1/APRIL/2026
KUT – BOU U HEK (Official Video)
KUT – BOU U HEK (Official Video) – YouTube
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17/MARCH/2026
Upcoming gigs
Hi friends,
Way overdue on an update, as spring is finally coming back here in little Belgium.
So, here’s all the upcoming gigs I have lined up:
29/03 Kut @ Café Libertad, Leuven (w/ De Defecte Gasten)
3/4 Wheel of Smoke @ De Loft, Herent (w/ Triptonus)
4/4 Wheel of Smoke @ De Platte Batterie, Zottegem (w/ Beta)
5/4 Wheel of Smoke @ Café Libertad, Leuven
11/4 Dorre @ Café Zapoi, Mechelen (w/ Hightrail)
18/4 Kut @ JH Den Droes, Meise (w/ Samosh & Low Life)
26/4 Kut @ Kid’s Rhythm ‘n Blues Kaffee, Antwerpen (w/ The Octopussys & Nilic)
29/4 Kut @ De Loft, Herent (w/ Healer of Bastards)
9/5 Kut @ Rock Café, Leuven
Hope to see you come out to one of these!
With Dorre we are working towards recording a new album, and Kut is getting ready to release it’s second EP, it will be called ‘Dylsexie’, with 4 tracks of in your face punkrock.
Thanks for reading and I do hope you and your loved ones are doing well in these very turbulent and dangerous times…
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11/FEBRUARY/2026
Quitting The Moondig
Due to the whole generative AI debacle, I have decided to step out of The Moondig. There seems to be no urgency in replacing all generative AI on The Moondig’s Bandcamp page (if that’s going to happen at all), and this just feels very hypocritical to me.
Some context: as a band we made a whole fuzz about our account getting suspended on Bandcamp because of a suspicion that we made our music with gen-AI. We even had an article in some national newspapers. Not bad for our publicity. But as a consequence I assumed we would replace all of the generated AI album covers on our page. Making a powerful statement about being fully against any AI generated art. I had also used it when it was still something new and weird and compelling, but have since been growing very suspicious of the way these systems are ‘grown’ and presented to the public, and have replaced all of the things I had made that way, with non AI work.
Stating more profoundly that we as a band do not support the use of AI in any artistic form, does not seem to be a priority, so I can no longer fully support it’s artistic vision. This is why I deem it better to step aside.
As for the new AI-policy by Bandcamp, I find that it’s (at least somewhat) hypocritical to only apply this to the music, and not the artwork.
Thus far my stance on this whole AI thing.
To make sure my own website is completely gen-AI free, I have replaced all the album artwork with my own work.
I don’t like taking this decision at all, but it’s the best for my own peace of mind.
Thanks for reading and keep on supporting the human arts in all it’s wonderful weirdness.
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23/JANUARY/2026
First news of the year
Hi everyone! Hope you all had a nice changing of the years. Over here it’s been quite nice, had a lot of good times with family and friends.
So here’s the first update for 2026! Coming Sunday I will be entering the studio with KUT to record our second EP! And on Sunday evening, we will be playing at café Libertad in Leuven with The Moondig. As always at Libertad, the gig is free, so come join us if you are in the Leuven area!
The Moondig is going through a bit of a difficult issue right now, in regards to Bandcamp’s new AI policy.
The problem is we used a lot of AI artwork for our album covers, and I guess they therefore assume that to our music is also being created with AI, which of course it is not, nor will it ever be. Also the fact that we put out so many albums, might make them suspicious.
It’s been a mistake to use AI artwork, and we are willing to right that wrong, but for the time being our albums are not accessible anymore on Bandcamp. Some of them are still up on YouTube, with the AI artwork intact. I guess we should probably ask the channels to take them down and upload again when we have made new artwork.
I have pledged to myself to never use fully generated AI art for my albums. I do think that the AI tools can help elevate your human created artwork, but purely AI generated stuff should be avoided at all times.
Anyways, I hope you are all doing wonderful, thanks for reading and see you around.
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4/DECEMBER/2025
Winter update
Hello my friends! November was a bit quiet on here, but that does not mean I’ve been sitting still!
Here’s a little beginning-of-winter update.
Next gigs lined up are:
5th of December: Kut at the Rock Café in Leuven, BE. (also playing are Samosh and Caught Up)
13th of December: The Moondig at Svekke’s B-day Party (private event, also playing are Kozmotron).
25th of January: The Moondig at café Libertad in Leuven, BE.
Also forgot to post that we have new Moondig recordings up on Bandcamp, and as it so happens, tomorrow is Bandcamp Friday!!! So, please support us by buying some of our digital tracks!
I’m also planning on starting the recordings for a new solo album, but I’m gonna take my time to try and make something that I’m really happy with, so it might take a while before it sees the light of day.
And me and my mates in Dorre are also working to finish the songs for a new album. It will be something quite different from all our previous work, so getting excited to get these tracks recorded!
In the meantime, I hope you are all doing wonderful!
Peace and Love to all
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28/OCTOBER/2025
Rivercrest and Cave Inn
Keeping busy with what me and my musical colleagues are keeping busy with, this year is proving to be another productive one!
