Les Nuits Botanique 2017 : Phoenician Drive

At the crossroads of music traditions from all around the Mediterranean and psychedelic rock, Phoenician Drive is a six piece band formed in Brussels early 2015 by percussionist Diego Moscoso who gathered musicians coming from very different musical backgrounds in order to make drums and fuzzy guitars meet with oud and Eastern percussions. In the footsteps of earlier East-West musical blendings from the 70's like Erkin Koray or Orient Express, and under the influence of the German "kraut-rock" scene (Neu!, Can, Faust, Embryo ...), Phoenician Drive searches the hypnotic trance based on distorted oriental grooves.
So far the band has recorded a few demos, and is focusing now on the recording of an EP to be released after the summer 2016. They appeared live mostly in Brussels (Ateliers Claus, Wiels Recyclart, Ateliers 210, Tripoteuse) often inviting other guest musicians to add ehtnic flutes, turkish clarinet or saxophones to the performance.
Phoenician Drive is: Diego Moscoso (derbuka), Matthieu Perrault (bass/vocals), Martin Rault (drums), Gaspard Vanardois (oud/banjo), Joaquin Garcia Bermudes (guitar), Valerian Meunier (guitar/vocals)