Art Rock Show – Hesse Kassel – La Brea (Week 32)

Hesse Kassel is een experimentele post-/art rockband uit Santiago, Chili, opgericht eind 2022. De formatie bestaat uit zes jonge muzikanten: Renatto Olivares (zang, gitaar, saxofoon), Luca Cosignani (gitaar, zang), Mauricio Rosas (gitaar), Matthew Hopper (bas), Eduardo Padilla (drums) en Joaquín González (keyboard). Live bouwde Hesse Kassel snel een reputatie op, met succesvolle shows in venues zoals Centro Cultural Rojas Magallanes en Sala Metrónomo in Santiago. De eerste liveshows van La Brea waren binnen enkele minuten uitverkocht.

Cal Cashin van TheQuietus.com: “La Brea is a truly inexplicable, revelatory debut. Spending 80 minutes with Chilean band Hesse Kassel, and their writhing, scampering, soaring post rock, is as genuinely life-affirming as it gets. It is music of the most cathartic and reinvigorating nature, and an elemental listening experience that makes everything feel new, exciting, and possible. The sextet from Santiago spend most of their debut trawling dark, gristly undertow, but within their sprawling, flowing ten minute songs, they always break through into euphoria.

The band take their cues from the breadth of the post rock and post hardcore arcana while fashioning their own niche explosive execution. Throughout, you can hear echoes of the heavenbound crescendos of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, skeletal sketches of Spiderland, and the scorched earth firestorms of Swans, but, of course, it is what the group do with these references that really enthrals. Hesse Kassel gleefully stitch multiple disparate segments into one cohesive whole, whilst boasting a sublime mastery of tension and release, and the wild-eyed ambition of youth that makes it all seem so effortless. So, little more than two years after their formation, they are already the complete package, a real force of nature. (…)

But the ambition, the scope and the conviction Hesse Kassel demonstrate here ensures that La Brea stands on its own two feet as a truly singular album, one that yields the awesome power of its influences without ever being derivative. The crown jewel of a thriving music scene at the foot of the Andes, this is quite possibly the most vital debut you’ll stumble upon all year.”

Naast Hesse Kassel (La Brea), Geordie Greep (The New Sound), Swans (The Seer), Samlrc (A Lonely Sinner), Lift To Experience (The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads ) & Godspeed You! Black Emperor (Yanqui U.X.O.).

• Thursday/Donderdag 12.00 – 24.00
• Friday/Vrijdag 12.00 – 24.00
• Saturday/Zaterdag 12.00 – 24.00