Rivercrest had another little get together:
And also Cave Inn entered the caves of sound once again:
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21/OCTOBER/2025
Indium by The Moondig
“Beneath the glow of the 2025 Harvest Moon, The Moondig gathered to record Indium. It was no ordinary full moon, but the first Supermoon of the year, the one closest to the autumn equinox. Rising just after sunset, the Harvest Moon once gave farmers precious extra hours to gather their crops by moonlight. Now it offers musicians time to gather frequencies, to harvest resonance from the ether. A new Lunar expedition. On that same night Saturn glimmered beside the Moon. The alignment felt like a chord struck across the cosmos: distance collapsing into vibration. ” (T.Bessemans)
Dirk Reyners : tenor Saxophone
Tim Nonneman : guitar
Erik Heyns : guitar
Jan Vermeulen : bass
Timo Jacobs : drums
Tom Bessemans : Rhodes piano & organ
7 oktober 2025 @ Rogaarden (B)
recording & mixing : Timo Jacobs
audio edit, p-ai-nting & text : Tom Bessemans
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30/SEPTEMBER/2025
Upcoming gigs
Here’s another gig update:
10 OCTOBER 2025: KUT (Rock Café, Leuven)
15 NOVEMBER 2025: Wheel of Smoke & Rivercrest (private event)
21 NOVEMBER 2025: Wheel of Smoke (Hox Jazz Café, Tielt-Winge)
5 DECEMBER 2025: KUT (Rock Café, Leuven)
25 JANUARY 2026: The Moondig (Café Libertad, Leuven)
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22/SEPTEMBER/2025
Back to business
Autumn has arrived! And to celebrate the changing of the seasons, we have been digging up some musical elements with The Moondig!
Our journey took us way out into deep space to delve up Cadmium:
I had a really nice summertime, and I hope the same for all of you.
❤︎ LOVE ❤︎
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28/AUGUST/2025
Down The Hill festival 2025
Last weekend I had an absolute blast helping out and playing at DTH fest! Every year this festival get a bit more streamlined, and it’s amazing to see all the volunteers working their asses off to make it all go so smoothly.
Many thanks also to the sound engineers Seppe Dankers and Nick Boonen for making us sound like we wanted to sound.
Here’s to many more editions to come! Now I will enjoy some time off, going on a road trip to the German Alps, drinking reinheitsgebot beer and eating schnitzels!
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28/JULY/2025
Pics from our Silver dig
Last Saturday we had a great show in Kinky Star during Gentse Feesten with Dorre! Next up for me is Wheel of Smoke at Down The Hill Festival! But first I will be kicking it back and enjoying some live music with my friends at Krach am Bach Festival in Germany.
Here are some pics from our Moondig Silver session:
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23/JULY/2025
Silver!
On 11 July 2025 – mere hours after a full Moon rose in the constellation Sagittarius – The Moondig embarked on their latest lunar mission: the search for Silver, element 47 of the periodic table, known in alchemical circles as Luna. With this hypnotic new album, recorded in the field under celestial and ecological alignment, the band continues their cosmic pilgrimage through the elements of Mendeleev’s table.
This time, the journey took them to the Demerbeemden in Betekom, Belgium, where a select audience gathered on a freshly scythed field beside the meandering Demer river. And so the grounds for Natuurpunt’s Big Jump (a playful campaign – the next weekend – for clean rivers and healthy ecosystems) were already coming to life. While beer-taps began to flow a day early and staging took shape for a weekend of water, wildness, and wonder, The Moondig transformed the field into a launchpad for their lunar field recording, capturing the sound of a resonance between nature, science, and spirit. (Words by Tom Bessemans)
Tom Bessemans: Rhodes piano, organ
Erik Heyns: guitar
Timo Jacobs: drums
Tim Nonneman: guitar & bouzouki
Tom Vanderwegen: flute
Jan Vermeulen: bass
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15/JULY/2025
Groovy weekender
We had another groovy weekend with The Moondig and Yaya & The Lazy Love Band at the Big Jump in Betekom!
Some more pics right here:
Next up for me is Dorre in the Kinky Star during Gentse Feesten!
Hope to see you there!!!
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8/JULY/2025
Lazy Lovin’ vibes
We had a blast with our first official reunion concert of Yaya & The Lazy Love Band at Florrefest!
Here are a few pictures of our lovely time together:
Catch us performing live at the Big Jump in Aarschot on July 13!
And now that we are in picture sharing mode, here’s a selection of some live pics from the past years:
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27 JUNE 2025
The Moondig went digging for Libertad
The Moondig had the absolute pleasure of jiving out some tunes at Café Libertad in Leuven. The result is a bit of a mixed excavation but it certainly has it moments, of space to earth (and vice versa), sonic goodness.
So do indulge yourself and let me know through the contact form what you think of it (or any of the music on here for that matter). I’d love to hear from you!
Dirk Reyners: tenor Saxophone
Tom Bessemans: Rhodes piano, organ
Erik Heyns: guitar
Timo Jacobs: drums
Jan Vermeulen: bass
>>> Foto: Ria Peys <<<
4 may 2025, Leuven (B)
Live sound: SoJo Sounds
Organisation: Sunael Polzin & Libertad
www.libertad.be
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25 JUNE 2025
Rivercrest Live in De Onderbroek
Took a while to put this one online, but here is our latest Rivercrest live recording!
An awesome evening organised by Brown Note Booking, sharing the bill with Atlanta.
Thanks to Peter Dragt for inviting us! Let’s do that again someday!
