Bastien Keb
News: Bastien Keb’s excellent faux-soundtrack odyssey, ‘The Killing Of Eugene Peeps’, gets a Japanese-style pressing; see the video for ‘Lucky (Oldest Grave)’
IF YOU didn’t get chance to catch up with Bastien Keb’s excellent and off-kilter, genre boundary-dispensing, musical novel of a record The Killing Of Eugene Peeps last autumn – and trust me on this: this album, (his canon) is likely to be talked about in years to come in the same breath as In An …
SEE: Bastien Keb releases a video for the bone-chill beauty of ‘Rabbit Hole’
RIGHT. First things first, and full disclosure: we adore Bastien Keb over here at Backseat Mafia. His latest album, The Killing Of Eugene Peeps, is so brilliantly eclectic, multifaceted, genre-busting, that we’re running out of superlatives for it. It weaves together chilling. beautiful acoustic tunes, the best of Italian soundtrack jazz (Nicola Conte, Piero Piccioni), …
ALBUM REVIEW: Bastien Keb – ‘The Killing Of Eugene Peeps’: an essential novel of an album
The Killing Of Eugene Peeps is an album that hits the previously uncharted sweet spot between Americana, 60s’ European soundtracks and hiphop. It’s clever, reflexive, intriguing, questioning. One of the records of the year. Buy.
TRACK: Bastien Keb’s ‘Rabbit Hole’ has a bone-deep 3am chill
AS renaissance men in the underground music scene go, Bastien Keb has to be near the top of the pole. Reckoning himself to be a guitarist first and foremost, he’s also adept on the trumpet, bass, drums, piano, flute, among other instruments: be they bought, borrowed, donated or found. Wearing another hat as a composer …