Piège is the pseudonym for the skewed dance/ pop project of Nick Storring (Picastro, I Have Eaten The City, The Knot).  Storring's debut album under his own name "rife" was released on Entr'acte in 2011 and exhibits strong ties to the post-concrète vein of abstract electronic music while introducing elements of ambient, first wave industrial music (:zoviet*france:, Nurse With Wound et. al), and various other forms of textural electronic musics--much of which is sourced from live instrumentation.   This employment of live instruments as the primary tool is a bridge over to the Piège project which uses a lot of acoustic instruments amidst a highly textured an elaborate beat driven sound.  Here his love of disco, house, dubstep, various branches of R&B (including new jack swing) are in full evidence--and devoid of self-conscious irony.   Cello is Storring's primary ax but he also works with various vintage keyboards (everything from Casio CZ1000 to Realistic/ Moog MG-1, from Hohner Pianet to Yamaha DX7), guitars, bass, mandola, banjo, percussion, and various eastern winds and bowed strings for a rich and idiosyncratic sound-palette.



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