"Melnik City", our new album will be released very soon... There's a foretaste on our Space... Please listen to "The Great Civil War"... If you like this one, come back later for more... Thanks, Melnik
Vlas Vegas and K-Town tapelabel Geluidsoverlast (aka Dreetn) are joining forces to organise the first real noisefest in Kortrijk…ever. Expect a wide variety of noises from harsh noise to bleeps. Visuals will be brought to you by the infamous K and several local DJ’s will be raping the decks. This is not for the weak at heart. You can make you reservations through the usual channels. See u then.
JOZEF VAN WISSEM will play in Liège two times on the same day! First at la Médiathèque (place de la Cathédrale, 14) at 3pm, free entrance. In the evening he'll play a longuer set in l'An Vert (rue Mathieu Polain, 4) with MADADAYO as support act, doors open at 8:30 pm.
Jozef Van Wissem is renowned for his unusual approach of the Renaissance and Baroque lute. He cuts and pastes classical pieces, reverses melodies, adds electronics and processed field recordings made at airport lounges and train stations. The unusual wedlock of composition and improvisation creates an unheard amalgam of contemporary folk and late Renaissance music. He has accomplished the strange feat of bridging the idiom of seventeenth century lute literature and twenty-first century composition. Although Van Wissem uses subtle electronic sound manipulation, he has largely stayed faithful to the particular timbre, resonance and playing technique of the lute. Van Wissem first came to be noticed a few years ago because of his radical conceptual approach to Renaissance lute music: he deconstructed existing compositions, for instance by playing them backwards. He also composes his own pieces for lute, using palindromes and mirrored structures.
