Fan Club Orchestra

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Fan Club Orchestra is based in Brussels, Belgium. Lawrence Le Doux‘s improvisational band Fan Club Orchestra (FCO) re-turns with their first album in 11 years via 12th Isle. FCO is composed of Lawrence Le Doux, Ann Appermans on guitar and bass, and Zéphyr Zijl-stra on trumpet. Fan Club Orchestra (FCO) has its roots in collaborative performances and recordings that began taking place in the late nineties in Brussels. These continued into the second decade of the new millennium around Belgium and neighbouring countries. At a time when large contemporary arts spaces were less professionalised, less obedient to funding and attendance num-bers, and still tuned to their founding DIY impulses, FCO were able to nurtu-re their nebulous cast of players with their unconventional ensemble of in-struments to their own ends. The apparent informality of their performances, mixed with the sheer spectacle of their unfolding, transplanted the experi-mentalism of New York’s downtown scene of the 1960s—think La Monte Young—into the cracked consumer electronics period of new media art at the turn of the century. FCO’s highly improvisational performances could take the form of chaotic jam sessions that approached freeform noise from a psychedelic rock per-spective, replete with spontaneous vocalisations and lyrics. More enduring, however, was their take on drone music. FCO would use a medley of Game Boys—an 8-bit handheld gaming device from Nintendo that was disconti-nued in 2003—and their ca

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Sun Papa And The Fan Club Orchestra Vol. 1 & Vol. 2

VL_Stay

CD Is Future

Childish Music

Sun Papi and the Fan Club Orchestra Vol. 1 & Vol. 2

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CD Is Future LP

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Sun Papa and the Fan Club Orchestra Volumes 1 and 2

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Sun Papa and the Fan Club Orchestra, Vol. 1 & Vol. 2

An Insane Portrait (2025 Remaster)

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