Even voorstellen – Stadlander - 'L'Escaut', single

Release: 08/01/2025

'L'Escaut' is de tweede single van 'Shelter', het nieuwe album van Stadlander. Eerder verscheen ook al de single 'Møns Klint'.

L' Escaut - YouTube

Møns Klint - Single by Stadlander | Spotify

"Scaldis, L’ Escaut, Schelde. Kronkelende levensader, rode draad in mijn leven. Opgroeiend aan je oevers in Wetteren maakte ik gretig gebruik van je aanwezigheid. Wandelen met de hond, al joggend werken aan mijn conditie voor het nakende voetbalseizoen of het bankje warm houden om ontluikende liefdes toe te laten. Twintig jaar later vormt de Schelde meer dan ooit de verbinding tussen mijn jeugd en mijn volwassen bestaan. Sint-Amandsberg, nieuwe thuis, aan de schelde. Langswaar ik elke morgen de kinderen escorteer met de fiets naar school. Ik hoop dat ze ook kunnen thuiskomen bij jou, op het bankje, met hun ontluikende liefdes."  Stijn Engels/Stadlander

Stadlander, de band rond de Gentse jazzpianist Stijn Engels, brengt op 14 februari hun tweede album 'Shelter' uit. Stijn liet zich inspireren door de overweldigende kracht van de natuur. De natuur als plek om te ontprikkelen, te herbronnen en nieuwe inspiratie te vinden. Met hun plaat 'Shelter' probeert Stadlander deze zoektocht naar innerlijke rust tastbaar te maken en te vertalen in hun muziek. Verhalende melodieën en beklijvende harmonie vormen nog steeds het vertrouwde recept. Het is muziek die naar introspectie voert, maar ook het leven wil doen vieren. Muziek die je aandacht opeist, betrokkenheid vraagt, maar je onbezwaard achterlaat.
Stadlander is Stijn Engels op piano, Bruno Van der Haeghen op tenorsax, Kris Auman op contrabas en Stijn Demuynck op drums.

Opname & mix: Koen Gisen - Studio La Patrie

Live:
15/03/25, Lokerse Jazzklub, Lokeren

22/03/25, Bij de Vieze Gasten, Gent

30/03/25, Kaffee Damast, Kortrijk

06/04/25, Cafe Rood Wit, Berchem

10/05/25, CC NOVA, Wetteren

15/05/25, Bruggenhuis, Geraardsbergen

Even voorstellen - Destroyer - Dan’s Boogie
28/03 (merge/konkurrent)
 “Bologna (feat. Fiver)” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCEqe50p8Bw

Destroyer announces Dan’s Boogie, out March 28, 2025, on Merge Records. Accompanying the announcement is a David Galloway–directed music video for lead single “Bologna (feat. Fiver).”

“Bologna” is a radical reframing of the Destroyer milieu, the first song Bejar’s ever written for the band in which he imagines himself as a supporting character. He functions like behind-the-scenes commentary on the song’s main action, trapped in the dingy green room on the cover of Dan’s Boogie, while Fiver’s Simone Schmidt operates like a person on the lam, here one minute and gone the next. Schmidt’s voice, tough and expressive, pierces through the murk of the scene, its gravity pulling “Bologna” into order around a sense of impending doom.

Dan Bejar on “Bologna”:
I haven’t written many songs like “Bologna.” I struggled singing the first and third verses, the most important parts of the song. They needed gravity and grit. The threat of disappearing needed to be real. So I called Simone.
The video for “Bologna” meets the song’s cool tones with the panicked frenzy of first-person footage on a long-lost VHS tape, its narrative lurid and incriminating. As director David Galloway explains:
How do you begin a “Dear John” letter? I suppose there are lots of online tools available to anyone with a phone that can help you get that type of thing started. In fact, you can learn all kinds of stuff with the internet. It’s amazing. How to pick locks, how to access your neighbours’ WiFi, how to meet a “challenge,” how to put on makeup. Makeup is pretty big these days, hey? You can also definitely find tips and tricks to help you start a whole new life if the one you have doesn’t seem to cut the mustard. Rather, “Bologna.”
Dan’s Boogie is a breakthrough album for Destroyer, with songs across the vast spectrum he and his collaborators have established for themselves: spectacle-laden pop epics, personal piano ballads, and smouldering works of mood that blur the lines between song and novel and cinema, each brimming with the urgency of a state secret in the mind of a tortured spy.

