Flowerdrops ended 5th in the Ambient/Chill channel on Ourstage (oct)
Ephemerality ended 8th in the Ambient/Chill channel on Ourstage (nov)
Sounds Like
MELANTRONICA
Warmth, Solitude, Be Easy, The Great X, Almost Full, Melancholia, Let's Escape, Sleep Tight, The Shadows Are Here, Stories For The Children, Not Sure, Lots Of Images, Deep Thoughts Tonight, As Far As I Can Go, Never On Time, Mystery, Emotions, Sweetness, Dreams, Nature's Miracles, Dark Skies, Autumn, All Questionmarks For The Square People.
Spleen is the artist name of Lennart Vanstaen. Born in Belgium, Antwerp (1987) he was raised with good music in his direct environment. After playing in several rockbands for some years he realised he wanted to play the music that suited his soul. He adored bands like Radiohead, Eels, Sigur Ros, Björk, Mum and The Album Leaf, which form his main influences. It must be said Lennart has a special connection with the band Radiohead, the love goes very deep.
He started experimenting with software, guitar and a midi-keyboard. After a while came 'Sun Salution', the first song of Spleen, a name specifically chosen because it embodied what Lennart considered himself to be devoted to, that is melancholy.
After a sort of Aha-erlebnis he came up with the genre 'Melantronica', derived from melancholy and electronica, of which Lennart thought it fitted with his music and atmosphere perfectly.
After a while, the songs came faster and got better and more complex. Spleen's music has been called 'film music' a lot of times, and on myspace he became friends with Sophie Vanhomwegen, a talented girl active in photography and even more in video's. She fell in love with his music, as he fell in love with her vision on art. So they worked together and the clip from Whatever Floats Your Boat was the result. It was chosen for HDFEST filmfestival.
Then Lennart got an offer from a starting well-promising English label, called Summer Rain Recordings. He loved just the name alone, and after some questions and answers he signed with them for two years. First release was '6 Moons Ago', including Whatever Floats Your Boat and Eluding Hedgehog. His second release was 'Where We All Fit In', including Flowerdrops. Accedently TRIX asked Spleen to perform, thinking Spleen was a live-project as well. Lennart got some old friends and new people together and did the show in september, which was the start of more to come. Spleen has also performed in AB in Brussels, alone, not with the liveband.
Click on the icon of the online retailer you want to buy the '6 Moons Ago EP' from. All other releases will be found on these retailers as well. Itunes link is here: WHERE WE ALL FIT IN EP ON ITUNES
Spleen wishes you a nice life, and whenever you want to dream, day or night, you can pay a visit to this place.
Bless á meðan, Spleen.
Spleen on Last FM : Click on the banner
Spleen on Facebook/ReverbNation : Click on the banner or here
(Spleen and all artists of SRR donate a percent of their profit to charity)
Dedicated to all the women, men, gays, lesbians or heteros, to all who have different politic opinions who are persecuted all over the world by laws, dictature, religions and corrupted states. From north to south, from west to east...
Interesting music here as usual! Keep it up!
Preview for all tracks of my debut album Symbiosis of Contradictions are now available on my myspace page through zimbalam player. Mp3 release is now available in all the major stores worldwide.
Greetings from the snowy Moscow/Russia
/Ivan
Hiya. I'm stepping around to inform you that I've just uploaded a new song to my profile. The song's title is Atila and is yet another experiment, this time with some crazy drum programming. Hope you have some time to check it.
P.E.P. and I have been in the studio lately and as a result of this, you can now check in and listen to three new tracks "Black Water", "Go with God" and "Bye Bye" and two remixes "Monica" and "Up in the Sky".
featuring kayoko masuda (voice), andreas geyer (bass clarinet) and others total playing time: 73 minutes comes as a factory-made cd with eight-page booklet
Hey Hey Hey my dear buddy :D , here everything is ok!!!
I'm very happy for your live performance and i hope you will play in italy soon!!!! and maybe we'll come to you when we'll can ;) .. Let me know when you start working on new things so we'll can make some tracks together :)
Now i have a new project " Sleeping Noise " that you know, but name and sound ( minimal - industrial ) will change with the collaboration of two friends.. Ah we played time ago and everything has been filmed so I hope to show you a glimpse of how it was soon, but i played just with a my friend without the other my friend who generally is the singer...
I wait very excited the first live performance with Spleen :)
Let's talk the international language : English ! Thx so much for the add I love your music even more ! I wish you like my sound, tell me what you think, your opinion matters for us ! We are a French electro label, listen to our last band “haxis”
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