Aquaserge - Any news or updates?

[Hunchentootz]

I sent them a message on their fb page see if there's any other way to get it

It's literally like 6 quid for a CD - 20 quid for vinyl - to ship outside the UK. Insane.

[Mascodagama]

It doesn't count as "news", except to me, but I just discovered that Aquaserge have tracks on two tribute albums:

- a cover of The Supermen on an album called We Were So Turned On: A Tribute to David Bowie (2010)

- a cover of 10:15 Saturday Night on album called Perfect as Cats: A Tribute to the Cure (2008)

I generally can't be bothered with this type of hodgepodge album, and we're obviously talking early Aquaserge here, but I am at least mildly intrigued.

[Naytheet]

I sent them a message on their fb page see if there's any other way to get it

They told me it will be available there in English shops on October the 15th.

[thedunno]

Certainly, together with a new Ghost Rhythms, one of my most anticipated releases for the rest of the year. Go French! (except in football)

[Mascodagama]

The album is now out and streaming in full:



Listening now. Exceptional.

[Hunchentootz]

^^ Sweet!

[Mascodagama]

Hate doing this, but I just bought the CD from Amazon UK rather than Bandcamp. Free delivery tomorrow, as opposed to £10.42 for delivery at some point in the future.

[Hunchentootz]

Hate doing this, but I just bought the CD from Amazon UK rather than Bandcamp. Free delivery tomorrow, as opposed to £10.42 for delivery at some point in the future.

With shipping I dont blame ya - nasty business right now - I wanted to get a shirt from the UK to here in Texas - 25 quid!! No thanks.

[chalkpie]

Loving this rekkid after one spin.

[Progatron]

Ordered without listening to a note. They've long earned auto-buy status with me.

[Conti]

It didn't click after the first listen. Must try again soon.

[thedunno]

Just finished my 3th spin; love it! A great collection of moods and sounds. Very different from what they've done before but all the more interesting.

[Hunchentootz]

Just finished my 3th spin; love it! A great collection of moods and sounds. Very different from what they've done before but all the more interesting.

You can hear them in there - their sound is present but yeah - so different. Quite a journey. Dig it too!

[chalkpie]

It didn't click after the first listen. Must try again soon.

I did it late at night in headphones. Its a fascinating listen just based on pure "sound" but equally their most challenging listen imo. I can see this one polarizing even the most ardent Aquaserge fans but its a bold statement.

[Zappathustra]

There is a complete divorce with pop sounds of earlier records. I fully approve of the new turn, it is an exciting and daring affair. That said I still don't know if I really like all of it. The Ligeti tunes are somewhat far from my own taste. The Varese or Feldman not so. Overall it is a must listen and congratulations to Aquaserge for taking the path less travelled.

[Kcrimso]

I have listened this new one twice so far. I like it! It is too early to tell but it might best album they have done.

[Progatron]

Shiny plastic disc hath arrived... oh yeah! I know what I'm spending the evening with...

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[Hunchentootz]

Shiny plastic disc hath arrived... oh yeah! I know what I'm spending the evening with...

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Hellz yeah man! Enjoy

[Scrotum Scissor]

Hate doing this, but I just bought the CD from Amazon UK rather than Bandcamp.

Did the same thing, but BOY was mine expensive! Can't say I regret it, though - it's a great album of somewhat 'serge-untypical, ultra-dissonant, hyper-complex avant-progressive of the highest order. Some of these intricacies come close to the extremities of Yugen or instrumental TPlague, albeit of a different theoretical assumption at the core and in a completely other context of idea and sound.

Some may have been mislead to think that Aquaserge were mostly about post-hipster/refined/Stereolab'ian abstraction in a more distinctly advanced pop/rock language, but this release certainly exhibits their "true" inner nature of more or less scholarly grips on composition. This is simply impeccably dense and challenging stuff, perhaps not as unequivocally inviting or sexy as their more melodious material but all the more impressive from a "progressive" viewpoint.

Although it still indeed does have SOME of the sexy.

[Hunchentootz]

Did the same thing, but BOY was mine expensive! Can't say I regret it, though - it's a great album of somewhat 'serge-untypical, ultra-dissonant, hyper-complex avant-progressive of the highest order. Some of these intricacies come close to the extremities of Yugen or instrumental TPlague, albeit of a different theoretical assumption at the core and in a completely other context of idea and sound.

Some may have been mislead to think that Aquaserge were mostly about post-hipster/refined/Stereolab'ian abstraction in a more distinctly advanced pop/rock language, but this release certainly exhibits their "true" inner nature of more or less scholarly grips on composition. This is simply impeccably dense and challenging stuff, perhaps not as unequivocally inviting or sexy as their more melodious material but all the more impressive from a "progressive" viewpoint.

Although it still indeed does have SOME of the sexy.

Well said - all of that!

[chalkpie]

Listened to Laisse ca etre today. Really great album.

[polmico]

New album on the way.

https://ffm.to/aqsrgfe.OFP?fbclid=Iw...Xo7qoYaDcu-bVE

[calyx]

Yes. I saw the final performance of their last album in January at the "sort of RIO" festival in Tarbes. Last month I saw Benjamin Glibert who is also playing in a very Canterbury-sounding project by flautist Sylvaine Hélary (Glowing Life), who incidentally has just been appointed head of the Orchestre National de Jazz beginning in early 2025. Julien Gasc is no longer part of the band - he wasn't at the gigs I saw since 2021 but he was on the poster for the last album. It's probably going to be a little rockier as Benjamin's sister Manon will be playing guitar as well as clarinets. The new album has been ready for over a year but there were issues with the label's new distributor, if I remember correctly, and they had to wait for the planets to align for its release. Still, no future gigs announced yet at this time.

[Steve F.]

^^^^^

Still on Crammed?

[Udi Koomran]

Julien left the band ?
That will most likely result in some sort of shift/change