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Saturday 22 september 2001. Scheldekaaien Antwerpen - Belgium Sub deviant records and their great people organized a special night. The singer Ivy Smits was out for some studio work at Spain so Llips. decide to bring something different for the first performance ever. Steven Lambrechts on bass and Esther Santoyo on synthesizer together with Koen Lybaert on guitar and electronics created an one hour long ambient journey to dark and mysterious sounds. In all Llips. releases vocals have played an important role on the style and flowing of the tracks. Llips. music has been described as beautiful and touching and our singer brings a special input in this area. Knowing that she was not going to play with us in the first gig made us think about each one inputs and how they influence Llips. style. These unpredictable facts make us more creative as band as musicians, working out the different possibilities we have for a live show with a different set up. For this first gig the result was a special and gloomy blend of melancholic ambient sound-scapes, heavy guitar distortions, up growing electronic loops and field recordings from several cities. To be continued... clips from this gig in mp3: waiting (569k) live1 (1.68mb) live2 (3.27mb) ------------ a concert review by fusarium Llips was up last, I think they started around 0.45 or so. I was in a perfect mood for what was about to come through the speakers. A girl on keyboard, 1 guy on a bass-guitar and another guy on an electric guitar. They took off with intense ethereal long waves of mesmerising ambient, done on keyboard. The additional bass and guitar produced a thick and dense solid wall of mindtaking and breathing drones. It all blew me away! I was concentrated on the music all the time, it completely took my mind into unconscious realms of my own psyche. Creating such an intense atmosphere� One of the persons mixed some loud shrieking and cutting high frequency tunes as also some more non-constructive cut-up noises through the composition once in a while, though the wall of droning vibrations kept standing and was more dominant than these sounds in between, it was just a perfect mix in which everything was in complete balance. The whole set took little more than 1 hour I think, long continuously vast layers of mesmerising and ethereal dark ambient with slight eruptions of noise. Huge waves of overwhelming sounds and capturing melodies took pulled everyone in a sort of trance� Just fantastic! Only one remark, the organiser told me that their records sound slightly different as there�s a girl singing on them, she could be there that night and the set therefore was little different. Well, it doesn�t keep me away from checking their material anyway, completely convinced that it can�t be bad, and let us hope that they at least do a record in the same vein as this performance, it would be the perfect Drone release! |