Brussels-based Edouard van Praet shakes things up with ‘Mascarades’, a debut album where rock flirts with electro without ever allowing itself to be confined by the codes of one or the other. Between haunted Tom Waits-style ballads and feverish techno blasts, he blurs the boundaries between genres with disconcerting ease. An iconoclastic and eclectic approach, but consistent in his constant quest for adventure. On stage, the energy is raw, the show wild, oscillating between rock, glam and techno in controlled chaos. With his attitudes of damned crooner and mannered punk, Edouard imposes a magnetic stage signature that leaves no one indifferent.