Sean W.
Amazing exploration of sound, yet again. This album goes a step beyond though, particularly Palm>Schaduw. Fantastic album!
Favorite track: Cascade.
Dans Dans is back (already), with their most unfiltered, most spantenous, most 'punk' album to date. Three musicians, three days in the studio, one burst of energy.
April 23th, 2021. Breaking a five year silence, purveyors in ambiguous jazz-rock hybrids Dans Dans drop a new, fifth album. Throughout the media, Zink is hailed as another triumph for the Antwerp based trio. ‘A bold and thrilling noise trip’, according to Humo. ‘The best live band of the Western hemisphere is back’, celebrated OOR, while De Morgen hailed the ‘organic but cleverly constructed jams’. The following summer, the band made the best of a temporary easing of local Covid restrictions, and played some rapturous shows, such as during Jazz Middelheim in their hometown and an Unday Records label night during the Boomtown festival in Ghent. A string of dates in Eastern Europe followed, but, alas, the remainder of a national and international tour in autumn was cancelled. Third wave, fourth wave, who was still counting?
At the tail end of 2021, Bert Dockx, Frederic Lyenn Jacques, and Steven Cassiers, the unholy trinity that make up Dans Dans since 2012 – yep, that’s a ten year anniversary! – decided to turn setbacks into sound blasts, grief into grooves. Rehearsals were planned. New music was made. And before you know, a studio was booked. This is how an instrumental corona-album happened. Not one of contemplation through isolation or new found domestic bliss, not your usual, subdued track record of socially distant, monotonous times. ‘6’ might be a reaction to all of that, but it’s definitely more than that.
Dans Dans unites the talents of three musicians of the highest order: Bert Dockx on guitar (also lead singer and driving
force behind Flying Horseman) Fred Lyenn on bass (better known as Lyenn, songsmith and guitarist) And Steven Cassiers on drums (Dez Mona) From garage jazz, psychedelic blues and ecstatic noir soundtracks to spacey rock-‘n-roll....more
A rich blend of rhythm-driven electronic jazz, full of trance and wobbling bass, from the Wacław Zimpel-led group. Bandcamp Album of the Day Oct 18, 2024
I have been beating around the bush for some time now with this band.
Now I realise it was my own pride that resisted the purchase; This band is greater than I..... This band knows exactly what I like, it feels already what I want to feel in music. I just wasn't ready yet to meet them. I should have trusted this fantastic label. The title of the album says it all......... PlayItLoud!