In 2015, The Shoes are back with their new album Chemicals, which they’re calling their third album, under the in™ uence of superstition… 10 songs written in between pizza and sushis boxes, in Paris, London, New York and Reims, in France. The album will be released this friday!

As far as in™ uences are concerned, The Shoes pick in what they like : coldwave, nineties UK trance, new wave and even EDM. The idea is to disassemble the labels in order to reassemble them in a masterful electro pop puzzle. They are not interested in composing sad ballads to say how cruel the world is. The Shoes prefer having fun and seeing if it’s possible to make Frankie Goes To Hollywood be played with Aphex Twin, to blow hot and cold, rough and soft, never mind if it’s not homogenous, as long as it is coherent.

Here's at last the vinyl reissue of the seminal album, recorded in 1977 by Crammed founder Marc Hollander with Vincent Kenis (a.o. producer of the Congotronics series), and originally released on Marc Moulin's ephemeral Kamikaze label. The reissue is already creating quite a stir (the initial pressing sold out immediately, a couple of weeks ago, and the LP will again be available in a few days).

In the spring of 1977, two young Belgian musicians who call themselves Aksak Maboul (Hollander & Kenis) set out to record an album in which they playfully fused and deconstructed all kinds of genres to create their own musical world. Three years later, Hollander founded the Crammed label.

Leapfrogging over style & genre boundaries, they took in elements of rock, electronics, jazz, early 20th century classical, imaginary African & Balkan music, American minimalism, and even proto-techno (as in the surprising track Saure Gurke, which foreshadows some characteristic Detroit techno riffs by a good ten years).

"Onze Danses…" became a cult album, and can retrospectively be viewed as a manifesto for the Crammed aesthetics, a blueprint for some of the directions which the label went on to follow during the next few decades.

Audience interest in the music of Aksak Maboul has been constant over the years, and has significantly increased since last year's release of the band's "lost" avant-pop opus, Ex-Futur Album, which was enthusiastically welcomed, and led Marc Hollander and (Honeymoon Killers singer) Véronique Vincent to form a new band and play shows for the first time since the 80s.

Onze danses pour combattre la migraine is reissued with its original 1977 artwork. It contains a double insert with texts and pictures, as well as a digital download code for the album plus three bonus tracks.

Also out shortly: a digital single featuring remixes of two tracks from "Onze danses" by Parisian electronic music producer Krikor.

Peek-A-Boo presents the newest video by Willow.
Enjoy a mirrored-reality with the members of Willow in their trippy single-take music video for the single, 'Danger'.

www.thisiswillow.be

The young band from Gent will be unfolding their cristalline soundscapes and dreamy, subtle melodies on
Friday, Oct10 at 9pm at Salle Henri Le Boef.
 
Considered as one of the most refined Belgian bands, admired by international media and adored by a devoted
audience (whose enthusiasm contrasts with the musicians’ quasi-proverbial restraint), Amatorski are currently
working on a new album, from which they’ll premiere some excepts at this concert.
They’ll perform with their new line-up, which includes an additional musician.
Released in 2014, their previous album From Clay To Figures was elected by the media in the northern part of the
country as one of the best Belgian albums of the year.
 
Amatorski have adapted their emblematic track Come Home for the BBC series The Missing, which used it as its title tune.
The series is currently aired by the RTBF and was/will be shown on TV around the world.
 
 

Location : AB Club
Starts: 19.00hrs
Organization: AB
Genre: Pop
Price: € 21.00
After their huge success with debut 'K', packed with hits like ' Tattva ' and ' Govinda ' , and from '96 world hit " Hush " (the original was from Joe South , also done by Deep Purple ), the band split in '99.
Five years later Crispian Mills resurrected Kula Shaker with albums' Strange Folk "( '07 ) and" Pilgrims Progress "( '10).