November 7, 2007
Maastricht
Netherlands

It was still 2007 when I decided to go to a festival organized by my hometown to welcome all the new citizens to the city. I went there to see the new side-project by the former dEUS bass player named vive la fete, but things turned out differently as I had expected and I never did see vive la fete in the end. As support act they had booked a local band and this local band absolutely blew me away. This was quite new to me, I hate to say, this because most local bands are absolutely not worth the effort of actually checking out. Music-wise the Netherlands functions as a 3rd world country. Whatever is new or exciting becomes new and exciting here exactly 4 years later. So most of the time a local band is extremely challenged in sounding like the new hip of 4 years earlier. Not this band though. Fronted by the cutest bass player you’ll ever see they combine the lo-fi sound of a band like Sonic Youth with the experimental sound of Bjork while they flirt with P.J Harvey and Feist. Misia Furtak’s, singing, sighing, shouting and wheezing soothes you while it also makes you feels slightly uncomfortable, she drags you in to a certain mood that you do not ever want to escape from again. Using an instrumentation that ranges from spring-drums to zithers to melodica’s to plain old guitars they manage to create a certain dreamy landscape that picks you up at the first tone and gently releases you again at the last one. This band hailing from respectively Poland, Spain, England and the Netherlands manage to create a truly interesting international European vibe. I don’t know if this band is challenging the listener to a roulette of emotions but one way or the other they seem to cover all of them during the show, dragging me from feelings of melancholy to utter bliss and everything in between. This is a true rollercoaster and I can only advice everyone to ride it for themselves. Check them out if you can.

Luc Hameleers