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You Forgot, I Remember is het eerste deel van een drieluik. Naast gedichten gebruiken we ook eigen teksten over een realistische werkelijkheid. 
De thema’s van het  album komen van 3 dichters: 
Emily Dickinson, op zoek naar liefde, dood en berouw. 
Christina Rossetti, met religieus werk over het afstand doen van aardse liefde.
Louis Lehmann, de Rotterdamse surrealist.
Smalts gebruikt akoestische-, elektronische- en etnische instrumenten. We spelen new wave-, elektronische-, minimal wave-, alternatieve-, cold wave-, poetry-, minimal-, ultra-, world-, folk- en avant-garde songs.

Kwelt mij 't gras

You Forgot, I Remember is het eerste deel van een drieluik. Naast gedichten gebruiken we ook eigen teksten over een realistische werkelijkheid.
De thema’s van het album komen van 3 dichters:
Emily Dickinson, op zoek naar liefde, dood en berouw.
Christina Rossetti, met religieus werk over het afstand doen van aardse liefde.
Louis Lehmann, de Rotterdamse surrealist.
Smalts gebruikt akoestische-, elektronische- en etnische instrumenten. We spelen new wave-, elektronische-, minimal wave-, alternatieve-, cold wave-, poetry-, minimal-, ultra-, world-, folk- en avant-garde songs

Sunshine

Occupy My House is the second album in a series of three, and successor to You Forgot, I Remembered. Poets are set to music and the result is staged in a surreal reality.

The flower

Chasing the Thoughts from my Head is the third in a series of three albums. The title of the album has a figurative and philosophical meaning. It is about chasing thoughts in our head, which prevents us from getting out of a spiral. 

Dome&Spire

Chances

Al Gamba da Elan

Admonition

Suddenly her yellow-brown

In claghen vergaen de daghen

The Fahrenheit Man

One Track, Multiple Souls: The Art of Versions Returns
In 1970s Jamaica, a revolution began. One riddim, countless voices.

Today we re-rerecorded our Smalts song 'To and the Meaure' from poet Robert Creeley, reimagined through the voice of our female guest singer B, telling its own version story.

B and the Measure is the first single in the Smalts Queen B Series.

B and the Measure

Smalts Tracks, Multiple Souls: The Art of Versions Returns. In 1970s Jamaica, a revolution began. One band, countless voices.

We recorded our Smalts song 'B B Told You So' from poet W.H. Auden, imagined through the voice of our enigmatic female guest singer B, telling her story about the poem 'But I Can't'

B B Told You So is the second single in the Smalts Queen B Series.

B B Told You So

Smalts Tracks, Multiple Souls: The Art of Versions Returns. In 1970s Jamaica, a revolution began. One band, countless voices.
We recorded our Smalts song 'Bmonition' from poet Sylvia Plath, imagined through the voice of our enigmatic female guest singer B, exploring the poet's warning about excessive analysis and dissection.
Bmonition is the third single in the Smalts Queen B Series, continuing our journey through powerful poetry reimagined through versioning traditions.

Bmonition

Smalts bandmembers participated in Dutch electronic band Minny Pops. It adds a fascinating dimension to their sound. As one of the first Dutch bands signed to Factory Records alongside Joy Division and New Order, Minny Pops helped define the electronic music landscape of the early 1980s. Their innovative use of drum machines and synthesizers, particularly the Mini Pops drum machine that gave them their name, established new possibilities for electronic music production. This experimental heritage now feeds into Smalts' modern versioning approach, creating a unique bridge between mechanical precision and organic reinterpretation. 

They use acoustic-, electronic- and ethnic instruments such as flamenco guitar, krar sitar, masenqo, gamelan, and synthesizers. They play new wave-, idie-, world- and alternative rock songs.

All poems in their songs are from English-, American-, Dutch- and Russian origin. They are their foundation of realism, surrealism and absurdism. Smalts uses texts from Allen Ginsberg, surrealist texts from Louis Lehmann, and religious poems from Emily Dickinson. 

Smalts wraps  text with music. They mix genres and use different playing styles.

Smalts allows the music to frame a poem and sometimes to contradict it. "We present the listener an alternative way to experience texts of poets. Poems are no longer  an autonomous artistic expressions, but absorbed in a container they tell a new story together with music. It is like an exhibition in which paintings by great masters can be admired. As individual pieces they have proven their place in art history and have their own message. In an exhibition shown in conjunction with works from other artists, they are part of what the exhibitionmaker wants to tell the viewer"

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