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Rinocerose | Installation Sonore

CD, V2

Tekst: Alex Tobin

Publicatiedatum: 10 augustus 2000

First of all, let's get a popular misconception out of the way: Rinocerose did not get their name from everyone's favourite horned, immensely dangerous land mammal. In fact, the band's moniker stems from a painting by a psychiatric patient (albeit of a rhinoceros, but that's another story altogether). "The painting was this psychedelic rhinoceros," recalls guitarist and founding member Jean-Philippe Freu. "The artist was this guy called Gaston Duff, and he couldn't actually spell rhinoceros, which is why he's added all of that punctuation as well as the incorrect spelling. We decided to keep it this way because we thought all of the punctuation made it look like the word was trembling. We thought that suited us perfectly." So far, so French. Actually though, Rinocerose is different from many of the French bands they're lumped in with - Air, Daft Punk, and Cassius to name but three - in quite a manner of ways... Firstly, they're not from Paris at all, but from Montpelier, and they never really had that desire to be embraced by the Paris hype. Then there's the fact that the founding duo - Freu along with bass player Patrice CarriÈ (aka Patou) - both work as psychologists by day. He lectures while she writes educational CD-ROMs. "It means music is our pleasure. And that's very important to us," explains Patou. Initially, the idea was to create house music using only guitars. You see, they love guitars. However, when this plan of attack was found more than a bit ambitious, the two stumbled upon programmer Johnny Palumbo, with his armful of electronic warfare tools and a love of all things dub. Now a fully-fledged nine-piece collective, Rinocerose are the kids that have a smooth sound all of their own. Theirs is the sound of Mogwai's guitar-bience dissected over King Tubby's dub sound and Marshall Jefferson's house grooves. It's refined, yet it always makes sure to maintain that certain amount of indie street cred. Mellow with an edge, 'Installation Sonore' makes for tuneful Summer listening.

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