Linus Vandewolken // Oude Geuze uit Niemandaal LP

過去にShelter Pressなどから発表しているアメリカ出身ベルギー在住のマルチ奏者Linus Vandewolken aka McCloud Zicmuseが、2024年6月にベルギー・ゲントの実験／アンビエントレーベルMorctapesからリリースしたレコードです。

ダルシマーや自作フルート、自作打楽器によるアンビエント・フォーク11曲を収録。DLコードとインサート付属。

Jon Collinが好きな方にオススメです。

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Includes DL code. 12" black vinyl. Edition of 200.

Tracklist:

1. Terugkeer van de kudde 05:18
2. Sint-Maartenswijn
3. Vasten en vastenavond
4. Blinden leiden de blinden
5. Apocalyptische draak
6. Toren van Babel
7. Schaatsers en vogelknip
8. Dulle Griet
9. Oude Geuze uit Niemandaal
10. Val van Icarus
11. Wie een varken is, moet in het kot 

Text by morctapes:

"As an American in Belgium, McCloud Zicmuse developed a deep love for some of the customs of his new-found homeland: a specific kind of archery (‘staande wip’), celebrating carnaval, aging geuze-beers, and not in the least: playing de ‘hommel”, the Flemish cousin of the apalachian Dulcimer. With the persona Linus Vandewolken, Zicmuse took a deep dive into these traditions. His love for the dulcimer is very real, yet he breaks out of the narrow framework in which the instrument is often handled. The additional use of homemade flutes, percussion instruments and some humming definitely add up to the experience.

Zicmuse released a handful of tapes as Linus Vandewolken, and a double 10” on okraina records. But his musical curriculum is way longer than that. Under his own name, he did releases on ao Shelter press, with le ton mite on crammed discs, and contributed to a long, long list of releases by artists as diverse as Yume Bitsu, Maher Shalal Hash Basz or Singers.

For this new opus, Linus Vandewolken provides some richly brewed compositions, with no added sugar or yeast. There is an elements of sourdough, the richness of earthy odors, the first song (Terugkeer van de Kudde) sounds like a smooth multi-tracked moment, but is actually a live multi-instrumental piece: a home-made double reed xaulos is played sparingly along the fingerpicked strings of the home-made hommel.

Like the barley in the beer, the hommel remains the main ingredient of the disc. Multiple techniques are used to unleash its voice, from tapping to bowing, to all at the same time. A compilation of travels, residencies, desires… songs have been harvested from 2019-2024 in France, Poland, Sweden, England, moments of Vandewolken’s wanderings, evoking inspirations & collaborations in unlikely spots, like a pump organ cameo of Christo Wallers in a village chapel a short distance from Hadrian’s Wall.

As borders change and move, the flute comes around to sweetly catch our attention, metal lines from a letterpress shop invade the hommel strings creating distortions & unlikely rhythms. Points of silence like small bubbles rising in the glass of a freshly poured geuze, an old gueuze from Niemandaal, »Oude Geuze uit Niemanddaal«. 

Artist : Linus Vandewolken

Label : morctapes