Elg // ZWARTE VIJVERS TAPE
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This is the latest work released by the Belgian genius Laurent Gérard aka Èlg, who has also announced many under the name of Opéra Mort, from the experimental label / festival NEXT Festival in Bratislava, Slovakia in April 2022.
Includes two collage and post-punk songs played at this festival.It's addictive. DL code included.
Labels and other worksClick here for more information. ///Click here to see more NEXT Festival Records releases available at Tobira.
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Recorded at NEXT Festival, Bratislava, 2018
Review by The Quietus:
" Recorded in 2018 at NEXT festival in Bratislava, Zwarte Vijvers is two side long pieces by Belgian singer-mangler Èlg, a consistently underrated musician who made my favorite release on Hundebiss records about ten years ago, and who collaborated with the late Ghédalia Tazartès and Jo Tanz as Reines d'Angleterre for a Bo'Weavil LP which also comes highly recommended. Sonically, Èlg and Tazartes are a good match – they operate in similar spheres of not-songs, with different geographical and generational touchpoints. Here, there's singing once. removed, as if performing to an unknown audience neither in this world nor the next (despite it being a live recording to an audience in meatspace). There are murky (but not doomy) drum machines defiantly un-synced and off-beat, exploited There's a distinctive weft to his recordings, something dry and claggy and tangled, and a sense in which a performance of songs looms in a blind.spot I cannot quite focus on. I love it. "
Artist: Èlg
Label: Label: NEXT Festival Records
This is the latest work released by the Belgian genius Laurent Gérard aka Èlg, who has also announced many under the name of Opéra Mort, from the experimental label / festival NEXT Festival in Bratislava, Slovakia in April 2022.
Includes two collage and post-punk songs played at this festival.It's addictive. DL code included.
Labels and other worksClick here for more information. ///Click here to see more NEXT Festival Records releases available at Tobira.
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Recorded at NEXT Festival, Bratislava, 2018
Review by The Quietus:
" Recorded in 2018 at NEXT festival in Bratislava, Zwarte Vijvers is two side long pieces by Belgian singer-mangler Èlg, a consistently underrated musician who made my favorite release on Hundebiss records about ten years ago, and who collaborated with the late Ghédalia Tazartès and Jo Tanz as Reines d'Angleterre for a Bo'Weavil LP which also comes highly recommended. Sonically, Èlg and Tazartes are a good match – they operate in similar spheres of not-songs, with different geographical and generational touchpoints. Here, there's singing once. removed, as if performing to an unknown audience neither in this world nor the next (despite it being a live recording to an audience in meatspace). There are murky (but not doomy) drum machines defiantly un-synced and off-beat, exploited There's a distinctive weft to his recordings, something dry and claggy and tangled, and a sense in which a performance of songs looms in a blind.spot I cannot quite focus on. I love it. "
Artist: Èlg
Label: Label: NEXT Festival Records