Ever since the 70s Roland ( VAN CAMPENHOUT )is known to be one of the best blues performers in Belgium - be it solo, with just an acoustic guitar and a mouth harp, or with some friends, just having a ball ...
Of course, Roland is more than just the blues. On his LPs and CDs he experiments with oriental and african sounds and samples (listen to his 1990 album The Last Tribe or The Great Atomic Power published in 2005). On Snowblind you'll find a lot of instrumental tracks, setting a lot of different moods ... You wonder how come the weird music on Little Sweet Taste still sounds like the blues ...
Waltz, Last Letter Home and especially Lime & Coconut produced by Arno, are just magnificent, with a lot of covers from the likes of Tony Joe White, Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, ... but they're more than just cover-albums ... Roland understands the songs, feels what he's singing, whether it's a touching folk song or plain old blues. His new album, Never Enough (2008), produced by Tom Van Laere aka Admiral Freebee, is his most personal, and acclaimed as his best ever.Roland and other musicians like Wigbert, Pieter-Jan de Smet or Neeka share their talents on several occasions ... you'll find Roland playing organ with Raymond van het Groenewoud or André Brasseur or see him in the studio with Derroll Adams, Alain Bashung, Vaya Con Dios, Arno, ... Roland is everywhere in the Belgian music scene - and that's just the way it should be! He's unpredictable, yet always at his best, and quite a nice guy too, Tim Hardin or Rory Gallagher who shared quite a time with him could have told you ... or just ask any bartender in Belgium (and beyond)!