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Awaken is an
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music project based in
Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...
. They released two official albums and numerous demo tapes and web-only singles since their early days in 1988. Not related to the modern Belgian scene at all (such as
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Girls in Hawaii Girls in Hawaii is a Belgian indie pop band. Girls in Hawaii's first release was ''Found in the Ground: The Winter EP'' in early 2003, after which the band toured through Belgium and France. In the meantime, they started recording what would bec ...
), Awaken gained interest from Vietnamese people, after the release of a Vietnamese song, "Chú Mèo Ngủ Quên", and in Japan with the virtual EP "別府NIGHTS". Recently, a cover of a Vietnamese children song "Rửa Mặt Như Mèo" has been recorded and has been heard on Vietnamese internet, though not officially released. Since 2005, Awaken is part of the team of the indies Japanese label It's Oh! Music, based in Miyazaki city.


Name

The name AWAKEN means "a matter of bubbles", according to the Japanese translation: *泡件 (''awaken'') or アワケン in
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*泡件 (''pàojiàn'') in
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Genre

AWAKEN's style mixes
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beats and
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structures,
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arrangements and
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sounds, Belgian
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rhythms and romantic new wave. The instrumentation is often focussed on
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sounds though electric
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are more audible in recent songs. AWAKEN's latest songs have been influenced by various places in
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and the rest of the world : "The Train Is Leaving
Kokura is an ancient castle town and the center of Kitakyushu, Japan, guarding the Straits of Shimonoseki between Honshu and Kyushu with its suburb Moji. Kokura is also the name of the penultimate station on the southbound San'yō Shinkansen lin ...
" mentions
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(小倉) and
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(宇佐), " Beppu Nights" happens in
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(別府), known for its
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of Shuzenji, "Yanagigaura" (柳ヶ浦) evoques the feeling of loneliness in the small city of Yanagigaura and "As A Start : Cà Phê And Pizza" is an imaginary trip from
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and
Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
. The 2009 single "My Last Evening In 大分" / "Chase Around 大分駅" is based on Gilles Snowcat's own memories of the city of Ôita, Japan.


Musicians

Being a project more than a band, different musicians appear following the recordings of the band, some as members and some as guests.


Present musicians (members and guests)

*Irène Csordas: lead voice *Hakim Rahmouni: guitars *Nicolas Leroy: bass *Sébastien Bournier: voice and drums *Trustno1: keyboards *Jean-Paul Hupé: synthesizer programming *PatLap: lead voice and
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*Paul G: electric guitar and lead voice *Trịnh Thanh Duyên: lead
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*日向逸夫先生 (Mr. Hyuga): programming *トゥイちゃん (Tui-Chan): harmony voice and FX *Gilles Snowcat (雪猫ジル): lead voice, synthesizers, keyboards, programming, electric guitar, bass guitar,
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, add.flute


Past musicians (members and guests)

* Fabien Remblier : lead voice and
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*Ced Mattys : bass guitar
Zoé de York
Cedric Hamelrijck, Mike Wolf and Yves Larivierre : guitar *Karo VR : guitar and voice *小西順子さん, Ptit Bout, Julie Absil, Lionel Meessen, Amy Kay, Jenny Quinn, Gautier Elocman, Joëlle Yana, Ambre and Bridge : lead voice *Gina Mainardi, 猪瀬悠理さん, みゆさん, 五味田敬子さん, 福地麗さん, 森紀和子さん, Sophie de York, Evelyne, Anna-Maria and Orely : harmony voice *Floris VDV, Laetitia VDV and Carla : spoken voice *Socre :
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voice *Greg Revel : programming *Hervé Gilles : keyboards *Aurélia Thirion : keyboards and harmony voice *Vincent Trouble :
accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...
*Philippe Tasquin :
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*Elke P :
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*Pol X : guitar, drums and drum machine


Collaboration

*Though independent, AWAKEN is collaborating with Japanese label It's Oh! Music and appears on
J-pop J-pop ( ja, ジェイポップ, ''jeipoppu''; often stylized as J-POP; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively also known simply as , is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1 ...
singer Koiko's CD ''Vitamin!''. *In 1999, AWAKEN was invited twice on stage to perform the song "Last Days Of The Century" with its creator
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. *French TV actor Fabien Remblier recorded several songs with AWAKEN in 2000 and was supposed to be part of the 20th anniversary single in 2008.


