Big|Brave

Booking Agent : Ricky Biondetti & Giorgio Salmoiraghi

With the initial seeds planted in 2012, with no other goal than simply experimenting with the instruments in their possession, Robin Wattie and Mathieu Ball started writing subtle ambient/minimalistic folk songs together. When long time friend Louis Alexandre Beauregard joined on drums, the goal still remained to play as tranquil as possible. After an incident where Wattie’s acoustic guitar broke, and having borrowed a friend’s electric as a replacement, larger amps that Ball had in storage from previous bands started to get incorporated to the outfit. Now with amplitude as a compositional tool, BB never lost interest in the power of minimalism and fragility. It became clear that loud volume would become just as effective as the lowest possible ones and the juxtaposition of both would become something BB still uses as their main MO to this day.

For the first time since their inception in 2012, Big Brave is touring as a duo. After more than a decade of making records and touring internationally with an array of collaborators, founding members Robin Wattie and Mat Ball are stripping the ensemble down to its most elemental configuration to date. With amplified electric guitars always at the forefront of the project, this configuration leaves nothing to hide behind or rely on, forcing both musicians to push their instruments into denser, untamed and more expansive realms than ever before.

This bareness and vulnerability allows the duo to explore new intimate territories of deeply atmospheric depth, while still striving to sound as colossal as possible, creating a sonic weight and scale far beyond what might be expected from two people, two guitars, a voice and a wall of amplifiers. The approach is akin to the intimacy of a two-acoustic-guitar folk duo, but blown out and pushed through an array of heavily driven amplifiers. At its core, the focus remains on intimacy, surgical attention to detail and, as always, expansive minimalism: using as little as possible to create something that feels impossibly large.

Since their inception, the band has had many honours and privileges of touring a number of times in North America and Europe with bands such as Sunn O))), MY DISCO, The Body, Thou, Primitive Man and Thee Silver Mt. Zion. In summer 2026, the new album “In Grief Or In Hope” has been released on Thrill Jockey Records.

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