Member Since: 04/12/2006
Band Website: www.hadewych.net
Band Members: Nyland - writing, seeking - live: vocals / guitars / synth / gong ageng / zither / mutilated piano
Scramasax - percussion / timpani / gongs / sampler
Didier - bass / synth / accordion (live)
Dercksen - guitars / effects (live)
Influences: Movement of woods, rocks, plants & nature as such - plus the vastness of it all. Abyssal fear, fire, wholeness, monolithic things, megaliths, human insignificance, occult systems of cosmology & meaning, open systems of cosmology & meaning, clean violence, swift violence, enlightenment...
Avant-garde music in every sense of the word, ritual music, atmospheric aesthetics of old black metal, prepared piano pieces by 20th century composers, some ambient, some shoegaze, some art rock, some neo-folk.
Alternating thematic staccato 'directness' and lush ambience, functional dissonance, non-song-based structuring, 'hooks' in unusual non-western tonality, vocal experiments...
Sounds Like: Member of Dutch avant-garde collective TUCHTUNIE
Releases:
[dma07s] Ende (2004)
3 track CD-r
|| sold out ||
[tucht001] Hadewych (2007/2009)
12 track CD. Comes in handmade wooden case & leaf-wrapped
||'promo' sold out ||
||First edition of the official release limited to 165 copes = still available||
For more info, check the bio section or our website.
FAQ
How to pronounce?
Ha- (with an 'a' as in father, but a bit more 'open' - not as much as an 'æ', but more like the 'a' in the German word 'Bahn') -de- (the 'e' sounds like the 'u' in 'gun') -wych ('y' sounds more or less like the 'ee' or 'ea' like in 'bleed' or 'mean' and the 'ch' is a bit like the 'ch' in the Scottish word 'loch' or in the German 'gleich'). Note that the 'w' is much 'thinner' than the one in for instance the English 'what' (and sounds practically the same as the German 'w' in 'Wasser' or Norwegian 'v' in 'vann'). Emphasis on the first syllable.
Christian/Gospel band?
No
Do you play live?
Yes
Record Label: Tuchtunie
Type of Label: Indie