Slumberland & bontridders
• Slumberland (Morphine, Consouling Sounds)
With Slumberland, Belgian musician, composer and instrument maker Jochem Baelus has been unleashing obscure, hypnotic krautrock and post punk colored with distorted exotica, upon us since 2013. Slumberland’s tactile sound is generated by a battery of sewing machines, film projectors and other dismantled, mechanical objects. So far, he released a solo album, the 2019 release ‘Sea, sea, sea Drifter // See, see, see Drifter’, alongsided by 2 drummers and a recent collaboration with Tuvan voice-artist Sainkho Namtchylak. But last year Jochem Baelus also constructed a brand new sound installation which he takes on the road solo. Expect rattling drones of motoric ‘bagpipes’ grinding, accompanied by compelling, melodic & minimal compositions and complete stillness.
• bontridders
Pruillip have had to cancel their appearance at the Galerie Vorn und Oben, but we are happy to be able to announce that we have now added bontridders to the lineup. bontridders is playful electronics, the extraverted coupled with the introverted, and that one Fergie cover. For some time, bontridders was a more straight-forward indie-group, but now bontridders has taken on a more self-contained form. bontridders is Sam, also known from drumcomputerpunk band Brorlab.