Kaboom Karavan - “Short Walk With Olaf” (Umor Rex)

Ambient Music Marching Band | I found out about Kaboom Karavan when listening to d’incise’s free music-charts we had published in December 2007 as part of the Netaudio Adventcalender. His choice of Folk-influenced electronic music is stunning, and the Belgian Kaboom Karavan-collective was totally new to me. Fortunately, the full-length record keeps the promise a single tune made up.

 

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Kaboom Karavan is mainly Bram Bosteels. For his adventurous Free Folk music, Bosteels regularly gets together with his friends, situated in “a very small town in a rather small country”, like he notes on his myspace account. Sounds pretty much like a collective-thing going on, and if you take the open structure of his songs, the high amount of processing and all these jingle bells in account, a certain esoterism-charge might be appropriate.

But Kaboom Karavan have good songs. “Karavanserai”, “No More Karavan” and especially “Short Walk with Olaf” are awesomely loose pieces of Blues- and Americana-influenced Post Pop, “Roadmap” is a brilliant composition of ambient and fractal Folk-pickings. After all, “Toambertree”, with it’s electronic basement more evident, manages to join Free Folk and aggressive Breakbeats surprisingly well. Carefully produced, this album would have been a good hit for Kranky or Constellation records. Hooray we get it for free via Umor Rex!

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Netlabel: www.umor-rex.com
Artist Website: www.myspace.com/kaboomkaravan

About the Author

This article was written on Wednesday, February 6, 2008 by Bettina Rhymes. Bettina Rhymes is the journalist alter ego of Sven Swift. Swift runs the established CDr- and Netlabel 12rec.net and acts as a Netaudio DJ every now and then. Next to his job at Phlow Mag, he writes reviews about free music at RUBored.org. Read more articles written by Bettina Rhymes.