Even voorstellen - Son Lux - New EP Risk Of Make Believe

Son Lux Share New Single “Don’t Say It’s Too Late”
from forthcoming New EP Risk Of Make Believe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pERR7Q0clVA&list=PLsuIZcQ_7RoMABi09Ckw_xtqUp4YRtL1y&index=2

Out January 17th on City Slang

Son Lux, the band of composers enlisted to score 2023’s genre-defying Best Picture, Everything Everywhere All At Once, is back with their first release of new music since their prismatic 49-track soundtrack. Risk Of Make Believe (out January 17th, 2025) is a new EP that encapsulates what made the experimental rock trio a perfect fit for the film: an unlikely alchemy of beguiling sounds and heart-on-sleeve passion. It is further evidence of Son Lux's wild creativity, voracious appetite for experimentation, and ability to distill seemingly disparate universes of sound into a signature unmistakably their own.


Patience and ease pervade the EP’s title track, “Risk Of Make Believe.” The song begins with what sounds like drums through a vocoder up in the choir loft. Ian Chang and Rafiq Bhatia join with a precise but pliant groove, drums and bass moving together as if in slow motion. What unfolds is an unhurried song that never feels restless in its gradual evolution. Ryan Lott sings, “What’s the risk of make believe?” weaving a plea to give oneself permission to change through tessellations of crystallizing guitar.

“Don’t Say It’s Too Late,” the EP’s second single (December 5th, 204), features Grammy Award-winning arranger and string player Rob Moose (Bon Iver, Paul Simon, John Legend, yMusic). The interplay between Lott’s voice, electronics, and strings creates a sweeping winter ballad balancing longing and loss, precariously reaching for the hope of reconciliation.

More traditional tracks give way to a pair of slowly unfurling songs on the meditative back half of the EP. Fans of the band will recognize the minimal, repeated refrains as a return to Son Lux’s roots. “Cocoon” holds space for metamorphosis over seven minutes, its spare, cyclical form belying a steady, relentless revolution. Detuned Tunis drums and prepared guitars shed like a chrysalis from around a choir of Lott’s evolving vocals, propelled by Chang and Bhatia’s sinewy rhythm section sensibility.

The EP closes with “Take Your Time With Me,” a slow-burn anthem that showcases the band's ability to reconcile hooky pop and thrilling experimentation. Spacious clearings of sound give way to technicolor thickets, with Chang’s drumming thrillingly pitting splatter-paint abstraction against nod-inducing viscerality. The EP leaves us right where we began—imagining and longing for whatever reinvention might follow.

Tracklist
1)    Haiku

2)    Risk Of Make Believe

3)    Don’t Say It’s Too Late

4)    Cocoon

5)    Take Your Time With Me

Even voorstellen – Cesars Palace – Live at Cesars Palace
CESARS PALACE
CESARS PALACE are three wicked young bucks oozing with rock n’ roll energy that play their self-titled “Psychedelic Stoner Punk” with only one clear mission: to grab every audience in a musical chokehold.

It didn't take long for the boys to establish a reputation as a true live phenomenon. Jannes’ drumsticks and Taron's vocal cords - and fingers- rarely survive a show. Pair that up with all of Tijl’s guitar amps (there’s a lot of them) and u have a simple, but oh so spicy recipe for a great time.

In their first year they played more than 30 gigs. Including headlining Copacobana, closing off Sniester Festival in Den Haag, playing at Leffingeleuren, the Jonge Wolven showcase, selling out the Charlatan and Chinastraat, opening for RONKER in Paris and for MELTHEADS in Wintercircus, simply wreaking havoc in every corner they find themselves in.

Taking some time off to record their debut project, they'll be back come springtime.

CESARS PALACE - Live at César's Palace

LIVESESSION
We scraped together some old cameras and went to the p(a)lace where it all began to try and capture the live spirit of our band. Playing 4 unreleased songs that may still change by the time they get released on our debut project.

Working titles:
TUNACAN
RIEKS
WHERE IS THE WINE
EASY GO