Phoenician Drive
Oriental Kraut Rock
Brussels, BE
Phoenician Drive is a six piece band formed in Brussels in 2016 with the intention to make drums and fuzz guitars meet with oud, rek and other Eastern percussions. In the footsteps of earlier East-West musical blendings from 70’s like Erkin Koray or Orient Express, and under the influence of the German kraut-rock scene (Neu!, Can, Faust, ...), Phoenician Drive went searching for hypnotic transe based on distorted oriental grooves. In 2017 their debut EP ‘Two Coins’ on EXAG’ (EU) and Stolen Body Records (UK) and got a particular attention on the rock & world music scenes. Then in 2018 Phoenician Drive released their self-titled début LP on Exag Records & SK Records and also got the opportunity to collaborate with the renowned Belgian choreographer Wim Vandekeybus who asked them to write the score for his last show ‘Trap Town’. In April 2019 after touring for 2 years non stop the band decided to take a step back and work on an acoustic live set in order to reach back to the very roots of their approach and revisit their songs. They presented their first acoustic set in Brussels in July 2019, and will tour exclusively acoustic in 2020, preparing their next electric LP to come out in 2021.
Publishing : exagunlimited@gmail.com
XAG058
Release date : 23/06/2025
Preorders will be shipped on July 30th
Sunbusrt Vinyl includes a ticket giving access to the full live performance video.
Captured at Brasserie Illegaal, Brussels, on June 23th, 2023.
Tracklist :
01 Holy Security
02 Glow
03 Aguas Del Ovido II
04 Urban Sailors
05 Fat Bill
06 Two Coins For The Boatman
Recorded by Mathieu Charray
Mixed by Mathieu Peyraud, Mathieu Versini
Mastered by Francis Ledoux
Artwork by Laurent Poisson
The Brussels sextet Phoenician Drive, a mix of rock and traditional oriental music, returns with a resolutely more pop record, with new, brighter musical colors. With this new record, the Brussels collective looks back on their electric beginnings by giving more space to singing, recounting their doubts and personal stories, like an invitation to go through the painful trials of life in the joy of knowing that everything is constant transformation. After a first EP released in 2017, an eponymous album in 2018 and a collaboration with choreographer Wim Van De Keybus, Phoenician Drive adapts its repertoire to the acoustic format during the COVID years. It is in 2022 that Phoenician Drive composes and records a new disc entitled 'GLOW', to be released on EXAG' Records on June 23, 2023.
12” TRANSPARENT BLUE VINYL*
Tracklist :
1. Pull The Tiger
2. Glow
3. Urban Sailors
4. Holy Security
5. Pull The Tiger (Part II.)
Official Release on June 23th
Merch
XAG015
Release : October 12, 2018
LP Black
CD
Tracklist:
1. Almadraba
2. Paradise In My Veins
3. Kraken Doesn’t Crack A Crocodile
4. Musselove
5. Aguas Del Olvido
6. Onouba Twist
7. Bicky Beach
8. Slowfish