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jef leyssens

About Me

Jef Leyssens makes songs because he thinks this is what he should be doing. He is very fond of feta cheese and ginger, and therefore is frequently spotted consuming either of those, or something else (for change's sake). You wouldn't want to have him in your local football team.

you are kindly invited to check out varioloid as well, especially if you're fond of phat beats.

i'm roaming the roads in south america for now, but i would surely not mind playing gigs in belgium this summer, and in and around paris as from september

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 06/05/2005
Band Website: mytb.org/King-of-the-Road
Band Members: lassie
Influences: the beatles, pavement, nick cave, radiohead, joni mitchell, mount eerie, cat power, songs: ohia, roger miller, the velvet underground, ludwig van beethoven, the pixies, neil young, eric's trip, woven hand, rilo kiley, scout niblett, bob dylan, georg friedrich händel, m ward, pj harvey, led zeppelin, franz schubert, jacques brel, stephen malkmus, mirah, marc ribot, leonard cohen, paul simon, björk, sonic youth, joanna newsom, bonnie "prince" billy, the microphones...
Sounds Like: little bugs to listen to and an autumn sky that softly coos
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

I am in South America

which is why the level of activity here is rather low. feel free to follow my adventures on www.mytb.org/King-of-the-Road
Posted by on Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:06:00 GMT

Slow Blood

Sometimes, especially in winter, i feel rather unachieving, and as if i'm spending more time making plans than actually bringing these into reality. And things just don't seem to speed up. Sometimes, ...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:58:00 GMT

Song for Justine

a reworked version, with accordeon, bass, mellotron and percussion
Posted by on Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:54:00 GMT

Grunewald (with Lucy McMillan)

Hermanos y hermanas,Grunewald is a song dedicated to a pretty neat forest in Berlin, which is quite aptly called 'Grunewald'. The song tells you something about some existential worries and how you ca...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:05:00 GMT

Hollow Brown Burr

a song made on a lonesome sunday night, right before taking the bus to my sweet love. you may notice someone has been listening a lot to the fab four lately.and now (8 november) the vocals got a littl...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:48:00 GMT

Two Square Meters

A new song about the sweetest of all sweetnesses, and the first of the upcoming Berlin series. You will hear a guitar (sometimes with a paperclip attached to it for added appeal), a tin can that previ...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:08:00 GMT

Big Moon

Dear Friends, today's toiling resulted in a new song, about my need to get out of Antwerp and explore some new parts of the world. Sonically it's quite different from the Kraków sounds, and closer to ...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:57:00 GMT