Interview with A Cavaliere
Francesco Cavaliere’s recent musical works put him into a category of his own. His two most recent works, Gancio Cielo 1+2, blast out of nowhere to envelop the listener in a foreign storied world of chimera creatures, exotic percussion, and interstellar shifting keyboard melodies. He performed in September with the legendary David Behrman at BOZAR and KRAAK’s Sonic Arts Revisited. We sat down together at the Brussels premier of Cirque du Soleils’ Totem, to uncover where his music comes from and to articulate what sets it apart from modern and past experimental musics.
09 January 2018 |
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WIDT
Antonina Nowacka & Bogumiła Piotrowska explore the endless possibilities of video feedback and extended vocal techniques, blending both into an overwhelming synaesthetic experience that is as elegant as colorful. They released last year the highly recommended self-titled AV album (dvd + cd, Zoharum records) which proves that they are one of Poland’s vanguards of the new generation experimentalists. Jürgen De Blonde interviewed the duo about psychedelic experiences, non-conventional concert contexts and modes of perception. Artists in conversation.
09 January 2018 |
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Ivoren Toren
A focal point in the city’s grey-zone... is all it takes to kick the underground in the face. Since a few years the shared space In De Ruimte serves as the ideal generator for a cluster-fuck of shows, exhibits, labels and graphic experiment. One of them is Ivoren Toren, a transphenomenon platform that mingles contemporary dance, holistic science and concerts.
Watcharita Aroon, the visual artist behind the KRAAK logo and artwork in previous editions of the Avant Guardian has a few questions for Jonas Vanhullebusch, the mind, body and soul behind Ivoren Toren.
21 December 2017 |
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Dirar Kalash
As multi instrumentalist, multi-media artist and improviser explores DIRAR KALASH open concepts, collective improvisation and open software. Not bound by genres or style, he displays an impressive musical knowledge in which he dissappears as an ever morphing chameleon.
21 December 2017 |
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David Behrman
In april 1967 the Sonic Arts Group scandalized the Brussels audience with a series of avant-garde concerts at the Palace of Fine Arts in Brussels. The Sonic Arts Group (or Union) was a young group made out back then unknown composers, but nowaday’s legends Robert Ashley, David Behrman, Gordon Mumma and Alvin Lucier. 50 years later, their influence on the contemporary avant-garde is beyond any doubt, so KRAAK and BEAF celebrate the birthday of this happening with a concert by David Behrman.
15 December 2017 |
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Disposición Asoleada
Aptly referred to as a “discreet veteran of the Brussels underground”, David Jarrin and his myriad projects have been simmering beneath the cacophony for the better part of the last two decades. But the simmer is boiling over.
14 December 2017 |
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David Edren
Social Harmony is
a non-academic research universe, in which DIETER DURINCK explores the mind-boggling properties of image, geometry and color. In this research he displays a fondness for the imperfection of RGB colors, VHS and tape grittiness and exotica from lost times when melancholy still was a good thing. Social Harmony presents the new synesthetic experience and tape by the Antwerp-based modular synth master David Edren. He will explore the possibilities of electronic gamelan music, redefine exotica and turn it into a mind burning experience. We had a chat about exotica, his work and his relation with the Antwerp scene over the last 10 years.
14 December 2017 |
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Stroom
The STROOM collective started out as a free from internet radio station and quickly became a bench mark for all things cold and synth wave, as well as pseudo exotica lost in the outer regions of musical history. As a label, they fiercely hit the decks with archival releases of Jan van den Broeke, Cybe and the soundtrack of Jan Zonder Vrees.
12 December 2017 |
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daniel duchamP
Photographer, double bass player and modular synth wizard DANIËL DUCHAMP skates since long throughout the Belgian underground. He improvises massive electronic pieces with bass and self build electronics. I asked him seven questions via e-mail. I decided not to do a spelling check or make any grammatical corrections in his answers.
12 December 2017 |
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Lea Bertucci vs. Sarah Davachi
On November 9th KRAAK and AB Salon presented two rising stars from the new wave of mystic avant-garde composers: Sarah Davachi and Léa Bertucci.
11 December 2017 |
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Jeroen Wille
On November 4th, KRAAK claimed to unite the international scene of independent labels (independent as in free and unbridled) in an event halfway between festival, label-market and gesamtkunstwerk. It turned out to be a day and night in which the boundaries between performance, seller and publication were seriously blurred.
08 December 2017 |
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NATIVE INSTRUMENT
Under their Native Instrument moniker, Stine Janvin Motland and Felicity Mangan, blend abstract vocals with wildlife sounds to create their immersive insect techno. CAMO, the debut release of the duo, has to be one of the most pleasantly alienating records of the year, presenting four pieces which absorb the listener into the imaginary biotopes from which they emerged.
07 December 2017 |
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Social Harmony
Ghent based Dieter Durinck talks in this interview about a 1990s hiphop mixtape, a low budget diy store in the Ghent neighbourhood De Brugse Poort, moroccan tapes and 1980s new age. Those words actually form a pretty accurate description for his trans-medial publishers outlet Social Harmony.
06 December 2017 |
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Èlg
Our favorite French Bruxellois Èlg effortlessly switches between radical tape music, far out electronics that
even scare the shit out of Throbbing Gristle, and French chanson. Although it was one of the highlights of 2016, his latest record Mauve Zone (Nashazphone) has fallen between the cracks of most end-of-the-year lists. Too bad, because Laurent Gérard is on top of his game when it comes to associative outsider music. On a terrace in Saint-Gilles, we had a talk about the unconscious, The Mauve Zone and what the role of all this is in his music.
05 December 2017 |
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JUNG AN TAGEN
After two hermetic tapes, Jung An Tagen breaks out with Das Fest Der Reichen, his vinyl debut on Editions Mego, which makes him continue a long tradition of experimental electronic music coming from Vienna. Jung an Tagen was added to the triple electronic music bill at Les Ateliers Claus in October, and his show was an exercise in abstract braindance, or in physical synthesized dance madness.
05 December 2017 |
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Mathieu Serruys
Crisp noises and subtle textures characterize the moody music created by Mathieu Serruys, inspired by film and irrational fear. Using mostly reel-to- reel tapes, he evokes intimate, comforting atmospheres, yet disturbing at the same time. While his debut, On Germaine Dulac (2014), was well-received, Serruys strives tokeep pushing the boundaries of his experimental music for future compositions and live-shows.
03 December 2017 |
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KERM RECORDS
Since its existence, Kerm Records is one of the strongholds of the Ghent cassette scene. Driven by gut feeling and hypersensitivity, its output ranges from spoken word, broken acid, tape collage and fluxus inspired noise to casio pop, contemporary gabba and hip-hop concrète. A conversation with Niels Kerm, the brain and soul behind KERM.
01 December 2017 |
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