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Photo: Francis Vanhee<\/p><\/div>\n

One of Belgium’s most forward-thinking musicians, Dijf Sanders<\/a> is not afraid to push the envelope.\u00a0 The Ghent based multi-instrumentalist and composer has announced the release of his new album Tangkoa II<\/em>, arriving on May 8th through Unday Records<\/a>. With a free-thinking openness to different cultures, Sanders’ previous albums saw him travel to places like Indonesia and Nepal, searching for open musical exploration. The forthcoming Tangkoa II<\/em> grew out of field recordings collected during his 2022 travels in Vietnam. Feeding these sounds into his self-built machinery, and abstaining from using any pre-sequenced sounds, samples and synths were shaped and played live, with Simon Segers steering it. Segers “operates as a human interface between rhythm and circuitry, a true man-machine”, as the press release describes, while Sanders “acts as a living effects processor, continuously manipulating sound in real time”. To bring Tangkoa II<\/em> to life, Sanders has also enlisted a phenomenal group of musicians – Vitja Pauwels (guitar), Viktor Perdieu (saxophone), and Louise van den Heuvel (bass).<\/p>\n

Alongside the album announcement, Sanders has dropped the first single ‘Mooning’, an entrancing and enthralling track that we we just can’t stop listening to. Here it is.<\/p>\n