"... In 1977, Marc Hollander formed a band in Belgium called Aksak Maboul. What kind of band, you ask? Oh, just your average avant-rock-cabaret-jazz combo. One that could evoke Bela Bartok, Duke Ellington, and Arab music in quick succession. You know, one of those bands. Their 1977 album Onze Danses pour Combattre la Migraine was a formative influence on me when I started the New Sounds program here at WNYC in 1982 and remains a signal achievement in genre-blind music. But Marc Hollander also formed a successful record label, Crammed Discs, and after releasing another album in 1980, the band essentially disappeared. So it is wonderful news to hear that Aksak Maboul is releasing a new album (a double-LP, as if that will make up for all the time passed) in May, and the announcement came with the release of this single, called 'Tout a une fin' ('Everthing Ends'). It features the band’s new vocalist Veronique Vincent (formerly of The Honeymoon Killers) and a fairly straightahead rock rhythm, at least to start. But the song acquires some strange tendrils of sound and eventually bursts into an electronic/orchestral climax."
New Sounds
Crammed - Aksak Maboul
Bandcamp (Audio)
YouTube: Tout a une fin/everything ends (official video)
2014 November: Aksak Maboul, 2017 July: Made to Measure, Vol. 1 (1984), 2018 February: Before And After Bandits: Marc Hollander Of Aksak Maboul & Crammed Discs
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