NEWS

Just before the pandemic John Ghost released their second, well acclaimed, album Airships are Organisms. Pandemic got in the way of some well deserved live performances.

Today, October 6th, they released their third full album Thin Air. Mirror Land. And it’s quite the trip! Out on SdBan records and available for streaming on all platforms. Want to hear it live? Check out the data (more to be announced) on the artist page.

Press
“… John De Geest offers us an electro-rock jazz album, rather dark and exceptionally deep in composition and arrangements. As far as atmospheres go, we are in for a treat.” – Thierry De Clemensat (Paris-Move)

“Thin Air . Mirror Land is definitely one of the musical highlights for 2023.” – WrittenInMusic

During his upcoming tour KING KRULE will play De Roma (18/10) & Ancienne Belgique (19/10, sold-out). Okay Kaya (US) will do the support on this concerts.

Kaya Wilkins is a Norwegian-American Berlin-based musician, composer, and artist who records and performs as Okay Kaya. Okay Kaya has released numerous acclaimed albums including Both (2018), Watch This Liquid Pour Itself (2020) which won the Spellemann Award for best Indie/Alternative (2021), Surviving Is The New Living (2020) and her most recent release The Incompatible Okay Kaya (2021). Wilkins has collaborated with artists including Onyx Collective, Anne Imhof, Porches, King Krule, Deem Spencer and Adinah Dancyger amongst others. Listen to her work here.

If you want to see this cool combo, get your tickets for De Roma (on 18/10) here!

No Fixed Point In Space is the third full album by Modern Nature, Jack Cooper’s most recent musical playground. The new album keeps the same adventurous path like on the previous Modern Nature albums, described as “music that hasn’t been heard before”.

“With this record,” Cooper explains, “I wanted the music to reflect nature: beginnings and endings, arrivals and departures, process and chance. I wanted the music and the words to feel like roots, branches, mycelium, the intricacies of a dawn chorus, neurons firing, the unknown.”

“Songs that are impossibly moving… refreshingly human, engagingly communal and ultimately convivial… Natural magic.” – The Wire

No Fixed Point In Space is released on Belle Union and available on all music platforms. There are some dates planned for the UK for 2023 but much more to come in 2024!
All concerts can be found on his page.

It has been nearly a decade since Blonde Redhead, the NYC based band around Kazu Makino and Italian twin brothers Amedeo and Simone Pace, released their last album. Today they release Sit Down for Dinner, an 11 track album, probably their warmest and most welcoming music yet.

Releasing Sit Down for Dinner in its 30th year, Blonde Redhead’s perseverance partially came in realizing that the process of making the record should necessarily be fun. “Usually I agonize and it’s painful for me to write music, but on this one, I didn’t suffer as much,” says Makino. “I wanted to put my foot down and say: we can have a nice time together. The record sounds quite optimistic.”

Out on all platforms! If you want a copy on vinyl, you can order it at our Guided By Records shop.

The band is doing a tour later this fall. The Botanique (Brussels) is sold-out, but there are still tickets left for De Zwerver (Leffinge, BE) and Paradiso (Amsterdam, NL).
Check out the dates at the Blonde Redhead page.

The Christian Club just announced a bunch of concerts for the next months. Starting this week with three Belgian dates. From next week on the band goes on tour (in duo) with BRUTUS. They are doing the support for most of the French, Spanish and Portugese dates on the ‘Unison Life’ EU-tour.

A great opportunity for The Christian Club to gain new fans for their music!
Check out all dates (including some new Belgian dates later in 2023) at the artist page.

New York City based singer-songwriter and visual artist Joanna Sternberg just announced the last dates for her upcoming November tour in EU/UK. The tour includes Le Guess Who (Utrecht), Sonic City (Kortrijk) and Pitchfork Music Festival London. We’ve added a second Pitchfork London show, ‘Le Consulat’ in Paris and the ‘Vale Perdido’ festival in Lisbon! Check out all dates on her artist page.

If you haven’t checked Joanna’s beautiful new album “I’ve Got Me” (2023, Fat Possum Records), you should definitely do that right now! For example, Pitchfork gave it a solid 8.6 score.

2023 has already been a great year for Psychonaut! After the release of ‘Violate Consensus Reality’ the band played numerous shows through Europe, including some festivals like Motocultor, Pukkelpop, Arctangent and Into The Grave.

This fall the band still had some concerts planned in France en Belgium. Today they’ve added six new dates for Germany. Find out all dates for this fall at the artist page.

The year 2023 has been very eventful for Brutus. After releasing their third album, “Unison Life”, they embarked on a Spring tour that took them to numerous sold-out venues across Europe and the US. In the Summer they also performed at many of the largest festivals in Europe, UK and the US. For this fall the band has sold-out shows planned in Belgium and Germany and a second tour trough Europe. A total of 105 shows this year! All remaining dates can be found on the artist page.

To celebrate the one-year anniversary of their album ‘Unison Life’ and this crazy year, the band will release a new song titled “Love Won’t Hide The Ugliness.” This song will be available digitally on September 14th and on a limited ‘Love Won’t Hide The Ugliness’ 7″ vinyl pressing (available for pre-order on September 14th).

Check out the new song “Love Won’t Hide The Ugliness” on all streaming platforms.

Statement from Jente:

“Dear people,

Unfortunately, my recovery period is taking longer than expected due to a chemotherapy treatment. As a result, we must also postpone the upcoming shows in Belgium and the Netherlands this autumn.

I promise you that I am doing everything in my power to return to the stage as soon as possible and give you the best of myself. Oh, how I miss you all! I cannot thank you enough for all your support and patience during this challenging time. I look forward to seeing you again in 2024.”