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The 90'S Gave Birth to Land of Passion, an Hallucinating Goth Rock Band [email protected] www.popoisdioh.com www.reverbnation.com/popoisdioh «The 90’s gave birth to Land of Passion, an hallucinating goth rock band. An adventure that lasted ten years, ten years of movements and mutations. 2003 revealed the continuation of Land of Passion under the Popoï Sdioh moniker, with a first album revealing their raging potential. Ten years later, the world is not going better at all, neither is Popoï Sdioh’s state of mind; or could it mean that their state of mind is pervasive? So it was about time for a new album, opening the door of a strange, brutal, earsplitting universe including tribal rhythms and strong post-punk accents. An hybrid music drowning you into some sort of industrial batcave made of tortuous corridors shaping a maze. If we would have to indulge with some namedropping, Killing Joke, Virgin Prunes, or even Nox, could be mentioned. But of course this is only just optio- nal. new album «Before & after party» The music of Popoï Sdioh is a full experience that we are proud to share, on Brouillard Définitif / Nerves prod. inviting you to discover, « before and after party »... available MAY 2012 Brouillard Définitif press release apr.2012 tribal-postpunk-batcave-industrial full POPOI SDIOH .pdf pressbook+bio : www.popoisdioh.com/PRESS/ www.brouillard-definitif.fr www.nerves.net press GUTS OF DARKNESS - may 2012 «Before & after party» reviewed by Twillight Popoï Sdioh ont réussi là où Corpus et Lt-No ont échoué en parvenant à faire évoluer un groupe purement deathrock/batcave vers une orientation plus electro/indus, peut-être justement parce que dans leur cas, le chan- gement n’a pas été aussi radical qu’on aurait pu le craindre. Mais je ne vais répéter ce qu’ai j’ai déjà écrit dans la chronique de leur premier opus, je me contenterai de déclarer ceci : ce disque est une pure tuerie ! J’y ai retrouvé tout ce que j’aime, tant chez Land of Passion que Popoï Sdioh, cette tension sans faille avec des guitares acérées, des percussions guerrières, une basse lourde et cette dualité diabolique entre le chant grave de Lagartja Nick et celui plus aigu de Federico Iovino. Là encore rien de neuf par rapport à ce que j’ai pu rédiger par le passé. Normal, le combo n’a pas modifié son approche, il l’a perfectionnée. L’efficacité des compos est carrément redoutable et ce n’est pas le fruit du hasard. Il y a déjà cette manière de découper les orchestrations sous forme de boucles pour une ambiance sans cesse au bord de la rupture, se brisant pour repartir de plus belle, piégeant l’auditeur dans une véritable transe; viennent ensuite les sonorités électroniques grinçantes, jamais réellement prédominantes mais en soutien continu des guitares accentuant leur effet lame de rasoir. Et cette batterie ! Sans cesse roulante, toute en sonorités pesantes avec peu de caisse claire, elle transforme les chansons en cérémonies tribales folles et mena- çantes, une sorte de gigantesque orgie où l’on s’attend à voir les participants grimés avec de la boue, se secouant convulsivement autour d’un gigantesque feu dans une friche industrielle (ok, je m’égare mais cette musique est délicieusement dangereuse et porteuse d’images). L’ambiance est très cohérente tout au long de l’album et pourtant aucun sentiment de durée excessive, d’expérimentation stérile, la force de la musique ne décroît pas un seul ins- tant. Je suis également très fan de cette manière de poser les vocaux d’une manière menaçante et décadente, avec usage adéquat et équilibré des effets, belle leçon pour celles et ceux qui croient qu’ils suffit de crier pour être agres- sif. Les bombes se succèdent : ‘Perla said’, ‘Nu flesh’, ‘Back to awa’,W ‘Bonobo’s party’...Mine de rien, ces mecs ont réussi à moderniser le deathrock, ça frise le génie ! http://www.gutsofdarkness.com/god/objet.php?objet=15246 TRINITY Mag - may 2012 «Before & after party» reviewed by Silver Edward Atomisés par la démo précédant l’album, nous ne pouvions qu’espérer un grand disque. Nos attentes étaient en fait en deçà de la réalité, «Before And After Party» est un chef d’oeuvre de folie furieuse, de tribalisme rythmique, une des plus belles pages musicales de l’histoire du goth-batcave à mille lieues de la norme et des réplications tièdes. Outre les cinq titres entendus en version démo, qui exhalent encore mieux leurs effluves musqués et incendiaires, une dizaine de nouveaux morceaux entraînent plus loin dans les reptations psychotiques de Popoï Sdioh. Moins industriel et expérimental que le premier album quasi isolationniste, «Before And After Party» ensorcelle les sens à la manière d’un «A New Form Of Beauty» (Virgin Prunes) de 2012, mais cela va bien plus loin, creusant un sillon tortueux sous la peau, pour les sens. Le final et sa pièce minimale de musique de chambre bancale remet le cer- veau en place, bien à l’envers, prêt à replonger dans le magma sonore et la confusion. http://www.asso-trinity.org/Trinity-Chroniques. php?page=affiche&chronique=1005 BAT-CAVE.PL - june 2012 «Before & after party» reviewed by Tomasz