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Ruben Machtelinckx

Ruben Machtelinckx is a prominent member of the Belgian and European improvised, experimental music scene. As a guitarist, but equally as a composer. Since the very start of his artistic course, he focusses on personal projects. 
 In 2013 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. Later the band issued a second album, ‘Flock’. 
 For many years, Machtelinckx is part of Linus, a duo with saxophone player Thomas Jillings. Their lauded debut, ‘Onland’, was followed by very specific collaborations

Light As Never

Label: Aspen Edities
Released: 2022
Track listing: Playful; Ostinato; Light As Never; Affirms Nothing; Conway; First Notes; Echo.

A Short Story

By Ruben Machtelinckx

Label: Aspen Edities
Released: 2022
Track listing: Lessness; Towards the Redwood Curtain; Resemblance; Strands of Black Hair; Leaves, Birds and Grapes; Beek 2; Variation of Shadows; Sleepwalkers Forest; Beek; Stone Garden; Pines of Onoe; Dawning.

Linus + Økland/Van Heertum/Zach: Light As Never

by Mark Sullivan
August 19, 2022

Belgian duo Linus—Ruben Machtelinckx, guitar and banjo; Thomas Jillings, saxophone and clarinet—have been recording with additional musicians for several years. This grouping is the largest they have gathered together and revisits the one from the album Mono No Aware (Aspen Edities, 2017). It is rich instrumentation, expanded by Machtelinckx's additional baritone guitar, Jillings' synthesizer and Niels ...

Ruben Machtelinckx: A Short Story

by Mark Sullivan
May 23, 2022

In retrospect the meeting of Belgian guitarist & composer Ruben Machtelinckx and Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen seems inevitable. They are both masters of delicacy and texture, as well as having distinctive and unusual sounds on their respective instruments. Machtelinckx composed most of the tunes, but these duets cast both players as equal contributors. It is a ...

Sualme

By Ruben Machtelinckx

Label: Aspen Edities
Released: 2019
Track listing: Mijnmwerker I; Vistrap; Low Organ I; Koers; Peloton; Krekels; Lieve Vrouwke; Short Sentence; Low Organ II; Paarden; Dewy; Rozebeke; Circular; Op De Purperen Hei; Mijnwerker II.

Ruben Machtelinckx / Joachim Badenhorst / Bert Cools / Toma Gouband: Porous Structures

by Mark Corroto
December 30, 2019

Is there such a thing as emo jazz? If not, then Ruben Machtelinckx's quartet has produced a new genre of creative and improvised music. We're not talking screaming post-punk guitars. Porous Structures is an acoustic affair that relies on delicate and sparse sounds. And maybe, just maybe, it's what the world needs now. Machtelinckx ...

Ruben Machtelinckx: Sualme

by Mark Sullivan
October 1, 2019

As a local resident, Belgian musician Ruben Machtelinckx was asked to contribute to Kunst en Zwalm (Art and Zwalm) 2019, a contemporary art festival that happens every two years in Zwalm, a small village on the Belgian countryside. Machtelinckx settled on a sound diary format, taking a digital recorder and instruments he could bring with him ...

Aspen Edities: The Album as a Work of Art

by Jakob Baekgaard
July 9, 2019

It's a paradox of the digital age that it has spawned some of the most beautiful physical editions of music, but perhaps it's quite logical. In an age where almost everything becomes available digitally, it's a good thing for a physical product to distinguish itself. This is exactly what the records from the Belgian-based label Aspen ...

Poor Isa: let's drink the sea and dance

by Mark Sullivan
June 27, 2019

At first glance, Poor Isa is primarily a banjo duet. But the actual sound of the album belies any assumptions about how such a project should sound. As on their joint album When The Shade Is Stretched (Aspen Edities, 2017), Belgian banjo players Frederik Leroux and Ruben Machtelinckx tend to subvert the traditional style of the ...