The Golden Glows

The Golden Glows is an acoustic three piece, keen on long gone melodies, with a focus on vocal harmonies. We come from the diamond mines of Antwerp, Kingdom of Bubblicious Belgium.



The Golden Glows made their debut with "A Songbook From the 20's", a two-hour live show with popular American tunes from the 1920's :: a collection of forgotten radio hits, a few torch songs, musical numbers, some early jazz, a pinch of country blues, gospel and phew. folk traditionals. We released an EP in the summer of 2007.



Next was "A Folksongbook". The EP, a musical meditation on the nature of love, is a glowing blend of original music and ancient words, raised from English & Irish folk traditionals, Victorian poems and 19th Century ballads. We perform A Folksongbook live with glowing guests: a golden horn and an enigmatic cornet à bouquin (Jon Birdsong), a gloriously glowing viola da gamba (Pieter Vande Veire) or a mystical theorbe (Pieter Theuns).



The New Depression, 2009, was the year of the blues. "The Songbook of Blues" took shape as a live show :: in Part I we passed by an old cinema with 1920's blues and John Huston's 'Moby Dick'. Part II was held in honour of Herman Melville's 190th birthday - we raised The White Whale in a harboured Ship Church. The times are not quite right for Part III. The blues EP is scheduled, rescheduled and then rescheduled some more - it'll see the light under the right constellation.



A Tribute to Alan Lomax :: The Golden Glows play Prison Songs :: was rated top 3 of 2009 at AB, Brussels, but it'll very rarely be performed again with a full choir in the near or far future. We'll play "A Prison Songbook" with a solid bassdrum(er) and an exquisite guitar player.



More Songbooks are meticulously prepared.




www.goldenglows.com



"A Folksongbook behaagt, zoals een haardvuur kan behagen. Je wiegt onwillekeurig mee en voelt je als in een sprookje"



De Standaard







"Zeldzaam mooie samenzang bij The Golden Glows"



3voor12, VPRO







"Zeer ambitieus, maar zeker geslaagd in hun opzet"
Ayco Duyster, Studio Brussel







"Het Belgische trio The Golden Glows krijgt het publiek muisstil met zijn bewerkingen van songs van liedjesverzamelaar Alan Lomax. Hun meerstemmige vertolkingen van oude slavernij- en 'prisonsongs' is een hoogtepunt op Into the Great Wide Open."



Yaël Vinckx, NRC Handelsblad








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