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Dancing barefoot (Patti Smith cover) @ Les Aralunaires 2013

Laurent Leemans 09 janvier 2015 02:32

Grey pilgrim (from the EP "The shape of things forsaken")

Laurent Leemans 05 janvier 2015 02:30

Fine flowers in the valley (video by Saint-Crau) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQDfCGcVLVRxwZ_zwno19Qw

Laurent Leemans 21 novembre 2014 04:41

More info? Check
http://www.theimaginarysuitcase.be
http://www.facebook.com/theimaginarysuitcase
http://www.youtube.com/user/theimaginarysuitcase/playlists

Laurent Leemans 05 novembre 2014 05:46

The imaginary suitcase is the one we carry along throughout our lives, the one that contains our dead or barely breathing illusions and the images of our life as we fantasize it.

The Imaginary Suitcase is also the solo avatar of Laurent Leemans, singer and guitarist in the acoustic folk-rock combo Ceilí Moss since 1996, and before that in La Vierge du Chancelier Rolin in the 90s.

Cracker sang "what the world needs now is another folksinger like I need a hole in my head" and they were not wrong, but in 2010, after 14 years spent in a band of 5 to 8 musicians playing full throttle Poguesey folk-rock, the desire to bring to life songs that didn’t fit in the Ceilí Moss sound got stronger than the fear of becoming the 1001st whining brat who strums two and a half chords and moans his small time existentialism, so that everyone understands what Schopenhauer meant when he wrote that boredom could be a metaphysical experience...

Soulful and ultra melodic songs built round a deep and versatile voice (think of the son Suzanne Vega and Nick Cave would have had) at times caressing, at times ominous, and deceptively simple guitar chords, lightfooted but equivocal. Can you say The Imaginary Suitcase is a sort of Belgian counterpart to The World Of Skin or maybe Joseph Arthur’s evil twin? Why not? And the listener will probably also perceive the influence of The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Smiths, Nick Cave, Rowland S. Howard, 16 Horsepower/Wovenhand, Joy Division, Paul Roland, Brendan Perry, Death In June, Hugo Race, The The, Lloyd Cole or Swans.

In little more than two years, The Imaginary Suitcase has already released four self-produced records: Here’s to those we could not save in march 2012, Putting things on top of other things in february 2013, Full moon fever in september 2013, Driftwood in march 2014 and the EP The shape of things forsaken in november 2014. Live, Laurent uses different electric or acoustic guitars, an autoharp and some percussion to bring a surprisingly full, varied and generous performance for a guy alone.

Laurent Leemans 05 novembre 2014 05:44

Full moon lullaby