BELAFONTE!!! is a musical collective based in Galway, Ireland, Wesht! It is an 'original music only' collective. It is based around 3 simple rules - 1. NO EGO'S. 2. NO SELF-CONSCIOUS BEHAVIOUR. 3. UNLIMITED EQUALITY. Any breach of these rules (as it would be harmful to the ideal BELAFONTE!!! strives for) would result in immediate shunning! It is open to anyone who is interested in collaborating under the name BELAFONTE!!! Our aim is to make beautiful music with as many people as possible. Let's make it happen!

What?! - the personification of the holy trinity shortly after its appearance on a coconut shell. They crossed the line of musical decency a long time ago and are running away from it at a fast pace.
What?! - multiaxial music to express the beauty and bizarre strangeness of the unique moments within the individual realities each of us experience.
What?! - a celebration of the small things in life, putting a smile on your face by focusing attention on seemingly insignificant and random things.

With their influences ranging from Bob Marley to Frank Zappa and from Battles to “The Godfather” theme tune What?!’s music is a unique mix of different styles and soundscapes taking the listener on an eye-brow-lifting ride through the wonderful worlds of music, space and time.
“What?!” you might ask yourself. Well, the answer is “Yes!” What?! is a collective of two Italians and a Dutchman, masters of musically messing with your mind. 
Being from parts of Europe that are as contrasting as a chicken and a street light - Sicily, the fiery island of mamas and mafiosi, the Netherlands, country of green grass and double-dutch, and South Tyrol, the land of speck and lederhosen – their influences combine into a hurricane of happy hobos.

On the 11th of October 2012 What?! released their first sonic stir-fry entitled “Tikka Masala”, laid back Reggae and a pinch of Rock served on a bed of organic odd-time Jazz; would you like a glass of wine with that?
If you download the track from bandcamp (name your price) you’ll get the exclusive What?! dessert-speciality “Alasam Akkit” with it for free.
Within the next few weeks the video to “Tikka Masala” is going to be released.

Keep your eyes open and your ears clean.

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"The Rye? Commoners fondling partridges for a sixpence,"
-Sr. Mick Jagger
  There was a time when men were men and music was roared not
whispered; a time when 'windswept' and 'artistic' went hand in hand
with 'belligerent' and 'psychotic'; when the catatonic state was
merely a pastime and alcohol was inhaled not for pleasure but
survival; a time before chicken rolls, skinny jeans, the wheel.
  It is these times THE RYE evoke; nay,create anew. The Rye- a
quadrupedal semi-musical beast stitched together from all four corners
of the known island, a tune-spluttering troglodyte of the damp and
depraved innards of a crumbling Galway City- is an elemental force
akin to a brain-damaged pensioner's wit.
Unbridled, red-raw and half-oiled.   Made up of Kevin Melly on
howling, winking and acoustic divilry, Cian Mulligan on five-course
banjo, lead guitar and pints of liver, Barry Wallace on grinning
between bass and tenor banjo, and the ginger Dessie Harrington on
animalistic unprovoked drum-battering, The Rye is a folk heroine's
sopping wet reoccurring dream.
 Rife with an idiosyncratic charisma, The Rye pay homage to both the
whiskey-stained barflies of Southern old-time good-timery and the
toothless gin-soaked grimaces of traditional Irish yarn-spinners in
equal measures, poured into the broken glasses in the hands and
beneath the feet of those who are enlightened.
  The Rye- the physical embodiment of grand craic for want of an
evening, all twelve tribes rolled into one, the Proper Job.

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