A beautiful pop music with chaotic noises.
please share a brief story about the music scenes in your city
it’s funny because when i went to argentina some people there had heard that techno was coming from belgium. and they were really surprised when i told them it’s not true at all ;-) the music scene in brussels is more focused on rock and jazz bands.
maybe the electronic scene was more interesting in the 80′s – early 90′s in belgium.
there are a lot of people making this kind of music but i feel like the different styles and influences are not connected. it’s even more obvious with the language border. and this lack of connection is a real problem because it’s so hard to promote independant music. it would be much more easy if structures and different kinds of music would easily collaborate with each other.
the band background
we both have an ‘acoustic instruments’ background (j-f with the violin & mewith the guitar). we had some folk projects… not enough fun with instruments so we needed to deconstruct everythnig with the help of electronic devices!
then j-f learned electroacoustic and me singing. so we started to mix acoustic and electronic, computer and voice, guitar.. overlapping with each other.
what is your current current activities
we try to promote our album ‘flake out’ and work on the concerts. but we both work aside.. part-time (j-f in a youth hostel and me as a web designer).
how do you describe your music in one sentence?
contrasted pop: cold but warm, sweet but sour, structurated but incoherent!
any future plans for Tangtype?
we already started to work on the second album. but we made a break with new songs since the release of ‘flake out’. we want to work in a really different way, inverting parts, but still as a duo.. or maybe not. lets see…
ooh yes and we’ll also have a tour in europe next october.
top five songs on your playlists
julie’s top 5
‘Jinx’ by Kammerflimmer Kollektief
‘All that is my own’ by Nico
‘For women’ by Ursula Rucker
‘Survival Kit’ by Kapital Band I
‘Gardener’ by Joanne Robertson
jf’s top 5
‘Alhaja Sikira Adunni / Ayinla Fuji E Ga Pupo’ by Kollington Ayinla
‘Variations sur un theme de Monteverdi’ by Art Ensemble of Chicago
‘MMM’ by Michael Thieke
‘(My heart is) closed for the season’ by Bettye Swann
‘Untitled3′ by Box
underrated bands you can recommend our readers
kaboom karavan
bolivar zoar
jos steen
schnee
the magic i.d.
Ellery Eskelin (w. Andrea Parkins & Jim Black)
David Maranha
Steinbrüchel
September Collective
ps: Oooh yes and here is our bio (from ‘humpty dumpty records’ web page) ..don’t hesitate to make it shorter if you need ..
Before the formation of Tangtype, a couple onstage as well as offstage. Miss (Julie Cambier) played the guitar and the bass guitar and ended up focusing on her main asset : her voice. She worked on it with the precious help of a Turkish singer called Sibel. As for Mister (Jean-François Brohée), as he was always following brassbands playing in the street, his parents finally bought him a violin to meet his bubbling desire of music. He followed a classical musical academic program, played in a few local bands, got the fist price at Royal Conservatoire of Mons (Belgium) in the electroacoustic department, and decided to create his own sound universe. Together, they imagined their project like a tangram, a combinaison of parts in constant change, making sounds evolving, overlapping one another and reconstructing themselves from parts to parts.
In 2005, they took part in “Bain de Bouche”, a collective projet (featuring Amute, Mitchel Akiyama, Sebastien Roux), conceived by Christophe Bailleau and presented at City Sonics (Mons, Belgium). They also appeared on Stilllysm compilation published by the Belgian label Stilll (featuring accomplished artists as Aoki Takamasa, Ghislain Poirier and Holiday for Strings). In 2007, they decided to put the final touch to their first album ` Flake Out’, produced by Christof Kurzmann and masterized in Vienna at Amann studio (Fennesz, David Sylvian, B.Fleischmann, Radian, Sylvain Chauveau).
