music might help – aka: currently into high rotation

Vinyls
These vinyls and cd’s are currently into heavy rotation at Tchong’s/Ha.
I don’t link to Spotify anymore, for obvious reasons – please read Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist. Please support your local musicians, scene, and indie vinyl store. Selection came to me after appreciated and tasty concerts/showcases, via Belgian cratediggers and colleagues, and directly via the musicians ofcourse. Disclaimer: this is a lot of new stuff but also some years old. I like the human ‘randomness’ of this selection, I like to listen with my hands instead of just ‘tiptoeing through the inferno’* – and I don’t believe in the dichotomy past versus future. I don’t claim completeness and I don’t pledge to any jazz or improvised music orthodox hezbollahs, since those are mostly heading for the museum. If you need more inspiration, please check out the wonderful indie bookstore Paard van Troje, just across the street of Ha Concerts.

*You guessed it right: title courtesy of MC 900 FT. Jesus.

Jeroen van Herzeele & Stephane Galland, Songshan [This is actually an oldie I got from a booker. Jeroen presents a new project in Ha Concerts called Laniakea, named after one of the biggest structures in the universe, only recently discovered. With Nicolas Chkifi and Jozef Dumoulin as well, 14.10.2026]
Filippo Deorsola, Anaphora [24.4.2027 in Ha Concerts Gent]
Telehiv, Mehmet [14.10.2026 in Ha Concerts Gent]

Leon Phal, Stresskiller
Leon Phal, Dust to stars
Anneleen Boehme, Eunoia
Kabas, Sun Dog
Elisabeth Klinck & Nils Vermeulen, Pioen
Aligaga, Music Might Help [also image of this blog]
Reolo, Dystopi Delete
Vinterhagen, Veksthuset
Amalie Dahl, Breaking/Building Habits
Amalie Dahl’s Dafnie, Star op med solen
Marco Giongrandi, When birds call in the darkness
Chantal Acda, The Whale
Anemic Cinema, Anemic Cinema
Bram de Looze, Spotting Gateways
Bram de Looze, Felix Henkelhausen, Eric McPherson, Vice Versa II
Ben Wendel, All One
Charlotte Jacobs, Atlas
Daniel Sommer, Arve Henriksen, Johannes Lundberg, Sounds & sequences
Mingo Rajandi, Werewolves
Mobilhome, That Tough Tender
Seppe Gebreurs, Playing with standards 4, 5, 6
Charlemagne Palestine, Seppe Gebreurs, Beyondddddd the Notessssss
Ben Sluijs, Brice Soniano, Christian Mendoza, Short Stories
Petros Klampanis, Latent Info
Heleen van Haegenborgh, High Carbon

CD’s
Good friend AK from Zeist rebooted my Denon DCD 610 which I bought in 1988. It is so nice to rediscover nonalgorhythmic listening again!

Berlinde Deman, Plank 9 [A bold sonic adventure which takes me back instantely to her wonderful presentation of it in Ha]
Ava Trio, Lunae [Awesome album! Got me hooked immediately!]
Futuro Ancestrale, Elsewhen
Pierre-Antoine Savoyat (Le Monde Merveilleux de Pepito), Thousand shapes of a clown