Art Rock Show – Perilymph – Progressions Imaginaires (Week 32)

Perilymph begon als een eenmansproject van Fabien de Menou, een Franse multi-instrumentalist die in Berlijn woont. Hij nam alles op in zijn studio, behalve de drums die werden geleverd door zijn vriend Fabian Sliwka. Pas bij het derde album (Tout en Haut, 2021) verhuisde Perilymph van Fabien’s slaapkamer naar een volwaardigere bandopstelling.

The Elite Extremophile review: “Arriving three years after their last effort, Perilymph’s fourth album, Progressions Imaginaires, is this group’s newest output. I’ve covered this band a couple times in the past, and I’ve always enjoyed their work. They have always done a great job at contrasting spare, acoustic passages with big, warm retro synth tones.

Perilymph’s past work has often straddled the always-fuzzy line between psych and prog. That has a lot to do with the way that they evoke the instrumental tones of the late 1960s, when psych and prog were both in their infancies and it was all a big mushy blob of forward-thinking rock music. This album, though, sees the band pushing in a more clearly progressive direction. The tones and textures are as lush and psychedelic as ever, but the songwriting is more dynamic, mature, and inventive. (…)

Progressions Imaginaires is Perilymph’s strongest album to date and an easy contender for my nascent best-of-2024 list. The songwriting is complex and engaging, and the playing is tight. The band effortlessly balances complexity and grandiosity against more pared-back passages, and the whole album is an incredibly satisfying experience, front-to-back.”

Naast Perilymph (Progressions Imaginaires), Obskyr (Obskyr), Triptonus (Soundless Voice), Alber Jupiter (We Are Just Floating in Space), Acid Rooster (Flowers & Dead Souls), Raven Sad (The Leaf and the Wing) & Agusa (Ekstasis – Live in Rome).

• Thursday/Donderdag 12.00 – 24.00
• Friday/Vrijdag 12.00 – 24.00
• Saturday/Zaterdag 12.00 – 24.00