Rivercrest live March 15th in ‘De Onderbroek’, Nijmegen (NL)
Recorded and Mastered by Tom Bessemans
Timo Jacobs: drums
Tristan Michiels: bas
Erik Heyns: guitar
VC Van Campenhout: tenor Sax
Jef Minten: percussion, Theremin
Tom Bessemans: Rhodes piano & fx, organ
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17 JUNE 2025
Summertime blues
The summertime is at our doorstep, so that means festival season is upon us!
As per usual, I’m not playing at a lot of those festivals except Down The Hill, Big Jump and Florrefest.
But to celebrate another season of the Sun, here’s our latest live Moondig session:
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22 APRIL 2025
Cave Inn live + gig update
So, as Easter 420 has passed, it’s time for a little update on what’s happening in my musical adventures through time, space and spacetime!
Firstly, I present you all this great live recording of the Cave Inn gig at Sojo (which has become the stage I have played on the most in this lifetime, probably something like 50 times already).
It has a great sound quality thanks to the able hands and ears of sound tech Seppe Dankers.
To conclude here’s a list of my upcoming live appearances:
– 25/04: The Moondig / Ons Logisch Voedsel, Booischot
– 01/05: Dorre / MCP Apache, Charleroi
– 04/05: The Moondig / Café Libertad, Leuven
– 24/05: Dorre / JH Sojo, Leuven
– 06/07: Yaya & The Lazy Love Band / Florrefest, Rillaar
– 12/07 Yaya & The Lazy Love Band / Big Jump, Aarschot
– 23/08: Wheel of Smoke / Down The Hill festival, Rillaar
<3 Thanks for reading <3
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9 APRIL 2025
The Moondig’s latest
All is well on the Moon, plenty of sonic resources for everyone!
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17 MARCH 2025
Rivercrest is not winding down
But we are winding up and you can listen to us doing just that, on our latest recordings:
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3 MARCH 2025
Back to the Cave Inn
We had a wonderful performance at JH Sojo last saturday, sharing the stage with Orbital Escape System and The Dharma Chain!
Soundtech Seppe Dankers recorded the whole thing, so that will be put online at one point. But until then, here’s another one we recorded ourselves at Timo’s den. A smooth trip for you to zone out to:
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27 FEBRUARY 2025
More awesome ‘Fortress’ reviews!
Check out these wonderful reviews of our latest output:
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23 FEBRUARY 2025
Fortress now available worldwide
Fortress has been released into the wild!
We had a great release show yesterday, and I want to thank everyone that helped out to make it into an amazing night, and everyone that made the trip to Sojo to have a blast with us! Absynth played an excellent set and we had a lot of fun presenting our album to you all.
Next up for me is a show with my good friends of the Cave Inn, on Saturday 1th of March, in JH Sojo! We are joining the line up with Orbital Escape System and The Dharma Chain.
Doors: 19:30 / 15€
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20 FEBRUARY 2025
Review and full album stream of ‘Fortress’
Today you can exclusively stream our album in full at The Obelisk, run by JJ Koczan.
Go read it, and lend us your ears!
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14 FEBRUARY 2025
Some updates and stuff
Good day to you all! Just here to announce my upcoming gigs for the next months.
22/02 Dorre album release (support: Asynth) / JH Sojo, Leuven
01/03 Cave Inn (support for The Dharma Chain and Orbital Escape System) / JH Sojo, Leuven
07/03 Dorre at Into The Shadows / Little Devil, Tilburg (NL)
15/03 Rivercrest (supporting Atlanta) / De Onderbroek, Nijmegen (NL)
20/04 Wheel of Smoke / Libertad, Leuven
01/05 Dorre (supporting Coltaine and Absynth) / MCP Apache, Charleroi
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4 FEBRUARY 2025
More albums up on Bandcamp!
We have been grinding out more music, because music is the only universal language that crosses all borders, boundaries and genders (yes, there is a spectrum of genders, and if that offends you, why not join the cult of new fascists on their one way trip to Mars, and leave us alone with your bigotry and hatred).
So check out the music right here:
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25 JANUARY 2025
New Rivercrest album and first ‘Fortress’ review
Check out the latest offering by Rivercrest, the first of 2025:
Steve from Outlaws Of The Sun has written a very nice review of the upcoming Dorre album ‘Fortress’. Check it out right here:
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14 JANUARY 2025
Kicking it into the new year!
Greetings, Etherians!
My best of wishes for the coming year. May it be filled with laughter, joy and good company. And of course tons of great music!
For me it promises to be a quite busy year music-wise. Already 2 gigs lined up this month:
18/01/25 Rivercrest at JH Sojo, BE
30/01/25 Cave Inn at Flugzeug Music-Art-Design, BE (CANCELLED)
Hope to see you there, my fellow wave-o-nauts!
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23 DECEMBER 2024
Molybdenum by The Moondig
First and foremost, let me wish you all a wonderful holiday season, and that the world of human beings may see some more compassion, understanding and decency in the coming journey around the sun (which is a 99,997% perfect sphere. Wonderful, is it not?).
As a last chucker-out for 2024, I present you another Moondig waveform excavation, this time we are digging for Molybdenum. Check it out right here:
Intercepted on 17 december 2024 @ Rogaarden, B.
Recording & Mixing : Timo J.
Edit, master, prod, airtwork: Tom B.
