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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

[Graeme]

This gig will actually now be upstairs in the Star Ballroom, just ask when you get there.

[offramp]

Big thumbs up to everyone who made the effort to come down to the beach for this.

Was a pretty cool night - thanks to Phillip and Soy Un Caballo for two beautiful sets...

[free tibet]

Originally Posted by offramp

Was a pretty cool night - thanks to Phillip and Soy Un Caballo for two beautiful sets...

'twas lovely, nice setting, nice sounds

[idol_wild]

Originally Posted by offramp

Big thumbs up to everyone who made the effort to come down to the beach for this.

Was a pretty cool night - thanks to Phillip and Soy Un Caballo for two beautiful sets...

Thank you for inviting me to play. Despite one or two small technical glitches during the transition between first and second song, I really enjoyed it - nice space (it was like an art gallery!) and brilliantly attentive audience.

I thought Soy Un Caballo were terrific. Didn't understand a word of any of their lyrics, but that didn't matter.

[Jan Deal]

Originally Posted by idol_wild

I really enjoyed it - nice space (it was like an art gallery!) and brilliantly attentive audience

That sounds really cool!

Is the Beach Ballroom going to be hosting any more gigs of this sort in the future?

[idol_wild]

Originally Posted by Jan Deal

Is the Beach Ballroom going to be hosting any more gigs of this sort in the future?

I wouldn't have thought so. Not enough people would turn up.

Plus, it appears that the Council are not the easiest of organisations to co-ordinate with.