Ruiskamer: Iztok Koren & Raphael Rogiński / Jean Boudart

Name: Ruiskamer: Iztok Koren & Raphael Rogiński / Jean Boudart — Support: GAME
Start: 2027-02-04T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2027-02-04T22:30:00+01:00
Location: Miry Concertzaal

Support: GAME

VIERNULVIER & Miry Concertzaal

Thu 04.02

19:30 - 22:30

Miry Concertzaal, Gent

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Double bill for the first RUISKAMER of 2027. Slovenian mutli-instrumentalist Iztok Koren and the Polish guitarist, composer and performer Raphael Rogiński present their polyphonic music, drawing inspiration from traditional music to tell a contemporary folklore sound. Belgian artist Jean J. Boudart presents ‘Le Jardin Ultraviolet’, his debut solo album, a sonic painting in reverence of the world beyond our senses

Iztok Koren is a social worker by profession, and a Slovenian multi-instrumentalist who currently lives in Ljubljana. His repertoire includes playful-melancholic post-rock, post-industrial noisecore, freak folk and more. Raphael Rogiński is a guitarist, composer, performer, improviser, cultural animator, and researcher of musical folklore. By merging diverse traditions, he seeks musical and performative systems independent of dominant popular culture. The duo presents their album ‘Nocturnal Consolations’ at MIRY Concertzaal.

The first shared sounds between Iztok Koren and Raphael Rogiński came to life some time ago, stemming from their collaboration with the band Širom. As instrumentalists seeking both the ancient voice of their instruments and the sound of tomorrow, they play using unconventional techniques and within alternative musical systems. With a sensitive attention to finding a place for sound—both acoustically and ideologically—they create a polyphony of ever-changing colors. Their instruments form a moving ornament of cultures and worlds.

Polyphony itself—as an idea of encountering the other, of building a platform—is the common denominator of their work. As enthusiasts of traditional music, they draw inspiration from it, yet their aim is to create music for the modern human—a universal soundtrack. As they describe it, it is a "Byzantine-steppe tale" – a contemporary story relating to today's perspective on folklore. Although rooted in a specific latitude, it does not directly reference specific traditions – rather, it explores them deeply to create its own.

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Jean Boudart spent the last two years aboard the crazy train of ‘De Vlaamse Primitieven’, a duo with Freek Vreys, mixing psychedelica, krautrock, British folk and drone influences. After close encounters of the fourth kind and near-death and actual resurrection experiences, he now presents his debut solo album, ‘Le Jardin Ultraviolet’, under the moniker Jean J. Boudart

The journey began in the summer of 2018 as an exploration of a new approach to playing the guitar. This journey, which has only existed for a fraction of its lifespan, focuses on experimenting with natural resonance through the exploration of overtones, cascading harmonics and the eternal drone. Over the course of this exploration, a five-movement composition gradually and organically came into being. Some five years into the experiment, a thought that could no longer be silenced manifested itself: the six-string guitar was replaced by a ten-string guitar, or rather, a decacord. With resonance that exceeds the expectations and a range of frequencies that satisfy the imagination, these ten strings led the music far beyond the possibilities of the six strings.

Imagine variations on a melody by Don Cherry, the phasing of a Steve Reich composition, the arabesques of Debussy, the ever rising spiral of an Indian raga and most of all, picture a colour beyond your perception - then collide with the limits of your mind.