AFTERMARS is a Berlin based band, with Sébastien Brault on vocals and keyboard, Thomas Jocher on trumpet and Tom Früchtl on guitars.

AFTERMARS could not play "regular" music if they wanted to. In that sense, they echo the punk credo "skill sucks, attitude rocks". But for AFTERMARS musical genres -including "punk"- are like words in a dictionary, from which sentences are made. And skill is not irrelevant - rather, it is subverted to the urgency of pulling a song out of thin air, whatever the circumstances. Yes, it's improvised music, but what drives it is life rather than music.
At times subtle, at times almost unbearable, AFTERMARS always open up a new can of worms - be they ear-worms, or flesh-eating ones...

AFTERMARS' love/hate relationship with popular music is more schizophrenic than cynical: the songs steer from romantic Synth-Pop to pounding Electro-Noise, through hints of Metal and Acid-Jazz, without ever loosing a genuine sense of urgency.
Singer Sébastien Brault croons and screams, while using the presets of a toy-keyboard to sail from genre to genre, through waves of Metal power-chords by guitarist Tom Früchtl. Trumpetist Thomas Jocher comments from above like a mocking seagull.
The songs are composed live in real time.

AFTERMARS plays synth-pop-punk-pseudo-post-industrial-neo-hardcore-noise-country-no-no-wave-low-fi-folk music.

Sébastien Brault sings and plays a keyboard Yamaha PortaSound PSS-570.
He has produced a large collection of music through the years, in the context of different bands or solo projects.
Sébastien Brault previously founded POP MODEL (2007-2008), and FLUX INFORMATION SCIENCES (In New York, 1997-2001, with Tristan Bechet). Flux Information Sciences' 4th album, PRIVATE/PUBLIC, was produced by Michael Gira on his label YOUNG GOD RECORDS.

Thomas Jocher plays the trumpet and may sing sometimes.

Tom Früchtl plays Guitar

 

Aftermars on Bandcamp

SEB's music

AFTERMARS on FaceBook

Flux Information Sciences Official website, and on wikipedia

POP MODEL on myspace

Thomas Jocher: thomasjocher.com

Tom Früchtl: tomfruechtl.com