Budokan Boys / Eiger Drums Propaganda
The Budokan Boys (USA) duo will be performing live their new album, “THE OOZE”. Eiger Drums Propaganda (France) will open the evening with a solo set.
🔷 Budokan Boys is the trickster music project of two Americans, Jeff T Byrd and Michael Jeffrey Lee. The duo’s songs probe loneliness, trauma, delusion, and love with an auteurist vision and brutal sense of humor; their fierce and darkly comic live sets combine off-kilter electronics, bizarre narratives, seedy saxophone and squealing slide guitar. Formed in New Orleans in 2014, they’ve released albums with Tymbal Tapes, Baba Vanga, Ever/Never, and Strategic Tape Reserve.
Budokan Boys return, summoning eight tracks of surreal no-wave psychedelic folklore: creation stories, damnation stories, tales of magic and cosmic horror. The grand, wide-angle arrangements—pulsing electronics punctuated by bleating horns, hyperreal foley samples, and drunk-stumbling rhythms—conjure up a warped, dream-state sonic landscape perfectly suited to the lyrics’ bent, chimerical legends and alternate mythologies. Like a trickster apparition, “THE OOZE” leads the listener deep into the moonlit woods of the mind—full of enchanted artefacts, malicious entities, and sublime secrets—with no real intention of bringing them back.
🔶 Eiger Drums Propaganda is an electronic music project led by Louis Ebola, half of The Pilotwings. Formed in collaboration with various musicians, the collective has made a Triptych of 3 albums on Macadam Mambo. Those three opus lead to a psychedelic and progressive ascension melting krautrock, tribal rituals and dark experiments. This artistic journey led Louis Ebola towards the creation of a solo live set. Throughout the show, he presents original compositions, playing with his electronic gears, electric guitar, wind instruments and wide range of vocal experimentations.
2024 gave birth to the latest release of the project: Live Excerpts, a collection of favorite tracks that Eiger Drums Propaganda performed during the past 5 years – providing a few hints of what could be expected
on stage.
Live performance being just a part of the persona, Louis has also been a record collector, a DJ and a music explorer for more than 15 years. His attitude behind the decks comes with a true commitment to the dancefloor in the most creative and personal way. A knowledge acquired thru the diversity of the venues experienced, from underground experimental music gathering to massive hard dance festivals.