Before Tigers : Missing My Future

Belgian producer Laurent Delforge's debut as Before Tigers took root during a recent residency for contemporary dance at the historic Festival Grec de Barcelona, as he traveled frequently back and forth from his home in Brussels to Spain. Something about the distance and transience of the experience seeded in him a notion of delicacy and damage, manifested via heavily processed electronics flickering with glitch, whispers, and dizzying rhythm, like some alien, ASMR-filtered downtempo hybrid. Passages of density and drama abruptly bottom out into cracked silences laced with breath and digital afterglow, haunted by alluring unknowns: Missing My Future.

Delforge's background as a graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Belgium, earning his masters in electro-acoustic music studying under Bernard Parmeggiani, is evident in the pointillist precision of his craft, incorporating a vast palette of frequencies and textures into vivid, adventurous sound designs. He characterizes the album as “a quest for humility and empathy,” at the nexus of futurist composition and aching human voice. The songs channel an elusive mood of afterlife software, ghosts in the machine, labyrinthine beat experiments for lives yet unlived, as intricate as they are intimate: “Vocals are an instrument that tells so much in its hesitations, in its failures – a direct and very personal access to one's soul.”

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There’s an unmistakably cinematic feel to the chugging grooves, screeching edits and loopy melodic narratives told through the debut release from Brussels’ Before Tigers. 

A bassist for multiple rock and jazz projects over the years (including psych noise band South of No North), Delforge also performs off-the-beaten-path installations with visual artist Romain Tardy (recently in Mexico, China and Switzerland), composes contemporary electroacoustic compositions and scores for choreographed pieces under his government name and, as Squeaky Lobster, has released three acclaimed EPs of immersive samples, twisted melodies and skittering beats on Belgian label Vlek.