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as part of SEE, SALT AND SOUND festival, interesting music promotions present

SOY UN CABALLO + DEBUTANT

Tuesday 16th September 2008
The Beach Ballroom (Reception Room), The Esplanade, Aberdeen, AB24 5NR. Phone 01224 647647
Doors 9.30pm
Entry £5

http://www.seesaltandsound.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/interestingmusic




SOY UN CABALLO

Take a Belgian couple who write and perform songs of exquisite fragility, record them in Brussels with an amazing line up of musicians such as Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (Will Oldham), members of Raymondo and producer Sean O’Hagan (The High Llamas), and you have the duo Soy Un Caballo (Spanish for “I am a horse”).

Aurelie Muller and Thomas Van Cottom now release their debut album, titled “Les Heures De Raison” - you may have already caught a glimpse of them featured in Blogotheque’s “Take Away Show”, or maybe you heard Aurelie’s collaboration with Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst.

"Call it global village music: on "La Chambre", Belgian boy/girl duo Soy un Caballo and Louisville's Will Oldham sing entirely in French over what is essentially indie-fied bossa nova. Backed by nothing but an acoustic guitar, a Rhodes piano and a brokedown rhythm preset, Oldham and Aurélie Muller sound weightless and content, their half-sighed verses resolving into sweet choral refrains. Of course, the language doesn't hurt either; it's downright charming to hear Oldham's woodsy Kentuckian palette wrap itself around a French lyric." (Pitchfork)

“…smooth harmonies and a smoother pop sensibility…as sophisticated as a Parisian boulevard as diffident as exhaled Gauloise smoke, as cool as Jean-Paul Satre and as romantic as the Left Bank." (The Wire)

www.myspace.com/soyuncaballo


DEBUTANT

Debutant is one man; a guitar; a capo; a reverb pedal; a delay pedal; a fantastic new loop pedal; and some songs about stuff. It’s a project with a strong focus upon creating a lo-fi atmospheric sound to augment a sort of acoustic dream pop approach. It’s ambient, minimal, delicate and simple.

“Debutant's music ignores genres altogether, sounding something like what would happen if Mark Kozelek and Kevin Shields had an afternoon, a spare room and a multitude of ideas. Definitely worth checking out live" (is this music?)

www.myspace.com/musicbydebutant

[idol_wild]

I've been listening to Soy Un Caballo quite heavily recently and they are bloody good.

How did you come across them, IMP?

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Originally Posted by idol_wild

I've been listening to Soy Un Caballo quite heavily recently and they are bloody good.

How did you come across them, IMP?

Offer came in from an agent. Checked them out, then spoke to Kate & Jesse from This Is The Kit as they are friends, got good feedback from them and the rest is history...

[Graeme]

Originally Posted by idol_wild

How did you come across them, IMP?

Mail shot from their agent and a BIG recommendation from This Is The Kit

[Graeme]

Well that's spooky

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Originally Posted by Graeme

Well that's spooky

[idol_wild]

I think I mentioned this elsewhere, but the recent posters have been ace.

[Graeme]

Originally Posted by idol_wild

I think I mentioned this elsewhere, but the recent posters have been ace.

Aye..the ones we didn't do ourselves!

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talking of the This Is The Kit connection, here's some nice vids with them all performing in antique shops in Paris...

Soy un Caballo - Soy un Caballo - LA BLOGOTHEQUE

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here's the track mentioned above with Bonnie Prince Billy

"La Chambre" | Pitchfork