Brusque Twins

Brusque Twins are a Montreal classic man / woman duo, a format that has prooved succesful in many ways before, even more in electronic music. They formed at the end of last year and they've been sending songs to some blogs and putting on a live show since they got the attention of new label Physical Release, who will release their first EP, a limited to 50 handmade CDR, soon to be available for order through their website and containing Our Love between other songs. They perform a kind of introspective minimal disco that sometimes is so minimal it doesn't even have a beat as on the cover of Brian Eno's By This River, one of my favourite songs of all times. - Seven Noises

brusque twins are a two piece based in montreal, consisting of hollie hensman and derek george. they just finished their first bunch of songs and already gained a few spots in the places to be (shout outs to 88 days in my veins and transparent). here are two tracks ranging somewhere in between disco and ambient, hot on the heels of parallels and chromatics but with a very unique and charming twist.
...the band is currently working on their live show and searching for a label. so, dear label employees, just do it like you did it in the past, head straight over from discodust to the brusque twins myspace and get in touch! - Discodust

Wonderful! Dropped into my inbox a few days ago AND NOBODY has yet posted. Awesome.
Encompassing all that Nite Jewel stand for with added deepness stolen from the world of disco but with a beautiful undertone of ambient. Perfect for late night evenings creating HTML godliness. Of the four tracks we’ve been sent - it’s tough to post just one, or even two as they’re all aces. Just about pipping it is:
Brusque Twins are from Montreal and go by the names of HH and DFJ. Metadata says: D George & H Hensman - 88 Days In My Veins

Check out this twitchy, black-eyed zombie-dance jam from Montreal’s BRUSQUE TWINS in which we encounter yet another unnaturally pure set of pipes, although this time they belong not to a mystic maiden of the lovelorn imagination but to an undead attractive femme fatale type – an eerily ethereal chant emanting from the depths of the dark, labrynthian recesses of the song’s mesmeric synth layering and sparse, severe beat with the bloody-mouthed lure to sin of “I’ll wait all night”. This is totally stark, compelling and strangely romantic stuff that you ought to lose yourself in for a while. Lie down in the darkness. - Transparent Blog

I’ve been meaning to tell you about the Brusque Twins‘ wonderful music for a couple of weeks now since I first heard of them, but life’s interruptions delayed it. Lucky for us all, these songs’ timeless beauty will be welcome on any day. - Patricia Furpurse

Brusque Twins’ ‘Black and Without Eyes’ brings to mind Jonathan Harker’s excursions into the forbidden sections of Dracul’s rotten manor, orchestral manoeuvres of a deathly ballet which begin down dusty corridors decorated with faded portraits projecting holographic memories of the father replicant, and continue into the boudoir that precedes damned bliss, past a door of heavy oak into a bedroom where the Wives lure the meek Englishman with mesmerising chants like venus flytraps of undead flesh, synthetic stabs stand for the caress of fangs against puritan skin, staccato drum machines for lusty foreplay against animated mannequins.

It would all be a wonderful tale of sexual awakening if it wasn’t for the fact that this millenial succubi are Satan’s own whores, weaned on the tender flesh of innocent babies. - 20 Jazz Funk Greats

Hugely under the thumb of this mutilated new weirdo-dance jam by Montreal’s RETURNING BRUSQUE TWINS. Hot of face and heavy of heart, gleaming stickily under glacially bright lights, “Our Love” is fraught with tension – part Saturday night sweatsoaked dancefloor-humper, part gloomily romantic epic. It’s a duality that’s kept up until the midway mark when the song’s smokey, disorientating synth washes are bent into a glorious skywards string motif that breaks through the propulsive bassline’s horny grind like a deluge of pure 6AM sin-exploding sunlight bursting through a club roof. - Transparent Blog

Band feature and performance at Musique Plus - Musique Plus

WARMER MIXTAPES #114 | by Hollie Hensman and Derek George of Brusque Twins

This is called 20 Favorite Songs Of All Time (Right Now). We must say we found this process a little difficult and the results are a little embarrassing (if not unintelligible). But, it was definitely a worthwhile endeavor. By the way, our room mate took our pic.

