Into The Open was created during 2021 as music for Lisbeth Gruwez/Voetvolk’s dance performance of the same name. While scores for dance often arise in response to choreography, these songs were there first. Yet in their seminal form. Blijweert, Heuvinck and Van Cauwenberghe developed a number of bass-drum-guitar structures on which Lisbeth Gruwez and the dancers built the performance. Together they looked for a new form. Something like a rock concert mutating with contemporary dance. With tight, repetitive and especially loud music that gave all the space to a wild, challenging movement language. And with musicians who merged with the dance.

After a first tour Dendermonde thought it was time to go into the studio and record an album. Not to capture the live performance but to utilise the studio to further explore the compositions sonically. To put production on it, so to speak. None other than Dan Lacksman of (among others) Telex was behind the controls, at his famous SynSound studios in Brussels.

With Into The Open, Dendermonde prepares a new vital brew from several decades of exhilarating music (70’s, 90’s…) in an equally intelligent and intuitive way.