Alternative Singer-Songwriter Rodolphe Coster and BAND Pay Tribute in Poignant New Single “Gilles Memory”

Ten days ahead of the release of High with High People, their first album, Rodolphe Coster and BAND are releasing today a new single soberly titled “Gilles Memory.” Recorded at the legendary studio G in Brooklyn, Rodolphe’s voice expresses a poetic and heartbreaking tribute full of pain, love and rage to Gilles L., a friend of Rodolphe who tragically died during the attacks in Brussels in 2016. Speaking about the tragedy inspiring the song, Coster explains: “Gilles L was a friend I met during my art studies in Brussels. We were both outsiders from the south of the country. Both of us had come to art late in life. He had first been a cook, I had first thought that I could become a philosopher. Gilles studied sound, I studied theatre, and we got to know each other thanks to our respective re...

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