Repertoire (original songs and covers)

AWAKEN mixes original songs and covers, a similar attitude to
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earlier. Artists that have been covered by AWAKEN include: *
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Nekokawa (猫川 - Dòng Sông Mèo)

AWAKEN has a side-project named NEKOKAWA since 2002, focussing on the ambient side of its music. NEKOKAWA is 猫川 in
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and Dòng Sông Mèo in
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.


Discography


LPs

*'' Tales Of Acid Ice Cream'' (1 January 1996) *''
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'' (14 February 2001) *''Moko-Moko Collection'' (『モコモコ・コレクション』) (22 February 2012, Gilles Snowcat solo release) *''Nama Time!'' (『生タイム!』) (9 December 2015, Gilles Snowcat solo release, live album)


EPs

*'' Beppu Nights'' (『別府NIGHTS』) (2006) *''This Mouth... (nhạc cho Em Mèo)'' (2008, Gilles Snowcat solo release) *''How Many L Were In Your Name?'' / ''My Last Evening In 大分'' (Awaken version) / ''How Many L Were In Your Name?'' (hi-NRG mix) (2010) *''Yanagigaura'' (『''柳ヶ浦''』) (2010, Gilles Snowcat solo release)


Singles (non-exhaustive listing)

*"One Wild War'' (2002) *"山葵ＫＩＳＳ" (read: Wasabi Kiss) (2003) *"五本木の星" (read: Gohongi No Hoshi) (2003) *"ＤＲＵＮＫＥＮ熊" (read: Drunken Kuma) (2004) *"When Alena Entered The Quiet Room" (2004) *"Chú Mèo Ngủ Quên" (2005) *"As A Start : Cà Phê & Pizza" (2006) *"Áo Dài Màu Hồng" / "Xúp Sô-Cô-La" (2007) *"I Know Time Is Passing By..." / "別府NIGHTS" -disco take- (2008) *"Riding The Yellow Line Gives Vibrations" (2008, Gilles Snowcat solo release) *"The Blue Hanger" (pink disco yellow mix) / "Don't Worry Em Mèo (on the pops)" / "Riding The Yellow Line Gives Vibrations" (still shaking mix) (2009, Gilles Snowcat solo release) *"My Last Evening In 大分" / "Chase Around 大分駅" (2009, Gilles Snowcat solo release) *"Mardi Gras Station" (2017, Gilles Snowcat solo release) *"バレた！" / "エレガントに" / "Three Kinds Of Milk (live)" (2017, Gilles Snowcat solo release)


Tapes

*''Numb'' (March 1993) *''Phase 2'' : Scrappy (September 1993) *''Zéro Sur Dix, Encore Raté !'' (Gilles Snowcat solo, August 1994) *''Awaken 3 : Blurp !'' (January 1995)


Vintage and rare songs (non-exhaustive listing)

*"Polygonal Mirror" (February 1988) *"Sandrine" (rough piano version) (July 1988) *"Interlude 6" (June 1988) *"Memories Of A Teenage Cat" (original studio version) (March 1989) *"Misty Conclusion" (live in studio,
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, Japan) (May 2007)


Contribution to tribute albums

*''You Should Have Listened To AsmL'', tribute albums to
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, 1997 and 2001. *''Lost In The Looking Glass'', tribute album to
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, 2002


''Party In Lyceum's Toilets''

''Party In Lyceum's Toilets'' is the second album by the music project Awaken, released in 2001. This double CD features original songs (volume 1) and covers (volume 2).


