out to have unprecedented global success: 7 million views (and counting) of the Poitrine KEXP concert in barely two months time.
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Rick Beato had to ask his audience, a week or so ago, to stop sending him mails about Angine de Poitrine. Several hundreds a day he says he got, clogging up his in-box. He didn’t have all that much of interest to say about the band I thought, but one thing he said is true: you can’t plan this.
Depression, pessimism and professional fatigue stalk the music industry and most record companies have no clue anymore what to do, let alone the energy and the budgets to do it, and then, out of the Canadian blue, this happens: a strange two-man band playing weird, jarring, microtonal music — as unlikely to be broadly successful as anything you can imagine — and, moreover, completely devoid of anything that suggests a willingness to compromise for the sake of commerciality or formulaïc manageability. And this turns out to have unprecedented global success: 7 million views (and counting) of the Poitrine KEXP concert in barely two months time.
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