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SUMMARY:Fredo Viola
LOCATION:AB Club - staand (Anspachlaan 110\, 1000 Brussel)
DESCRIPTION:Masterfully enjoyable vocal phenomenon! Again just\nextensively quoting HUMO: 'The Flying Pickets. Aphex\nTwin. The Beach Boys. Autechre. Boards of Canada. Harry\nNilsson. 'The Turn' by old (39!) New York debutant\nFredo Viola is barely definable - we hear further echo's\nof The Beta Band's psychedelic electro-pop ('The\nOriginal Man') and the most idyllic of Midlake\n('Robinson Crusoe').'But in the end\, no\nreference does it justice: what Viola does with those\ninfluences\, is completely unique. He combines doowop and\nelectronica\, but he does more than cheer up golden melodies\n(you can hear that he has sung in a church choir) with\ndigital effects. He creates a symbiosis of two worlds.\n'The Turn' is first class\, a dozen songs long.\nThere is melancholy in songs like 'The Sad Song' or\n'K thru 6'\, but Viola never goes over the edge into\npitch-black – the subtle play of light and darkness is\nprecisely the trumph card of this record. Unbelievable how a\nchildish sentence like 'You are my friend\, if you want\nto come in / If you don't wanna come in\, then\nyou're not my friend' can continue to resound in\nyour head\, simply because it is accompanied by a subtle\ntribal beat and seems to be sung by an angel enjoying oral\npleasure. Viola even sounds catchy when singing about\n'HD compression'. 'The Turn' also comes with\na DVD and\, for a change\, that's no sales trick. Before\ntrying his luck in the music world\, Viola had already built\nup a solid reputation as (experimental) director and\nmultimedial artist – see too: the refreshing and\nchildishly funny interactive site www.theturn.tv. That\nreputation is deserved\, as is apparent in the eight films\nthat even we (possessors of an extremely short attention\nspan when it comes to video clips) watched\, breathless.\nMoreover\, the music on the DVD is slightly different to\nthat on the CD\, there is even a version of 'Silent\nNight' on it – the second only version of this\nChristmas carol (the first being from Sufjan Stevens) not to\nspontaneously cause us to dry-retch.Meanwhile\, Viola's\nmarket-value continues to rise: he has sung in a few songs\nfor the new Massive Attack album (which\, according to the\nlatest rumours\, has now been postponed until 2010).\n'The Turn' is maybe not the very best album of the\nyear but does\, for the moment\, have the lead for being the\nmost original. You have to hear it to believe it. But you\ncan also believe LES INROCKS: 'In New York\, the\nhands-on Fredo Viola has developed the formula for\nbewitching songs ... male choir ... the album continues to\ntake us to paradise ... we're sure you'll see him\ntopping the bill in the near future.'     Support act\nwill be Liesa Van der Aa. Brilliant this summer during the\n11 July Gulden Ontsporing in Brussels. We take up the thread\nof our recruiting rhetoric at the time. We take up the\nthread of our recruiting rhetoric at the time: 'Young\nsinger Liesa Van der Aa (° 1986)\, from Brussels\, learned\nto play violin at the age of five. She followed Cabaret at\nStudio Herman Teirlinck and became known as violinist to Het\nZesde Metaal and her band Louisa’s Daughter. Here solo\nwith nothing more than her voice and her violin. She creates\nidiosyncratic compositions live\, making use of loops and\neffects. "She intrigues from behind a number of effects\npedals and with an exceptional violin sound" - Cutting\nEdge. Early this year she toured with Saint Amour\, a\nperformance about which De Standaard wrote: "Musician\nLiesa Van der Aa is the most distinctive figure on\nstage".
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