VOMITO NEGRO:

: arisen from the curse, which rests on the last stage of yellow fever.

: The musical collaboration between Guy Van Mieghem and Gin Devo already took off way back in 1983, and over the past years they established a name for themselves as uncompromising aural architects, combining power with emotion, trance with vision.

: VOMITO NEGRO is latin (portuguese/spanish) for “black vomit”, a phenomenon that arises in the last stage of the disease yellow fever, when the patient throws up his putrefied intestines and ultimately dies. Macabre? One might consider the duo´s interest in the darker side of the human condition as unhealthy, but in fact it´s fuelled by a desire to cope with and to understand life (and consequently, death) as we know it. Guy Van Mieghem and Gin Devo handle their topics with grim sarcasm and/or penetrating personal involvement; under the surface however, they give way to a message of redemption, passion and purification.

: From the start on, flexibility is one of the duo´s major qualities. They never are content with a certain formula: their musical approach, essentially based on the European “Industrialist” tradition of the early eighties, takes a different angle with every record. Tracing back their history through albums as diverse as 'Vomito Negro' (their haunting debut from 1985) to 'Wake Up' (1992) one hears growth and evolution in Vomito Negro´s varied soundscapes. Their impressive, synthesized psychodramas range from danceable to contemplative, from instrumental to and ambient to voice-ridden and brutal. Live, the sound and the imagery of the group´s stage are an inescapable force setting alight the imagination of the listener/spectator.

: Vomito Negro established to be one of the most important Industrial European bands of the last decade. They built up a great following over the years. Lots of new bands following the same musical direction, Bootlegs, Compilations Bootlegs with bands like Front 242, Front Line Assembly, Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, Klinik an lots of other bands prove that Vomito Negro is one of the bands who made electronic music great in Europe.

: But Vomito Negro has to be seen like an open structure, over he past years, lots of musicians worked together with this duo, 'A Split Second'- Chrismar Chayell (producer), Poésie Noire – Ludo Camberlin (producer), Revolting Cocks – Luck Van Acker (live mix), Dirk Ivens (Klinik, Dive, Sonar), Mario Varewijck (Insekt, Lowpass), Eric Van Wontergem (Klinik, Insekt, Monolith), Andy Szava-Kovats (Data Bank A, Dominion), Mark Lane (Mark Lane band), Slin Thompson (Psyche), Peter Dillen (classical musician), Dimitri and Stefan Van Elsen (ambient, acid and house production team)

This text provided by Guy Van Mieghem.

EPILOGUE

In '92 Guy Van Mieghem suffered many fractures (32 fractures, 8 of them exposed) in his left arm due to a violent car accident, thus he had to stay away for all those years to restore his arm with 12 operations, from '92 to '96.

Nowadays they are experimenting with many musical styles, as some may have noticed in the last compilation appearances (eg: Digital Space Between and Sound Line 7), this is the reason why they are taking so much time to release something new.

The two side projects, Blok 57 and Full Dynamic Range, are not abandoned, but waiting for the oportunities when they will come back to activity. A new release is planned for this year, but nothing has been confirmed about the name of the project or what is it going to sound like.

Renato Z.