Peenoise are two brothers from Belgium creating contemporary music. Gilles Vandecaveye-Pinoy and Cesar De Sutter-Pinoy, have been making music together since childhood. The band takes on experimentation and seeks out their sound in a fresh and playful way. Their music sounds ominous, catastrophic, but also warm and infectious.
Their debut album Forevergem (LP, 2020,Gong Ear) was received with very good reviews: "We heard very few things that sounded the same, something that cannot be taken for granted" (Indie Style). The album was produced by their long-time partner Geoffrey Burton (Arno, Iggy Pop, Hong Kong Dong). That same year Peenoise was one of the Sound Track winners and proved to be one of the most fresh and promising Belgian artists of the moment. Headwalking (EP, 2021) and Rooms to Dark Boats in the Night and Views in the Light (LP, 2022) were recorded at their own Forevergemstudio and released under their own label Forevergem Records. This year, Straight Lines Strange People (LP, 2024, Forevergem Records) will release. The album could be the soundtrack for a futuristic-baroque film, which does not yet exist. The album will premiere this year at Meakusma Festival in Eupen
Peenoise also writes music for series (VRT Max) and theater (WOLF WOLF, Kopergietry)
Forevergem (LP, 2020, Gong Ear): "The first notes of Forevergem take you to another dimension and create a delusion of weightlessness, a floaty gloom that contains a bliss" - Luminous Dash
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Headwalking (EP, 2021, Forevergem Records): "Peenoise's promising status has once again been fulfilled." - (★★★★) Dansende Beren
Rooms to Dark Boats in the Night and Views in the Light (LP, 2022, Forevergem Records): "Ominous alt-pop with a silver lining. With their latest single Vacuum Minds, the Pinoy brothers continue to produce experimental and mysterious avant-pop that feels fresh and renewed." - Focus Knack.
This year Straight Lines Strange People (LP, 2024, Forevergem Records) will release. The album could be the soundtrack for a futuristic-baroque film, which does not yet exist. For three years, Peenoise worked on this record, in dark forests, green fields, and on snowy mountain tops. Gradually, they began to build their own musical landscape in which they allow humor, darkness and surrealism to coexist. A place where imagination can thrive and flourish. They went even further in their research and created music that is almost entirely instrumental. Only now and then a human voice – their third brother, Titus - appears, reflecting on life, poetically. The outcome is disturbingly strange and moving at the same time.
Straight Lines Strange People will premiere at Meakusma Festival, Eupen 2024.
Peenoise did a tour in advance with their new music in Portugal this May;
including Lounge - Lisbon, Triciclo - Barcelos, Maus Habitos - Porto, VIC Aveiro Art House - Aveiro.
Live Peenoise is accompanied by Elias Devoldere (drums).
Rooms to Dark Boats in the Night and Views in the Light (LP, 2022)
For their album “Rooms to Dark Boats in the Night and Views in the Light” Peenoise takes you on a 44-minute journey through audio-architectural rooms. In one room there is joy and hope, in another darkness and mystery in the jungle. It is an immersive trip, both intimate and monumental, where after storms with dark boats and epic tales, gentleness and consolation prevail.
Headwalking (EP, 2021)
Dissecting catchy fantasies that spiral from a dark descent to an atmospheric soil, where melancholic voices and gloomy soundscapes meet.
Words, sounds and images dance shakily to reach the surface and deliver heartfelt blows. Screaming for irony, putting things into perspective, but at the same time driven by great finesse and necessity. Together in solitude at a crazy party that ends in a victory of heroic sadness.
Forevergem (LP, 2020)
“Forevergem” describes the relationship between small personal earthly stories and the existential questions in the context of the great cosmos. Seemingly small stories floating in infinity without a clear place and purpose. Acceptance of greatness and unanswered questions. Their sound reflects this line of thought, creating a collage of mysterious, spherical sounds and concrete songs.
Peenoise creates otherworldly compositions; a harmonious blend of buzzing minimal synths with washes of experimental guitars, topped by the brothers' haunting vocals. Leaving room for the songs to breathe, the result is a mysterious kind of Avant pop; captivating, spacious yet vulnerable at the same time.
UPCOMING TOUR
Straight Lines Strange People - 2024
Aug 29 - Zappa, Oosterzele - Try out
Aug 30 - Meakusma Festival - Première
Sep 6 - Botanique, Brussel
Sep 19 - De Roma - in AMOR, Antwerpen
Oct 3 - ANKER & CCM, Gent
Oct 12 - De Snuffel, Brugge
PREVIOUS SHOWS
Straight Lines Strange People - May 2024
May 24 - Triciclo, Barcelos, Portugal
May 25 - Mina the Place, Braganca, Portugal
May 26 - VIC Aveiro Art House, Aveiro, Portugal
May 29 - Lounge, Lisbon, Portugal
May 30 - Maus Habitos, Porto, Portugal
Rooms to Dark Boats in the Night and Views in the Light
2022 Sep 30 - De Grote Post, Oostende
2022 Oct 7 - De Handelsbeurs, Gent
2023 Jan 28 - Muziekclub N9, Eeklo
2023 Apr 1 - Toneelhuis, Antwerpen
2023 May 13 - De Koer, Gent
2023 Jul 28 - Theater aan Zee, Oostende
CONTACT
GILLES - Band
+32 488 377 515
CESAR - Band
+32 488 837 429
NAOMI - Manager
+32 478 763 306
