Frans de Waard
Frans de Waard is a Dutch musician, label owner and music writer who has worked in experimental and electronic music since 1984. That year he started both the project Kapotte Muziek and the label Korm Plastics. He is best known for Vital Weekly, the review magazine he edited and published, which began on paper as Vital and moved online as a weekly in 1995. Kapotte Muziek began as de Waard's solo noise project. Peter Duimelinks joined for a first US tour and Roel Meelkop came in later, and the trio now records only live.
Onder/Stroom
Title and concept play against Extrapool's short-lived Zonder Stroom programme (performances entirely without electricity). One bleak winter afternoon the trio decided to do the inverse, using every keyboard, synthesizer and piece of electronics they…
Pink pearl
Frans de Waard (1965) has been producing music since 1984. First as Kapotte Muziek, but throughout the years, he also worked as Beequeen (with Freek Kinkelaar), Goem (with Roel Meelkop & Peter Duimelinks, both of whom are also a member of Kapotte Muz…
Klankschap 1999-2005
The second solo CD under his own name, following the widely acclaimed 'Vijf Profielen'. Six pieces from the period 1995-2005 dealing with field recordings and sparse electronic processing. 'This disc consists of 6 pieces, all realized between 2002 an…
Zondag
The Dutch word zondag translates as Sunday in English and indeed these improvisations were recorded in a single day, a Sunday in January 2005. Quite in contrast with the speed of the recording, the recordings themselves were then shelved for no less …