History

While its predecessor, '' Tales Of Acid Ice Cream'', was completed in one studio only, ''Party In Lyceum's Toilets'' was recorded on a portable studio that was brought along to meet several musicians in Belgium and France. The first takes come from 1999, as the album was recorded rather slowly.


Controversy

Despite his efforts to introduce the new Awaken as a band, leader Gilles Snowcat fails, as the booklet details show that the quartet hardly plays together on more than six of the 41 tracks. The main
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is then dubbed by 12 additional musicians. In some songs Snowcat plays alone or only with guest musicians, which caused anger from the main singer and the lead guitarist. Apart from the keyboardist, none of the musicians had played on the previous album ''Tales Of Acid Ice Cream''.


Other information

*The album was due to be released in September 2000, then as more songs were added it was postponed to January 2001 but then technical problems made its actual release happen on
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, Awaken divided the two CDs into virtual sides. As a tribute to
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, each "side" of the volume 1 starts with a short piece as
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, except the side 4 (for timing reasons). *The sides 1 and 2 were dedicated to regular songs, side 3 to more
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pieces and side 4 to early Awaken songs from 1988 but recorded properly in 2000. *The song "Bonnie Parker Rêve" was written by a French composer whose family name was the same as Snowcat's first name, which induced some confusion from listeners. It is the only original Awaken song on this album that does not feature Gilles Snowcat in the writing
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. *The song "Four Dreams Suite" starts with the noise of a
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's engine and ends with musical bits recorded in 1988. The song itself is a new take from 2000, since no
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version had been recorded before. *The CD2 is only made of covers, some of them being interludes and into a conceptual shape named "Dark Dream Opera".


Track listing CD 1 (original songs)

*side 1 #Interlude: "Misty Conclusion" #"I'll Disagree" #"Cold As My Heart" #"Carla's Dream" #"Neons Of Lyceum's Toilets" *side 2 #Interlude: "'The True Story Of Maïté D.H." #"Down The Drain" #"Dead In A Subway" #"Cutting My Loved One" #"Spleen Fourteen" *side 3 #Interlude: "Ellen's Orange Room" #"Lycée Nase" (featuring 1030) #"Bonnie Parker Rêve" (featuring Hervé Gilles) #"Britney and Barry" *side 4 #"Electric Time" #"Four Dreams Suite": ''i. Günz (a) Overture ; b) Over The 'A' ; c) Nine Elements Of Life) ii. Polygonal Mirror iii. Rising Forest iv. The Test v. Sweet Wave Of Ice Cream vi. Out Of The Flowerwall vii. Tygersmile viii. Interlude 6 ix. Sandrine x. 8888 xi. Subliminal Mountain xii. The World Where Bears Never Lock The Door xiii. Cucumber Phone xiv. Picture From An April's Dream xv. Lady S xvi. The Last Escape Of Lady S xvii. Dark Spring xviii. Four Dreams Epilogue''


Track listing CD 2 (covers)

