The more you use it, the sharper it gets. A famous line for the Japanese Ghinzu kitchen knives. The same baseline could be applied to this Belgian band and back in 1999 Ghinzu was born in Brussels.
Founded by John Stargasm (vocals and keys), Fabrice Georges (drums and later to be replaced by Antoine Michel) and Mika Nagazaki (on bass) who knew each other from a previous band called Las Vegas Parano. They added Greg Remy on guitar and Sanderson Poe on contrabass who was later replaced by Jean Waterlot for some extra keyboard and/or guitar power.
The first 12-track album saw the light back in 2000 and can be best described as noise rock. It has great rhythm, contrast between guitar and contrabass, drumbeats and trashy synthesizers. It’s Ghinzu style all the way and to be honest: The more you listen to it, the better it gets.
Blow, their second studio album was released back in 2004 and rocketed them into French stardom. Since they’re a Brussels band with mostly French speaking band members their appearances in the south of Belgium and the whole of France was more frequent than eg in Flanders or The Netherlands.
Two years back they released their third studio album called Mirror Mirror; released in over 10 European countries at once. It’s a bit more sensitive than Blow but still the typical Ghinzu noisy style. Let’s call it a bit more polished than the previous albums. The album reached first place, a week after it’s release in iTunes Belgium. Says enough.
Ghinzu also scored on several movie tracks like Nous reterons sur terre, Les Chevaliers du ciel et Dikkenek. They wrote the opening track for Irina Palm, a movie with Marianne Faithfull and the end credits of Ex-Drummer an Taken were also supported by their music. Ex Drummer by the way is the movie I was talking about when discovering Madensuyu and Ghinzu.
It’s a bit noisy but still I hope you’ll learn to appreciate the genre.
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