Ghinzu

Ghinzu
Ghinzu live in Strasbourg, France, April 2009
Background information
Origin	Brussels, Belgium
Genres	Alternative rock
Labels	PIAS
Website	http://www.ghinzu.com
Members	John Stargasm Mika Nagazaki Greg Remy Antoine Michel Jean Waterlot
Past members	Sanderson Poe Fabrice George Kris Dane

Ghinzu is an alternative rock band founded in 1999 in Brussels, Belgium.

The band released its first album, Electronic Jacuzzi in late 2000 on their own label Dragoon. Their sound is a kind of noisy rock, supported by a big and groovy rhythmic and some electronic touches while their subject matters are, among others, sex, partying, and drugs. The album was only released in Belgium and sold enough at least to make another one.

Their second LP, Blow, was released in February 2004 in Belgium. Things started to take off for Ghinzu at that time, with a sold out gig at the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels with fellow bands Girls in Hawaii and Sharko and an album release in France, Switzerland, Germany and Scandinavia in September. Blow was a success, especially in Belgium and France where the single "Do You Read Me?" became a hit. In June 2005, Ghinzu sold out the mythic Olympia music hall in Paris, followed by concerts around Europe. They also played with Iggy & The Stooges in a Festival in France, Iggy Pop telling them after their gig: "You guys rock!". In the end, about 100,000 copies of Blow were sold across Europe.

In November 2005, due to popular demand, their first album was re-issued with a different track listing.

In 2006, the band wrote and recorded the soundtrack for the movie Irina Palm (directed by Sam Garbarski and starring Marianne Faithfull) which received a critical success at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2007. More collaborations with cinema were to follow. In 2006, their song "Blow" was used as closing track for the movie Ex Drummer, by Koen Mortier (based on a novel by Belgian writer Herman Brusselmans). Ghinzu songs also appear in Sky Fighters and Dikkenek.