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| Post subject: Folk,Jazz,Experimental Punk - Vialka from France/Canada |
Folk,Jazz,Experimental Punk: Vialka from France/Canada
Time£º20:30, Nov.28th, 2005
Venue£ºBAR 288£¨No.288 TaiKang Rd, close to Ruijin Rd£©
Ticket£º30rmb (Yuyintang membership discount 25)
Organizer£ºYUYINTANG
A band that appears to tour 320 days per year is either insane or on a serious mission to spread their sound far and wide. Vialka is both of these things. With such a rigorous plan, how could they help but expand their musical skills and compositional range?
Vialka consists of two international rock gnomes. Eric Boros is an experimental music expert and master of the baritone guitar. The previous Vialka recordings have featured generous doses of Boros' raw singing style - vocal chords shredded into permanent post-party rasps via his solo electronic doom project, Hermit. Marylise Frecheville bashes the living **** out of drums and vocalizes across a wild range of styles from death screams to French chanson to German punk to Arabic chanting.
Vialka is true art rock - it is less of a question of what is it that Vialka is, but WHY is it that Vialka is. They seem to write, record and perform in spite of themselves. What may have started out as a joke has now taken on frightening proportions and exists as a monster force waiting to eclipse the world. They prove, uncontestedly, that rock music only requires four things: attitude, rebellious singing, wicked guitar and monster drums.
Vialka is truly international. Boros left Canada for France, and with French-native Frecheville moved to Slovenia to set up their art rock nest. The touring schedule on their website would make most booking agents cry. How they do it is anyone's guess. With a recent hefty tour through China (gripping tour diary also available online), this current release includes many influences from many peoples, places, and musics.
Music that would appeal more to those with open minds than genre-huggers, Vialka cruises the spectrum. One minute you feel on the edge of time signature-warped ska, then you are dancing with Russians at an AC/DC tribute show. Boros and Frecheville truly have a great groove together - they seem to have fused into one being. The cocky rock figures and daring vocal prοtests in French, English and German - Heine is covered as well as a traditional Chinese folk song and a poem by Haruki Murakumi. Topping the whole package off is gorgeous freaked-out artwork by Nikolai Kopeikin.
This record will cut your breath in half, but you have to crank it up really damn loud and you have to have your mind ready to get its weeds whacked out.
Standout tracks: when "Everywhere and Nowhere" hits its epic eastern theme, one feels the roof lifting off. "Die Lorelei " (Heine) is great for anyone who misses German pre-punk, or just digs sick math rock. |
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