Horse Lords presents 'Demand To Be Taken To Heaven Alive!' | Ancienne Belgique
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◊ Horse Lords presents 'Demand To Be Taken To Heaven Alive!' | Ancienne Belgique
◊ Intense, hypnotic and uncompromising
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This event is a part of the BRDCST concert series, a series that connects unconventional artists with curious listeners. Here, you’ll discover music that stirs, surprises and sticks with you.
Horse Lords is not a conventional band, but a continually reconfiguring sound system that has been exploring the boundaries of rock, minimalism and experimental music since 2010. Emerging from the fertile Baltimore eco-system around noise and outsider art, but always with a broader perspective. Rhythm becomes architecture, microtonality a motor for movement and friction.
Their music balances between mathematical precision and physical drive. Their influences are as omnivorous as they are keenly chosen: Julius Eastman and La Monte Young, but equally James Brown and Roscoe Holcomb. The spirit of Fluxus lingers, through figures like George Maciunas and Henry Flynt. Collaborations with composers like Arnold Dreyblatt – which resulted in the acclaimed album Extended Field – deepen their interest in just intonation and structural clarity.
Since 2021, Horse Lords has been partly based in Germany, which opened up new performative and orchestral possibilities. Live, this translates into an interplay between quartet-discipline and collective-expansion. On their album Demand To Be Taken To Heaven Alive! (RVNG Intl.), which is to be released in June 2026, the format is subtly expanded with wind instruments and vocals. Bass clarinet, trombone and vocals colour the tight framework without letting it go.
References range from Anni Albers’ textile structures to Islamic geometry, and from electronic pioneers such as Maryanne Amacher to the conceptual clarity of Tom Johnson. The title refers to Vladimir Majakovski and does not suggest escape but rather intensification. Not in the afterlife, but focused on an “eternal now”. Repetition as ritual, change as necessity. Horse Lords doesn’t sound like a genre, but like a proposal.
“Horse Lords construct layers of punching, syncopated phrases using just intonation, drawing from krautrock, African polyrhythms and classical minimalism.” - Pitchfork
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◊ Intense, hypnotic and uncompromising
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
◊ Info & Tickets: https://abconcerts.be/en/agenda/horse-lords-presents-demand-to-be-taken-to-heaven-alive/a10Qw00000H538SIAR
◊ Sold out? Ticketswap is our official and secure reselling partner. Never buy tickets via another platform, especially from people you don't know.
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
This event is a part of the BRDCST concert series, a series that connects unconventional artists with curious listeners. Here, you’ll discover music that stirs, surprises and sticks with you.
Horse Lords is not a conventional band, but a continually reconfiguring sound system that has been exploring the boundaries of rock, minimalism and experimental music since 2010. Emerging from the fertile Baltimore eco-system around noise and outsider art, but always with a broader perspective. Rhythm becomes architecture, microtonality a motor for movement and friction.
Their music balances between mathematical precision and physical drive. Their influences are as omnivorous as they are keenly chosen: Julius Eastman and La Monte Young, but equally James Brown and Roscoe Holcomb. The spirit of Fluxus lingers, through figures like George Maciunas and Henry Flynt. Collaborations with composers like Arnold Dreyblatt – which resulted in the acclaimed album Extended Field – deepen their interest in just intonation and structural clarity.
Since 2021, Horse Lords has been partly based in Germany, which opened up new performative and orchestral possibilities. Live, this translates into an interplay between quartet-discipline and collective-expansion. On their album Demand To Be Taken To Heaven Alive! (RVNG Intl.), which is to be released in June 2026, the format is subtly expanded with wind instruments and vocals. Bass clarinet, trombone and vocals colour the tight framework without letting it go.
References range from Anni Albers’ textile structures to Islamic geometry, and from electronic pioneers such as Maryanne Amacher to the conceptual clarity of Tom Johnson. The title refers to Vladimir Majakovski and does not suggest escape but rather intensification. Not in the afterlife, but focused on an “eternal now”. Repetition as ritual, change as necessity. Horse Lords doesn’t sound like a genre, but like a proposal.
“Horse Lords construct layers of punching, syncopated phrases using just intonation, drawing from krautrock, African polyrhythms and classical minimalism.” - Pitchfork
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◊ AB LOVES YOU
Respect yourself and each other. We take every form of intimidation seriously.
◊ TAKE THE CONCERT TRAIN
With the SNCB code on your concert ticket you can buy a nominative Bravo! Ticket AB at a very budget friendly fare. These E-train tickets are available exclusively on bit.ly/BravoTicketAB
◊ EVENT PASS MIVB
Thanks to the collaboration between AB and MIVB, you will find an Event Pass on every concert ticket that entitles you to make use of tram, bus and metro in Brussels on the day of the concert. All info: bit.ly/EventPassAB
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