This group is no longer an insider tip, now that a veritable flood of diverse YouTube channels has covered their music and created so-called reaction videos. There is something about this music that allows it to fit so well into—or, rather, stand in contrast to—the current zeitgeist of an information deluge filled with AI-generated content.
Angine de Poitrine plays multitonal music. This means they draw from a much broader spectrum of tonality. More specifically, they play notes that lie between the intervals we’re accustomed to. Multitonal music is common in Eastern music, which is why it can sound unusually strange to us. The art lies in weaving these unusual notes into an atmospheric soundscape, and Angine de Poitrine masters this better than any other group I have personally had the pleasure of experiencing in recent decades.
This includes the undeniably impressive skills of the two musicians—a drummer and a guitarist/bassist—as well as their use of so-called looping devices. The drummer, in particular, stands out to me with his exceptional precision and an abundance of “ghost notes” like I’ve never heard before. Add to that an abundance of off-beat entries—in short, there’s plenty for the ears to discover, and these compositions are rich with passages that transform ordinary music into true showstoppers.
That’s why they’re said to represent the antithesis of AI-generated and digitally optimized music. Any AI would fail miserably at creating anything comparable.
I’d recommend the track “Fabienk” as a great place to start. However, it’s worth listening to the entire live performance, which blew up the internet!