From ambient to noise via jazzy folk. A robotic and stone faced drummer, epic violin melodies instead of a singing voice (and it really is enough!), a bass player who takes swigs of Gummiberry juice, and a guitarist who strokes and tortures with barbed wire.
A forgotten bordertown with its concrete gloom, mixed with escapes to the Jeseniky mountains. Bruntal’s band Noir Voir, after eight years of playing and forming an audience in their hometown’s melancholic and still atmosphere, are releasing their first vinyl. Even though it might not be music a listener can appreciate after a first listen, the band has (already) crossed their native country’s borders many times and played to audiences at festivals, such as Beseda u Bigbítu and Banát in Romania. Since 2010, the four-man instrumental band have been creating in their fixed guitar, violin, bass and drums formation. They combine post-rock practices/forms with jazzy playfulness and a funky solid base. They deconstruct folk and, on their last EP, they even lean towards film music and post-math. Their songs, written together, make a type of music which is democratic and which reflects each member’s musical perceptions/understandings and skills. It’s music which intertwines what they see and hear. It’s music where you can hear the band’s friendship in their cooperation, their yearning for experience, the deepening of traditions, and travels far from home. It’s music which is more like a story than a song. The new EP is called ER and contains 4 songs (Pandora, Uran, Morava, Francie)- it was self-released without a label, and is available on Spotify, iTunes, Bandcamp and, physically, on vinyl. The album artwork was designed by David Pšenčík (Acute Dose, David Invalid Band) and Barbora Pospíšilova, and the album itself was recorded in studio V in Zlin (Petr Vavřík, Marcel Gabriel). On this album, Noir Voir present their own style which they have been developing many years. They leave behind all genre restrictions and consolidate what is inherent to them: lyricism, difficult compositions and surprising fun to serious music.
