Eens in de zoveel tijd staat er in Willemeen iemand die zich in geen enkel hokje laat stoppen. Zo iemand is Chelsea Wolfe. Talloze recensenten zijn al gestruikeld in een poging de muziek van deze Californische te beschrijven: Intens, authentiek, intiem maar tegelijk geestverruimend, donker, gekweld… Het zijn van die steekwoorden die steeds terugkomen maar die op de een of andere manier toch de kern niet raken. Haar muziek vertoont sporen van zulke uiteenlopende stijlen als black metal en moderne blues. Het is folk, maar ergens ook weer niet. Chelsea Wolfe zou soms niet misstaan op een barkruk tussen moderne singer-songwriters uit het indiecircuit, maar valt daar tegelijk ook weer uit de toon door haar doorleefde geluid en duistere teksten.
Chelsea Wolfe, kortom, is een zeldzaamheid: een muzikant die écht origineel en authentiek is. Wie in 2012 haar verpletterende set op het Roadburn Festival heeft meegemaakt kan daarover meepraten.
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CHELSEA WOLFE
Chelsea Wolfe groeide op als dochter van een countrymuzikant met een eigen studio. Al op negenjarige leeftijd maakte ze daar stiekem haar eigen opnamen. Lange tijd hield ze die voor zichzelf. Maar in 2009 maakte ze met een theatergezelschap een tour langs kathedralen, kerncentrales en vochtige kelders en dit gaf haar voldoende zelfvertrouwen om haar talent aan de wereld te tonen. Het leverde tot nu toe drie albums op die onderling sterk verschillen maar die gemeen hebben dat de muziek door merg en been gaat. In de loop van dit jaar komt een vierde album uit. Alle reden dus om haar in in Willemeen welkom te heten.
Of je nu van black metal houdt, van singer-songwriters, van sludge of doom of van indie-folk, Chelsea Wolfe is iemand die je niet mag missen. Zorg dat je later kunt zeggen dat je erbij was.
ZERO ABSOLU
website - http://zeroabsolu.fr/
sounds - http://zeroabsolu.bandcamp.com/
Zero absolu (Absolute zero) is a personal and solitary project. Created in French savoy current spring 2006.
The idea sprang with a crave to share outstanding moments and thoughts of nostalgia, melancholy and fury. « Zero absolu » is also a way of communicating the thread of intimate and experimental atmospheres.
Crossbred between post rock, math rock and electronical music. « Zero absolu » is a modern one man band, based on loops where electronical music intervene with diverse musical instruments to which sampled texts & poems are over layed.
Live performance is an important aspect of the project, « Zero absolu » which aims to push forward emotional and sincereness interpretation of its music. The videos screened during all concerts, come and support all the different emotions & feelings.
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CHELSEA WOLFE
Northern California native Chelsea Wolfe's sound is best described with broad strokes: elemental, intense, radiant, ancient yet modern, intimate yet expansive, dark and sparkling. Hues of black metal and deep blues inform her ever-evolving electric folk, a warm force that wraps itself around the listener, encouraging uplift, seeking triumph. Her voice similarly haunts and soothes, with words that illuminate life's darker corners in order to reveal the unlikely truth and beauty hidden within.
In a way, Wolfe is on a journey to the surface of her own music. 2012 finds releasing her first acoustic emanation on Sargent House, a collection of once-orphaned songs given a home. The experience is a secret shared, a side of our heroine rarely seen or heard, and the making was as intimate as it gets: recorded in the woods of Northern California and at Wolfe's L.A. home, co-produced by her bandmate Ben Chisholm, with players Ezra Buchla (viola), Andrea Calderon (violin) and Daniel Denton (bass).
In 2013, Wolfe will deliver her fourth album, which will expand upon the acoustic record's themes: the elements and natural disasters, humanity, love, desolation. At the same time, the new full-length will mark a significant change as Wolfe and Chisholm (who makes glitched goth-soul as Revelator) bring more electronic elements into the fold. The albumh will also feature the other members of Wolfe's live wrecking crew, guitarist Kevin Dockter and drummer Dylan Fujioka.
Disparate as these two developments are, they perfectly embody Wolfe's growth as an artist, the inside turning outward, her recent European outing and Summer U.S. tour with Russian Circles providing an apt contrast to her more cloistered childhood. Her rare romanticism began early, but it was always a private affair. At 9, she'd watch her father playing country music and sneak into his home studio to record skewed keyboard covers (The NeverEnding Story theme was a favorite) and originals.
Wolfe long lacked the confidence to share her work, but in 2009 she embarked on a three-month stint abroad with a nomadic performance troupe. After performing in cathedrals, basements and old nuclear plants to whoever would listen, she returned home with a new drive. She began toting around an 8-track and recording as the mood hit, eventually editing her findings into 2010's stunner LP, The Grime & the Glow. Described as both healing and harrowing, enchanting and narcotic, the album established Wolfe as a force on the rise.
Inspired, Wolfe then relocated to Los Angeles and recorded her second album, 2011's Apokalypsis LP, which found her in an actual studio. The songs captured therein maintained the strikingly visceral elements of her debut. Praise came for the record's revelatory dirges and cavernous sound, and moreover for Wolfe's newly showcased songwriting chops. Her onward march through music only seems to deepen the experience. Whether stripped bare or fully backed, Wolfe carries a serious heaviness of sound offset by that ever-present counterweight: transcendence of spirit. - by Chris Martins
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