Even voorstellen – Avishai Darah – Between hope and despair

Avishai Darash, een getalenteerd pianist en componist, onthult zijn nieuwste album 'Between Hope and Despair', een reactie op de hedendaagse wereldwijde omwentelingen door een negendelig opus te maken dat zijn persoonlijke reis weerspiegelt te midden van een jaar van onrust en drastische veranderingen.
Door zijn samenwerking met gerenommeerde muzikanten Shayan Fathi, Ivan Ruiz Machado en Antonio Moreno Glazkov transformeert Darash abstracte concepten in een diepgaand muzikaal verhaal, met als doel een brug te slaan tussen individuele en collectieve ervaringen.
Het album is getiteld om het spectrum van menselijke emoties te vatten en duikt in de essentie van creativiteit terwijl het de oorsprong van Darash' ideeën verkent. Met uitzonderlijk muzikaal vakmanschap, gevoeligheid en volwassenheid bieden Darash en zijn muzikanten een aangrijpende soundtrack die resoneert met een wereld die hunkert naar compassie en begrip, en presenteert een verkenning van de menselijke conditie op muziek.
release 22 maart 24

Pse Belgium - kalender
MAART 2024
Cavalluna - Land of a thousand dreams - 16 maart - Sportpaleis Antwerpen
Cavalluna - Land of a thousand dreams - 17 maart - Sportpaleis Antwerpen
Het Schlagerfestival - Flower power editie - 22 maart - Trixxo Arena Hasselt
Het Schlagerfestival - Flower power editie - 23 maart - Trixxo Arena Hasselt
Het Schlagerfestival - Flower power editie - 24 maart - Trixxo Arena Hasselt
Jaap Reesema – Alles komt goed – 30 + 31 maart – Lotto Arena, Antwerpen (met Stef Bos, Nielson, Regi, Lea Rue en Pauline)
Regi vs Milk Inc. –18, 19 oktober– Sportpaleis, Antwerpen
Metejoor – 31 oktober, 1 november – Sportpaleis, Antwerpen
Regi vs Milk Inc. – 2, 8, 9 en 10 november – Sportpaleis, Antwerpen
Night of the proms – 22, 23, 24 november 2024 – Sportpaleis, Antwerpen
Bart Peeters deluxe – 27, 29 + 30 november 2024 – Lotto Arena, Antwerpen
Bart Peeters deluxe – 3,4, 6 en 7 december 2024 – Lotto Arena, Antwerpen
Bart Peeters deluxe –10, 11 december 2024 – Lotto Arena, Antwerpen
Bart Peeters deluxe –12 december 2024 – Lotto Arena, Antwerpen (extra concert)
NOVEMBER 2025
Metejoor - 1 november – Sportpaleis

www.pse-belgium.com

Sony music news – Electric Fields – One milkali (one blood)
ELECTRIC FIELDS – ONE MILKALI (ONE BLOOD) - The Australian Eurovision 2024 entry.

When you witness the inspiring performances of Electric Fields you are lifted to the heights of a striking and haunting blend of electronic music with living traditional culture - breathtaking beauty and power are brought to the stage.

Featuring the rare and beautiful voice of Zaachariaha Fielding - often singing in his traditional languages of the Anangu people - and the brilliance of producer Michael Ross - Electric Fields range from soulful pop to epic-scale electronic composition, through to intensely intimate story telling.

Their electrifying live shows include energetic and sweaty national headline tours, extravagant collaborations with symphony orchestras, and main stage contemporary festival appearances.

Finalists for the ARIA Awards 2019’s Best Australian Live Act, Electric Fields took out 7 awards in Dec 2019 - the 3 top spots for the National Live Music Awards: Best Live Act, Best Live Voice, and Electronic Act of the Year; the National Dreamtime Award; the Corner Award, and two South Australian Music Awards. Coming close 2nd in Eurovision: Australia Decides, they trended worldwide on Twitter at #7 within an hour of their performance.

Named as ‘movers for the Next Gen’ by Vogue Magazine, shows include playing for Apple, the APRA Awards, SPOTIFY’s Front Left showcase, Splendour in the Grass, Vogue Magazine’s Anniversary, and delivering 2 sold-out self-curated national tours. 2021 saw Electric Fields playing live for the AFL Grand Final to a viewing audience of 5,000,000, and in 2021 they opened the Mardi Gras Parade, Parrtjima Festival, headlined Garrmalang Festival, and closed the First Nations Fashion + Design show for Australian Fashion Week.
2022 included playing for G’Day USA AAA Gala in Los Angeles; for the Summer Stage in Central Park, NYC; composing the music for the VIVID Lighting of the Sails, and live performances for the AFL Dreamtime Round and the Australian Open. Along with USA they have played throughout Asia, NZ, the UK, Germany, Poland, and Budapest, Hungary.

