De Lotuseters – Het Rode Ei tape

Hazy, ritualistic psych/ambient by Bart De Paepe, Eva Van Deuren and Joris De Rycke. 2017 tape on Sloow Tapes.

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Bombay Lunatic Asylum / Louise Landes Levi – Behind The Buddha’s Mask tape

Some of the most mournful and desolate recordings made by Louise Landes Levi, Koen Vandenhoudt, and Bart De Paepe. Side 2 is a 2002 recording of Louise singing that first appeared on Ira Cohen's Reading At Tangine CD. 2023 tape on Counter Culture Chronicles.

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Bombay Lunatic Asylum ‎– Mad Song

 

 Second album of zoning Indian classical drone rituals by Louise Landes Levi, Bart DePaepe and Koen Vandenhoudt. 2021 LP on Oaken Palace.

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Bombay Lunatic Asylum ‎– Bombay Lunatic Asylum

Mind-losing collaboration between Louise Landes Levi, Bart DePaepe and Koen Vandenhoudt, with a double sarangi (the Iron Maiden of sarangi) and harmonium. 2019 LP on Des Astres d'Or.

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Bart De Paepe - Laatste Stuyver

The master of zoning at his most zoned out and slooooooowwwwww. 2020 tape on Sound Holes.

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Louise Landes Levi, Timo van Luijk, Bart De Paepe ‎– Kami

This is my first rip with the tiny suitcase turntable I had asked for help about. I somehow managed to reduce the noise/clipping so I would ask you to leave some feedback on the sound. Yes, it's definitely not superb, but I guess it's a little bit more than passable. What do you think? A big thanks to badgerstump, wankerd, and Samuel for their help and contact. This is another great collaboration between Louise Landes Levi, Bart De Paepe and Timo Van Luijk, this time moving a little bit away from sarangi-based psychedelic Indian classical music to more progressive and psychedelic rock territory, which is absolutely successful. 2019 lp on Bart De Paepe's Sloowax.

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Louise Landes Levi - IKIRU or The Wanderer

Whereas the previous solo albums of experimental music priestess Louise Landes Levi (here and here) had a more soothing and meditative effect, this one sounds more dramatic and dystopian; this is due to the theme of the album being the monarch butterfly, a species whose numbers have greatly plummeted in recent years. There is an immense feeling of loss and mourning in Louise's wailing sarangi, while in Ira Cohen's poem she recites at the beginning of the second she juxtaposes the strength and resilience of a creature whose brain is the size of a pinhead but knows how to fly to Mexico against the imminent extinction brought about by human negligence. On this album she is accompanied by Bart DePaepe of Sloow Tapes (who had released From The Ming Oracle) and Timo Van Luijk (both members of Ilta Hämärä) who recorded/mixed the album and probably had a hand in the instrumentation too, as there are drones and instances of some sort of dulcimer apart from the sarangi. Proceeds from this album will go to a buttefly conservation center, and since this album is supremely beautiful, I strongly recommend you offer some sort of financial aid straight through Oaken Palace. 2018 LP on Oaken Palace.

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Hum ‎– Le Chat Á Neuf Queues tape (Sloow Tapes)

Yet another project of Bart DePaepe, the belgian druid of psychedelic haze, this time joined by one Anne Collet. As usual, expect guitar clouds of smoke, kraut and kosmische worship, along with amazing droning-looped passages of accordion which are tha shiznit of the tape. Great stuff yo, especially track 2 and the hair-rising, dungeon-sounding track 6. 2015 tape on Sloow Tapes.

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Bart DePaepe - Solitary Moon LP

Even more high-octane thrash metal hazy anthems by Bart DePaepe, and in this one it seems that he had just left a guitar on with a wah and a delay pedal being recorded over everything else, thus the result is slightly more noisy. Which is good man! I like the packaging as well, recycled hard paper and with nice colored wools tying the thing together. 2015 lp on Vohu Manah Records.

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Bart DePaepe - Blood Clot in the Brain tape (Sloow Tapes)

More drug-addled crawl by the Belgian druid of psychedelic flights, yet this one sounds a little varied, with more kosmische vibes, a touch of blues, and a nice sense of americana. It's like listening to Popol Vuh while driving in a Cadillac to drink tea (well not that exactly...) and watch the stars on Mojave Desert. 2015 tape on Sloow Tapes.

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Bart De Paepe ‎– Rhode tape (Sloow Tapes)

First solo tape by Bart DePaepe, boss of Sloow Tapes/Sloow Wax, current member of Amanita Vulva (covered on this blog before) and former member of the mighty Sylvester Anfang II. People familiar with Sloow Tapes and the bands mentioned know what this is about: lysergic, crawling psychedelic haze infested with serpentine melodies, wah-wah, fuzz, delays, minimal drumming, and some amazing accordion in lo-fi mode. 2014 tape on Sloow Tapes.

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Amanita Vulva ‎– Dwellers Of Klein Eiland tape

 

Simmering psychedelic drone jams by ex-Sylvester Anfang II members Bart DePaepe (Sloow Tapes, etc.) and Ernesto Gonzalez (Bear Bones, Lay Low) and angoulème oridian, Weird Dust and Bonzai Tarzan. Some of it very Amon Duul II-ish (track 6), while other tracks are so good just for crawling on the floor from being wasted or sleepy. 2015 tape on Sloow Tapes, each tape carrying different artwork.

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