Chansonnerie : Begayer + Vin de Sprite + Chien Fer

Address – Rue Adolphe Lavallée 39, 1080 Bruxelles
Doors – 7 pm
Tickets – 12 euros advance; 14 euros on the door (cash only)

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BÉGAYER (FR)

Alternative folk group Bégayer, whose sound is a gumbo of styles from southern France to North Africa, are one of the finest live acts in France. No two shows are the same, but they are always a thrilling demonstration of their raucous power and ritualistic intensity. The band are preparing to release their first album as a five-piece, Évohé Bègue – a startling, deliberately rough-edged collage pieced together from various recording sessions.

French song, noises, rumors of ancient and distant music, handmade instruments, modified radio-transistors and other old electronic objects, Bégayer seeks a gesture for the non-folklore, for the offspring of this culture of lack, given birth also by the twilight of popular habits as well as through noisemakers’ howls, through the public squares of villages as well as through the swarming of digital streams, for a unique genre of rapsode-metics.

Thus each stuttering song would like to be a disturbing and joyful object, whose obstinacy, the cruel simplicity offer themselves as manifest objects of agitation, as distances to be experienced, as studies which look at us.

“History does not repeat itself, it stutters. Marxist formula endorsed as an aesthetic program by Bégayer, which captures and mixes the messages of a decomposed past, switching between America (rural blues, jazz, noise rock) and the Mediterranean (Arabic singing, remains of Italian or French folklore) . The avant-garde at the service of archaism, and vice versa.”. Three Colours

https://begayer.bandcamp.com/album/voh-b-gue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMQIrqsZKYs&ab

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CHIEN FER (BE)

Chien Fer, songs of love & death, played on the banjo and sung in french. Old time melodies played on amplified banjo, clawhammer and two-finger style. traditional country blues lyrics translated, modified, transformed into new French songs, of love & death, get your groove on!

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VIN DE SPRITE (BE)

Vin de Sprite is a duo straight out of a music workshop initiated in 2021 by songwriter Antoine Loyer within Créahmbxl, a creative space for people with mental disabilities. Their songs, halfway between Moondog and Wild Man Fischer, are missives of Rabelaisian French-speaking songs, explosive, funny, unique in the image of lead singer and keyboardist Donatien Toma Ndani Djemelas.