*side 1 #"One Caress" (cover from
Depeche Mode Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in Basildon, Essex, in 1980. The band currently consists of Dave Gahan (lead vocals and co-songwriting) and Martin Gore (keyboards, guitar, co-lead vocals and main songwriting). Depeche ...
) #"Eesom" (cover from
Quincy Jones Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, musician, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer. His career spans 70 years in the entertainment industry with a record of 80 Grammy Award n ...
) #"Send My Body Home" (cover from
Dick Annegarn Dick Annegarn (born in The Hague, 6 May 1952) is a Dutch rock singer-songwriter who sings mostly in French, and occasionally in Dutch and English. Discography Albums * '' Sacré Géranium'' (1974) * ''Dicks'' (1974) * ''Je te vois'' (1974) * ' ...
) #"One Thing" (cover from
Neil Young Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian-American singer and songwriter. After embarking on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s, Young moved to Los Angeles, joining Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie Furay ...
) / "Best Kept Lies" (cover from
Cold Chisel Cold Chisel are an Australian pub rock band, which formed in Adelaide in 1973 by mainstay members Ian Moss on guitar and vocals, Steve Prestwich on drums and Don Walker on piano and keyboards. They were soon joined by Jimmy Barnes (at the ...
) *side 2 #"L.A. Is My Lady" (cover from
Frank Sinatra Francis Albert Sinatra (; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor. Nicknamed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Chairman of the Board" and later called "Ol' Blue Eyes", Sinatra was one of the most popular ...
) #"Run Out Of Time" (cover from
Genesis Genesis may refer to: Bible * Book of Genesis, the first book of the biblical scriptures of both Judaism and Christianity, describing the creation of the Earth and of mankind * Genesis creation narrative, the first several chapters of the Book of ...
) #"You're Really Out Of Line" (cover from
Rufus Rufus is a masculine given name, a surname, an Ancient Roman cognomen and a nickname (from Latin ''rufus'', "red"). Notable people with the name include: Given name Politicians * Rufus Ada George (born 1940), Nigerian politician * Rufus Al ...
) / "Golden Age Dreams" (cover from
Vanilla Fudge Vanilla Fudge is an American rock band known predominantly for their slow extended heavy rock arrangements of contemporary hit songs, such as their hit cover of The Supremes' "You Keep Me Hangin' On". The band's original line–up—vocalist a ...
) / "I'm Gonna Love You" (cover from
Peter Criss George Peter John Criscuola (born December 20, 1945), better known by his stage name Peter Criss, is a retired American musician, best known as a co-founder, original drummer, and vocalist of the hard rock band Kiss (band), Kiss. Criss establi ...
) / "Heart of Me" (cover from
Cerrone Marc Cerrone Daryl Easlea, "Supernature Boy", ''Record Collector'', #502, February 2020, pp.60-63 (, ; born 24 May 1952) is a French disco drummer, composer, record producer and creator of concert shows. Cerrone is a producer of 1970s and 1980 ...
) *side 3 #"Nothing Else Matters" (cover from
Metallica Metallica is an American heavy metal band. The band was formed in 1981 in Los Angeles by vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich, and has been based in San Francisco for most of its career. The band's fast tempos, instrume ...
) #"Chrysalide" (cover from
Patrick Juvet Patrick Juvet (21 August 1950 – ca. 1 April 2021) was a Swiss model and singer-songwriter, who had a string of hit records in Europe. While his early career was focused on making pop records, he found international success as a disco music p ...
) / "Open The Kingdom" (cover from
Philip Glass Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been associated with minimal music, minimalism, being built up fr ...
) / "The Dance" (cover from Uriah Heep) #"Sweet Thing" (cover from
David Bowie David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie ( ), was an English singer-songwriter and actor. A leading figure in the music industry, he is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the ...
) *side 4 : "A dark dream opera in 12 acts" #"Koyaanisqatsi" (cover from
Philip Glass Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been associated with minimal music, minimalism, being built up fr ...
) / " Shandi" (cover from
KISS A kiss is the touch or pressing of one's lips against another person or an object. Cultural connotations of kissing vary widely. Depending on the culture and context, a kiss can express sentiments of love, passion, romance, sexual attraction, ...
) / "This Is Love" (cover from Tony Banks) #Interlude: "Clouds And Rain" (cover from Gillan & Glover) #"In Search Of England" (cover from
Barclay James Harvest Barclay James Harvest are an English progressive rock band. They were founded in Oldham, in September 1966 by bassist/vocalist Les Holroyd (b. 1948), guitarist/vocalist John Lees (b. 1947), drummer/percussionist Mel Pritchard (1948–2004), a ...
) #"Tyger" (cover from
Tangerine Dream Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music band founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The group has seen many personnel changes over the years, with Froese having been the only constant member until his death in January 2015. The best-known lineup ...
) / "Everybody" (cover from Jacksons) #"Sweet Dream Machine" / "Come Into My Life" / "Love I Never Knew You Could Feel So Good" (covers from
Supremes The Supremes were an American girl group and a premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s. Founded as the Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, in 1959, the Supremes were the most commercially successful of Motown's acts and the most successful ...
) #"Something I Should Have Known" (cover from Matthew Fisher) #"Taking It Back" (cover from Toto) #Interlude: "Jazzy" (cover from Renaud Lhoest) #"Young Girls" (cover from
Sparks Sparks may refer to: Places *Sparks, Georgia * Sparks, Kansas *Sparks, Kentucky *Sparks, Maryland * Sparks, Nebraska *Sparks, Nevada *Sparks, Oklahoma *Sparks, Texas * Sparks, Bell County, Texas * Sparks, West Virginia Books * ''Sparks'' (Raffi ...
) #Interlude: "(Theme) Once Upon A Time" (cover from
Donna Summer LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948May 17, 2012), known professionally as Donna Summer, was an American singer and songwriter. She gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s and became known as the " Queen of Disco", while her mus ...
) #"Only The Fool Survives" (cover from
Donna Summer LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948May 17, 2012), known professionally as Donna Summer, was an American singer and songwriter. She gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s and became known as the " Queen of Disco", while her mus ...
) #"Hearts To Heart" / "Moonwalk" (covers from
Earth Wind & Fire Earth, Wind & Fire (EW&F or EWF) is an American band whose music spans the genres of jazz, R&B, soul, funk, disco, pop, big band, Latin, and Afro pop. They are among the best-selling bands of all time, with sales of over 90 million ...
) #"Here Today" (cover from
Paul McCartney Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer, songwriter and musician who gained worldwide fame with the Beatles, for whom he played bass guitar and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John Lennon. One ...
) #"The Candidate" (cover from
Al Stewart Alastair Ian Stewart (born 5 September 1945) is a Scottish born singer-songwriter and folk-rock musician who rose to prominence as part of the British folk revival in the 1960s and 1970s. He developed a unique style of combining folk-rock so ...
) #"Until..." (cover from
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)


