Véronique Vincent & Aksak Maboul
play 'Ex-Futur Album' live and release exclusive 7"
30 years later, Véronique Vincent (Honeymoon Killers) & Marc Hollander (Aksak Maboul, founder of the Crammed label) come back to the stage for a series of shows, following the warm reactions to their recently-released album.
To celebrate this tour, Parisian fashion house agnès b. is releasing an exclusive 7" vinyl single containing two new remixes by Burnt Friedman and Marc Collin. This limited edition willl only be available at agnès b. stores in France, Japan & Hong Kong, from the band's merch stand during the tour, and on Crammed's online store, where you can pre-order it now.
Concert dates:
13.03 @ Bordeaux - L’iBoat
15.03 @ Rennes - L’Ubu
16.03 @ Paris - Le Divan du Monde
20.03 @ Cologne (DE) - Stadtgarten
21.03 @ Dusseldorf (DE) - Salon des Amateurs
22.03 @ Hamburg (DE) - Übel und Gefährlich
23.03 @ Berlin (DE) - Roter Salon
09.05 @ Bruxelles (BE) - Les Nuits Botanique
Here's the next chapter of an already extraordinary story: in 1980-83, Véronique Vincent and Marc Hollander wrote and recorded a trailblazing avant-pop album, which predated certain hybrid musical trends which may have emerged later on (think pop meets proto-techno, with African, Middle-Eastern, dub, jazz & cinematic French flavours…)
The album remained unfinished and unreleased for 30 years, and finally came out for the first time in Oct 2014 under the title "Ex-Futur Album". It was acclaimed by the international media, which spoke of an "astonishingly modern album" (Libération, FR), "so ahead of the curve" (The Crack, UK), which "still sounds futuristic, 30 years later" (Journal Frankfurt)
The enthusiastic reception has convinced Véronique Vincent & Marc Hollander to reform a band, and they're now starting to play shows for the first time since the 80s, with a line-up including three people who weren't even born when the songs were recorded: Sebastiaan Van den Branden (guitar, bass, synth) & Christophe Claeys (drums, percussion), both from Amatorski, and Faustine Hollander (guitar, bass, vocals).
Pre-order the exclusive 7" vinyl single here
Do also get the luxurious vinyl version of "Ex-Futur Album" while it's available here
(180gr, inner sleeve, lyrics sheet, download code for the album +6 bonuses)
You can watch a short video from the band's first concert here
And the new video for ‘Afflux de Luxe’ is here
Facebook page here
More info: http://www.crammed.be
"Ex-Futur Album":
"A floating pop dream (The Quietus, UK)
"Hijacks pop codes… effervescent…" (Focus/Le Vif, BE)
"Too avant-garde at the time, perfect for today" (Les Inrockuptibles, FR)
"Absolutely current" (RifRaf, BE)
"Adorably unfinished and delightfully imperfect." (Vogue, DE)