Sergeant, by Sergeant

Sergeant

by Sergeant

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Art Fin Experimental and hypnotic. The somber chanting vocals, dubby bass and droning semi-ambient music reminds me of the 1980s Factory Benelux sound like early Section 25, The Wake and Crispy Ambulance. Favorite track: Soon The Tears in My Eyes Will Be Blinding and Blessing at the Same Time.

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1.	Seduced by Each and Every Shiny Object I Became an Infant in a Sea of Glance 03:34	buy track
2.	To What Human Product Precisely Are You Devoting So Much Ingenuity 03:37	buy track
3.	This Song Emanates From the Common Man Claiming His Right to Poetry 05:13	buy track
4.	Not Sensing the World, I Should Forget it’s Existence and Be Forgotten by Those Who Live in it 03:18	buy track
5.	This Life Can Not Be All They Swear, For How Unpleasant of it Were 05:11	buy track
6.	Soon The Tears in My Eyes Will Be Blinding and Blessing at the Same Time 05:15	buy track
7.	Bodies Pressed Against Small Platforms in Institutionally Resolved Postures 02:55	buy track
8.	I Will Allow Myself This World Whose Wear and Tear Is Without Cure 05:08	buy track
9.	The Annoying Got Interesting Because the Interesting Got Annoying 03:10	buy track

about

Sergeant is the avant-pop band of composing cineast Benjamin Cools and search-singing actor Ferre Marnef. For a long time they only burst out exclusively on stage, but now they have gathered their sampled selves at the abyss of pop music anyway. The songs on the record sound like a "date gone wrong" between post-punk and krautrock, but mostly like the kind of indie rock that Warp thought was cool for a very brief time in the 00s. Through the Paris of the 70s (Gainsbourg!) and the industrial Ruhr, they take you on a trip brimming with Dadaist collages and abstract punk. Their self-titled debut is released by the Ostend-based experimental music label STROOM, run by Ziggy Devriendt (aka Nosedrip).

For this record, the musicians sampled themselves - Sergeant calls that method DJ Shadow in reverse. From their archive, they drew a mountain of analog loops, which they then meticulously montaged into nine poetic songs. In the tracks, 1 Fender Mustang, 1 Microkorg, 1 Rdr Rhythm DR-670 and dozens of flutes are ground through effects, processors and DIY recording techniques. For Cools and Marnef, making music is getting sound layers and textures moving. Like editing a movie, Sergeant cuts the sonic scenes into one.

 

Sergeant's home base is Brussels, the metropolis on the verge of bankruptcy, and that is audible in the density and rushy contrasts on this pop record. Cools and Marnef operate in the world of film, theater and music. Previously they have been involved with bands such as Soldier's Heart and De Nooit Moede, and in theater they share a history with Tibaldus, Desnor, Bosse Provoost, Ezra Veldhuis, Buren, ...

 

The mixing is the work of the Antwerp godchild Milan Warmoeskerken (Milan W.) who produced other people's music for the first time. With his eye for detail and balance, he created a deeper layer in Sergeant's music.

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released May 10, 2023

Benjamin Cools: Structuralism, Synth, Guitar, Space & Time
Ferre Marnef: Word Of Mouth, Groove, Flutes & Semantics
Jasper Segers & Geraldine Vanspauwen: Bass
Milan W.: Additional Sorcery
Ziggy Devriendt: Bed, Power & Money

Produced by Sergeant
Mixed by Milan W.
Mastered by Mathieu Savenay
Optics by Joris Kritis

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