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8/19/2018

Roel Goovaerts – we zullen wel zien e (2015)




  • Newbreed 
  • Electronic music 
  • Leftfield 
  • Experimentalism 
  • Free folk 
  • Avant-garde 
  • Avant-rock 
  • Experimental rock 
  • Minimalism 
  • DIY 
  • Witch house 
  • Crossover 
  • American Primitivism 
  • New Weird Belgium 
  • Avant-folk 
  • Weird folk

Comment: yesterday late night I had been listening to Ak'chamel aka The Giver Of Illness´ issue The Man Who Drank God (2015) which was sent to me by generous Field Hymns imprint. It chimed like an extreme fringe of the New Weird movement as if coming out from a cave of the Neanderthals. It was sung in low and wobbly chords while emitting an almost festive milieu from those heathen arrangements. Thanks to being so wobbly and rough it was an utterly organic experience. In fact, by listening to the recent issue of six compositions I felt partly the same feeling. In spite of being compositionally a bit different by employing guitar chords subverting filters and effect blocks and stark, intoxicated electronics the ultimate experience says it is almost about the sort of epic music (especially at Francy, which is a 13-minute iterative climax). I would not dare to call it lo-fi music because similarly to the aforementioned issue by Ak'chamel it is against the premises of lo-fi as a genre and attitude either. You can intuit this on the defiant nature of the issue. For instance, the issue starts off like a lost form of witch/drag house/newbreed. Later on, it will be mutating into guitar primitivism, gravitates toward uncanny electronic locations and the aforementioned minimalistic, slightly spaghetti western-alike majesty of Francy. Indeed, it will be the music of a new breed, more profoundly, for neo(n) zombies. This truly overcoming outing is a part of the discography of BWAA. All is moving, changing and disappearing. Heaven knows we will be dust.