Excerpt from the recent DAAU concert in Brussels and an interview:
Update: The high-resolution looks much better, and you can watch it here.
DAAU live at Botanique
Living room techno
Posted on April 13th, 2010 in new animals
There is an article and interview with DAAU in today’s De Standaard.
Avid followers of this site will not find too much new information there, but it is a nice read. The idea of listening to a concert while lying down on a mattress appeals to me…
Filature videos
Posted on April 12th, 2010 in highway tigers
Three songs from the Brussels gig last October for your enjoyment. These clips look and sounds really nice, alhough the colour does look a bit strange… Anyways, thanks to the uploader.
Visions of Arcadia:
A matter of time:
Into the wild:
Special on Radio Klara
Posted on April 6th, 2010 in media
And yet there is more fanfare Radio Klara will broadcast a one-hour special focusing exclusively on DAAU this coming Thursday, April 8 at 10 PM, Antwerp time.
Spoiler alert: You can already view the playlist online. There is a nice mix of tracks from the new album, some side projects and one unreleased and very, very old live recording. And best of all, you can listen to the programme online by clicking on “Luister live” !
Om met je ogen dicht te beluisteren
Posted on April 4th, 2010 in media
cobra.be has posted a video of DAAU performing “Girl, Swimming”, with an interview with the band to follow next week.
The downside is, the thing can only be watched from computers within Belgium “for legal reasons”, which means I have not been able to watch it. (… yes, and that is a hint my friends! Maybe someone can download this and send this to me? thanks, much appreciated!)
“shepherd’s dream” reviews
Posted on April 3rd, 2010 in new animals
Updated May 4th
Reviews of the new album are starting to come in, and I’ll link to them as they become available online. They are mostly very favorable, and rightly so !
- kwadratuur.be (3.5/5 stars)
- darkentries.be (8/10 stars)
- rifraf has a review on page 22. Again the free music mag gives a very favorable review to the extent of associating DAAU with contemporary composers and even going so far as to label them a crossing between Eleni Karaindrou en Nino Rota (!).
- cuttingedge.be, 4/5 stars
- psychemusic.org, 4 stars
- The New Music Review, 4 stars
Feel free to send me more if you come across them…
A Matter Of Time, live in Paris
Short interview
Posted on March 27th, 2010 in new animals
A short interview with Han about The Shepherd’s Dream, on occasion of the Kleppersfestival in Antwerp:
Het is een plaat waarin we de stilte en de traagheid opzoeken. Waarin we met kleine details in onze sound het verhaal proberen te vertellen. Meer dan in volume of snelheid. We proberen het echt subtiel aan te pakken. (…)
We zijn gewoon zonder vooropgezet plan gedurende enkele maanden muziek beginnen maken in improvatiesessies. Die muziek had volgens ons iets pastoraal. Het heeft bijna een naïef utopisch karakter waarin we een idyllisch landschap proberen te creëren. De pastorale muziek zoals Beethoven’s Pastorale is ook een beetje inspiratie geweest.
Which translates roughly to the following: The band were aiming at a quieter, slower sound and looking for a way to relate a story through variation of small details rather than volume or tempo. The music has the character of an almost utopian, idyllic landscape.
Quite an apt characterization of the album’s mood, which I like more every time I listen to it (& so does everybody else I’ve played it to).
the shepherd’s dream available for pre-order
Posted on February 14th, 2010 in new animals
As of today, the new DAAU album is available for pre-order from the Radical Duke.
And it’s a beauty!
Only five long tracks this time. You can listen to a track at the Radical Duke site.
01 – A Matter Of Time
02 – Out Of The Woods
03 – Girl, Swimming
04 – Into The Wild
05 – Visions Of Arcadia (the final protest)
update: the link to buy the album was taken offline again, but I’m told it will be back very soon.
new album, new gigs
Posted on February 11th, 2010 in new animals
Last-minute notice for people closer to the Belgian capital than I am: DAAU will play a try-out gig in Brussels this Sunday at Bar des Clandestins.
In other news, the new album title has been confirmed to be “The Shepherd’s Dream“, and to mark the occasion the band’s site is hiding behind construction planks, no doubt soon to be back with more information.
Tour dates come trickling in by the day. France concerts will be in March, Austria and Switzerland are for May.