‘Ik kook jouw schaapje in haar moeders moedermelk’ / ‘De Vledermens’ by Builenradar | New Album, ‘There Is No Hunger in Your Shame’
Builenradar is the music project of Belgian visual artist and guitarist Wouter Vanhaelemeesch. Previously known as Urpf Lanze, he’s been producing trance-like weirdo guitar boogie that takes inspiration from disparate musical influences and desperate mood swings since the early 2010s.
Playing with a self-developed unorthodox style with a resophonic guitar on his lap, his music defies categorisation but rubs elbows with like-minded outsiders like Loren Connors, 75 Dollar Bill, Wilburn Burchette, The Godz, Konono N°1, Bill Orcutt, and Circuit Des Yeux…
Builenradar plays in a self-developed unorthodox style with a resophonic guitar on his lap and a voice ranging from messy grunts to eerie whistling and absent murmurs. Once, after Vanhaelemeesch opened for Keiji Haino, the master told him, “you do interesting things, but you must go further,” so he stopped tuning his guitar altogether.
Today we are premiering two of his latest videos.
His latest album, ‘There Is No Hunger in Your Shame’ collects six recordings made between 2013 and 2017. While some veer to more abstract, melancholy meanderings, others are all aggression and drunken intensity. Take the title track: the artist describes it as “a dump truck of fingerpicking rolling down a cliff” the composition sounds like a noise hooligan covering Konono N°1. Distorted tape manipulation pierces through, a rainstorm provides a natural backdrop, and a broken harmonium becomes an unlikely sparring partner.
Every track sounds dirty, loose, and covered in sweat, dancing in the bowels of the blues canon.
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