Joel Vandroogenbroeck
Far View
Boomkat Product Review:
One to tick off the library wants list, Drag City offer a lovely overview of Joel Vandroogenbroek’s fusioneering ’80s library music adorned with brilliant Robert Beatty artwork
A onetime member of psych / space rock outfit Brainticket, with a catalogue reaching back to the ‘50s, Joel Vandroogenbroek was a Belgian composer, engineer, producer and multi-instrumentalist particularly beloved for his armful of albums with Switzerland’s Coloursound Library. Joel passed away in December, 2019 while this collection was in assembly, and ‘Far View’ now arrives as a bountiful posthumous testament to his rich musical imagination, omnivorously drawing from myriad disciplines of jazz, rock, and more far flung styles of sub-continental Indian and Far Eastern traditions, plus electronic spheres.
A few of Joel’s later, electronic leaning releases, have long been in our wants list, so this collection is totally up our street, offering a historic peer back down the kaleidoscope of his vision where one will discover a fascinating cross-section of his catalogue, taking in genteel, prog-tinged 4th world intimations on ‘Fairy Tale’ and thru to the fluttering sehtars of ‘Biblical Band’, while ‘Easy To Love’ exemplifies his eaze at turning a hand to sweet lounge jazz, ‘’Wono Sari’ looks out to chiming Far eastern modes, and the likes of ‘Chipland Liquids’ and ‘New Wave Rock’ sizzle with carefully crafted electronics.
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Boomkat Product Review:
One to tick off the library wants list, Drag City offer a lovely overview of Joel Vandroogenbroek’s fusioneering ’80s library music adorned with brilliant Robert Beatty artwork
A onetime member of psych / space rock outfit Brainticket, with a catalogue reaching back to the ‘50s, Joel Vandroogenbroek was a Belgian composer, engineer, producer and multi-instrumentalist particularly beloved for his armful of albums with Switzerland’s Coloursound Library. Joel passed away in December, 2019 while this collection was in assembly, and ‘Far View’ now arrives as a bountiful posthumous testament to his rich musical imagination, omnivorously drawing from myriad disciplines of jazz, rock, and more far flung styles of sub-continental Indian and Far Eastern traditions, plus electronic spheres.
A few of Joel’s later, electronic leaning releases, have long been in our wants list, so this collection is totally up our street, offering a historic peer back down the kaleidoscope of his vision where one will discover a fascinating cross-section of his catalogue, taking in genteel, prog-tinged 4th world intimations on ‘Fairy Tale’ and thru to the fluttering sehtars of ‘Biblical Band’, while ‘Easy To Love’ exemplifies his eaze at turning a hand to sweet lounge jazz, ‘’Wono Sari’ looks out to chiming Far eastern modes, and the likes of ‘Chipland Liquids’ and ‘New Wave Rock’ sizzle with carefully crafted electronics.
Boomkat Product Review:
One to tick off the library wants list, Drag City offer a lovely overview of Joel Vandroogenbroek’s fusioneering ’80s library music adorned with brilliant Robert Beatty artwork
A onetime member of psych / space rock outfit Brainticket, with a catalogue reaching back to the ‘50s, Joel Vandroogenbroek was a Belgian composer, engineer, producer and multi-instrumentalist particularly beloved for his armful of albums with Switzerland’s Coloursound Library. Joel passed away in December, 2019 while this collection was in assembly, and ‘Far View’ now arrives as a bountiful posthumous testament to his rich musical imagination, omnivorously drawing from myriad disciplines of jazz, rock, and more far flung styles of sub-continental Indian and Far Eastern traditions, plus electronic spheres.
A few of Joel’s later, electronic leaning releases, have long been in our wants list, so this collection is totally up our street, offering a historic peer back down the kaleidoscope of his vision where one will discover a fascinating cross-section of his catalogue, taking in genteel, prog-tinged 4th world intimations on ‘Fairy Tale’ and thru to the fluttering sehtars of ‘Biblical Band’, while ‘Easy To Love’ exemplifies his eaze at turning a hand to sweet lounge jazz, ‘’Wono Sari’ looks out to chiming Far eastern modes, and the likes of ‘Chipland Liquids’ and ‘New Wave Rock’ sizzle with carefully crafted electronics.
Boomkat Product Review:
One to tick off the library wants list, Drag City offer a lovely overview of Joel Vandroogenbroek’s fusioneering ’80s library music adorned with brilliant Robert Beatty artwork
A onetime member of psych / space rock outfit Brainticket, with a catalogue reaching back to the ‘50s, Joel Vandroogenbroek was a Belgian composer, engineer, producer and multi-instrumentalist particularly beloved for his armful of albums with Switzerland’s Coloursound Library. Joel passed away in December, 2019 while this collection was in assembly, and ‘Far View’ now arrives as a bountiful posthumous testament to his rich musical imagination, omnivorously drawing from myriad disciplines of jazz, rock, and more far flung styles of sub-continental Indian and Far Eastern traditions, plus electronic spheres.
A few of Joel’s later, electronic leaning releases, have long been in our wants list, so this collection is totally up our street, offering a historic peer back down the kaleidoscope of his vision where one will discover a fascinating cross-section of his catalogue, taking in genteel, prog-tinged 4th world intimations on ‘Fairy Tale’ and thru to the fluttering sehtars of ‘Biblical Band’, while ‘Easy To Love’ exemplifies his eaze at turning a hand to sweet lounge jazz, ‘’Wono Sari’ looks out to chiming Far eastern modes, and the likes of ‘Chipland Liquids’ and ‘New Wave Rock’ sizzle with carefully crafted electronics.
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Boomkat Product Review:
One to tick off the library wants list, Drag City offer a lovely overview of Joel Vandroogenbroek’s fusioneering ’80s library music adorned with brilliant Robert Beatty artwork
A onetime member of psych / space rock outfit Brainticket, with a catalogue reaching back to the ‘50s, Joel Vandroogenbroek was a Belgian composer, engineer, producer and multi-instrumentalist particularly beloved for his armful of albums with Switzerland’s Coloursound Library. Joel passed away in December, 2019 while this collection was in assembly, and ‘Far View’ now arrives as a bountiful posthumous testament to his rich musical imagination, omnivorously drawing from myriad disciplines of jazz, rock, and more far flung styles of sub-continental Indian and Far Eastern traditions, plus electronic spheres.
A few of Joel’s later, electronic leaning releases, have long been in our wants list, so this collection is totally up our street, offering a historic peer back down the kaleidoscope of his vision where one will discover a fascinating cross-section of his catalogue, taking in genteel, prog-tinged 4th world intimations on ‘Fairy Tale’ and thru to the fluttering sehtars of ‘Biblical Band’, while ‘Easy To Love’ exemplifies his eaze at turning a hand to sweet lounge jazz, ‘’Wono Sari’ looks out to chiming Far eastern modes, and the likes of ‘Chipland Liquids’ and ‘New Wave Rock’ sizzle with carefully crafted electronics.
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