Tom Bessemans: Rhodes piano, organ
Erik Heyns: guitar, electric sitar
Jan Vermeulen: bass
Timo Jacobs: Drums, vocals, electronics
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5 DECEMBER 2024
Cave Inn returns to the caverns of sound experiments
Timo: synths, samples, vocals, drums, loops
Erik: (synth)guitar, vocals
Tom: organ, keys, remsnaar
recorded and mixed by Timo in Rogaarden, BE
edit by Tom
master by Erik
artwork by dream
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27 NOVEMBER 2024
Rivercrest ‘Nuts’
A message from the Rivercrest Mothership:
Hi Everyone!
Long time no hear, but that doesn’t mean we have left the building. We hope you all enjoy our latest offering in the form of ‘Nuts’.
They’re crunchy, they’re healthy, they’re nuts!
We have an awesome gig coming up by the way, in a few moons we will hit our second home away from home again, as we have been invited by Orange Facotry to be the opener for the wonderful band Weite.
Weite is a fairly new band featuring Nicholas DiSalvo (Elder, delving) and Michael Risberg (Elder) alongside colleagues Ingwer Boysen and Ben Lubin. Debut album Assemblage is an effortlessly eclectic album of lightly psychedelic instrumental music.
Looking forward to playing some instantly vaporizing tunes for you!
Keep on keeping on the nutty side of things, and see you on the flipside!
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21 NOVEMBER 2024
The Moondig digs up Niobium
released November 14, 2024
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Erik Heyns: guitar
Jan Vermeulen: bass
Timo Jacobs: drums & percussion
Tom Bessemans: fender Rhodes & organ
Dirk Reyners: tenor Saxophone & blues harp
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Intercepted on 11 november 2024 @ Rogaarden, Belgium
Recording & mixing: Timo
Edit & master, a(i)rtwork: Tom
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20 NOVEMBER 2024
Dorre album release show pre-order
Tickets: https://tickets.dor.re
FB event: https://fb.me/e/5QLqwalfh
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09 NOVEMBER 2024
Dorre album release show
A new album requires a release show! Pin the 22nd of February in your calendars and keep your eyes peeled for updates.
Ticket preorders, full line-up and more info to follow next week.
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31 OKTOBER 2024
Dorre album coverart reveal
First look at the cover for our new album, FORTRESS! Out 22nd of February 2025 on Lay Bare Recordings.
Head on over to http://mailing.dor.re to sub on our newsletter to get first dibs on pre-orders, release show tickets and more!
Artwork by the brilliant Giliam Schroyen
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23 OKTOBER 2024
Dorre signs with Lay Bare Recordings
We’re extremely happy to announce that we’ve signed on with the brilliant @laybarerecordings. Thanks for the confidence Désirée, we have been looking forward to announce this exciting news!
Of course this means something new coming up, more news on that soon…
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16 OKTOBER 2024
Visual documentation
Hi again my fellow music enthousiasts! The last couple of days I have been hard at work with Wheel of Smoke and The Moondig. Recording at Hype Studio in Mechelen once again with the Wheel, and we are all very happy with the results thus far. The work is not done yet, as we still need to record the vocals and synth parts. But we are aiming to finish the production before the end of 2024.
With The Moondig we have recorded a live session at Radio Benelux, and the result of this expedition will soon be available at our home base on Bandcamp. I will of course post the link here once it has landed.
Please enjoy some pictures of these endeavours:
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23 SEPTEMBER 2024
The Moondig’s excavations continue: Zirconium
Well hello there! Fall has arrived here in Belgium yet again. A time for reflecting and all that jazz. So, it has been 8 years since I created this little web home, and I am glad that so many have found their way to it. Time is like a frikkin’ high speed jet, innit?
So, what has been cooking lately? Some more Moondiggin’ of course! Check out ‘Zirconium’:
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7 AUGUST 2024
Yet another live album by The Moondig
Few weeks ago I had a marvelous time at Zomaar Feest in Kinrooi, Belgium. Playing with The Moondig and Wheel of Smoke on the same day. Loads of fun, great audience and lots of awesome bands.
The result of our diggin’ expedition has of course been recorded, and is now available on Bandcamp. The sound is not great, but still quite listenable. Check it out and enjoy!
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15 JULY 2024
New recording by The Moondig: ‘Strontium’
It took us a little while this time, but here are some new impro tunes by The Moondig! We will play another live set on the 20th of July at Zomaarfeest in Kinrooi (BE). Join us if you can!
Here’s what The Midnight Toker has to say about us on Bandcamp: “This band would gain a huge following in the States on the jamband/festival circuit. This material fits right into that scene. I look forward to each release with anticipation. Keep it up, your sound though extremely loose but your band is fkn tight.”
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22 JUNE 2024
New album by EthErik!
“My newest album ‘What’s Left of Love, is now available to stream or buy for only 5€ on Bandcamp. Soon streamable on all of your favourite streaming services.
A lot of work poured into this one, but it’s a labour of what’s left of love. The overall sound might feel a wee bit weird, but that’s actually the point.
