Ashinoa + quelque
Release Party
Ashinoa
Ashinoa, the cream of Lyon’s krautrock scene, is celebrating its new album on the London label Fuzz Club (A Place To Bury Strangers, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, to name but a few)!
Still driven by motorik rhythms and offbeat experimental electronica, this time the band unveils moments of downtempo tranquility. Clarinets, flutes, and saxophones join the party, flirting with touches of psychedelic jazz and 1960s Brazilian music.
Recommended for fans of Stereolab, Cavern Of Anti-Matter, Vanishing Twin, and The Heliocentrics.
quelque
Quelque is Romain Vasse’s moniker. You may have already come across him with his electronic pop duo Belvoir or alongside Hannah Miette or François & The Atlas Mountains. He crafts precise lacework whose hypnotic patterns expand, overflow, and twist his style, which draws as much from spiritual jazz as it does from musique concrète. Improvised sequences on expired cassettes and random synthetic suites converse with a familiar clarinet: another legacy through which charged breaths, the moist breath of a kiss, and dissonant spasms that flash from hubbub to shrill high notes follow one another. Velvet butterflies in a broken world.
Ashinoa
Ashinoa is a French band formed in Lyon at the end of 2015. Since their formation, the French trio composed of Matteo Fabbri, Stefan Chamolt and Mathias Chirpaz has been at the forefront of the alternative scene in their hometown of Lyon. Influenced by Krautrock and electronic music, they create a vast universe centred around […]
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Born in Clermont-Ferrand, Romain Vasset moved to Paris in his twenties and became active in the DIY scene, organising numerous experimental and improvised music concerts. He created the duo Belvoir, which composes for dance, theatre and film, and has collaborated with numerous artists, including Blumi and Hannah Miette.
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