The twelfth album by DAAU is the soundtrack to a series of short, abstract animation films by Rudy Trouvé, who also acted as a creative director during the recording process.
The music originates from acoustic improvisation sessions by accordionist Roel Van Camp, clarinetist Han Stubbe, double bass player Hannes D'Hoine and percussionist Jeroen Stevens. These took place according to conceptual guidelines set by Trouvé. Sometimes the starting point was a play on words or a random chord sequence, sometimes a specific atmosphere, but the playing field was always kept deliberately limited. Hence, the musicians were forced to build a musical structure with minimal means. The result was cut on cassette, after which the Antwerp enfant terrible - Rudy Trouvé-, known from his work with dEUS, Kiss My Jazz, Gore Slut and I H8 Camera among
others, happily hit the tracks with a virtual sledge hammer. DAAU's pieces were cut up, sampled, drastically restructured and pasted together again, a method that had been applies earlier on the retrospective album "Hineininterpretierung" (2017). On top of that audio collage, the musicians added new electronic layers, using a digital accordion, synths, digital bass and marimba.
DAAU says: "On the soundtrack, like on the older record, we were looking for a symbiosis between an acoustic and electronic sound. And there too we messed around with dub and Krautrock references".
DAAU (acronym for "Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung!", in reference to Hermann Hesse's novel Der Steppenwolf) is a Belgian band founded in Antwerp in 1992 by Roel Van Camp, Han Stubbe, Buni and Simon Lenski, joined in 2006 by Hannes D'Hoine and Geert Budts.
Renowned on the European festival and jazz circuits for their virtuoso live performances, playing exclusively acoustic instruments (violin, cello, clarinet, accordion), their music fuses pop, eastern-european folk and classical music, with jazz and punk attitude.
Rudy Trouvé (born 1967 in Wilrijk, Belgium) is a Belgian musician and artist from Antwerp, a figure on the Belgian music scene, founder of the Heavenhotel label, historic member of dEUS, Dead Man Ray, Kiss My Jazz and Tape Cuts Tape (with
Lynn Cassiers et
Eric Thielemans), among others, also known for his live performances and collaborations with Mauro Pawlowski, Zeitkratzer Ensemble,
Marc Ribot,
Pierre Bastien,
Pierre Berthet,
DAAU, Zita Swoon, etc.
