POMPEI
Pompei is a trio of improvised music.
GOAL
According to Karlheinz Stockhausen, music was brought to humans by extraterrestrials about 40,000 years ago to purify the hearts of men.
It would now be up to men to make the most beautiful music possible to hasten the second coming of the Extraterrestrials.
We Pompei adhere unreservedly to this vision of things. We strive to make the most beautiful music possible.
MUSICAL STYLE
Free Pop.
We compose songs, sometimes hits, collectively and in real time. Nothing lasts.
We also sometimes travel in the 24 lieder of the Winterreise by Franz Schubert.
Pompei is
Angel Tropico
Vocals, Synths,
Percussions.
Quentin Manfroy
Flutes (picc, C, alto and bass), Ewi, Contrabassoon
Gil Mortio
Bass, Synths, Cocktail drum, Production Stuffs
Occasional Friends
Sarah Théry as Mezzo Soprano
Fabian Fiorini on Piano
Christia Hudziy on Piano
Eric Bribosia on Keyboards
Whether we like it
or not, this world is perfect.
We could not remove the slightest grain of sand without altering this perfection.
POMPEI celebrates
the perfection of the world.
PEACE AMONG
PHENOMENA
ARTISTIC INFLUENCES
Music of ancient Greece, Klaus Wunderlich, Muzak,
Bo Vanderwerf, The Shaggs, Justin Bieber,
Cecil Taylor...
INSTRUMENTAL DEVICE
Voice, Ewi, percussion, General Midi synthesizers, electric bass, samplers, transverse flutes, contrabassoon.
METHODOLOGY
100% tolerance.
IDEOLOGY
Unlike the fascists who conceive artistic creation as a victory of order over chaos (Renaud Camus), we Pompei abandon to entropy our improvised compositions
whose organization, like living beings, is always local and momentary. A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Productise Revolutionary Solutions in D
(EP Live, 2016 demo)
Youpie (LP, 2018 Les disques du condor)
Moving Portrait by Moni Wespi, 2018
Eine Winterreise (Creation Opéra de Lille, 2024)
WARNING
we use all the means at our disposal to raise the level of consciousness, do not come and say that we did not warn you.