Berg Sans Nipple
From: Nebraska, US
From their Prohibited European website: "The franco-american duo BERG SANS NIPPLE consists of (but is not limited to) Lori Sean Berg and Shane Aspegren. The former is a suave Frenchman from the dirty rues of gay Parieee and the latter is a lanky Scandinavian-looking fellow who actually hails from the dusty plains of Nebraska.
Once rumored to have been Siamese twins separated at birth (according to them, their relationship is really much closer to that of Ghost Dog and the ice cream vendor), the reality is only more mundane at first glance: two kids (both best known as drummers) trapped in a tangled mess of cables, keyboards, samplers, horns, bells, machines and drums.
The 'music for the short film Marie-Madeleine' soundtrack-ep (2002) was a first glimpse into one of the directions that the duo has taken, combining textured minimalism, emancipated-rock, electronica and fluttered jazz.
Berg Sans Nipple is a duo comprised of Jerome Lorichon and Shane Aspergen. Lorichon is the former drummer of a Welsh band named Purr and Aspergen is an ex-pat who played various rolls in a huge amount of releases from the Nebraska scene (Lullaby For The Working Class, etc). The two multi-instrumentalists met up in Europe while playing with various bands in 2002 and the rest, shall we say, is history.
Mixing electronics and organic instrumentation, the duo released their first disc as a short score to a film that Aspergen has directed entitled Marie Madeleine. Mixing ambient soundscapes with ripping bursts of programmed and live percussion, it was a good dose of what to expect from the group but they showed huge leaps in creativity with their first full-length Form Of... (which featured members of Do Make Say Think and Bright Eyes)
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