Name: Société Étrange & Mégabasse
Start: 2025-11-27T19:30:00+00:00
Location: New River Studios

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Baba Yaga's Hut Presents:
Société Étrange & Mégabasse
November 27th - New River Studios
£16 / 7:30
Société Étrange:
This French trio, composed of Antoine Bellini (electronics), Romain Hervault (bass) and Jonathan Grandcollot (percussion), explores a minimalist instrumental soundscape, where repetition and tension play a central role. The result is a music that is both hypnotic and introspective, where the presence and absence of sonic elements balance with minimal precision. Between electronic layers, melodic percussions and winding bass lines, the tracks move forward like on a foggy road, uncertain but captivating.
Mégabasse:
Pierre Bujeau is an expert at creating temporary escape zones - musical structures to evade the everyday. Sometimes he works collectively as part of the mysterious French groups Omertà and Tanz Mein Herz. But it’s when he’s on his own, performing as Megabasse, that he offers the most complete break from reality.
His kit is simple: twin Fender amps, and his double-necked guitar. An instrument like this normally signals maximum rockist excess - think Jimmy Page or Geddy Lee. In Pierre’s hands, it becomes more like a zither or a dulcimer, producing soft chiming patterns that build against themselves until the sound of the room, passed back and forth between his two amps, starts to blur everything, and we are away in another world. Wait, though - let down your yoga bun and don’t light the palo santo yet. The new space he creates has nothing to do with smug well-ness. It’s a rough, do-it-yourself psychedelia, scuffed but hopeful. Not a perfect blank space to be your best self in, but instead a communal dreaming, an uncanny place where all are welcome.