Woodraf Bardzo długo czekaliśmy na nowy album szaleńców z francusko-belgijskiego gangu Popoi Sdioh, warto jednak było czekać - doczekaliśmy się wspaniałej kontynuacji i rozwinięcia debiutanckiego krążka zespołu, nowy album kapeli zatytułowany «Before And After Party» został wydany we współpracy wydawnictw Nerves Prod. oraz Brouillard Defini- tif. «Before And After Party» bez wątpienia można nazwać ekstatycznym muzycznym odlotem, pełnym chorych doznań, wciągającym słuchacza niczym najsłodsza używka do brutalnego obłąkanego świata, jednak czy aby zupełnie innego od tego który nas otacza? Raczej nie! Płyta jest pełna hipnotycznych elektronicznych smaczków, mocno zarysowane są także post-punkowe akcenty, tradycyjnie już Popoi Sdioh zalewa nas nieprzewidywalnymi plemiennymi rytmami, słuchacze dla których dokonania Virgin Prunes oraz Killing Joke nie są obce, mogą doszukać się strzęp inspiracji muzyką tych kapel. Określenie tribal industrial batcave jakim swoją muzykę opisują sami muzycy Popoi Sdioh jest chyba najtrafniejszym określeniem tego co usłyszymy na «Before And After Party». «Before And After Party» to godny polecenia rasowy kawał surowego mięcha dla każdego wymagającego słuchacza, który chciałby poczuć czym smakują odmienne stany świadomości - czas już zacząć imprezę z Popoi Sdioh! NEMESIS TO GO - sept. 2011 about show at Drop Dead Festival 2012 Berlin «... Our last band tonight actually is a band. I don’t know much about Popoï Sdioh, least of all how you’re supposed to pronounce that name. All I know is that all of a sudden there’s a man wandering around the room, barking into a megaphone. This is the band’s intro, and a neat way of blurring the edges between the electropunks on the floor, and the band on the stage. Hey, conceptual! I like ‘em already. But then, all eyes front, please, because here come Popoï Sdioh themseves: a deceptively normal-looking bunch of scruffy rock guys who somehow create a screaming, battering racket, like first-album Killing Joke mixed with a chorus of air raid sirens. It’s harsh, uncompromising stuff, but there’s a solid rhythm behind everything, which means that even at their most brain-fryingly noisy, Popoï Sdioh always have a groove. You can dance to them, if you’re brave. Or just stand at a safe distance and watch the manic drummer as he comes out from behind his kit to take a lead vocal. «What do we want? What do we need? What do we get?» he screeches at us, as if his sanity depends on getting the right answer. Popoï Sdioh end the evening on a suitably apocalyptic note. If the world is still here, we’ll be back tomorrow for Drop Dead’s final wrap-up.» http://www.nemesis.to/dropdead2011_5live.htm OBSKURE MAG - sept. 2011 about «Afterparty sessions» demo discography POPOI SDIOH POPOI SDIOH POPOI SDIOH «before & after party» «afterparty session» self titled cd album 2012 demo cdr 2011 cd album 2003 LAND OF PASSION LAND OF PASSION LAND OF PASSION «mud» «the arrival» «stigmata sessions» demotape 2000 cd album 1996 demotape 1995 LAND OF PASSION LAND OF PASSION LAND OF PASSION «the prayer» «darksound» «even death may die» demotape 1993 demotape 1992 demotape 1991 concerts 2003-2012 27.05.2012 | Lille - F | Le Select (+ Cheshire Cat (the bouncing) ) 30.04.2012 | Paris - F | Le Klub (+ Cheshire Cat (thebouncing) ) 01.11.2011 | Lille - F | La Chimère (+ Genetiks+ Cheshire Cat (thebouncing) ) 31.10.2011 | Mons - B | Dark Cats Café | (+ Genetiks) 29.10.2011 | Nijmegen - NL | (+ Genetiks) 05.09.2011 | Berlin - G | Drop Dead Festival 11.06.2011 | Brussels - B | Sale Garcia Lorca (+ 26 tears+K-oz Office) 21.05.2011 | Lille - F | La Péniche | (+ Charles de Goal) 30.04.2011 | Mons - B | Dark Cats | (+ dj PunkHomer) 10.07.2010 | Warszawa - PL | No Mercy | (+ Wieze Fabryk) 21.11.2009 | Templeuve - B | La Mare aux Diables | (+ Oxsana Prism) 17.10.2009 | Li?ge - B | p?niche La logia | (+Hynnner vs Hantis3 + Dreadfool) 16.05.2009 | Tournai - B | Le Coquin 07.03.2009 | Templeuve - B | La Mare aux Diables | + BakXIII + HvsH + DOP 15.12.2007 | Mouscron - B | El Bar (+ Hynnner vs Hantis3 + silver Cross) 02.12.2007 | Lille - F | festival Alienor (+ Hynnner vs Hant1s3) 18.11.2007 | Sint Niklaas - B | support for Christian death 1334 31.03.2006 | Tournai - B | La Rocaille (+ Miguel & the living Dead ) 02.08.2006 | Tournai - B | Electric Summer Night (+Muckrackers+Voidkampf+Hynner) 28.05.2006 | Paris - F | Le Klub (+Deadchovsky+Darmstadt) 16.04.2006 | Reims - F | L’Atalante 09.04.2006 | Bratislava - SK | Subclub 08.04.2006 | Warszawa - PL | Aurora Klub (+Miguel & the living Dead) 19.11.2005 | Nancy - F | L’austrasique (+ System + Echo West) 05.11.2005 | Reims - F | Le Tigre (+ Zorglub) 22.10.2005 | Mont Rouge - F | Kosmos Music Caf? (+ Zorglub) 09.04.2005 | Kehlen - LUX | Shiny’z (+Miguel & the living Dead + Zorglub) 22.05.2004 | Tournai-B | Four à Chaux Madelon (+Patdagach tribut + Oxsana Prism) 17.01.2004 | Bruxelles-B | Magasin 4 (+ Lycosia + Sleeping Children ) 18.10.2003 | Binches-B | Cabaret Voltaire concerts 1989-1998 land of passion 12.10.98 | Warszawa-Pl, Kotly Klub 09.10.98 | Legnica-Pl, Dark Beat Fest.
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