BANDS
Abstract INC.
Abstract INC. is a Brussels-based six-man company playing the music of guitarist Machiel Heremans. Their storytelling music pulls you into an alternative world of spacey landscapes, bright contrast and layered compositions. The result is an eventful musical trip that throws you slightly off balance with excursions into jazz, but also into rock and classical music. On October 13th 2023 their first full album ‘Goodbye Big Idea’ was released.
Machiel Heremans – Guitar, composition
Abel Jednak – Alto saxophone
Joos Vandueren – Tenor saxophone
Leonard Steigerwald – Piano, keys
Otto Kint – Double Bass
Daniel Jonkers - Drums
Teddy's Brain Drain
Teddy's Brain Drain exists on the edge between innocent almost naive melodies and dark puzzling atmospheres. The trio uses songs as a vessel to build a bigger tale, and at the same time, lets every musician explore an own narrative. Expect to hear bulky grooves, suspenseful themes and everything in between.
Their debut EP will be released in spring 2023.
Machiel Heremans – Guitar, Composition
Federico Stocchi – Double Bass
Gaspard Sicx – Drums
No Wasabi
Machiel Heremans and Rebekka Van Bockstal, also No Wasabi, is an experimental guitar duo that takes the listeners on a musical trip with loops, echoes and other effects. The two guitar players met each other at the conservator of Brussels were they found out a shared passion for composing, effects, free improvisation and sound. These elements are also main aspects in the music of No Wasabi.
The first album (‘No Wasabi’) of No Wasabi is a powerful but
intimate story in which echo plays an important part because of the album was recorded in a church.
The combination of improvised sketches and composed
music blends into a fresh creativity in which different
boundaries are explored.
"No Wasabi" was recorded and mixed by Stef Lenaerts
and mastered by Gert Van Hoof (Cochlea mastering).
HEREMANS/SENSMEIER
The electro-acoustic duo of German saxophonist Jon Sensmeier and Belgian guitarist Machiel Heremans plays (mostly) improvised cinematic ambient post-rock. After connecting through their studies and releasing two EPs by 2018, the duo recorded their debut album "Some Ideas Arrive in the Form of a Dream" in Denmark, which they released in February 2024 on the Copenhagen label CRRNT records.
Machiel Heremans – guitar, effects
Jon Sensmeier – saxophone, live electronics