GaBLé with support from A Press of Suspects – The Cube Cinema, 17th October
French anti-folk surrealists GaBlé bring their innovative genre-blurring sounds to Bristol’s Cube Cinema this coming weekend. The three-piece from Normandy will be performing tracks from their critically-acclaimed album Seven Guitars With a Cloud of Milk along with choice cuts from this year’s mini-LP I’m Ok. Although defying simple classification, GaBlé combine elements of Tunng’s folktronica, the leftfield beat poetry of Bonzo Dog Do Dah Band, and the deconstructionist pop of Moldy Peaches at play.
In a live setting, what sounds on record to be a beguiling if haphazard musical collage promises to be as challenging as it is fun. As your brain struggles to piece together the links between the avant-garde poetry, it must do the same with the music, connecting the disparate elements of folk, jazz, electronica and Kraut-rock. There is also an intriguing contemporary quality to GaBlé with their attention-deficit cut and paste style held together by a hyper-modern blend of violence, post-irony and off-centre humour.
As one of only three UK appearances, this is a unique opportunity to find out just how GaBlé will recreate the chaos of their studio recordings in the live setting. If that wasn’t incentive enough, the Cube’s superb theatre space is ideally suited to their blend of postmodern playfulness and performance art. Expect beards, samplers, French humour and a whole host of unusual props-cum-instruments in what is certain to be a hilarious, entertaining and ultimately rare chance to witness partly-insane wholly-original music in its conception.
Read the Gable at The Cube live review or find out about some of the great records I purchased.