The naïve melodies chart a missing link between Vini Reilly’s ventures into electronica and Booker T

we look to Raúl Gómez’s entrancing 1977 Instrumental album

Sparhawk’s voice now completely unvarnished

bits of choppy new-wave guitar and a whole lot of appealingly clunky pop heaviness that brings to mind nothing so much as an extremely low-budget Kiss

feelings of confusion and self-recrimination et al

RUBEN MACHTELINCKX & ARVE HENRIKSEN - A Short Story LP Stoner The naïve melodies chart aFor almost ten years, Ruben Machtelinckx has followed an extraordinary path in Belgian and European improvised music. As a guitarist, but equally as a composer. It began in 2013, when the quartet Machtelinckx Badenhorst Jensson Wouters released their debut, Faerge. The album was praised by international press and was listed Best Belgian jazz release by KNACK magazine. In 2020 he won the Klara Award for Best Belgian Jazz release for his latest record: