About Poésie Noire
Poésie Noire are a Belgian band that rose to prominence in the mid-1980s. [[artist:159987]] played in a band called De Frigo's around 1980. De Frigos merged with a symphonic rock band called Sofa (setting Phillippe Libberecht, Luc Leys (?), Luc Vanuffelen and Johan Meylaerts aka Jean Tempo). Together with De Frigo's they took the new name The Next. George Scierski, bass player and singer, was brought in by Casters.
The Next morphed into A World of Ruins, which existed 1981-1982. The setting was Luc Seurs, singing. Renaat Deferm, drums. Jo Casters, guitar. George Scierski, keys and Johan Meylaerts, bass.
In 1982-1983, WIlly Hallaert, George Scierski, Luc Seurs, Koen Juvens and Johan Meylaerts formed another band, while Jo Casters and Renaat Deferm went on play in a band called U-Bahn, and then founded Poésie Noire (French for black / dark poetry).
Their Belgian origins and tendency to develop a goth-oriented, synthetic, gloomy universe with low-pitched voices had them categorized as EBM like other Belgian members of the 1980s electronic music scene like [[artist:32631]] or [[artist:4878]]. However, much in the manner of various renowned Belgian EBM bands like [[artist:7972]] and, to some extent, [[artist:4655]], they declared, through their music, a will to step away from the usual industrial aggressiveness that characterized Electronic Body Music and developed a more mainstream accessible dark pop sound that helped them to be regarded as plain new wave or Darkwave.
Band members:
Jo "La Bête Noire" - guitar, bass, piano, keys, vocals
Marianne "Ice Queen" - vox, keys, lyrics
Sam - drum machines
Ca 1984-1986
Renaat Deferm aka Naat Basswonder - keys
Mario Conjaerts - trumpets, percussion
Albert Claesen
1985-1987
Paul Vandormael - digital percussion
1987-1989
Herman Sherman - electronics, gitters, programming, sequencing
1987-1987
W X Ray - gitters
1984-1985, 1987
Raymond - the human sequencer
1990-1991
Ludwig - guitar
Berre - funky gitters
Evana - vocals
Paul - bass
1989-1991
Ludo - keys and production
Wim - keys during the 1980's RB-line sounds and scapes splicing and dicing.
By decade
1990s3 works
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