Since 2015, Nina Garcia has been exploring the boundaries of the electric guitar, balancing between improvisation and noise. With a minimalist setup—a guitar, a pedal, and an amplifier—she creates her own universe where power and fragility collide. Her immersive performances have already made an international impact.

 

After performing under the name Mariachi for ten years, Nina Garcia now unveils her unique musical approach on Bye Bye Bird, her first album under her own name, released by Ideologic Organ. The album has received high praise, with The Wire describing it as "one of the most closed circuit albums I’ve heard in a while. […] Her dexterity is clear in her deft pivots from the almost pastoral to clanging furnaces of caustic joy so intense Glenn Branca might have called in 60 strings minimum for the job. For Garcia, six is enough."

De Vlaamse Primitieven is the alter ego of Antwerp-based guitar players Jan Boudart & Freek Vreys. After they studied jazz guitar, they discovered a common love for 60's psychedelia, ethnic-drones, minimalism and American 'primitive' guitar music of John Fahey, Robbie Basho, Glenn Jones and the likes. They studied these masters and developed an obsession to not only keep this beautiful tradition of guitar playing alive, but also to mix the 'American primitivism' with British folk, jazz, drones and other genres. They’ve played with Glenn Jones, Jon Collin, Chris Rainier, Hellvete and toured with Liam Grant. At the end of the year, they release their debut album ‘Lucht van een Andere Planeet’ on Pang Pang Records & Carbon Records.