ANKER.CONCERT#20: Jonas De Kesel + Siem Reap

Release concert for Jonas De Kesel's second album - White Horse Chestnut.

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With White Horse Chestnut, his second album, Jonas De Kesel creates a space where time briefly slows down. A slowdown that hits like a punk idea against the speed and absurdity of today's society.

 Between stillness and repetition, a guitar-plucked world unfolds in which opposites continuously alternate: light and dark, chaos and calm, the conscious and the subconscious. Inspired by alchemy and the ideas of Carl Jung, Jonas explores the hidden layers of our consciousness and the transformations that shape us as human beings. Every composition feels like an invitation to listen more deeply. To the music, to each other, to yourself. Expect a concert like a breath: slow, layered and unexpectedly hopeful.

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Siem Reap is the solo project of Gilles Demolder (Oathbreaker/Wiegedood). With 'Now What?' he made a lo-fi debut record that sounded like someone digging through the wreckage of his twenties: raw, direct and sometimes painfully honest. On his second album 'Wishin' I Was Fishin'' he mixes intimate, self-aware lyrics with warped folk, dry humor and sharp observations. From childhood traumas to broken relationships, from gentrification to personal reflections: with Siem Reap, Gilles holds up a mirror, painfully honest but often hilarious too.

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TIMING

7pm: DOORS

 8pm: SIEM REAP

 9pm: JONAS DE KESEL