Coming a close 2nd in 2019’s Eurovision: Australia Decides with their song 2000 and Whatever, Electric Fields trended worldwide within an hour of their memorable performance. They are thrilled to be given the opportunity to perform at Eurovision 2024 in Sweden with their entry One Milkali – One Blood.

One Milkali (One Blood) (youtube.com)

Even voorstellen – Slift – album ‘Ilion’ + singles
Even voorstellen – Slift – album ‘Ilion’, singles ‘Nimh’ , ‘Ilion’, 'Weaver's weft' en "The words that have never been heard"

dec 23 SLIFT “nimh” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VObrrXmI06g
dec 23 ‘ilion” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcXkSctQCbw
new single 'Weaver's weft' Jan 24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eTkcdBTL-k
new single "The words that have never been heard" March 24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMY398Yuiyg

SLIFT “ILION”
Out January 19th, 2024

LIVE febr 24 SLIFT - Stoner wervelwind (musiczine.net)

SLIFT’s ILION is a towering work of rock music, a steamrolling record that starts at the highest peak and never lets up. If that sounds overwhelming, trust that this Toulouse trio have you in good hands. Their third full-length feels massive and oceanic, merging the furious intensity of metal and the wigged-out guitar heroics of psych rock with post-rock’s epic sense of scale. ILION is the kind of music where you listen to it and think to yourself, “This came from only three people?” It sure did, and SLIFT’s utter ferocity is way more than a tempest in a teacup. It reaches outwards for miles and creates new zeniths within unforeseen horizons of rock.

SLIFT is made up of brothers Jean and Remí Fossat and Canek Flores, who first met the brothers Fossat at (of all things) school. After the band formally came together in 2016, they quickly made their 2017 debut EP, Space Is the Key, which merged stoner rock’s heaviness with the sugar-rush qualities of garage rock. From there, things only got weirder: The trio experimented with faster tempos and bongos(!) on the following year’s full-length La Planeté Inexploreé, and in 2019, their KEXP session recorded at the Trans Musicales festival in Rennes became a viral sensation, racking up more than 1.4 million YouTube views.

UMMON from 2020 represented SLIFT’s pivot towards the celestially crushing confines of psych-metal, marked by Remí’s rolling basslines and Flores’s relentless skin-pounding. But nothing in their already-estimable catalog could prepare you for ILION, a huge-sounding and melodically dense record that at once recalls Godspeed! You Black Emperor’s perpetually uplifting surge, the passionate burn of post-hardcore legends …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Led Zep’s psychotic blues-rock mysticism, and the psychedelic swirl of Swedish experimental greats Goat.

But reducing ILION to a list of reference points would be missing the point—specifically, that you really have to sit down and experience this thing and let it take over your ear space. The record marks the band’s second Sub Pop release, following last year’s Singles Club 7” release of “Unseen” b/w “The Real Unseen,” which were outtakes from the UMMON sessions and offered a mere taste of the pure expansiveness on display here. Over eight tracks and 75+ minutes, SLIFT unleash the fury with walls of guitar and multi-part song structures that make you feel as if you’re being taken on a true journey—from the pure oblivion of ILION’s title track and the stretched-out abandon of centerpiece “Weavers’ Weft” to the intense climax of the 12-and-a-half-minute epic “The Story That Has Never Been Told.”

But what is this journey? To hear SLIFT tell it, Joseph Campbell would be proud of the thematic path laid out before the listeners on ILION, which is named after the Ancient Greek word for the city of Troy and, conceptually speaking, picks up where UMMON left off: “This is an album constructed in the manner of a Homeric story,” the band explains. “Where the two records differ is that ILION is about human emotions and feelings, whereas UMMON was telling an epic story with a distant view. ILION represents the fall of humanity and the rebirth of all things in time and space.”

Heavy shit, to be sure—but fear not, because you don’t need a 12-sided die and a copy of The Odyssey to get what SLIFT are dishing out on ILION. All you need are two ears, an open mind, and the willingness to be truly blown away.

1. Ilion

2. Nimh
3. The Words That Have Never Been Heard
4. Confluence
5. Weaver’s Weft
6. Uruk
7. The Story That Has Never Been Told
8. Enter The Loop