There Is No Hunger in Your Shame

by Builenradar

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1.	One Eyed Buildings 06:53	buy track
2.	There Is No Hunger in Your Shame 07:36	buy track
3.	Gas Giant 04:14	buy track
4.	I’ve Stolen All The Lakes so Now Your Gods Don't Have no Mirrors 06:43	buy track
5.	Let Me Hate Your Welcome 06:33	buy track
6.	Now The Chimney Hatched an Egg 02:16	buy track

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Builenradar is the new moniker under which Belgian visual artist and musician Wouter Vanhaelemeesch performs his damaged post-apocalyptic bikerfolk. Previously known as Urpf Lanze, he’s been producing trance-like guitar boogie that takes inspiration from disparate influences since the early 2010s.

RIYL: Marvin Pontiac, Bill Orcutt, Wilburne Burchette, Loren Connors, Tom Cora, Ignatz, Circuit Des Yeux...

Builenradar plays in a self-developed unorthodox style with a resophonic guitar on his lap and a voice ranging from messy grunts to eerie whistling and absent murmurs. Once, after Vanhaelemeesch opened for Keiji Haino, the master told him, “you do interesting things, but you must go further,” so he stopped tuning his guitar altogether.

“There Is No Hunger in Your Shame” collects six recordings made between 2013 and 2017. While some veer to more abstract, melancholy meanderings, others are all aggression and drunken intensity. Take the title track: the artist describes it as “a dump truck of fingerpicking rolling down a cliff” the composition sounds like a noise hooligan covering Konono N°1. Distorted tape manipulation pierces through, a rainstorm provides a natural backdrop, and a broken harmonium becomes an unlikely sparring partner. Every track sounds dirty, loose, and covered in sweat, dancing in the bowels of the blues canon.

As Urpf Lanze, Vanhaelemeesch has performed at festivals like Flow and Incubate and opened up for artists like Six Organs of Admittance, 75 Dollar Bill, Alan Licht & Tetuzi Akiyama, and many more.

Vanhaelemeesch is also known for his large-scale pen and ink drawings that plunder early renaissance and alchemic imagery and infuse the results with radical collage techniques and a very surreal (or just Belgian) sense of humor. He has provided artwork for releases by artists like Jozef van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch, Robbie Basho, Jack Rose, Smegma, Razen, Mauro Antonio Pawlowski, Cian Nugent, Aki Onda, et al.

During the day, Builenradar works as a music curator and promoter and was a co-founder of the audioMER label.

Press quotes:

'Slowly, among all the odd tones and meandering rhythms, the brilliance of his fretwork becomes apparent, and you willingly give yourself over to the anomalous landscapes presented for your inspection' - Beats Per Minute

'Not dissimilar to Urpf Lanze, but weirder and better. Super interesting stuff!' - The Wire

'Anxiety flows like a waterfall through every facet of “Gas Giant,” bringing apprehensive drama to each mangled Orcutt-imbued chord progression. Fantastic.' - Foxy Digitalis

'There’s immense skill in creating something that sounds this spectacularly unhinged. Shattering any notion of convention and existing within its own rules' - The Quietus

'There are six pieces in thirty-one minutes, and each one is great. A straightforward and personal release and recorded in such a way that it is almost like the man is present in your room to perform it solely for you, with all the intensity he has to offer' - Vital Weekly

On previous project Urpf Lanze:

'Veering from insistent percussive batterings to bending slackened strings to finely articulated runs, he employs disciplined technique and the power of sloppiness in a way that few other guitarists would even consider trying.'
– Mike Barnes, The Wire

'The exhilarating feeling of a technically talented artist casting the rules down a deep and moss-covered well, at once musically potent and deliciously unhinged, far more grubby than its genre classification might suggest.'
– Scrolldust

credits

released June 30, 2022

All tracks written and performed by Wouter Vanhaelemeesch.

Tracks 1–2 recorded by Jurgen De Blonde (2017). Tracks 3–6 recorded by Bey-tal Tapes (2013). Harmonium on track 5 by Bey-tal Tapes.

Pre-mastering by Jack Allett. Final master by Moa Pillar.

Illustrations by Wouter Vanhaelemeesch. Photo by Céline Hudreaux. Design and layout by Ivan Zoloto.

Thanks to Elisabeth, Jurgen, Niels, Jack and the dude from Love Cult!

Released by School of the Arts in 2022.
Cat. no. SOTA331.

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Builenradar Ghent, Belgium

Solo resophonic guitar exorcisms & mumbling.

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