The Void's Last Stand

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The Void's Last Stand
General information
Genre (s) Progressive rock
founding 2007
Current occupation
Vocals, guitar
 Jonas Wingens
guitar
 Geoffrey Blaeske
bass
 Rachid Touzani (from 2009)
Drums
 Ray Dratwa
Bass, keyboard, lap steel, melodica, mandolin
 Alex Stoll

The Void's Last Stand is a German progressive rock - band from Aachen . In 2007 Jonas Wingens, Ray Dratwa and Geoffrey Blaeske founded the band. Wingens and Blaeske have previously played in the experimental pop band the void . Rachid Touzani joined the band in spring 2009. In the summer of 2009 the four recorded their first album A Sun by Rising Set . The band has been under contract with Long Hair Music since November 2009 . Her first album was released there in December 2009. The second album, Rakash, followed on November 8, 2011 and was named Tip of the Month for December on the Babyblauen Seiten .

style

Musically, the band picks up on progressive rock from the 1970s to the present day. The two tracks on her debut album each exceed the 20-minute mark. Particularly characteristic of the band's sound are the avant-garde, varied vocals as well as rapid changes in style, tempo and meter.

reception

The band's sound is often compared to The Mars Volta , Frank Zappa , Nektar , Ruins , Van der Graaf Generator , Sleepytime Gorilla Museum or Captain Beefheart . The music magazine eclipsed read:

“[...] two 25-minute compositions that, mostly at breathtaking speed, mess up pretty much everything that has been extravagant prog in the last forty years: tricky, weird guitars à la Cpt. Beefheart , hypnotically repeating 5 and 7 rhythms with throbbing basses that make you think of magma , and one or the other jazzy twisted Canterbury riff. It had all been there before. But firstly not in this concentrated, highly concentrated form and secondly not with this provocative darkwave attitude, which is mainly due to the delirium singing, with which you believe to see Pere Ubus David Thomas in front of you with closed eyes . "

Furthermore, the music magazine Progressive Newsletter rated the singing:

"At times the man succeeds in sounding like a mixture of David Byrne , Jeffrey Lee Pierce , Devo blessed memory, from a herd of goats, a dying Damo Suzuki and a chilled muezzin : all in one singing passage, mind you."

While the music magazine Rock It! commented on the CD:

“Opinions will split on this edgy chunk of music. [...] Anyone who can hear Frank Zappa's difficult records well should risk an ear. "

live

Your A Sun by Rising Set tour includes: a. Concerts as a support band for Panzerballett , Damo Suzuki , Electric Orange and for Mani Neumeier's side project Gurumaniax .

Discography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reviews of Rakash on the Baby Blue Pages
  2. ↑ Hirnfick 2.0: Musik 12/2009 - favorites and analysis. December 6, 2009, accessed February 18, 2010 .
  3. ↑ rocktimes.de
  4. ↑ The Void's Last Stand. A sun by rising set CD (2009) 7 points. In: hagenrocks.ning.com. November 4, 2009, archived from the original on September 2, 2010 ; Retrieved July 6, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Nik Brückner: Baby Blue Prog Reviews: The Void's last Stand: A Sun by Rising Set: Review. September 16, 2009, accessed February 11, 2010 .
  6. ↑ Donatto Zoppo: MovimentiPROG: The Void's Last Stand: A Sun by Rising Set: Review. (No longer available online.) April 29, 2010, archived from the original on October 29, 2013 ; Retrieved May 4, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.movimentiprog.net
  7. ↑ Donatto Zoppo: MovimentiPROG: The Void's Last Stand: A Sun by Rising Set: Review. (No longer available online.) April 29, 2010, archived from the original on October 29, 2013 ; Retrieved May 4, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.movimentiprog.net
  8. ↑ ragazzi-music.de
  9. ↑ Joe Asmodo: CD Reviews: The Void's Last Stand, A Sun By Rising Set . In: eclipsed , No. 116, Dec./Jan. 2009/10, p. 75
  10. ↑ Kristian Selm: CD Reviews: The Void's Last Stand, A Sun By Rising Set . In: Progressive Newsletter , No. 67, Dec. 2009, p. 81
  11. ↑ Christoph Pöschl: CD Reviews: The Void's Last Stand, A Sun By Rising Set . In: Rock It! , No. 55, Dec./Jan. 2009/10, p. 48