This album is a small smorgasbord of heavy, intense, psychoactive zoned out tracks. The lyrics deal about illusions, emptiness, time, introspection and transience. The music sways hauntingly around steady electronic beats and eerie synths. Acoustic guitars make for an organic touch of earthliness.“
Tracklist:
1. What’s Left of Love (6:50)
2. Cloudless Nights (7:51)
3. Ripping Chrome (6:00)
4. The Long Stretch (14:37)
Total Running Time 35:18
Produced by EthErik at Etherian HQ, Belgium
Music & Lyrics by Erik Heyns
Erik Heyns: guitars, bass, percussion, synths, beats, vocals, mix and master
(c) 2024 Etherian Productions
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20 JUNE 2024
Rig Flex
I have recently acquired an Orange OR50 40th Anniversary Edition! This amp sounds like an army of unicorns is pissing pure molten gold into your ears, and then some.
Here’s a picture of me with my current rig that I use for Dorre and Wheel of Smoke. The guitar is a Baum Carve Vega, and I am totally in love with it <3
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6 JUNE 2024
New music and gig update
A long overdue update on new music and upcoming gigs! First off a new Rivercrest live album:
Next up are a whole bunch of The Moondig’s new albums, 2 of which were recorded for a live audience:
And to end this series, a new album by Cave Inn:
Upcoming gig news: I will be playing with both Wheel of Smoke ánd The Moondig on the same day (20 July) at this wonderful festival, located in Kinrooi, Belgium:
Thank you all for the continued support of my musical adventures, and I hope you will have a smashingly good and smooth sailing summertime!
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13 MARCH 2024
Floating with Rivercrest
Some new Rivercrest recordings are online! And you can expect more to come, because our good friend and amazing sound tech Seppe Dankers did a live recording of our private show at the amazing bio-farm ‘Ons Logisch Voedsel’ (Our Logical Food).
But until those are mixed and mastered, you can enjoy some new jams right here:
Timo Jacobs: Drums
Tristan Michiels: Bass
Erik Heyns: Guitar
Johan Overloop: Synths
Tom Bessemans: Fender Rhodes & Organ
Record & Mix: Timo Jacobs at Rogaarden, March 5, 2024
Edit & Master: Tom Bessemans
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5 MARCH 2024
40 years a being on Earth
Today marks the beginning of yet another year on this planet for me. It’s been quite the ride, and I consider myself lucky for a lot of goodness that was and is part of my life. I am grateful for my lovely family and friends, and for still being in good health. For all the cool places I got to visit. I am grateful for all the hard lessons I have learned, and for the fortitude that got me through the hard bits. And I am grateful for all the music and art that has inspired me, and will keep on inspiring me until my last breath. I am grateful for the privilige of living in a country that has known peace for the last 79 years.
I realise that I have let down a lot of people (mostly lovers) throughout the years, and I also have been let down a lot by people (mostly lovers). But these things happen, and seem to be an integral part of learning and becoming a better version of ones self. I don’t hold any grudges against anyone I have loved in the past, and I hope they don’t hold any against me. I still feel love for all those that I shared my life with. And if any of you are reading this, I am truly sorry for letting you down.
So, here is to another 40 years of crazy music making, discovering new places and meeting interesting people! And to good health, which is the foundation of it all.
Oh yeah, I forgot to post this latest album by The Moondig, so here you go:
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17 FEBRUARY 2024
New project: ‘Forestherian’
A new project is born, in collaboration with Forestaal (Timo Jacobs). Our first album can be heard on Bandcamp right here:
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8 FEBRUARY 2024
Sound from the Cave Inn
Come and lay your head to rest at the Cave Inn. An establishment with futuristic primitivism embedded into its walls. The Macro Magnon bids you a warm welcome…
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5 FEBRUARY 2024
Upcoming gigs
An update on my upcoming shows:
9 March 2024: Rivercrest @ Ons Logisch Voedsel, Booischot (Private Event)
31 March 2024: Wheel of Smoke at Café Libertad, Leuven
11 April 2024: Dorre at JH Sojo, Leuven
5 May 2024: Cave Inn at De Loft, Herent
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20 JANUARY 2024
First Moondig expedition of the year
The first Moondig recordings of 2024 are ready and set to ooze into your eardrums! Check it out right here:
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1 JANUARY 2024
My best wishes to all of you
I hope all of you had a great celebration, and wish you all the best for the new year! For myself I’m hoping for more gigs, more songwriting and cultivating a healthy mind in a healthy body.
Here’s my parents and me at the dinner table, after an exquisitely festive meal:
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21 DECEMBER 2023
A seasonal greeting
A happy Solstice to all, and a heartfelt thank you to everybody that has supported my musical ventures so far!
2023 has been another strange year in many ways, but musically quite productive. I saw many a great concert at festivals, awesome venues and discovered a lot of great new music. I was able to play lovely shows with all of my bands, and one thing that’s certain, is that my musical companions and me immensely appreciate you showing up to our shows and enjoying our music. We hope to be able to do this a lot more in the coming years, as to keep on spreading the message of peace and love through musical unity. We are all but specks of sparkling dust, floating on a weird space ball in an immense, beautiful, chaotic cosmos. Let’s just enjoy the ride together, while it lasts.
To end the year on a good note, here’s 2 more Moondig-able goodies for you, available at ‘name your price’ Bandcamp style:
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29 NOVEMBER 2023
The next Moondig: ‘ZINK’
The Moondig is an ongoing search for shiny manifestations of sound through instant composition. Check out the newest excavation ‘Zink’:
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26 NOVEMBER 2023
Featured on a SCHiM recording
My good friends from Rivercrest, The Moondig, Cave Inn and Myaelin have another ambient project called SCHiM, and I have the opportunity to play along on one of their upcoming show as part of an artsy fire-installation in Mechelen (8/9 December). We also did a recording together which you can check out here:
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6 NOVEMBER 2023
Myaelin and Moondig
Hi everybody! Today I present you new recordings by The Moondig and my first time appearing on a Myaelin album!
