Glass Museum only need a drum set and a piano to leave us stunned with emotion listening to their EP Deux, a real experimental UFO rich in moving sensations.
Gass Museum makes us discover its first clip, Wu, beware of take-off!
Based in Tournai, the instrumental duo Glass Museum consists of pianist Antoine Flipo and drummer Martin Grégoire. Influenced by modern jazz artists such as Aufgang, Nils Frahm or Francesco Tristano, the duo weaves a music that is both dynamic, lyrical, and melancholic, taking the listener into a fragile universe where piano and drums collide in a burst of energy. In June 2016, Glass Museum won the springboard of the Dour Festival and has the chance to open the stage of the Lab on Friday, July 15 in Dour. This duo that was supposed to be only an event finally decided to become a real group, and to offer us today this sumptuous maxi. Produced by Joël Grignard (Monsoon, My TV Is Dead…) at the Rubens Studio in Brussels, Deux insists on the duality of the project. "The fact that we are two live, the fusion of the two instruments, between rhythm and piano, the fusion of organic and synthetic, the mixture we create between the sounds… "
The Wu clip from Glass Museum is worth seeing:
Glass Museum impresses with its perfectionism and attention to detail. "This mini-album is the synthesis of two years of composition," explains Martin Grégoire, drummer. "We wanted to condense all the energy of the live in a shorter format, with more nuances in terms of textures, electro sounds. " Because if at the base, Glass Museum handles rather acoustic instruments (piano-drums), the duo quickly incorporated electronic elements into its music, in the manner of its models among which GoGo Penguin and Snarky Puppy figure in a good position. "It's really the mix of genres that we wanted to highlight. Live, there is no sample, it's quite raw. But on the album, we added Moog, Prophet synths, violin samples… "