/Experimental rock, Indie rock, Psych-rock,
No Wave, Alternative rock, Art punk, Avant-punk/
Comment: I think anyone who considers
himself/herself a music friend should listen to the oeuvre of Besoin Dead.
Certainly he/she should see him in live. Although I have never attended the
Frenchman Pascal Benvenuti`s gigs I guess it is something of a madman`s show by
making decision after having watched some videos and pictures to his performances.
Benvenuti ordinarily sits in front of the drums and a guitar which is
differently prepared as it usually used to be and ready to be handled like a percussive
instrument. It is amazing how the aforementioned set is enough to produce
sustained, articulated noises in the vein of artsy punk/indie rock. Although
Benvenuti`s approach with regard to his outer and inner side might remind of
Sonic Youth and some other No Wave related combos the artist`s touch is
idiosyncratic in the right manner to watch them apart from each other.
Furthermore, Besoin Dead`s sound is deeply permeated with anxiety and
aggressiveness to depict his loneliness and despairing senses (the best example
is Papa Bunker). There are up some
sonic exceptions either – for instance, Le
répondeur du Blond which consists of the voice of a man sitting on the
phone and short-running signals coming in every five seconds thereby being the
strange counterpoint to it. Pascal
Depression rings like the light-weighted sort of doom rock. Many tracks start off like a sort of contemporary tribal music with bare
rhythmic imitations saturated with echoes and reverberations. Get stoned!