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12 OCTOBER 2023
Album spotlight
Hey there! Time for another album of the day.
‘Borderless’ is an album containing long form tracks, recorded over several years and in several locations. Most of it was recorded in Herent, but some of it also in Bertem and Boom.
I feel like this album contains some of the best material I have made so far, and I am still very happy with the results.
‘The Dance of Fire’ is a track that was completely build upon a piano track, that I recorded in 1 take. I am far from a good piano player, but this one I am still pretty impressed with. I don’t know what was running through my fingers that day, but it must have been something good.
‘Draugen/Flight of the Dragon’ is a composition I had originally made for an art exposition. It was a soundtrack in a room filled with beautiful art made by Kazryn Zurag and Els Debarbieux. The theme was dragons, so I made a track with a bit of a fantasy, medieval flair.
‘Nervous Freaks of the Space-Age is a wacky, free flowing, contra-jazz track. It’s weird. But that’s just how I am sometimes.
‘The Rising’ is the oldest track on the album, and I began making it somewhere around 2002. I have remixed it several times, and the quaility isn’t all that great, but it’s got a nice proggy, krauty, post-rocky feel to it.
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9 OCTOBER 2023
War
I’m sick and tired with all war in the world. With seemingly having to pick sides in religious/historical/nationalist conflicts that I have nothing to do with, being a universally minded human being, that feels the need to transcend borders and beliefs, in order to relieve suffering for everyone. With leaders and followers that only want whats good for those that believe in the same stories as them.
I’m sick and tired with all of this violence. Our minds seem to have become numb to all the bloodshed that happens on a daily basis, and it makes me feel extremely uncomfortable.
Who knows how or when all of this human struggle will end? One can only hope that someday in the future we will look back and think about how dumb, foolish and terribly unnecessary all those centuries of war and conflict truly were.
Murdering each other will always seem insane to me, also when it’s ‘justified’ in a ‘military’ context.
An eye for an eye, and the whole world will be blind. But I think our eyes were never open to begin with.
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28 SEPTEMBER 2023
The Moondig’s latest
Yet again, we have excavated some sonic goodness!
And we have the great pleasure to be featured on the great podcast ‘It’s Psychedelic Baby’, curated by Ross Beatie.
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26 SEPTEMBER 2023
Album spotlight
Goodday!
I will try to regularly post a random album I have produced or played on, with some context or trivia about that album.
First up:
‘Geisha Tanssi’ (The Geisha Dance) is an album I produced entirely on my own while living at a community loft in Herent. It’s tracks are inspired by experimental Japanese and Finish music, hence the title.
Living at that loft surely has made a big impact on me as an artist and a person. So many great musical encounters, parties, concerts, jams…
This album is a representation of how all of that manifested itself in my way of music making at that space of time.
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11 AUGUST 2023
The Moondig dig it again
The ninth Moondig recrdording that has my guitarplaying featured has been released on Bandcamp. This one is a real scorcher, and Timo and Tom did an excellent job on recording, mixing and mastering!
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1 AUGUST 2023
The Magnethereum full album release
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30 JULY 2023
New Etherik Album!
It has been many years since I released an official Etherik album, but I’m very happy to announce on the 1st of August 2023 ‘The Magnethereum’ will be released digitaly worldwide!
Some info on the album:
Produced by EthErik
All tracks written, recorded, mixed and mastered by EthErik at Etherian Productions.
EthErik: electric + acoustic guitar, electric + synth bass, keys, drums, percussion, flutes ‘The Magnethereum’ is a feast of slow, atmospheric guitars burning through on a iridescent tapestry of lavishly baked and floating synths, backed by lo-fi minimal drums and dubby bass.
It is intended to be a kind of mental psychedelic trip through the imaginary desert landscapes of the mind. Perfect for stargazing on a lush summer night…
On 1st of August it will be available to stream on most major streaming platforms:
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/etherik1/the-magnethereum
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25 JULY 2023
July Update
Hey there, long time no post! Hope you are all doing well, where ever you might be.
Here are some more Moondig recordings for your listening enjoyment:
Prepearations for the gigs with Dorre and Etherik&Ambi-J at the Down The Hill festival are well under way.
The fest is almost sold out, so if you need a ticket, don’t sleep on it. I hope to see you all there!
https://www.downthehill.be/tickets
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18 MAY 2023
The Moondig keeps on digging + New Magnetherian Tape release
The Moondig has been on an ongoing lunar exploration. More sonic documentation and journaling from that exploration are to be found right here:
I have also just released a new Magnetherian Tape. This is tape n°02. Check out the 5 minute preview:
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9 MAY 2023
Magnetherian Update
I’m still busy recording music for the Magnetherian Tape project. I am aiming to have released at least 5 tapes by the end of the summer.
I came across this cool article on Reverb.com about the new popularity of DAWless recording on multi-track cassette recorders. Check it out here: Tascam, Tape Tricks & the Nostalgia for DAWless Home Recording | Price Guide Trends
There are some new Cave Inn recordings available online! Have a listen:
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24 APRIL 2023
This week on a stage near you
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18 APRIL 2023
More Moondig Recordings
More jams by The Moondig with me on the 6 string duties.
