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Belgian post-punks 𝙒𝙝𝙞𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙎𝙤𝙣𝙨 return to Bucharest this spring – May 22 at Control Club – as part of a European tour to promote their new album, "The Great Calm", out in February via [PIAS] Recordings.Tickets are now on sale via Eventbook.
* Presale: 65 RON (first 100 tickets). Afterwards, ticket price will go up to 85 RON per ticket.
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Following the dark, expansive power of 2018’s "Image" and 2021’s minimal "Several Others", Whispering Sons’ third album "The Great Calm" represents a reimagining and rethinking, though this growth has produced a series of songs that are still defiantly and uniquely true to the group.
To start with Whispering Sons are a five-piece once again. Original drummer Sander Pelsmaekers had to drop out of playing music after suffering nerve damage (and even took the role of the group's tour manager in the interim) but is now able to return on synths. Bassist Tuur Vandeborne has moved over to the drum stool, while the band’s long-term engineer – an experienced producer in his own right – Bert Vliegen has joined on bass. Guitarist and songwriter Kobe Lijnen and vocalist and lyricist Fenne Kuppens retain their roles, but they too have adapted and evolved their approaches for "The Great Calm".
Yet while this might all seem like upheaval from the outside, for the band these changing currents have in fact led them to an artistic place that feels comfortably their own.
“I think the most important thing about us is that we met as a group of friends and started the band,” notes Kuppens, “this is something that came out of a love for music and an eagerness to play together. And now we’re 10 years further. Not that much has really changed. The dynamics are always the same. We're very close to each other, we’re very good friends, so to switch things around was easy.”
https://www.whisperingsons.com/
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Control Club, Str. Constantin Mille, nr. 4,Bucharest, Romania
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