SOPA BOBA *

      SOPA BOBA is an adventurous & audacious belgian∼dutch encounter between the director Jean Vangeebergen (zü Klub), the composer Pavel Tchikov (Ogives) and the singer GW Sok (The Ex). This new creation with its soft & abrupt musicality forms a kind of oratorio from the present time which, in an assumed socio∼political context, develops a dramatic, neuralgic fable. The compositions are carried by rough modular synths, spoken word & a neoclassical string quartet…

• The first album of this concept is based on the eponymous text of the moldovan author Nicoleta Esinencu, its musical & narrative adaptation surprises first of all with its industrial sounds with synthetic scents ! So the stringed instruments come into action and then comes the narration which completes an astonishing, surprising, bewitching sound picture…

>>> The play (written in 2013) is based on a real event that took place in present∼day Moldova : a father cut off his child’s finger because the child stole money from his wallet. That moment is about money, career, politics and lies. Embracing scathing irony and sharp words, That Moment offers a scathing critique of consumer society & widespread corruption, insinuating itself into the family unit as well as the political sphere, going so far as to contaminate an entire country → Which country ? From East to West the news offers us the spoilt for choice <<<

• Through an atypical first work mixing the art of music and the art of theater through a powerful & moving psalmody SOPA BOBA builds around the texts an astonishing maelstrom of a post∼industrial avant∼garde → Here is a unique sonic experience which you will have to apprehend like a real discovery !