Birth of Joy is a Dutch rock band, founded in 2005 at the Utrecht-based Herman Brood Academy. After many live

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in the Netherlands, the band was signed by Dutch indie label

Suburban Records Suburban Records is a record label based in the Netherlands. In 1999 Suburban Records, the inhouse label of Suburban Marketing & Distribution was created giving a home to bands like Peter Pan Speedrock, El Guapo Stuntteam, Hermano, Astrosoniq, M ...

following a performance at the Zwarte Cross Festival in 2011. After further shows at the

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and the

Eurosonic Noorderslag ESNS (Eurosonic Noorderslag) is an annual four-day music showcase festival and conference held in January in Groningen, the Netherlands. The first three days of the festival (Eurosonic) feature artists from all over Europe, the last day of the f ...

festival in

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, supported by

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, the group became known outside the Netherlands. The band played their (provisional) last concert on 3 January 2019 in Paradiso, Amsterdam, after more than 1300 live performances in the Netherlands, Europe and the US.

Music

The band's music is influenced by the blues and psychedelic rock scene of the late 1960s and early 1970s, but also borrowed from rock 'n' roll and boogie-woogie. The band chose L'Ubu club in Rennes, France (city of the

) to record a live album during two evenings (29 and 30 January 2015).

Band name

The band's name is a reference to Friedrich Nietzsche's ''

The Birth of Tragedy ''The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music'' () is an 1872 work of dramatic theory by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. It was reissued in 1886 as ''The Birth of Tragedy, Or: Hellenism and Pessimism'' (). The later edition contai ...

''.

Discography

* ''Make Things Happen'' (CD, 2010, self-published) * ''Make Things Happen'' (EP, 2011 Suburban Records) * ''Make Things Happen'' (CD, 2011, Suburban Records, new cover design) * ''Life in Babalou'' (LP + CD, 2012 Suburban Records) * ''The Sound of Birth of Joy'' (Compilation, CD, 2013, Modulor / Grand Palais) * ''Prisoner'' (LP + CD, 2014, SPV/Long Branch, Suburban Records) * ''Live at Ubu'' (3LP + 2CD, 2015) * ''Get Well'' (LP + CD, 2016, Suburban Records) * ''Hyper Focus'' (LP, 2018, Glitterhouse Records)

References

External links

* * {{Authority control Dutch rock music groups Long Branch Records artists