KILKIL is a free synth punk trio born in 2012 on La Réunion Island, with Pascale (bass/lead
vocals), Charlou (synths/sax/vocals) and Johny (drums).
« Rusty
bases, furious wind arrangements, a menacing obscurantist halo obscuring
everything and a sticky retrofuturistic sensibility that marks Kilkil's
proposal with a different specificity, coming from the past. Between the free,
the avantgarde and the punk with an old Atari console aftertaste.» [Monkey Week
- 2018].
« A
wonderfully bizarre construct of low-toned, left-field sound » [Skye
Mallac, Texx And The City, SA, 2016]
"Bizarroïd Electro-punk flirting with hardcore and free-jazz" [Digit #67 Sylvain Coulon]
A hyperactive trio
After 2 tours in South Africa in 2014 and 2016, year 2018 was intense
for KILKIL: a tour in South Africa in January
(Johannesburg, Pretoria, Stellenbosch, Cape Town), a tour in France 24
july-4 august (Paris, Nantes, Bordeaux, Clermont-Fd, Montpellier, Toulouse,
Marseille), and a tour in Spain 23 November - 2 December (with 2 concerts at
the music market Monkey Week in Sevilla and gigs in Sevilla, Alicante, Valencia, Barcelona). Kilkil was on tour again in 2019 in France / Belgium from the 23d may to the 1st june 2019, with great gigs in le Rockerill (Charleroi) and Le Magneto (Bayonne). Another France / Belgium tour was organized in 2022 (10-28th may).
After their first live demo-EP ‘Kilpat’rock’ in 2013, KILKIL recorded a
studio EP «For You» out in July 2014. In 2016 the new 6-titles EP «Speed» was
released on 10’ blue transparent vinyl with Maudit Tangue label, with a cover
signed by the artist Hippolyte. A new title "Ebola" was released in
December 2017 on the compilation Maudit Tangue #4 (indian ocean rock) and
KILKIL recorded in September 2017 during a residency at Kabardock two new
titles for a split CD split with their Spanish homonyms Kill Kill ! out on the
31st August 2018 on the Maudit Tangue and Miel de Moscas (Spain) labels. Their new LP « In Vain » was released on Maudit Tangue in January 2019.The cover design is by Conrad Botes (Bitterkomix, South Africa). The new KILKIL album "Clermont-Ferrand" has been released on the 23d of October 2021, on Rockerill Records and Maudit Tangue with another great cover design by Conrad Botes.
"The 4 titles of
"For You" are short, direct, creative, and carry a punk and garage
energy [...] Less influenced by punk, « Speed » reveals all the
range of Kilkil's talent" [Blitz !#18].
Their latest offering is
“Speed”, a 6-track EP swimming in low-key distortions and grinding,
punk-infused baselines" [Skye Mallac -Texx And The City-2016]
«
The sound has gained aggressiveness, ../.. and lies right between Devo and The Horrorist
../..and Pascale’s voice reminds the one of Lene Lovitch, for our great
pleasure » [Blitz #27 – 2018 about the EP Reunion Split]
Kilkil likes to play with references ("Ein, Zwei, Polizei") and surprises us by its mixtures: drums and electro rhythms together, saxophone with a Post Punk touch, which work here thoroughly!
Better than a discovery: one of my big musical shocks of 2021! (Bertrand Tappaz, Voix de Garage/Clermont-Ferrand album).
Clermont-Ferrand is a 8-tracks between post-punk and nervous 80’s indus, all in oscillations and sinusoidal loops, raw beats and basic sounds. Kilkil shows that electronic music can be as aggressive as it is hypnotic.(Eric, W-Fenec)
Important stages
Oppikoppi Festival 2014 (South Africa) ; Manapany Festival 2014 (Réunion) ; Rock à La Buse Festival 2017, 2019, 2022 Cité des Arts (Réunion) et 2023 Kerveguen (Réunion) ; tours in South Africa (2014-2016-2018) ; Maudit Tangue Soirée Kabardock 2015 (Réunion) ; résidence / enregistrement / concert avec Kill Kill ! (Espagne) Kabardock 2017 (Réunion) ; Festival Relâche (Bordeaux, France) 2018 ; Festival Monkey Week (Séville, Espagne) 2018; Festival Electropicales (Réunion) 2019, album launch Le Séchoir (Réunion) 2021, TEAT Plein Air St Gilles (Reunion) 2021.
"Kilkil started
playing and my ears perked up and listened intently as they had never heard
such a killer amalgamation before [...] Kilkil blasted through their synth punk
set with a demanding presence, elements of shoegaze in places and in your face
punk in others, a band with a great dynamic, and completely unique!" [THE
GRIND RADIO -Coly Verdelli-01/2016]
Shared stages
MARVIN, BRACCO, LES MORTS VONT BIEN, JESSICA 93, FRUSTRATION, MANGE FERRAILLE, JABUL GORBA,
DOUBLE NELSON, USÉ, NOVA MATERIA [FR], MARIA VIOLENZA [IT], LE PRINCE HARRY [BE],
WASTE, THE GUILT [SWE], MAKE OVERS, CORTINA WHIPLASH, TCIYF [SOUTH AFR.], KILL KILL!, FURIA [SP] THE
HORNY BITCHES [CAN] THE DIZZY BRAINS [MADAGASCAR], FLAT WORMS, KID CONGO POWERS
[USA], BLACKLISTERS [UK]...
