Moments with Mauro - 'I am Somnabula' (live with the Grooms) (2010)

Charlatan, Gent.

Capsule review: Mauro Pawlowski & the Grooms - Tired of being young (2004)

The single is one of Mauro's finest and most overlooked. Black Europa's sole devastating pop punch. 26 minute 'Set sail to dream riot' is a feast of songs and fragments, I count at least 6 fully realized songs. Nothing equals the album or is radically different from its template. Mauro zoned in on a very particular mood with the Grooms. A little Queens of the Stone Age-fixation? Maybe. Luckily talent shines, even in trying circumstances.

Capsule review: Mauro Pawlowski & the Grooms - Black Europa (2004)

Fitting that Mauro's tightest and hardest band ever turns out to be him overdubbing every single instrument, at least on this album. It's aggressive, but stylish. It's dark, but not without black humour. Goddamn, makes me want to throw out this pen and get down.

Capsule review: Mauro Pawlowski & the Grooms - Ghost rock EP (2003)

Rock action. Nothing spectral here, all physical. The title track's a good one, but not everything on this EP works. They kept the really great stuff for the album.