Marcel’s ‘Basho Basho Basho’ dives into the void with noise-punk fury
Belgian band marcel has dropped their third and final single, ‘basho basho basho,’ offering a wild prelude to their upcoming sophomore album. With just over two weeks until the release of ô fornaiz, this track is a chaotic burst of experimental punk that’s as unhinged as it is thought-provoking.
‘basho basho basho’ hits like a Molotov cocktail of sound—think Motörhead’s relentless drumkit, a doom-heavy bassline, Rowland S. Howard’s razor-sharp guitar, and vocals that scream through a hallucinatory fever dream. Inspired by the Japanese phenomenological idea of basho (場所) from the Kyoto school, the track mocks certainty and dogma while embracing the absurdity of existence. The accompanying video, directed by Patxi Endara and filmed in the Marloie countryside, amplifies this with a tragicomic tale of a woman (Eva Papageorgiou) endlessly searching for treasure, shadowed by apocalyptic horsemen and her own doppelgänger.
The band explains:
“At the heart of this somewhat primitive noise-punk track, the first one we composed for this album, is this insistent, haunting bassline that echoes an image: a black hole, a symbol of creation and destruction, of simultaneous permanence and change. An image that drives you crazy. The ultimate source of heat, which freezes your blood when you try to tackle its mystery. The embodiment of mystery itself, so enormous that it becomes almost hilarious.”
‘Basho Basho Basho’ is out now on your favorite DSP.
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