Hi. My name is Floris Groenewald. I lead/own/run/am a “band” (mostly a solo music project) called Kabaal klankbaan. I decided to break the rules and review my own album, since the current music, blogging, and marketing landscape turned getting your album reviewed into a sisyphean task, and repeatedly pushing rocks up hills is extremely tiring. Plus I’m running out of Red Bull. So remember to disregard any legitimacy in the following review, since the reviewer in question is (obviously) extremely biased and prejudiced.

Kabaal klankbaan – Baptism

“Kabaal klankbaan,” the name of the folk-rock singer-songwriter-but-sometimes-a-band project from the ruggedly handsome Pretoria-based beard owner Floris Groenewald, can be roughly translated as “Cacophony soundtrack.” I don’t know if that says something about the kind of music they produce, but I’m sure such an assumption is expected. After a rarely-heard-of and media-invisible Afrikaans debut album, and an in-between follow-up single/EP, they recently released a second full-length album called Baptism. Continue reading “Album review: Kabaal klankbaan – Baptism” →