{"id":20764,"date":"2020-05-14T15:17:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T13:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/?p=20764"},"modified":"2024-04-24T00:08:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T22:08:57","slug":"record-amazing-games-best-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/en\/record-amazing-games-best-of\/","title":{"rendered":"RECORD – Amazing Games: Best of"},"content":{"rendered":"

At El Garaje we have a very special relation with Belgium: is the place of two of our favorite events: W-Fest and the Liege New Wave Festival and a large amount of the music that we listen and love comes from there. That\u2019s why we always pay special attention to the bands from that country, especially if they are from the eighties, our favorite decade in music and a golden era for the Belgian fourth Art. And the last band that has helped making our days better, it\u2019s Amazing Games,<\/strong> a Belgian short-life new wave act, that was the seed for Unsaid<\/strong> (we will write about them on next week).<\/span><\/p>\n

Just one month ago, this compilation with seven songs recorded between 1985 and 1989 has been released. Genevi\u00e8ve Serwy (voice) and Dominique Nuydt (bass) bring us the innocence and freshness that were usual in the decade in which Reagan tortured us not only with his movies. The songs have been recorded during two sessions, the first one in the studio Claude Charles in 1986 and the second one between 1988 and 1989. For this occasion, they used a drum machine that was in the studio and belonged to the classic Belgian band The Neon Judgement<\/strong>. In this session, <\/span>Mika Nagazaki was part of the band (member of Naufrag\u00e9s du Silence,\u00a0<\/strong>band that has just released his first album, titled Orph\u00e9e, <\/em>after being together for 36 years).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But let\u2019s talk now about the songs: the energetic post-punk of \u201cDesert Junction\u201d is the perfect start for this Best Of<\/em>. In the rest of these six tracks, we find the sharp guitars of \u201cMy Broken Soul\u201d,\u00a0the fragility of \u201cHeady Flights\u201d,\u00a0the happiness of \u201cSleepy Eyes\u201d, the classic post-punk of \u201cSo many problems\u201d,\u00a0the young beauty of\u00a0\u201cJohnny Was\u201d, and the invitation to party called \u201cViens Danser\u201d (a cover of the Belgian underground band E<\/strong>xpo 58,<\/strong> later known as Expo 87<\/strong>)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A couple of these songs appear on the compilations Expo 87\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Insane Music For Insane People Vol. 24<\/em> and there were not released together until this compilation, first piece of a story that we will be unveiling together on the next weeks. You can liste and buy the compilation here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n