Thee Silver Mont Zion Orchestra + aMute on April 2nd

We are proud and glad to confirm our show with Thee Silver Mont Zion Orchestra on this coming friday.
Check out this link to book your tickets.

We'll also be playing in Mons on the 7 of April at Le Bateau Ivre.

Oh and yes : why is he always writting in english for french speaking venues ? Well who knows who might be coming :-)

aMute : Nostalgia Tour 2010

aMute, this saturday. Come back in Brussels.

 

magasin 4

hexagen

aMute solo

I am happy to officialy announce that aMute solo will be playing a serie of shows in the next few months. I am still looking for a show in Nagoya and Kyoto as well as in Vancouver or Chicago. Any help highly welcomed.

April 18th : Japan - Tokyo - "Soup Venue"

May 12th : Canada or USA : available.
May 14th : Canada - Toronto - The Drake Hotel
May 15th : USA - Denver - date confirmed - venue tbc soon (with Off The Sky)
May 19th : USA - New York - Issue Project Room
May 21th : USA - Available - prefered city : Chicago/Philadelphia/Washington

Cheers.

Play for a smile - New band members - New solo tour - New track

Everything right now reminds me of how mental life becomes fragile after a while... I remember working for Le Bonheur, the best record shop of the world, in the 2000's, listening to Forest Time on a limited 1 track LP edition. The good old days. Days when people used to be fair, at least more than now.

Yes this is my winter time complaint about assholes, loosers, opportunists and fake bullshiters. I dedicate this post to our friend from L'Internationale where we played last saturday in Paris. I dedicate this post to people who think they help musicians by making them play but never give you a smile.

We were invited by the Belgian In Paris (who are, them, really nice people) to play at L'Internationale. They refused to feed one of the crew member (I personnaly asked for a bowl to throw him some food on the ground, sarcastically of course), they almost threw us out of the club because of the Sarkozy Stasi that could have come for the noise, asked to put volume down during soundchecks and so on and so on. Almost no "Hello" and for sure no smiles. Well people of L'Internationale : You're a bunch of pathetic young lads who should burn in hell. I personally take the responsabilty to tell you : FUCK YOU. At least the club was full so we guess that you sold plenty of 4€ plate beers and made money on us (while paying musicians less than 30€ each). Thanks for those being there and sorry for the complaint. But people who think they defend culture by slow paying musicians and treating them like shit are not art promoters but stereotypical loosers. I've played for free, I don't give a fuck about dollars and understood a while ago that I never will, but at least I play for a smile.

So a few nicer news.
There are new band members : Geoffroid Heyne (Drums) and PEb (Bass). Everything is fine and we are having fun.


There will soon be a solo tour. I'll keep you posted with that very soon but I can tell you it's not in Paris and not in New Zealand :). I'll be glad to present a few rushes from my new future solo album due to december.


And as a rush for that solo album you may find one piece of it on the new compilation from a new Japanese label called Nothings66. You can go here

Cheers people and we hope to see you on the 27th of February at Magasin 4.

The end is the beginning is the end

Hi Folks,

I am sorry to announce that due to a lot of different circumstances, Samuel Volan and I, have decided that our collaboration could not bring us positive things for the near future. In these kind of cases, people try to put the fault on each other. I do not want to enter in that type of things and just wish things might have been different.

Thanks to those who were there for our last date as a quatuor (Hasselt Play Festival and the Zebra Café show), we had a lot of artistic fun.

So what's next ? Well if you think that aMute could stop because of that you're wrong ! We have decided to assume the situation with a lot of positive energy and try to handle things in a more experimental way.

Lots of people have come to me these past few months telling me that aMute was better before the band type format... A lot of people also told me the oposite. I think we've reached a point where aMute might be a mix of both for the coming shows, the coming year and a coming new album. I personaly feel that new doors are now open for experimentalism, noise and sentiments.

Note that we are open for a new musician in the band, if possible a multi-instrumentist. We are still thinking :-)

The whole band would like to thank Samuel Volan sincerely for his presence in the band during these past 3 years, we've had a lot of joy and stress, happiness and doubts, smiles and questions but most of all we have shared a passion and we deeply wish him a promising future with his other projects.

See you at the Vooruit in Gent on the 24 of november.

Jérôme.

aMute @ Play Festival in Hasselt

aMute will be playing at the notorious Play Festival in Hasselt on september 26 !
Be there friends !


De eerste namen!
Een internationale affiche!
De eerste namen zijn een feit! Van electro en d'n'b tot pop, rock en jazz via dubstep om uiteindelijk te crashen bij het hardere gitaarwerk. Aanschouw de eerste lading heilige namen.

Op vrijdag 25 september (4 podia - electro, d'n'b):
Fagget Fairys, Sound Of Stereo, Friction, Partyharders, Krause, Icicle!!!

Op zaterdag 26 september (6 podia - electronica, gitaren, dubstep, pop, electro):
De Staat, Creature with the Atom Brain, Hitch, aMute, Dat Politics, Banjo or Freakout, Rave Our Souls, Das Glow, Joker, Vermin Twins, Drums of Death, Krakow, HRNS, Poly Quartet, Tomàn, Stad van licht, Dewolff, Lost Department!!! More T.B.A.