Some more news about my solo work: I have started uploading the Etherik albums to all major streaming platforms. Stream on my comrades!
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21 MARCH 2023
Radio Etherik
7 years ago I decided to make some mixes of music that I have appreciated throughout my life. These are still online on Mixcloud, so feel free to check them out:
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18 MARCH 2023
New album by Rivercrest
First jam of the year by Rivercrest! Here, the Crest are in a minimal setting, without any horns or extra percussion. Lots of mellow, zoned out spacefaring on this one, without forgetting the occasional burst of heavy river of magma flow.
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14 MARCH 2023
The Moondig on Morphy YouTube Channel
The album Ca by The Moondig is now on the Morphy YouTube channel. Check it out:
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7 MARCH 2023
The Moondig on 666MrDoom YouTube Channel
The album Potassium by The Moondig has been shared on the much followed YT channel 666MrDoom. Like, share, subscribe, do all of those and then some!
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1 MARCH 2023
More Moondig
Springtime is near here in Belgium, and I for one am ready to start soaking in some sunrays!
I had another chance to jam along with the Moondig. But this time there were some more digging crew members. Check it out:
Jan Vermeulen: Bass
Timo Jacobs: Drums & vocals
Tom Bessemans: Fender Rhodes & Organ
Tim Nonneman: Guitar
Erik Heyns: Guitar
Dirk Reyners: Tenor Saxophone
Intercepted on 20 february 2023
Recording & mixing: Timo
Edit & master: Tom
Cover: Tom B. & Dall-E-2
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12 FEBRUARY 2023
The Moondig
I’ve had the great joy and immense pleasure of jamming along with The Moondig, an interstellar, instant composing outfit that consists of Timo Jacobs on drums and Tom Bessemans on the keyboards (both with whom I have been playing music for quite a while now), and Jan Vermeulen on electric bass. The result is something quite explosive, and you can check it out right here:
What Bandcamp listeners have to say about it:
“One of the trippiest, most spectacular albums I’ve ever heard..I do not say that lightly..this is the Sound of Psylocibin!” (Reek Of STOOM)
“I started to listen and couldn’t stop. Simples.” (YomaBarr)
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30 JANUARY 2023
Magnetherian Tape 01
The first exlusive Magnetherian Tape is now available on my Bandcamp! You can listen to a 5 minute preview and if you like what you hear, order the tape to hear the whole thing. You will be the only one to have this music in your possesion, and may use it as you like. So if you want to sample it, use it for your videos, it’s all up to you. All I ask is that you credit me as the creator of the music.
The full package includes:
– Magenetherian Tape 01 physical (microferric)
– 1 Etherian Sticker
– 1 Intuiti and 1 Business Card
– 1 USB Stick with:
* Full Magnetherian Tape 01 (.wav/48khz/24bit)
* The Magnetherian Prototape (.wav/48khz/24bit)
* 1 surprise album from the Etherik discography (.wav/48khz/24bit)
* Selection of Etherian Photography
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14 JANUARY 2023
Packaging the very first Magnetherian Prototape
First of all, happy 2023! Bit late, but nonetheless I hope you will all have a wonderful year in good health and prosperity. Check out this video of me making the very first Magnetherian postal package for Simon in Austria. Thanks a million for the support, Simon!
21 DECEMBER 2022
Magnetherian Prototape cassettes
The first limited run of cassette tapes for the Magnetherian Prototape is now up for pre-ordering on my Bandcamp page. Check it out!
https://themagnetherian.bandcamp.com/album/magnetherian-prototape
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14 DECEMBER 2022
New release by Cave Inn
A whole new set of sonic exploration for everyone that likes weird sounds, tribalistic minimal percussion and smears of organic electronics.
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12 DECEMBER 2022
The Magnetherian Prototape is released
Finally, the first Magnetherian tape is released! You can check it out right here:
The Magnetherian Prototape is the very first tape of the Magnetherian Project.
This will be the only tape that will stay available in digital form for everyone to listen and download.
All coming tapes after this one will be unique and exclusive to the person buying it, both digital and physical. They will be some kind of musical NFT so to speak.
This is tape number 0 if you will. A little something to fuel your curiousity about what the following tapes will be like.
Of course I must add that those might turn out to be very different indeed, or maybe very similar. But never the same.
It entirely depends on my creative impulses. That’s part of the whole idea around the Magnetherian Project.
This Prototape will have a limited run of 11 physical tapes in first batch. They will soon be available to order on the Magnetherian Bandcamp page, and will start shipping on 01/01/2023.
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16 NOVEMBER 2022
*Gert* chapter closed
The last gigs with protest singer Gert are now done, and the chapter closed. I might still be mixing his future releases, but will not be playing bass any more. 6 years of gigging and recording were a lot of fun, but now I can spend more time focussing on my solo work and other bands and projects. Thanks for the support and don’t forget to keep your eye on this site for updates on a.o. The Magnetherian Tape project!
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26 SEPTEMBER 2022
Full Moon Fest by Rivercrest
Many years ago, in the beginning stages of what was to become something of a weirdly organic way of jamming, Rivercrest was a vehicle for the creative outbursts of a few hippie-metal-weirdo musicians. Those were the days of getting into our drummers van to cruise to a basement in the gritty township called Bierbeek. Close to what was, the still a bit more grungy and grindy back then, student town of Leuven in Belgium, Europe.
