Cheap Satanism Records is releasing Pierre's 2023 "Expected Noises" on CD. Previously only available on Bandcamp.
There's also the option to order the CD with an additional vinyl postcard of one of the tracks.
There's also the option to order the CD with an additional vinyl postcard of one of the tracks.
...The inspiration for Pierre Vervloesem's albums is as diverse as it is unexpected: UFO sighting locations, the challenge of redoing a famous PINK FLOYD album as a "carbon copy," or paying indirect tributes to film scores. And also, completely reconstructing a post-punk album that is not just forgotten but totally unknown.
That album is "Unexpected Noises" by BRIAN BRAIN, released in 1980 to little fanfare. Brian Brain was both the name of the band behind the album and the alias of MARTIN ATKINS, who had been the drummer for the far more famous PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED. While early solo albums by other PIL members — like bassist JAH WOBBLE’s Betrayal (1980) or guitarist KEITH LEVENE’s Violent Opposition (1989) — remain cult favorites, Unexpected Noises barely registered at all. Probably because it was pretty bad. It sounds like bad DEVO — a series of poorly structured tracks with mostly unintelligible shouted lyrics.
Pierre Vervloesem: "Martin Atkins is a good drummer in his own way, simple. PIL's 'Flowers of Romance' is really nothing. It's bare, it's nothing. But it's that nothingness that makes the record. The initial idea was to completely redo an album I listened to when I was young, at my parents' place. But what do you expect me to do with a Vangelis or a Zappa? Brian Brain was more suitable, precisely because of that nothingness. So I did exactly what I had in mind. Redo this album but with intros and outros, a real structure. 'Phonetically coherent' lyrics, even though we still don't know what the original texts really say. Instead of a guy yelling, it's now a female singer whose lyrics you can understand and who sings them well. My album is also 2 to 3 times longer than the original."
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