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Smeraldina-Rima 18
NY-based multi-instrumentalist Colby Nathan delivers a debut that contains a jumpy and highly neurotic form of outsiderpop combining bebopdrenched rants and surrealistic torchsongs with lush arrangements that constantly test the limits of self-control and good reason. “Outside, The Great Drought” offers baroque exuberance and teenage angst through sixties inspired craftsmanship that keeps spiraling out of this worldly realm. Think Jonathan Richman, Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks.

“Once some music dropped through my letter-box; let’s summon their sounds into our world now, and deliver their names as Roses or Stations. The picture they imagined was both clear and cryptic: the certainties of the 17th century holding tight the ugly beauty that we now see scattered around us. I loved these CDs by Jozef van Wissem, A Rose by any other Name and Stations of the Cross. And then I received a new album, A Priori, and I immediately played it and heard its stark and repetitive intensity, its stately and glacial march. There is nothing quite like it that I have heard before—it is timeless, breathing deeply and exhaling showers of snow, endless circles, mirrors, spirals, the sea. When Jozef plays the lute, he pours out endless space. What can I say but let the rain come, close your eyes and watch the stars fall and rise and fall again.”

David Tibet

Ruben Machtelinckx – guitar, baritone guitar, banjo
Hilmar Jensson – guitar
Joachim Badenhorst – sax, clarinets
Nathan Wouters – acoustic bass

Recorded April 2014: The Rabbitfield, Belgium
Engineer: Christophe Albertijn
Mixing: Christophe Albertijn, Ruben Machtelinckx, Thomas Jillings & Nathan Wouters at Esme
Mastering: Uwe Teichert at Electropolis
Artwork: Ante Timmermans
Graphic Design: Levi Seeldraeyers

This is a pre-order. Item will ship on Jan 30 2017.

At +50.92509° latitude and +03.84800° longtitude Niels Van Heertum recorded his first solo record, in the well-known warmth of his living room, in a windmill in the East of Flanders.

On the one hand the record explores the sonic possibilities of the euphonium, tuba and trumpet. On the other hand it creates a place without haste. Pure intervals are superposed and moved in order to avoid tension and agitation. Meanwhile the amplified horns circle around the rounded windmill room forming a dense woven web of sound.

Niels Van Heertum makes music of many sorts: he was co‐founder of the improvisation collective Ifa y Xango, is a member of Linus + Økland / Van Heertum and granvat’s Book of Air: vvolk, and plays with Chantal Acda, Norberto Lobo’s Oba Loba and En avant, marche! a theater piece by Alain Platel, among other things.

Now for the first time, he comes forward with a solo album. The record is part of JK’s Kamer, a series of solo performances by granvat that focuses on the sound of the instrument itself as its repertoire, and is co­‐released by Smeraldina‐Rima and granvat.

released January 30, 2017

All music improvised by Niels Van Heertum on euphonium, tuba, trumpet and electronics on February 3th 2014 at the Thienpontmolen

This record is part of JK’s kamer, a series of solo performances by granvat

Production by Bert Cools and Stijn Cools
Recording and mixing by Stijn Cools
Mastering by Uwe Teichert
Photograph by Sergej Prokudin Gorski
Graphic design and screen printing by Levi Seeldraeyers
Words by Sanne Huysmans

On the other hand, if I don’t think about what comes next, I mustn’t even hurry and I can linger in this moment a little longer

smeraldina-rima.com / granvat.com / nielsvanheertum.com
SMERALDINA-RIMA 31 / gran12

CD version of this album, comes packed in a three colour screen printed sleeve, and a screen printed PVC DVD-sized outer sleeve. Edition of 500.

All compositions by Nico Roig except
“Sardana Lloses” by Xavi Lloses

Nico Roig : Baritone guitar, acoustic guitar
Joachim Badenhorst : Bass clarinet,
clarinet, objects
Martí Melià : Bass sax, clarinet, objects
João Lobo : Drums
Miquel Casaponsa : Guitar on “Opera”

Recorded in Pianofabriek by Kenny Martens
and Studio Grez by Giovanni di Dommenico
and Nico Roig in Brussels

Mix: Nico Roig / Mastering: Yves Roussel
Paintings: Rieko Kanazawa