Ancienne Belgique

 Under the title "Pointing the way to new music" AB and the eleven music clubs of the Club Circuit get together this concert season for an exciting series. Together they've selected 10 weekends w...

Read more

 Under the title "Pointing the way to new music" AB and the eleven music clubs of the Club Circuit get together this concert season for an exciting series. Together they've selected 10 weekends when on each occasion another club will occupy the AB, while at the very same time the AB goes on location to that visiting club. With this project AB and the Club Circuit want to place some extra emphasis on their good relations.
The closing weekend of this project is set aside for Petrol, but on the Sunday of that danceable weekend we can all go get our breath back to the healing songs of 2 classy local singer-songwriters.

ABCLUBCIRCUIT AB @ CACTUS (MaZ): THE BONY KING OF NOWHERE + WIXEL
Sunday 26 April 2009 – 8:00 pm Cactus @ MaZ, Magdalenastraat 27, 8200 Bruges.
Tickets: €8 presale / €11 door-sales
Tickets via 0900 00 600 or tickets.ticketmatic.com

Since that Bram Vanparys descended the stairs from his attic room in Ghent with a primitive tape recorder full of guitar experiments, things have only been going uphill steeply for this king of Belgian songsmiths. The Bony King of Nowhere made an impressive journey and made a phenomenal impression everywhere he went: Devendra Banhart complimented Vanparys personally, the AB had him appear as support act to Jason Molina (Songs:Ohia) and Koen Gisen (An Pierlé & White Velvet) offered his services as producer of ‘Alas My Love’. A warm and wonderfully beautiful debut that hesitates between Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Devendra Banhart and Radiohead but above all it presents a bold and natural face throughout. Mildly melancholy folk-pop about which we noted the following rumours in an entirely random sequence: ‘an impression’, ‘the Belgian record’, ‘making’, ‘2009’, ‘cast-iron’, ‘over-enthusiastic’ and ‘we’.

Wixel is Wim Maesschalck's indie-tronica armour. A moving mix of acoustic guitar sounds and fluffy pieces of electronica. Songs that crackle and squirm a little, but which know how to capture both the icy sound of Múm and Efterklang and the electronic extractions of Boards Of Canada and Fennesz. November brought us ‘Somewhere Between The Sun And The Moon’. Guitar strums layered with drones, soundscapes, gulps of melancholy and the sound of ascending airplanes. Or, how living with an airport in your backyard can also lead to something constructive. Moreover, in a reasonably recent past Wixel turned up as producer of Yuko’s ‘For Times When Ears Are Sore’.