“Brussels-based power trio Don Kapot are set to release new EP Remedy on the 15th November via W.E.R.F. Records with a six-date UK to follow”. Power Trio doesn’t really do it though, they’re more than that, this is hard boiled experimental goodness, a lifeboat of angular, bendy, punctuated free jazz, afrobeat and just a hint of krautpunk sailed by Giotis Damianidis (bass), Viktor Perdieus (baritone saxophone) and Jakob Warmenbol (drums), Remedy is the first in a series of three EPs to be released over the coming months and follows the release of their critically acclaimed album I Love Tempo in 2023.

Seems the threesome spent three days in the studio earlier this year, the resulting tracks showcase Don Kapot’s love of using a wide range of instruments including bass, drums and tenor saxophone, evolving their sound into a solid complex rhythmic wave against “a Death Grips-style hip-hop backdrop and demented samples” – Death Grips? Well yes, it is, as we said already, hard boiled, those textures are there, that musical desire, actually they’ve gone a little Gong right now at the end Bascule

“EP opener Bascule has an organological peculiarity that is immediately apparent; Perdieus’ oboe manifesting in a deep trance. Elsewhere, Buskruit (Dutch for gunpowder) is a volcanic mix of bass and drums while Remedy is a disparate mix of samples, beats and oddities” and I’m bluffing here as I dance around the architecture of the press release that comes with this very colourful three tracker. Too restrained to be considered urgent, there is an urgency though, a vital musical urgency that runs through all three tracks, a positive challenge. It is all very very listenable, in this case hard-boiled does not mean a difficult listen, all three tracks are deliciously enjoyable and that open of Buskruit is almost funk, classic afrobeat Ginger Baker style, Buskruit is brilliant. 

Remedy meanwhile is just a warm feeling in your belly,red green and purple, it is falling upstairs, give me the remedy, it awkwardly good.      
 
Releasing their self-titled debut album in 2018 via Mr. Nakayasi Records, Don Kapot signed to Flemish record label W.E.R.F. Records in 2021, releasing four albums under the label and have performed sold-out shows across Belgium and the Netherlands.
 
The players in Don Kapot also extend their musical adventures to other projects. Damianidis leads Punk Kong and has performed with Akira Sakata, Sakis Papadimitriou, Oghene Kologbo, Tony Allen, Baba Ani, Balasz Pandi and Gonzalo Almeida among others. Warmenbol was a member of The Unrevealed Society, Robbing Millions and M(h)ysteria. He also performs with Ruth Tafebe & the Afrosoul Messengers (with Giotis), Under The Reefs Orchestra and Monolithe Noir. Perdieus performs in Punk Kong and with Pompelmoes and The Milk Factory and took part in Ifa y Xango, Laia Arkestra, Bolhaerd, Nest and VVolk. He has also recorded and played with Andrew Cyrille (Bambi Pang Pang).
 
The band will embark on a six-date UK tour at the end of November.
 
Tour Dates
19.11 – Bristol – The Gallimaufry
20.11 – Birmingham – Pan Pan
21.11 – Newcastle – Cobalt Studios
22.11 – Falmouth – The Cornish Bank
25.11 – London – New Cross Inn
26.11 – Hull – The New Adelphi Club