We insist!

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We insist!
General information
Genre (s) Jazz rock , math rock
founding 1995
Website http://weinsist.com
Current occupation
Étienne Gaillochet
Bass , guitar , synthesizer , vocals
 Julien Allanic
Guitar, vocals
 Eric Martin
former members
guitar
 Julien Divisia
saxophone
 François Wong
saxophone
 Cyrille Mechin

We insist! is a French jazz rock / math rock band.

history

The band was formed in 1995. Your name We Insist! was based on the concept album We Insist! Freedom Now Suite chosen by Max Roach .

On June 1, 2009 - initially exclusively in Germany - their sixth album The Babel Inside Was Terrible was released , on which the band can only be heard as a quintet after the departure of Cyrille Méchin. Guitarist Julien Divisia and saxophonist François Wong left We Insist! a little bit later; in February 2014 with "We Insist!" for the second time a self-titled album by the band.

style

The music of We Insist! is often classified in the genres of jazz rock and math rock. In addition to the unusual line-up with two saxophones, which is unusual for a rock band, the use of crooked rhythms and bars is striking . The band names various artists such as At the Drive-In , the Beastie Boys and Frank Zappa as influences .

Discography

  • 1998: We Insist!
  • 1999: I Witness!
  • 2002: Inner Pond
  • 2004: Crude
  • 2007: Oh! Things Are So Corruptible
  • 2009: The Babel Inside Was Terrible
  • 2014: We Insist!

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Andreas Hofmann: Baby Blue Prog Reviews: We Insist !: Oh! Things Are So Corruptible. Retrieved July 21, 2009 .
  2. ↑ Interview with Etienne Gaillochet. Retrieved September 6, 2010 .
  3. ↑ "Our new album" The Babel Inside Was Terrible "is already out in Germany since the 1st of june, on our dear label Exile On Mainstream. [...] We're now busy on preparations for the release in our country, in the rest of Europe, and in North America. “ - weinsist.com  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved July 21, 2009.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / weinsist.com  
  4. ↑ a b Reviews of The Babel Inside Was Terrible on the Babyblauen Seiten
  5. ↑ We Insist's MySpace profile ! Retrieved July 21, 2009 .

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