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The Wøøøh: Music for Weddings and Funerals
by Troy Dostert
French bassist Sylvain Didou has a fondness for choosing misleading album titles. His previous outing with his drone/noise group, Derby Derby, was entitled Love Dance (Ormo Records, 2017), while his current release, with his band The Wøøøh, is the similarly facetious Music for Weddings and Funerals. Far from ceremonial, mournful or celebratory in any conventional sense, this is music designed to get under your skin, with trance-like aspects that build in inexorable, sometimes disturbing ways. The Wøøøh's previous ...
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by Eyal Hareuveni
The Wøøøh is a Danish-French schizophrenic quartet. Its saxophonist thinks that he is is a singer in a rock band and its guitarist is addicted to myriad effects and sonic experimentations. This quartet treats melodies as a springboard to noisy excursions and its intense improvisations are charged with raw, aggressive power. The musicians are Danish saxophonist Henrik Pultz Melbye, guitarist Lars Bech Pilgaard (both play in Pilgaard-led Svin), and drummer Casper Mikkelsen (who hosts Melbye and ...
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