I’d rather stay at home- film music for 3 films of Rinus Van de Velde by Joachim Badenhorst
A truly rare gem of unclassifiable outsider music by Joachim Badenhorst that works as a soundtrack for films of Rinus Van de Velde.
18 short etudes compiled on a vinyl that blend cinematic soundscapes played on reeds, vibraphone, keyboards and electronics but have a feel of something beyond time yet feel and sound amazingly fresh.
Joachim is a master of minute celebrations of life brought into some fantasy that is expressed in the forms of the songs that possess mastery of a short form, arrangements that could be set in any time - with a subtle jazzy and illustrative feel they could go well anywhere.
When I think of artists such as Badenhorst - I think of Grey, Teiji Ito, Vincent Gallo, and many others. The nuanced world view of the emotional and spiritual world that expresses itself beautifully in those etudes cannot be falsified by anything. In its honesty and subtleness there is rarely something that can go on the same level.
Joachim and Rinus Van de Velde started collaborating about fifteen years ago. Rinus made the artwork for Joachim's first solo album 'The jungle He Told Me' (Smeraldina-rima, 2012) and for his recent album 'Zero Years Kid - Geen grenzen' (Klein, 2023).
When Rinus started making films, he asked Joachim to compose the soundtracks.
Joachim made the soundtracks for Rinus' films 'The Villagers' (2019), 'La Ruta Natural' (2022) and 'Life in a day' (2023).
Rinus Van de Velde (b. 1983 in Leuven, Belgium) lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium. Van de Velde has taken big steps over the recent years in the development of his oeuvre. Where at the start of his career he was best known for his large-scale charcoal drawings, he now profiles himself as a total artist, through the use of various media such as drawing, sculpture, installation, and film.
Van de Velde’s work plays with the tension between reality and fiction and creates a complex world in which documentation and fiction, reproduction, and reconstruction are inextricably linked. His works have a particularly complex layering through a combination of, among other things, careful composition and structure, numerous references to the art world, sharp irony, visual intelligence, biographical elements, and an enormous imagination. Van de Velde depicts an alternative world, where myths from literature, art, and film constantly invade the reality of his own artistic personality and practice, presenting a story that does not tell the truth but a carefully arranged lie. Text and image are also the incentive for a fictional (artist) biography in which Van de Velde does not correspond to himself, but rather tests the different possibilities of contemporary art. This leads to a productive doubling of his artistic persona: opposed to the “real” artist who chooses to work with well-defined artistic and material parameters in his studio, there is the alter ego who travels across all sorts of (artistic) positions without ever fully identifying with them. Like mirror images without an original, both artists produce each other. A similar tension can be found between the artist’s workspace and the world of the drawing: on the one hand, the studio is the actual laboratory where the possibilities that lead the artist are tested; on the other, the fictional scenes in the drawings emphasize their roots in studio experimentation.
Van de Velde has held exhibitions at among others: Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands (2023); BOZAR - Centre of Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium (2021); Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland (2021); KWM Art Center, Beijing, China (2019); Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany (2018), Kunsthalle, São Paulo, Brazil (2015).
Film music for 3 films by Rinus Van de Velde: The Villagers, La Ruta Natural, A life in a day.
The album will be played live alongside Rinus' films during the book presentation on December 12th at the Bourla, Antwerp.
credits
released November 25, 2024
Composed and performed by Joachim Badenhorst.
clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, voice, vibraphone, keyboard, electronics.
Recorded in Antwerp between 2018-2023. Recorded and mixed by Joachim Badenhorst.
Mastered by Pieter de Wagter.
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