The main musical alter ego of Ghent-based Benoit Monsieurs, Venediktos Tempelboom has crafted his own unique idioms in the primitive folk style that has long guided him. Using the 12-string guitar as his main instrument, the self-taught musician creates passages that take fingerpicking Americana into the Flanders fields, with winding compositions that distill the essence of giants like John Fahey, Robbie Basho and Jack Rose mixed with the dark drone melancholia of Funeral Folk/KRAAK stalwarts like Silvester Anfang, Helvete and Ignatz. The results are ringing meditations of awe and terror, flamboyant and grotesque yet utterly mesmerizing in their vivid sonic imagery. His debut LP, Syne Vuyle Hoeck, is out on KRAAK November 14!

Saxophonist Virginia Genta and drummer David Vanzan have been playing all sorts of circuits - official and otherwise - as Jooklo Duo since 2004. Their particular flavor of crushing free-form jazz and spastic psychedelic noise has seen them team up with high-caliber accomplices such as Chris Corsano, Bill Nace, Makoto Kawabata, Dror Feiler, Mik Quantius and Thurston Moore. In their latest iteration as JOOKLOYD, a by-product of Virginia’s current residency at the renowned Moers jazz festival in Germany, they team up with Sebastian Von Der Heide (Hipólito) and Nils Herzogenrath (Vomit Heat) to bring joyfully cosmic overtones to the jam band dynamic. Distended improvisations both groovy and entrancing make for true free-form freakouts, a much-needed remedy in these apprehensive times!

Long-haired Ghentian Jeffrey Andréka - also part of the psychedelic jam quartet De Regering Van Treffelijke Zaken alongside the Tempelboom - uses the moniker Ishtembashtok for his myriad musical experiments which range from murky hip hop to Flemish country hymns to garbled garage punk. A one-man band with many tricks under his hat, he’ll be bringing some unhinged compositions to AB Club, using guitar, loopers and a karaoke twist to multi-tracked songs of undisclosed genres. A true discovery for adepts of inscrutable DIY aesthetics and aspiring bedroom producers!