Kashual Plastik / Germany / 2026 / CS
Karen Willens - Fancy cannot cheat
Ten arrangements, dialogues, compositions. Direct, diverse, dating you quietly, never naming the act. They arrive on tape, twisted sided. Shaped by Belgian drummer and sonic wanderer Karen Willems. A mover between scenes. Breaker of frames. Restless in sound. She likes to step into that space, where you can push, strike, remain in motion. Where curiosity earns its name by never staying the same. “Fancy cannot cheat” is title for her latest beat. There is ambient breath. There is classic stretched. Always hidden someplace afar fixed definition. You hear birds sing. And her. Weeping in tone, sorrow-pop, at times hysteric, made for heartbroken optimists, zoning in endless imagination. Lots of space between the notes, too. Percussive drones jazzing odd districts. Drama melodies, crying chants, electric glitches. Post-punk, newborn and dubbed in shadow. In-between, industrial bone machines, at times maritime riding. Awake and asleep. Always in that zone, where sound carves itself into story. We meet you there, at Twin Peaks, in hi-heels.