IAN - THE INGÉNIEUR Vocals, guitars, synth programming, excessive sarcasm...the whole nine yards.
RYAN - BASS Bass, snarky comments, À Rebours PR, and other useful roles.
NATE - DRUMS Excellent drums, backing vox, and unsettling tempo accuracy.
HONKUS - MINIATURE AUTOMATIC PHONOGRAPH Live backing synth and additional percussion.
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Influences
Musicians:
Abney Park, Bauhaus, Bethany Curve, The Birthday Massacre, The Blackheart Procession, David Bowie, Nick Cave, Frédéric Chopin, Covenant, Clan of Xymox, The Crüxshadows, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Diabolique, Dream Theater, Duran Duran, The Faint, Fates Warning, The Gathering, Gazpacho, Hednoize, Jean Michel Jarre, Johnny Hollow, Joy Division, Orgy, Psykosonik, Queen, Queensrÿche, R.A.M., Rosetta Stone, The Sisters of Mercy, Slowdive, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Smiths, Switchblade Symphony, Steve Vai, Voltaire, The Wake, and anything else I've ever heard and liked.
Artists:
Banksy, Jean Béraud, Mahlon Blaine, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Edgar Degas, Tommy Genest, Edward Gorey, Edward Hopper, Victor Horta, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Albert Maignan, Edouard Manet, Vincent Marcone, Henri Matisse, Junko Mizuno, Alphonse Mucha, Jean-Francois Raffaëlli, Odilon Redon, Pierre-August Renoir, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent Van Gogh, Arthur Zaidenburg.
Writers:
Clive Barker, Charles Baudelaire, John Berger, Mahmoud Darwish, Robert Desnos, T.S. Eliot, Michel Foucault, William Gibson, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Jean Kilbourne, H.P. Lovecraft, Chuck Palahniuk, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Pynchon, Salman Rushdie, William Shakespeare, Kurt Vonnegut, Oscar Wilde.
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Sounds Like
Phantoms from the æther haunting Nikola Tesla's workshop, whereupon their EVP were captured on phonograph cylinders that turned up over a century later in a trunk in the back of an opium den, discovered therein by a goth rock band who just happened to own a machine of alien design that played, of all things, those cylinders.
À Rebours is a musical dream-machine fueled by a combination of several different genres--goth, shoegaze, darkwave, electro, and hard rock--all colliding under a dark, melancholy umbrella. Aiming to extend beyond the borders of genre, this pastiche of many elements creates something familiar, but creatively unique for the listener. À Rebours is a message from outer space, a Victorian Romance, a walk through 20's Berlin, a haunting, a dark rock epic, a Tesla experiment, and an overcast day all in one.
The creative mind behind À Rebours is Ian Stone, a lifelong artist and musician. Having bounced from one band to another throughout the nineties, all populated with flaky musicians, aimless ideas and nonexistent goals, Ian struck out on his own in 2003 and formed À Rebours (French for "Against the Grain"). Signed to Final Joy Records out of Phoenix, AZ in 2006, À Rebours' debut album, "Vanish" was released in Sept. of 2007 and has received critical acclaim in both goth and rock circles for its mix of spooky, dreamlike ambience, progressive songwriting, creative lyrics and fresh guitar playing. Songs from Vanish have received airplay all over the world. Have you "Vanished" yet?
À Rebours' lineup is rounded out by accomplished jazz/prog-rock bassist Ryan Holmes, and drum guru Nathan McDowell. Their technical dexterity, musical training and repertoire of tasteful technique bring the music up to another level altogether. À Rebours simply MUST be seen live...hope to see you there!
Your VANISHing isn't complete until you've enveloped yourself in À REBOURS' SWAG:
À Rebours 4"x4" Vinyl Sticker $1.00
À Rebours 1.5" Vanish Button $1.00
À Rebours 1.5" Machine Button $1.00
À Rebours 1.25" Logo Button $1.00
À Rebours Logo T-Shirt $15.00
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Thank you Ian you are too kind of a great person. How is your summer going so far? I also can't wait for the new album and see you play as well. I am very exicted to see you. I hope that life is treating you well and that your summer is fill with great concerts and experiences
Hello, I hope your summer is going fine for you. Also i wanna tell you that i wrote about you guys in my blog. Do not worry it is good news just saying that you guys are one of the few true goth bands that has a certain feeling to them. That feeling is just...amazing sound by amazing people..A Rebours you are one of my GOTHIC gods-The raven.
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