From KR036
https://krutrecords.bandcamp.com/album/het-ruist
Kengsinton Bluesing into East Flanders with this discreetly powerful ode to trad Americana. Newcomer Venediktos Templeboom adopts the drama and transcendence of the primitive pluckers of yore while infusing his 12-stringer with a melancholy proper to these grey flatlands, their idiosyncratic buzz whirring beneath. Remembering the great Roses and Faheys while floating blissfully towards horizons yet uncharted ~ may the rustle be your carrier.
Artwork by Roxane Métayer
Mastered by Accou

Venediktos Tempelboom - Mountebank

In november 2019 a group of TOSO (The Ostend Street Orkestra)musicians accompanied with fellow musicians went on a search for spaces with an unique sound to record improvised music.

The group visited the famous boat lift from Strepy-Thieu in Wallonia for a recording session in the 'Salle des contre-poids', a gigantic space generating a monstrous reverb. The group also did a recording session in the big fish auction hall in Ostend.

Musicians: Bart Maris - Dries Vienne - Benoit Monsieurs - Gert Wyckmans
Ian Tant - Ellie Mol - Renaud Debruyne - Dieter Debruyne

Mixing and mastering: Pierre Vervloesem

TOSO & guests - Strepy Thieu session

In 2021 and '22 musicians Giovanni Barcella (drums, percussion, electronics) and Jeroen Van Herzeele (sax, ewi, synths)are recording improvised music together with the prisoners of PCB Bruges. New Orleans Indian is the first single of the recordings.

Find more info on the project here:
https://www.kleinverhaal.be/NL/Drift_Muzieklabel/Inmate_sessions

Inmate Sessions - New Orleans Indian

Solidude Records presents:

 BESTIAAL – ‘Het Deert’

Release Single ‘Het Deert - Deel 1’ (Bestiaal trio - digital): 01.04.22
Release Single ‘Het Deert - Deel 7’ (Bestiaal + NOODDRUFT 6 - digital): 29.04.22

Release Album (vinyl): 13.05.22

Solidude Records / N.E.W.S Distribution Benelux

•	FILE UNDER: Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog, Liberty Ellman, Henry Threadgill, De Beren Gieren

•	RELEASE INFO album ‘HET DEERT’


For the recording of their third album 'Het Deert', Bestiaal (Gent, BE), the trio around drummer / composer Sebastiaan Vekeman, headed for West Flanders. This project breathes the fresh sea air of coastal town Ostend (BE), thanks to the recording in residence at De Grote Post, the album artwork (a painting by James Ensor), a partnership with kleinVerhaal / DRIFT label and the collaboration with recording director Serge Feys (T.C. Matic, Arno, etc.) and mixer Jeff Claeys (Millionaire, The Van Jets, etc.). 
 
‘With You', a song by T.C. Matic co-written by Serge Feys, was the starting point and the major source of inspiration for the new album. The droning, raw character of the music heard on 'Het Deert' is reminiscent of a fierce, marching brass band in a procession; a similar atmosphere to many of Ensor's paintings. This fanfare is voiced by the occasion ensemble NOODDRUFT 6, led by trumpet player Bart Maris. 

As the foundation of the iceberg, Bestiaal is flanked by three extra bassists on the album. Cyrille Obermüller (double bass), Pieter Lenaerts (double bass) and Tobe Wouters (tuba), together with Bas Gommeren (double bass), provide a whirlwind of bass sounds and a feeling of pleasant unease. Above all, Bestiaal is a collective that develops an authentic sound, averse to rules, expectations and hypes. It is a sound that can lead to moments of scorching fury, abstract exploration as well as whispered caresses. Always on the wrong track, and back to the edge of your seat.

Bestiaal's jazz can be quite potent. Originality and willfulness have always been core values for jazz musicians, but here they are natural components of a strikingly stubborn character. Bestiaal's elusiveness is largely due to the compositions of drummer Sebastiaan Vekeman, which are still anchored in the classical jazz language, but also make a run for it. The compositions on 'Absoluut' (2016) and 'Inenen' (2018), for example, were not classical structures with a familiar head and a tail as an exclamation point, but a free pass to tell stories that only follow their own, erratic logic. Just as is the case with new album 'Het Deert'. 