Musicians

*Lionel Meessen : voice *Cedric Hamelrijck : guitar, additional drum programming *Julie 'Cunégonde' Absil : voice *Gilles Snowcat : keyboards, machines, bass guitar, voice, additional acoustic guitar, drum programming, tapes


Guest musicians

*Carla : dream voice * Fabien Remblier : voice, bass guitar *Paul G : guitar, voice *Socre :
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voice *Patrick Laplagne : guitar *Mike Wolf : guitar *Orely : voice *Anna-Maria : voice *Evelyne : voice *Hervé Gilles : keyboards and programming *Laetitia Van der Vennet : spoken voice *Floris Van der Vennet : spoken voice


Design

Gilles Snowcat, Awaken, Patrick Laplagne, 1030 (Socre), Peter Clasen.


Availability

Online. Catalog number : awalp-002


Outtakes

Three songs had been completely recorded but finally dumped : *"Dream Shapes On A Night Movie" : a progressive dance track. *"Interlude : Still Today / I'm 9" : an interlude that was supposed to open the side 4 of CD1, but rejected for timing reasons. *"Electric Time" : an alternate version, played and sung by Snowcat only, that was rejected to make place for a totally different take played by the whole group. Other songs have been worked but never fully recorded : a cover version of
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's "The Party" and
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' "Big Generator" being on the list. Other Awaken songs were planned to appear but not chosen on the final list and not even recorded at all. Most of the tapes have been deleted, which means a future remix without the songs fading out has become impossible to do.


References


External links

*AWAKEN / Gilles Snowca
official siteIt's Oh! Music
official site *SOUSBOC
official site


Reviews


Coast To Coast


: mention of AWAKEN's covers of the
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' "Until..." {{DEFAULTSORT:Awaken Belgian rock music groups