selected recordings & productions

Christophe Claeys - 1/2 (released May 9, 2023)
(drums, electronics)
Deconstructed bird calls and songs triggered by drums and partially processed by effects, in close connection-reaction to my playing.
This selection of improvisations was recorded during a solo performance at the first ever Eco-festival in Wetteren on April 28, 2024. The stairwell of the local art academy provided a fitting setting for the drums and car radio speaker configuration of the electronics.
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Zee Skirts - Only the Bad Sleep Well (released May 3, 2024)
(drums, percussion)
2nd full length album for Zee Skirts, out on W.E.R.F. Records.
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Amatorski - Curves and Bends, Things Veer (released March 1, 2024)
(drums, percussion, programmed rhythms, vibraphone)
Long awaited follow-up album for Amatorski.
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Christophe Claeys - 0/1 (released February 1, 2023)
(drums)
My inaugural solo drums album, released on bwaa records. This landmark achievement marks over 15 years of professional dedication, increasingly focusing on own creations as both a recording artist and a live performer.  
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The Visual - A Night By The Shore (released November 11, 2022)
(drums, percussion)
Grateful encounter with these talented young people that resulted in their third studio album.
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Naga Ghost - Arms Akimbo (released April 1, 2022)
(drums, percussion, synths, programming, co-production and mixing)
Track from Bites, a sampler by Natural Candy, presenting new/unreleased music from artists related to their label. This was our contribution after they re-released our debut album (the kinder one lives inside) on cassette in January 2022.
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Naga Ghost - the kinder one lives inside (released May 15, 2021)
(drums, percussion, synths, programming, and co-production)
Naga Ghost debut album, the venture of two individuals with a common goal to experiment and give way to the moment. During a couple of residencies Annelies Van Dinter (Echo Beatty) and I worked with an intentional set-up, but without an intentional destination, while crossing the borders of our comfort zones and treading light-footed while doing so.
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Noland Sunn - Memento Park (released February 26, 2022)
(drums)
First single of a spread out recording process for the debut album of Noland Sunn.
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Black Phoebe (released September 18, 2020)
(synths, programming)
Shelley Brien (Singrid Lund) and husband Mark Lanegan (Dark Mark) pursue a gothic wave and washed-out techno muse in a deliciously cranky follow-up to Lanegan’s acclaimed ‘Downwelling’ LP with Not Waving in 2019. 

Just before heading out on a 2 month European tour with Mark Lanegan Band in the fall of 2019 (which was destined to be the very last one ever), all band members recorded some additional arrangements and ideas at home for Black Phoebe’s debut EP.
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Mortier (released March 15, 2019)
(drums, percussion, vibraphone)
My long time friend, fellow musician and now chef Thomas Mortier.
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Warhaus - Love’s A Stranger (released May 30, 2017)
(percussion)
I was very pleased when Maarten told me he had kept several of my demo drum recordings on his debut album for Warhaus. The recording session for the follow-up album contain my contribution on rototoms for this single.
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16 Visions Of Ex-Futur (released October 14, 2016)
(drums, electronics)
Excited by Véronique Vincent & Aksak Maboul’s acclaimed ‘lost’ avant-pop opus, a host of artists from all over the place launched into reinterpretations of the songs from the Ex-Futur album. 

I was involved in the 2016 line-up of Aksak Maboul, who we did these two freshly-recorded “self-covers” with, with surprise appearances by members of Kasai Allstars and Aquaserge.
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Krankland - Wanderrooms (released September 30, 2016)
(drums, percussion)
Debut album containing ten multi-layered songs in which Thomas Werbrouck, master of light and shadow, put his heart and soul.
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Give Me New Noise : Half-Mute Reflected (released April 29, 2016)
(drums, percussion and FX)
A Tuxedomoon tribute album for which Sebastiaan Van den Branden (Dopplar) and I interpreted James Whale, the 6th song from Half-Mute. 
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Amatorski - Hear Me (released March 11, 2016)
(drums, percussion)
Loose single chosen from new material we were working on after the 2015 From Clays To Figures album. Amatorski as a band took a long break around this period.
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Douglas Firs - The Long Answer Is No (released January 23, 2015)
(drums, percussion)
I had been playing live for a long time with Douglas Firs but this is the only album on which I actually was able to participate during recording.
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Balthazar - Leipzig (released January 10, 2014)
(drums, percussion)
My final contribution to Balthazar’s never-ending success after 7 years of touring the world together, having an incredible time!
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Amatorski - Impatience (DVD, released 2013)
(drums, percussion)
A special performance for which we wrote an original soundtrack for the eponymous experimental film from 1928 by Charles Dekeukeleire. A 36-minute piece featuring abstract textures and mesmerizing melodies. The accompanying live show (which was performed 30 times during a theater tour throughout 2012) consisted of a screening of the film with a simultaneous live performance of the soundtrack. Our performance at the Ancienne Belgique was recorded and made available on a limited DVD.
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Balthazar - Rats (released October 15, 2012)
(drums, percussion)
Second album of Balthazar, awarded with ‘Best Album’ at the Music Industry Awards in 2012.
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Amatorski - tbc (released May 16, 2011)
(drums, percussion)
Debut album of Amatorski.
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Amatorski - Same Stars We Shared (released April 17, 2010)
(glockenspiel)
Limited edition debut EP of Amatorski, the band around Inne Eysermans. This EP got us launched after reaching the finals of Humo’s Rock Rally 2010.
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Balthazar - Applause (released March 22, 2010)
(percussion, trumpet)
Debut album of Balthazar, after Simon Casier and I joined the band in 2007. Awarded with ‘Best Album’ at the Music Industry Awards in 2010.
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Amatorski/krakatau - Human Interest (premiered April 1, 2009 at Festival Cement, Maastricht, NL)
(drums)
Music theater performance for which we did the scoring and live musical accompaniment.

After its passage at the ITs festival (Amsterdam, NL), Human Interest was invited to the ACT festival in Bilbao in 2010. In the jury report of the ITs guest award, where Human Interest came in third place, the performance was described as follows:

“Human Interest showed a really interesting contemporary way to communicate two connected but very different stories by the use of music as an intermediair. The connection between the two very well performed stories was very subtle, the connection with different nowadays violence was very clear and touching.”