Annelies Monseré & Goldscammer en De Vlaamse Primitieven

Annelies Monseré & Goldscammer

Annelies Monseré has been active in Ghent’s experimental music scene for over two decades, slowly refining her approach to folk and experimental music. She moved from sparse works for piano and voice to increasingly complex arrangements of instrumentation without losing that crucial DIY edge. Her melancholic atmospheric music, sometimes light sometimes heavy, contains the immediacy and emotiveness of folk music, imbued with a sense of adventurous experimentalism and the restraint elegance of minimalism. ‘Like a mix between Broadcast, Nico and Tudor court music… a baroque-folk cousin to Broadcast’s ‘Tender Buttons.’ (Boomkat)

Influences range from early music such as baroque, church music and european folk traditions but are grounded in the now with her precarious voice, poetic lyrics and contemporary arrangements with layers of acoustic and electronic sounds. Among the instruments that are being used are keyboard, drum computer, accordion, indian harmonium, electric guitar, bass guitar and melodica.

While being active as solo artist since the early 2000’s, Monseré tapped into a whole new audience with her 2023 album ‘Mares’. A tour tape with Goldscammer was released in december 2024. In this newfound collaboration they are exploring Monseré’s back catalogue. The sparse compositions allowed Goldscammer’s lyricism to push them into new directions, prompting a fresh approach to the voice and musical textures.

De Vlaamse Primitieven

De Vlaamse Primitieven is the alter ego of Antwerp guitarists Jan Boudart and Freek Vreys. After studying jazz guitar, they discovered a shared love for 60’s psychedelia, ethnic drones, minimalism and American ‘primitive’ guitar music by John Fahey, Robbie Basho, Glenn Jones and the like. They studied these masters and developed an obsession to not only keep this beautiful tradition of guitar playing alive, but also to mix ‘American primitivism’ with British folk (Bert Jansch!), jazz, drones and other genres. For some these may be somewhat obscure references, but the musicality and variation that the duo demonstrate give the instrumental compositions of De Vlaamse Primitieven a surprising accessibility. It reminds us at times of the instrumental passages of well-known names such as Nick Drake and even Joanna Newsom.

Debut album ‘Lucht van een Andere Planeet’ was released on Pang Pang Records (bel) & Carbon Records (usa) early this year and the duo will play a large selection of the album during this concert.

This program is presented by Minorie, a label that explores the fringes of folk and experimental music