Angine de Poitrine - Sherpa
OK, now there's been another 1946 death.... when's the one we're all waiting for? I'm just kidding. Or am I?
I'm working on Dolly P and Tim C, but today we're continuing with the hard-rockin' posts I seem to be backloading into August with these guys, just your average microtonal masked math-rockers.
The story goes that they had booked two slots at a venue on the same night and were trying to fool the promoter into thinking they were a different group so he'd pay them. It's always the promoter with the money, isn't it?
So they fashioned these crazy papier-mâché outfits and went on as a totally different band than the one that had played earlier in the evening. It worked, and an Affectation vs. Authenticity debate erupted as they began to go viral.
They concocted a whole narrative to go with the personae: that they were ETs from another world where everyone is famous, and it takes 6 hours to go to the supermarket because everyone has to sign autographs for everyone else. And so on.
Now, whether the costumery has anything to do with the music outside of the Magma-type storyline is up for debate, and this isn't Peter Gabriel-era Genesis where every mask is meant to move the characters being portrayed through the song.
Of course they've become, overnight it seems, one of the world's biggest bands, with slots at festivals on every continent this summer. And they've done so with a truly unusual brand of music, played as it often is in truly unusual time signatures, and with the barefoot, polka-dotted guitarist manipulating who knows how many live loops with his feet as they cycle through their tunes.
Anyway there were no 'board sourced boots of these cats until they played Fuji Rock a month ago today, and the HD video documenting their set got taken down pretty quickly, but I managed to pilfer the audio from that feed before it disappeared into the aetheric realms of copyright.
So, what do you say, O Court of Public Opinion? Hype? Sincere Progressive music with a theatrical twist? Somewhere between those poles? Dynasty-era KISS meets the scalloped-fretted guitars of Shakti on the Math Rock mountaintop? The floor is yours, apple cores.
Angine de Poitrine
Fuji Rock 2026
Field of Heaven
Naeba Ski Resort
Niigata, Japan
7.26.2026
01 MC introduction
02 Angine de Poitrine intro
03 Angor
04 Yor Zarad
05 Tamebsz
06 Mata Zyklek
07 Ababa Hotel
08 Sarniezz
09 Fabienk
10 Sherpa
11 Angine de Poitrine outro
12 L'Aberek/Ababa Hotel
Total time: 1:19:32
Track 12 is a bonus track from Session Secrete @ La Société Secrète de Cap-d'espoir en Gaspésie
Percé, Quebec CAN 8.18.2025
Khn de Poitrine - guitar, bass & vocals
Klek de Poitrine - drums & vocals
320/48k audio extracted from enhanced bitrate HD YouTube Premium files
spectral analyses is lossless to 18 kHz for both
converted to 16/44 CD Audio, edited & remastered by EN, August 2026
530 MB FLAC/direct link
530 MB FLAC/direct link
Personally I dig what these guys do, and beyond the hidden mystery schtick they are obviously badass musicians. I liked this show so much, I even added a bonus track that I came across, just because I felt like it.
I'll be back with one or two more at the tail end of the month, but until then I'd encourage you to peek behind the mask for a moment and take a taste of what these crazy Québécois from Canada are up to with their many-fretted micro-guitars, obscured identities and 21/8 loopy moves.--J.
