Poésie Noire

Poésie Noire are a Belgian band that rose to prominence in the mid-1980s. Jo Casters played in a band called De Frigo's around 1980. De Frigos merged with a symphonic rock band called Sofa (setting Phillippe Libberecht, Luc Leys (?), Luc Vanuffelen and Johan Meylaerts aka Jean Tempo). Together with De Frigo's they took the new name The Next. George Scierski, bass player and singer, was brought in by Casters. The Next morphed into A World of Ruins, which existed 1981-1982. The setting was Luc Seurs, singing. Renaat Deferm, drums. Jo Casters, guitar. George Scierski, keys and Johan Meylaerts, bass. In 1982-1983, WIlly Hallaert, George Scierski, Luc Seurs, Koen Juvens and Johan Meylaerts formed another band, while Jo Casters and Renaat Deferm went on play in a band called U-Bahn, and then founded Poésie Noire (French for black / dark poetry). Their Belgian origins and tendency to develop a goth-oriented, synthetic, gloomy universe with low-pitched voices had them categorized as EBM like other Belgian members of the 1980s electronic music scene like à;GRUMH... or A Split - Second. However, much in the manner of various renowned Belgian EBM bands like The Neon Judgement and, to some extent, Front 242, they declared, through their music, a will to step away from the usual industrial aggressiveness that characterized Electronic Body Music and developed a more mainstream accessible dark pop sound that helped them to be regarded as plain new wave or Darkwave. Band members: Jo "La Bête Noire" - guitar, bass, piano, keys, vocals Marianne "Ice Queen" - vox, keys, lyrics Sam - drum machines Ca 1984-1986 Renaat Deferm aka Naat Basswonder - keys Mario Conjaerts - trumpets, percussion Albert Claesen 1985-1987 Paul Vandormael - digital percussion 1987-1989 Herman Sherman - electronics, gitters, programming, sequencing 1987-1987 W X Ray - gitters 1984-1985, 1987 Raymond - the human sequencer 1990-1991 Ludwig - guitar Berre - funky gitters Evana - vocals Paul - bass 1989-1991 Ludo - keys and production Wim - keys during the 1980's RB-line sounds and scapes splicing and dicing.