Lesoir Release Their Epic Live Performance Of 'Babel'

The new record will be out 10th February 2022 – another animation video will follow!

Art rock band Lesoir made a virtue of necessity in the quiet but turbulent lockdown period and in 2020 started working on something that would then become an ‘interim project’ for the band. Recorded at various locations in South Limburg (NL), the resulting 20-minute and 20-second epic grew into a full-fledged addition to the band’s already existing repertoire.

Now, a live video of their exclusive Babel performance, which was recorded last summer, is available!

Under the name Babel, Lesoir presents its first epic journey on which the band shows itself from its most melodic side, deepening the sound of their previous album Mosaic and mastering their creativity.

Babel sketches the experience of the disaster year 2020, in which nature takes back what has been taken from her through pandemics, forest fires and floods. Using the story of the Tower of Babel as a metaphor, a powerful epic emerges from a fragile song, after which the atmosphere changes and escalates into a musical explosion.

Lesoir’s creation will be released on vinyl, handmade and limited to only 250 pcs. Each piece is numbered and on request signed by the band.

BABEL (LIVE) was a one-time only performance, together with their friends Ferry ‘Punto’ Duijsens, Janneke Meessen, Eurasia Quartet, Ramon Reijnders, Camila Cipoletta.

Music written by Ingo Dassen, lyrics by Maartje Meessen
Poem by Stuart Watkins
Strings by Eurasia Quartet & Camila Cipoletta

Lesoir:
Maartje Meessen – Vocals / Piano / Flute
Eleën Bartholomeus – Guitar / Synth / Backing Vocals
Ingo Dassen – Guitar / Beats programming
Bob Van Heumen – Drums / Percussion / Backing Vocals
Ingo Jetten – Bass / Pedalsteel / Guitar / Backing Vocals

Guitar, bass & string recordings by Jamshid Mahmoudy
Vocal & drum recordings by Ingo Jetten
Produced & mixed by Lesoir & John Cornfield
Mastering by Steve Kitch

Artwork by Daria Khmyzova