Zita Swoon

Zita Swoon came out of Antwerp's crowded, cross-pollinated scene, where everybody seems to play in three bands at once, and I Paint Pictures on a Wedding Dress, in 1998, shows how much ground they could cover. "My Bond With You And Your Planet: Disco!" is exactly what the title promises: a loose, funky, faintly cosmic dance groove from a band that treats genre as a suggestion.

The group started in 1993 as A Beatband, founded by singer, musician and composer Stef Kamil Carlens with drummer Aarich Jespers; Carlens also played in dEUS. They made their next record as Moondog Jr. in 1995, but a legal dispute over the Moondog name with Louis T. Hardin forced a change, and Zita Swoon it became: zita for intensity, swoon for desire. Tom Pintens on guitar and keyboards and Tomas De Smet on bass and double bass rounded out the early lineup.

That Moondog Jr. record got them onto the bills at Lowlands, Pinkpop and Rock Werchter, and in 1998 they made their American debut at South by Southwest. In early 1999 the Flemish government named them Cultural Ambassador of Flanders, a title previously held by dEUS. The band called it a day in 2017.

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