Elisabeth Klinck is a contemporary violinist, composer and performer based in Brussels, known or her timeless, deep-listening sound worlds. Her album Picture a Frame (2023) and Chronotopia - selected by The Quietus as one of the best albums of 2025 - were released on the Swiss label Hallow Ground. A big part of her work revolves around tactility, fragility, and a very physical approaches to sound.

In 2025, Elisabeth was selected as one of radio station Klara's De Twintigers, a group of promising young artists shaping the future of Belgian Classical music. Elisabeth is also the driving force behind Klinck Trio, a trio with Adia Vanheerentals and Maya Dhondt. Their debut My Hair is Everywhere got a **** review in Knack Focus.

Nils Vermeulen is a Belgian double bass player active in all varieties of adventurous music. He has played with Paul Lytton, Martin Küchen, Seppe Gebruers, William Parker, John Dikeman, Luis Vicente, among others. He works across many scenes, from free improv to jazz to contemporary classical music, and in many distinct constellations, such as his own groups Kabas and Jukwaa, a Norwegian free jazz trio with Tollef Østvang and Heidi Kvelvane, a string duo with Elisabeth Klinck, and as the double bassplayer of Nemo ensemble. In 2023, he released his debut solo album on Aspen Edities.

Vermeulen is part of the musicians collective Troika <3 and is an artistic researcher, affiliated with KASK & Conservatorium Ghent. He investigates the acoustic possibilities of the double bass, focussing mainly on strings, their vibrations, and their impact on the artistic output.

He also studied instrument building. With this combined knowledge, he decided to make his own gut strings. Through experimenting with different tensions, thicknesses and tunings, he traces the age-old dialogue between how the material is made, and how it sounds. What emerges when those two interdependent processes – that of making the strings, and playing or composing with them – are bound up in one practitioner?


Pioen is the second album by Elisabeth Klinck & Nils Vermeulen, released on February 27th via blickwinkel on vinyl and digital formats.

The album was recorded in a small chapel of a monastery in the city center of Ghent. A chapel, by nature, is a place of contemplation and meditation, which inevitably influenced the music. Movements slow down, attention is sharpened and the overwhelming silence of the space becomes part of the music. Sound and silence are meticulously woven into each other. Even when the music grows at times dense and heavy, there is an ever-present sense of closeness and intimacy. This is reinforced by the use of the voice, which naturally appears throughout the album, not as a separate layer but as an extension of the instruments. The pieces - this time more curated then on their previous album Pair, Paire - arose from hours long improvisations where sound became space and space became sound.

Eliana Glass (b.1997) is a singer, pianist, and visual artist born in Australia, raised in Seattle, and based in New York. She is a graduate of the jazz program at The New School where she studied with such mentors as Andrew Cyrille, Ben Street, Kris Davis, and Jay Clayton. She also holds a degree in Visual Studies and Writing and works freely across multiple mediums. In the past year she has released her debut album, E, an album comprised primarily of piano and voice, via Shelter Press. Her work dedicates special attention to sparseness, voice, and her relationship to the piano, a lifelong entity since she was a kid.