Venediktos Tempelboom
The main musical alter ego of Ghent-based Benoit Monsieurs, Venediktos Tempelboom has crafted his own unique idioms in the primitive folk style that has long guided him. Using the 12-string guitar as his main instrument, the self-taught musician creates passages that take fingerpicking Americana into the Flanders fields, with winding compositions that distill the essence of giants like John Fahey, Robbie Basho and Jack Rose mixed with the dark drone melancholia of Funeral Folk/KRAAK stalwarts like Silvester Anfang, Helvete and Ignatz. The results are ringing meditations of awe and terror, flamboyant and grotesque yet utterly mesmerizing in their vivid sonic imagery. His debut LP, Syne Vuyle Hoeck, is out on KRAAK November 14!
https://kraak.bandcamp.com/album/syne-vuyle-hoeck
@benwameneers
 
Ishtembashtok
Long-haired Ghentian Jeffrey Andréka - also part of the psychedelic jam quartet De Regering Van Treffelijke Zaken alongside the Tempelboom - uses the moniker Ishtembashtok for his myriad musical experiments which range from murky hip hop to Flemish country hymns to garbled garage punk. A one-man band with many tricks under his hat, he’ll be bringing some unhinged compositions to AB Club, using guitar, loopers and a karaoke twist to multi-tracked songs of undisclosed genres. A true discovery for adepts of inscrutable DIY aesthetics and aspiring bedroom producers!
https://ishtembashtok.bandcamp.com/music
 
Datashock
Active for over 20 years, the self-described neo-hippie-spook-folk collective Datashock has been making the rounds in and out of their native Germany with their ever-mutating psychedelic improvisations. Founded by vocalist and keyboardist Pascal Hector in 2003, Datashock’s members are a rotating multi-instrumentalist crew using junk electronics, effects pedals, and DIY tape rigs to augment the usual jam band standard into a full-fledged kosmische ensemble with shamanic overtones. For lovers of all things drone and ceremonial, nostalgic for krautrock and thirsty for more! Check out their latest LP, Geltungsbereich Universum, which came out on Bureau-B in 2023
https://datashock.bandcamp.com/
https://datashock.bandcamp.com/album/geltungsbereich-universum
@datashock_band