about

Koltempleister is the ‘fake German’ alter ego for Jens Vanderheyden, living in Brussels.
Musically, he started out very young as a bass player in a variety of bands, making music that ranged from grunge to blues. Here he laid the technical foundation for his own productions.  After college, he started producing music on his own, again in a variety of styles, but this time on computer.

His band Silur, founded in 2003, was a (promising) electronica-postrock ensemble. Their music was based on melancholic soundscapes, backed up by repetitive melodic structures on bass and guitar.

The Kiono project, together with Sensu, focuses on beat oriented music, ranging from dub to house and minimal. They have a dedicated focus to playing live, in the true meaning of the word, and improvisation.

Koltempleister is a project as well. Here the intention is to exploit electronic music's mimetic possibilities, mimicking nature, allowing music to trigger visual imagination wherever possible... Floating between, noise, electronica and ambient, trying to emphasize spontaneity through improvisation, being prolific without being too concrete, re-inventing.

Koltempleister’s musical influences have an ever broadening spectrum, only excluding music that's explicitly rough in verbal or postural content.

Besides making music, he is (professionally) active as a webdesigner/developper. Photography and drawing are part of his daily routines...

A silent year lies ahead, since he will be working in outback india next year, intending to do loads of field recordings on the side.

koltempleister[at]plain.be
http://myspace.com/koltempleister
http://flickr.com/photos/koltempleister/

Listen to henry.mp3...