Maļ
(Lead Vocals)
Frank NUYTS
(Marimba, Korg 01W, Backing Vocals)
Frank DEBRUYNE
(Soprano & Tenor Sax, Backing Vocals)
Koen VAN OVERBERGHE
(Korg M1, Roland U-220, Backing Vocals)
Iris DE BLAERE
(Yamaha Grantouch)
Maarten STANDAERT
(Bass)
Jan DE SMET
(Drums)

01. Prelude To Surf, Wind And Desire
02. Crab Meets Crab
03. Kite Control
04. Gale Force Seven
05. BSKRZ
06. The Creep From The Deep
07. Cod
08. The Diver And The Shark
09. Surf, No Wind And Desire
10. Burnin' Off Love

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The least you can say is that HARDSCORE is an amazing band. They have no limits to style, and while they are always themselves, they constantly concoct for us a series of surrealist mini-cruises, which we come out of with our perceptions altered and wet. With their new album "Surf, Wind And Desire" (an allusion,, of course, to the infamous Earth, Wind and Fire, they immerse us in an aquatic world, the source of all life, from which emerged a whole load of otherthings, the human being, as well as fish and ships. The cross between HARDSCORE's classical instrumental rigour, and the rock treatment and instrumentation of the repertoire doesn't give the usual mix, because it is infused with a humour which stops us taking the music too seriously. "Surf, Wind And Fire" is a bridge between new-classical music and rock, but it's a swinging rope bridge over a ravine, where you've got to hang on to the ropes so you don't fall and drown in the River of Easy Classifications.

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