Following the success of the critically acclaimed 2018 album
‘Java’, Brugge-born musical visionary Dijf Sanders is pleased to share new
single ‘Ravana’ (3rd January), taken from his forthcoming album ‘Puja’,
released 14th February via Unday Records. A multi-instrumentalist and composer,
David ‘Dijf’ Sanders combines a broad mix of styles including exotica,
psychedelia, jazz and electronica, approached with a boundless enthusiasm for multicultural
blends and influences.
On ‘Puja’, Sanders embarked on another musical adventure of
mystic and wonder, travelling to Nepal to record ‘Puja’, using his field
recordings and impressions to create a deeply enriched sound with the help of
drummer Simon Segers (Black Flower, De Beren Gieren), saxophone player Mattias
De Craene and sitar player Nicolas Mortelmans. Tracks like new single ‘Ravana’
suggest a world infused by Nepalese, Tibetan, Chinese and Indian culture as
broken beats and organic exotica combine to create a trance-like rhythmic flow
while ‘Santoshi Mata’ sprouts through a hypnotic soundscape of sacred monk
chants and eclectic vibrations.
The Ghent based musician was a one-time member of synth pop
bands Teddiedrum and The Violent Husbands and he regularly collaborates on
various projects and productions in Belgium at the same time, recently working
with Warhaus, Sylvie Kreusch, Mattias De Craene’s MDC III and Wim Vandekeybus
(Die Bakchen – Lasst uns tanzen), to name a few.
His 2016 album ‘Moonlit Planetarium’, was a welcoming
insight into the unique world of Sanders and resulted in an experimental clash
of percussive persuasion, ethnic sounds and western beats. The follow-up album
‘Java’, released in 2018, was commissioned by Europalia and saw Sanders travel
to Java in search of the sound of the Indonesian island. He gathered an
impressive collection of field recordings and samples, took them to his studio
and created a record bursting with sultry beats, psychedelic trance and
ethio-jazz, proving Sanders a special Flemish talent. On release, the album
received high praise from numerous leading tastemaker media across the UK and
Europe including Q magazine who concluded that the album was “a resonant and
rewarding trip”, while Electronic Sound proclaimed the album an “ecstatic,
trance-inducing psych-infused wonder.” Welcome to the wonderful world of Dijf
Sanders.
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