Zbolk Night Radio

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All tracks written, performed and recorded by George Smits between 1982-1996.

“During the night-time broadcasts ‘Zbolk Night Radio’ on Antwerp’s local Radio Centraal, his musical experiments took the form of ‘radio pictures’. Beginning in the 1990s, Zbolk combined electronic, digital and acoustic recordings. Writing about Zbolk in 1994, Smits gives this description: “How far can someone go in constructing acoustic instruments from junk, playing and then recording them, to compose songs on cheap digital equipment with samples of that music, able to mix these songs live on a weekly radio broadcast with the original sounds, and all this without somebody saying: ‘You’re out of tune, you’re a freak, you can get out!'” Released in Spring of 1997 was his CD Zbolk Night Radio, just a few months prior to his sudden death. George Smits saw the creation of cheap art forms for a broader public as ‘a higher purpose’. The extreme integrity with which he pursued this goal is the connecting thread that runs through the utterly diverse oeuvre of Toet.”