Along those first years were a few very special encounters, namely with the wonderful Klaus ‘Cosmic’ Hoffmann. A very groovy spaced out musician that stood at the basis of the development of the Memotron.
The other truely great encounter was with Jan Op De Beeck, the one and only saxophone/flute player that together with his lovely wife Hilde had build a wonderful organic bakery to support their family with.
One wonderful evening in the summer of 2005, we had been invited to jam at a garden party, under a full moon to celebrate the birthdays of some of the family members of our perscussionist/theremin player Jef Minten. That night, Alan Stivell was also playing in Brussels, and I remember being a bit bummed out to be missing out on that concert. But we were gathering with an awesome bunch of jammers, and I would have been more bummed out not to be playing and recording this jam with my good friends. This is one of the few recordings on which both Jan and Klaus are present. The other one being ‘Etherische Chemie’.
So I am very glad to present to you this little piece of their and my shared musical history (sounds like something a middle aged musician would say, haha).
Unfortunenalty, I can not share this release any more with neither Jan nor Klaus, as they have departed this earthly realm already. They are surely dearly missed, and not in the least by me. I consider myself lucky to have been able to meet and play with such gifted, friendly, warm and generaly just very loving and lovely people. As I am grateful today to be able to still play with all the other of my fellow musical friends and companions.
Must be the beginning of fall, to be triggering so much melancholy in my mind.
This recording stands as a small but firm testament in time and space, and makes for lovely listening session (preferably under a full moon, of course). I hope you enjoy it.
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15 SEPTEMBER 2022
More Rivercrest?!
It seems this year is proving to be quite productive for the ‘Crest! Check out yet another new recording, this time featuring long time friend and occasional jam-buddy Wouter Vanhooren on the horn (trumpet that is).
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1 SEPTEMBER 2022
New Rivercrest album + videos
Check out this new live recording of the 20 years Rivercrest celebration! Accompanying it are 2 videos of the gig, shot by our friend Roberto Gasparini.
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29 AUGUST 2022
Aankondiging!
(ONLY IN DUTCH)
Ik heb besloten dat de tijd gekomen is om een einde te breien aan mijn samenwerking met Gert. Na 6 jaar van muziek en opnames maken is de tijd rijp om mij terug meer te concentreren op mijn andere bands en solo werk. Je kan mij in het najaar nog aan het werk zien met Gert op de volgende locaties, waar we het nieuwe album ‘Alles Is Nog Niet Verloren’ zullen voorstellen:
*Donderdag 1 September 2022 (Try Out) Het Groot Ongelijk (Kessel lo)
*Zaterdag 3 September 2022 Floral Feesten (Wezemaal)
*Zondag 4 September 2022 Art en Roots in the woods festival (Aarschot)
*Vrijdag 16 September 2022 De Floeren Aap (Mechelen)
*Zondag 18 September 2022 Pallieter Café (Herselt)
*Zaterdag 8 Oktober 2022 JH SOJO (Leuven)
*Zaterdag 5 November 2022 Moby Dick (Antwerpen)
*Vrijdag 11 November 2022 Het Beleefhuis (Dilbeek)
*Zaterdag 12 November 2022 Café Molotov (Gent)
*Zondag 13 November 2022 Washboard Café (Antwerpen)
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26 AUGUST 2022
Gert new album released today
Gert releases a new album! Het nieuwe album van Gert is uit! Nouveau album de Gert est sorti! Neues Album von Gert!
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30 JUNE 2022
Icosahedrone by Rivercrest
20 years of Rivercrest!
Throughout it’s existence, Rivercrest has taken many forms and shapes. But they have remained on a constant path towards the ultimate state of sonic bliss.
To celebrate, we have for you a new set of vibrational paintings.
Strap in, and enjoy the wild ride!
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25 JUNE 2022
Celebrating 20 years Rivercrest
To celebrate 20 years of Rivercrest, we will be releasing some new albums on Bandcamp! Some will be dug op from the archive, and there will also be an all new recording.
The first one is called ‘Baked’
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21 JUNE 2022
GIG NEWS
02/07/2022: 20 years Rivercrest @ Rillaar (w/ Slow Bear, The Bad Slaves)
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15 MAY 2022
THE MAGNETHERIAN UPDATE ONE
The TASCAM Portastudio 424 MKII
I will be recording with this almost never used cassette multitrack recorder. A truly great and classic piece of gear.
A box of 500 blank cassettes, ready to be filled with music and sounds.
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19 APRIL 2022
THE MAGNETHERIAN SERIES
I have been brewing on a new idea for a project in the past months. I will start producing cassette tapes. Each of these cassettes will be a unique, single object, and the music contained on the cassette will be found nowhere else in the world except on this cassette. I will sell these tapes, called “The Magnetherian Series” with custom made artwork and packaging. The music will be solo improvised work and collaborative jams. The music will be recorded with a Tascam multi-track tape recorder on high quality tape, and I will try to keep the process as analogue as posible. Some digital recording or instrumentation might be involved of course. I will keep you updated on the proces on this page of my website. Pictures and videos will follow.
I have obtained a box of 500 fresh, unused cassette tapes, so to fill all of those with music, will take more than a lifetime. I hope some of you reading this might find it a cool idea, and are willing to support me in this new endeavour.