Recording: Serge Feys 
Mixing: Jeff Claeys 
Mastering: Karel De Backer

•	LINE-UP:

Bestiaal:

Sebastiaan Vekeman: drums & composition
Jakob Haghebaert: guitar
Sebastiaan Gommeren: double bass

Guest musicians:

Cyrille Obermüller: double bass
Pieter Lenaerts: double bass
Tobe Wouters: tuba

Nooddruft 6: 

Bart Maris: trumpet
Gert Wijckmans: trumpet
Yamen Martini: trumpet
Gust De Rycke: tenor saxophone
Frank Opstaele: tenor saxophone
Benoit Monsieurs: electric guitar
Ellie Mol: clarinet
Genís Laguna: acoustic guitar


•	RELEASE CONCERT:

14.05.22 – Bij’ De Vieze Gasten, Gent

website: art-spot.be/bestiaal
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bestiaaljazz
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bestiaaljazz

MANAGEMENT: Lawrence Van Den Eede - ART-SPOT.BE - info@art-spot.be
BOOKINGS: Dieter Craeye – ART-SPOT.BE – dieter@art-spot.be

Het Deert

D3. Het Deert - Deel 7 (single)

A1. Het Deert - Deel 1 (single)

MUZINE IV / DAG 2

Gitaar & vocals: Benoit Monsieur
Zang: DJ Bum
Trompet, vocals & coaching: Yamen Martini
Synthesizer, drums, opname, mixing, mastering & coaching: James De Graef

Workin'

Another track that has been collecting dust on my hard drive for ages. 
Recently re-edited re-mixed and remastered until I was happy enough with the result.
This fast and hard hitting trance track was mainly inspired by futuristic, 
adrenaline pumping video games and their soundtracks.

ProtonType - Change your Way

Na een veel te stil najaar '20 is het tijd om terug wat lawaai te maken. De komende weken halen we het stof ván en terug artiesten óp ons podium. Eerste in rij: Backback!

Met het project 'DEUK' gaat Backback aan de slag met een selectie verborgen parels uit het oeuvre van Amerikaans jazzpianist en -componist Duke Ellington, wat resulteren zal in een nieuwe plaat die in het najaar van '21 uitkomt. Dit wordt dan meteen het vijfde album in het 20-jarige bestaan van Backback, dat nog steeds een frisse wind laat waaien door het Vlaamse jazzlandschap.

Filip Wauters • gitaar
Marc De Maeseneer • bariton & tenor saxofoon
Giovanni Barcella • drums


Mark Lefever • interviewer

Muziek:
'Bonga' • Duke Ellington
'Half the Fun' • Billy Strayhorn
'La Plus Belle Africaine' • Duke Ellington

Met de steun van de Vlaamse overheid.

PODiumCAST Backback | pt. 1

Kurt Cobain is dood. New Beat werd opgevreten door techno. Overal zitten tieners met gevoelens en een radiocassetterecorder of in het beste geval een fourtrack. Zolderkamertjes vol weltschmerz, ironie en zelfrelativering zijn de broeikassen voor groezelige sfeertjes en ruisende schoonheid. Wat je zelf doet doe je beter. LoFi heet het, en het is een streven, een attitude. We zijn onafhankelijk en we doen ons ding. Support your local scene, heet het. En als er geen scene is om te supporten? Wel, dan maak je er één. Concertjes in kelders en vergeten theaterzaaltjes, soms in een café of in een jeugdhuis. Schone liedjes bedolven onder ruis en krakkemik. Embryonale wereldhits die het nooit worden. Ook België bleef niet gespaard.

Jürgen De Blonde van de portables maakte op vraag van de Koer een mixtape als ode aan de Belgische DIY hometape scene uit de jaren 90. De “Brugge - Gent - Antwerpen - Mechelen - Brussel - Louvain-la-Neuve” connectie.

Meer info: www.dekoer.be/jurgen-de-blonde-hometaping-is-killing-music/

Jürgen De Blonde - Hometaping Is Killing Music

DRIFT Records / participatory music label from kleinVerhaal. Adventurous residencies, 1/1 sessions, music sessions in prison, the music of YaGoon, TOSO, DREUN XL and others. DRIFT operates from StudiO.666 in the harbour of Ostend.

Workin'

Drift Records / kleinVerhaal Oostende

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