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Welkom bij mijn alter ego Rosewood Tales! Ik schrijf en speel muziek sinds de vroege jaren ’80. Tussen 2018 en 2025 heb ik 70 van deze nummers opgenomen (meestal in een eenvoudige thuisstudio). Al die muziek is te vinden op alle digitale platforms. In augustus 2025 heb ik een deel van deze releases opnieuw opgepakt en met AI-technieken bewerkt tot een productieniveau dat ik in mijn simpele thuisstudio nooit had kunnen bereiken. Voor mij is deze technologie precies op het juiste moment gekomen.
Welcome to my alter ego Rosewood Tales! I have been writing and playing music since the early 1980s. Between 2018 and 2025 I recorded 70 of these songs (mostly in a simple home studio set-up). All of that music is on all digital platforms. In August 2025 I revisited part of these releases by using AI techniques to productise at a level that I could never achieve before in my simple home studio. For me, this technology has arrived at exactly the right time.
Born in 1967, it must have been mid 70s when I started picking strings on dad's guitar. I don't have pictures of me playing at that time but here is one of my dad somewhere in the late 50s playing at what they used to call "zangcroshets" (singing contest). I still have the guitar to date! It's super cheapish and was in fact the only guitar he ever had. Reminds me how spoiled I have been.
Besides the guitar I was kind of fascinated by drums. Friends of mine had a drum set. This me having a go at playing drums end 70s with friends Kris and Wim on guitar ,-)
During the 80s and 90s I filled dozens of cassettes with "ideas". 2003 was a milestone year since I had the courage to work my way through all of them trying to make some kind of inventory and converted all of these to mp3. The net result was around 100 to 200 song-worthy ideas ,-)
Some of the ideas became songs I was playing with good friends Wim on bass, Sven on keyboard & vocals, Tim on drums and me on guitar. Here is a recording during a rehearsal for Garagerock in Ronse. The song is called Vanity in Vain. To date one of my favourites in my song catalog ,-)
2018: I finally decided to try and record decent version of some of my songs. I end up in studio Hooverville with super owner Teun. We make my first album Roads are Closed. It's the title song and is about the thousands of choices we have at any point in our lives goin forward, but not going .. What's done is gone.
In 2014 I lose my beloved mom. Somehow it prompts me to buy a piano - not the most logical step since I don't play the instrument. She looks over my shoulder and would be pleased when in 2019 I record a piano album called The Box. The title song is inspired by a metal box we found after she had passed away. It contained a puppet and a pair of little shoes from the child she had lost at young age.
I go into studio for a second album two years later but that turns out to be too ambitious. A health condition makes it impossible to play with other people around. So I take back home the unfinished takes, buy an audiobpx usb96 to connect to the laptop and start on my own. A couple of months later I release In a string pickin'state of mind. I learn on the job but realize it is far from easy to achieve studio quality on your own.