Folk Bands and Artists
Linus Vandewolken
https://morctapes.bandcamp.com/album/oude-geuze-uit-niemandaal
Linus Vandewolken plays the hommel, an ancestor of the Appalachian dulcimer. A combination of melody & drone, in its simplest form, the hommel resembles a long thin box with strings on top. Since the 1400´s it was a household instrument of the Low Countries, strummed with a goose feather, fretted with a sliding stick and accompanied both religious and secular tunes around the kitchen table.
An outsider musician with an open landscaped primitivism that echoes the boundless guitar work of John Fahey & Robbie Basho with the early music adventurism of David Munrow or contemporary nyckelharpa player Benjin. Vandewolken seeks to expand the hommel’s repertoire away from a stifled bygone museum curiosity towards a living contemporary avant-garde instrument.
Alongside the hommel, Vandewolken plays a selection of home-made aulos (Ancient Greek double reed instruments), recorders & percussions. The latest album, “Oude Geuze uit Niemandaal“ released on Morc Tapes, was recorded on travels across Poland, France, England & Sweden, and at home in Belgium.
Linus Vandewolken is an alter ego of US born-Belgian McCloud Zicmuse. Musician, instrument maker, potter, printer & regular collaborator of Tori Kudo / Maher Shalal Hash Baz. McCloud has worked with Okraïna, Shelter Press & Crammed Discs.
Genre: Alt Folk
