Just as all life can be traced back to one defining moment – the Big Bang – there is one event in Malvin Moskalez’s life that completely changed the path of his career. Seventeen years ago, a motorbike ride ended in a dramatic accident in which Moskalez lost a lower leg. In a flash, everything was different. Ever since that day, Moskalez has been trying to come to terms with that painful event. Music has offered a vehicle for this process. Gradually, Moskalez gets a grip on his new life. He rediscovers his love for guitar, singing and songwriting. He spends his time refining his songs, playing them first for friends and family, and later in living rooms and small bars. For a while, Moskalez continues making plans and moving intimate audiences with his performances. Enter Steven De Bruyn. The two get talking and De Bruyn proposes to produce Moskalez’ debut together with Brussels studio wizard Géraldine Cappaert. The result is a beautiful DIY collaboration, a cross-pollination between two musicians who find connection in the same musical experience: deeply emotional songs informed by a no-frills approach: pure and unadulterated, yet warm and personal. Moskalez christens his album ‘For the beauty kept inside’, which could just as well be read as ‘nothing is what it seems’.  
 
 
Malvin Moskalez is the nom de plume of Nico Goethals (Ghent, 1973). Behind this stage name lies a touching, personal story: “My grandmother, Malvina Tweckhuizen, ran a pub in Ghent. It was a people’s pub, whose patrons would come for a chat, a glass of the good stuff and a bit of fun. This high-spirited environment was in stark contrast to the life of my maternal grandmother, Tatiana Moskalez, a Russian-Ukrainian who, following two world wars, ended up in Belgium with a hard life behind her. The duality of pleasure and pain is something I also live with. The name Malvin Moskalez is a tribute to my roots, to two women without whom I would not be here today.”

Jack to Phono Records has been running since 2001 and we have released to date 25 vinyl and 9 CD albums having a following across the globe. We have focused mainly on the electronic/dance side of music to date with artists such as Beatphreak, Flevans, Phase 5 Stereo, Dr Stereo, Tombee, Diego & The Dissidents and Blue Foundation releasing with us. However we have shifted focus over the last 6 months to developing live acts with The Seal Cub Clubbing Club, The Tom Eno Project andGhost Society . The first EP released was infact "Jack to Phono and featured Mr Scruff, Treva Whateva, 777 and Blue Foundation in 2001.

We have been featured on BBC Radio One and 6 Music over the last 12 months with 3 sessions and one album becoming album of the week on 6 Music. We were featured in Craig Charles' singles of the year in 2010 and included in Drowned in Sound Top 100 singles of 2010.

Over the past 12 months we have been featured on HBO's Entourage and become the sound of Sky Sports, Ski Sunday and various BBC shows including Heroes Unmasked. We have been featured in Rabbit Moon (Nicole Kidman), the new Milka commercial and a Vicks commercial.

Over the past years we have DJ'd and put on our own events at venues such as The Big Chill Festival, Roskilde Festival, Big Chill House & Bar, The Jazz Cafe, Ruby Lounge, Sunday Best,93 Feet East, Friends and Family, The Bedford, Cargo, The Social Bar Plan B, Vega, Rust and Stengade 30.

 Email - Jack@jacktophono.com for more information
 Buy our music from the good people at Kudos Distribution- www.kudosrecords.co.uk/jacktophono
Published by Jimmy Turner/Westbury & Five Missions More 

booking: booking.lizz@gmx.de


recently at:

Waagenbau-Hamburg
Fundbuero-Hamburg
La Cova-Hamburg
Übel&Gefährlich-Hamburg
Yoko Club-Hamburg 
Birgit&Bier-Berlin
Klub Pan-Hannover

More of a Mixcloud kinda guy...

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