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The Wøøøh: Music for Weddings and Funerals
by Troy Dostert
French bassist Sylvain Didou has a fondness for choosing misleading album titles. His previous outing with his drone/noise group, Derby Derby, was entitled Love Dance (Ormo Records, 2017), while his current release, with his band The Wøøøh, is the similarly facetious Music for Weddings and Funerals. Far from ceremonial, mournful or celebratory in any conventional sense, this is music designed to get under your skin, with trance-like aspects that build in inexorable, sometimes disturbing ways. The Wøøøh's previous ...
read moreDerby Derby: Love Dance
by Troy Dostert
Ormo Records is a small French label dedicated to producing out-of-the-mainstream music that has one foot in the jazz tradition and the other alternatively venturing into post-rock, minimalist, and freely-improvised idioms. Bassist Sylvain Didou is the driving force behind the label's music, as he's composed and appeared on each of their releases so far, one of the most noteworthy being the suitably-titled Order/Disorder, by Oblik (from 2015). Despite its avant-garde characteristics, that album was quite convincingly a “jazz" record, with ...
read moreDerby Derby: Love Dance
by Karl Ackermann
The French trio Derby Derby consists of Alan Regardin on electrified trumpet, drummer Fabrice L'houtellier and bassist Sylvain Didou. Their debut album Love Dance was recorded in Nantes, France in late 2016, several months after the three first musicians met. Through the intersection of jazz, ambience and noise, the music works reiteration, beat and tone into and unanticipated lavishness.The group members are not strangers to cross-pollinating styles. Regardin has played in the French group Pang Pung Bleu le ...
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