Neo-nostalgic garden shed indie on beats.

Formed by 2 members of iconic new wave/postpunk band Red Zebra, Gare Noir’s music focuses on song quality over '80s nostalgia.

In his pop rock compositions, Blue Yser combines smooth ballads depicting his sometimes embellished, sometimes cynical vision of humanity with upbeat songs that are textually more engaged. 

His influences and inspirations range from the lyric virtuosity of folk singers like Leonard Cohen or Tim Buckley to the dreamy universe of bands such as the Cocteau Twins or Slowdive. 

Blue Yser's music originates from disillusions, fear and anger but – first and foremost – takes its energy from hope, love and aspirations. Like a river that flows still for most of its journey, his music sometimes take a tumultuous course.

Fragment, Postpunk band from Ghent-Belgium

T I D E , gently engulfing your soul
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electro from Gent, Belgium

I have this habbit of using my iPhone’s dictaphone app whenever I want to capture a shitty idea for a bass line or guitar part. Based on geo localization the app automatically decided to name everything I record ‘Lakeland’, after the industry zone located near my house, where during the lockdown I started making music from my attic. I decided to keep the name proposed by my phone. I feel it perfectly describes my music. Grey as concrete when pronounced in Dutch. Blue as a vacation when pronounced in English. You can find Lakeland somewhere on the border crossing between dark postpunk and sparkling synthwave.

Lakeland is Tom Berth (bass, guitar, synths).

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