“This is disturbing sorcery to be sure, but resistance is futile. B R I Q U E V I L L E know how to get control of your pulse. And they know where you try to hide your nightmares too.” — No Clean Singing
On September 29th, the mysterious collective known as B R I Q U E V I L L E will unleash their stunning, three-track II full-length. In advance of its release, No Clean Singing is currently hosting the alarming visual accompaniment to “Akte VI.”
View it now RIGHT HERE.
Comments the esteemed blog, “The video is disturbing, depicting as it does the disturbances of an isolated soul… B R I Q U E V I L L E do eventually lock you in and lock you down with repeating grooves, but not before they begin putting the frighteners on you with filaments of slow, shimmering eeriness. Those grooves (which become increasingly massive) very effectively seize the head and compel movement, and while you’re bobbing along in sync with them, the band stretch their spellcasting in further directions with an array of guitar melodies – exotic, reptilian, psychedelic ones – and additional doses of wrenching, mind-wrecking, deeply perilous shimmering and shattering tones, along with chanted vocals that provide no comfort either… This is disturbing sorcery to be sure, but resistance is futile. B R I Q U E V I L L E know how to get control of your pulse. And they know where you try to hide your nightmares too.”
If you missed it, be sure to check out previously released single, “Akte V,” courtesy of Decibel, at THIS LOCATION.
II will see release on CD, LP, and digital formats. Preorder info is available below. Fans of Goat, Bong, Isis, Pelican, Mogwai, Sunn O))), Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Amenra, and Breach pay heed.
Preorders:
North America: http://bit.ly/briquevilleIINA
Europe: http://bit.ly/briquevilleIIEU
Australia: http://bit.ly/briquevilleIIAUS
B R I Q U E V I L L E is a band shrouded in mystery. On stage, they create an instrumental mantra of spooky guitars, modified field recordings, and eerie, sampled chants. These meditative buildups, based on the perseverant element of repetition, are contrasted with and ripped apart by sudden, unforeseeable outbursts of the purest and sheerest heaviness. Indeed, the music demands to be experienced live. Slow lingering compositions that require patience and submission, subsequently followed by a deep catharsis.
The black NazguÌ‚l-robes and golden masks that all B R I Q U E V I L L E members wear on stage give their presence the air of an occult ritual. Donning their masks for over a decade – even during rehearsals – the anonymity creates equality, and prevents a cult of personality….
Members of B R I Q U E V I L L E were active in various other bands from the local jazz, electro, and metal scenes, when they met over ten years ago in a school building, with the ambition to improvise around one single note. “In order to do this anonymously and have the audience concentrate on the music, we decided to play with masks,” one band member explains. When they got out of the building after that session, they ran into an old man who told them a story of a son murdering his father right at the entrance of that school, many years ago. He pulled out a newspaper article to legitimize his story, before he disappeared.
“That story stuck with us. We kept asking ourselves why someone would keep an article recounting a patricide in their wallets for seventy years. We couldn’t help but conclude this man we’d met must have been the son. Maybe our imagination was just doing overtime, but the grandparents of one of our band members confirmed the murder had happened… however, we were unable to trace the old man.” This ludicrous story has ever since served as inspiration for the band’s pounding sound.
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