1. Harold Budd | Sandtreader
Amazingly tranquil and warm. This track transports you into outer space. Floating in awe without gravity. A beautiful sound lull.

2. Cloud One | Atmosphere Strut
From out of the lull, fall into the decidedly different space occupied by Mr. Patrick Adams. This man was responsible for a number of disco hits in the 70’s and 80’s. Cloud One was a studio only project and their records aren’t easy to find. I was very excited when I tracked this 12” down in Montreal a few months ago. We’re gonna fly away…

3. Arthur Russell | Springfield
Lord and master of pretty and weird sounds. Springfield is a thoroughly mangled disco track. The awkwardness of his voice coupled with the melancholy melody reminds me of trying to get action when I was 13 years old.

4. Prince | Uptown
This is my favorite Prince song. Has this endearing lo-fi charm.

5. Siouxsie & The Banshee’s | Red Light
Sexy deep synth and vocals. Something about the beat really strikes me in an animalistic way.

6. Deux | Polaroid-Roman-Photo
Another song about cameras. We love songs about cameras! Actually, we love French-Synth-Wave. I draw inspiration from the way in which a lot of these bands mixed electronic and punk aesthetics.

7. Goblin | Suspiria
This is the first song I heard from Goblin. It encompasses my love for all that is dark without crossing over into the realm of hard. Quite possibly the best movie theme of all time. Definitely the best horror theme. We love Goblin.

8. Severed Heads | Dead Eyes Opened
More lo-fi love. These are the sounds of sloshing liquid mixed with Uncle Bernstable mixed with a water fountain light show.

9. Steve Reich | Different Trains
Mind blowing. Life changing. Completely changed the way I view music. I can actually visualize the layers of music unfolding.

10. Neil Young & Crazy Horse | Hey Hey My My (Into The Black)
I could pretty much put any Neil Young song in here. However, I love this harder, more distorted side of him.

+11. Fleetwood Mac | Dreams
In a perfect world it’s 1977 and everyone is drunk in a hug circle singing along to this song at the top of their lungs with frizzy hair and bellbottoms. Complete no-brainer.

+12. The Isley Brothers | Voyage To Atlantis
It’s still 1977. You can’t front on the Isley’s - the gods of urban music. I think a good portion of 30 something’s were conceived to this track. The chorus just slays it: I’ll always come back to you. Complemented perfectly by that intertwining guitar melody. Atlantis!

+13. Shalamar | There It Is
Probably the most popular group on Dick Griffey’s Solar Record label. These guys really perfected that early 80’s post-disco aesthetic. Probably our favorite sound right now. I love you Howard Hewitt. I love you Jody Whatley. I love you Jeffrey Daniel.

+14. Aurra | Make Up Your Mind
Another track from the boogie era. This is just sweet.

+15. Master C & J | When You Hold Me
This track gives me goosebumps. It causes involuntary movement and/or pregnancy (note: this can be applied to anyone of their songs). So good.

+16. Cabaret Voltaire | Nag, Nag, Nag
These guys were always doing something interesting. This song is like a pie in the face. Abrupt, creamy and delicious.

+17. Malaria! | Kaltes Klares Wasser
Malaria! were the shit. They were one of the main inspirations for starting Brusque Twins. Amazingly androgynous sound. Something I aspire to...

+18. The Delfonics | Over And Over
I love their guys voices and the progression of this song. It climaxes like a volcano erupting. Funnily, I find the plaintive chorus somehow uplifting.

+19. Popol Vuh | Through Pains To Heaven II
We love being scared. Haunting voices fill your ears, still leaving an air of come hither cult. Which leads us to...

+20. Aphex Twin | Rhubarb
A divine blend of calming and creepy. This is the perfect song to fall asleep to. It invokes so much emotion I could easily cry every time I listen to it. It’s almost as if there is an Armenian monastic choir chanting and harmonizing my soul into purgatory.
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