Wolf Soup
Armed with a multitude of effect pedals, routed to 10 different guitar amps, Raphael Vanoli and Richard van Kruysdijk create a 3D landscape that offers views of deep, dark valleys; detailed, intricate sounds and eruptions of bright, shimmering melodies.
Pairing unusual playing techniques with extreme sound processing and rich harmonic textures, WOLF SOUP invite the audience to submerge in their world of controlled glitches and intuitive interplay.
LIVE
WOLF SOUP have created a unique setup, in which they rapidly and abruptly switch between amps during playing, thus creating an enormous depth and an immersive spacial sound experience. With amps ranging from big Marshall stacks to tiny battery powered speakers, their sonic range is enormous. Placing the amps in a half circle, partly around the audience, completes the 3D experience.
ALBUM
Wolf Soup are currently finishing their debut album,
recorded at Paviljoen Ongehoorde Muziek in Eindhoven (NL).
12 string Guitar & Guitar
Raphael Vanoli
Amsterdam based guitarist, bassist, composer and improviser Raphael Vanoli (FR/DE) has developed a musical voice of his own and is a versatile guitarist using multiple electronic setups.
By constantly experimenting with all possibilities of the guitar he found and developed a technique that uses breath on the strings. Both in his solo music as well as in his many collaborations in the modern music world his quest to blur the limit between electronic and acoustic sound resolves into a singular language, often with unheard colours.
Next to his solo work his main project is the critically acclaimed experimental post-rock duo Knalpot with drummer Gerri Jäger and the space dub band Stolpernova (with Omar Ka, Franz Hautzinger, Hilary Jeffery, Gerri Jäger). Raphael performed all over Europe, Russia and Brazil.
"Raphael Vanoli has an aesthetic that rather refers to current electronic music than to conserved jazz guitar. Vanoli doesn’t pursue a crystal clear image of notes, rather the opposite: he looks for jagged sounds, which scrape and pull on all sides. With one square meter of effect pedals under foot range he lets multifaceted soundscapes arise."
De Volkskrant
Other bands & collaborations
Knalpot
Jameszoo
Zuco103
Krupa & The Genes
Lackritz
Regenorchester XV
Opositor
Tetzepi
Spinifex Orchestra
Slagwerk Groep Den Haag
Asko Schönberg Ensemble
Lunatree
David Kweksilber Bigband
a.m.m.
Baritone Guitar
Richard van Kruysdijk
Eindhoven-based multimedia artist Richard van Kruysdijk (NL) adopts many masks as a means of infiltrating and subsequently subverting a wide range of art disciplines. He always switched between, and combined several disciplines. Rooted in counterculture, mostly creating highly personal, purely intuitive work that goes against the grain, Richard ’s aesthetic in sound and image is refined with each new project.
At the arts academy, he explored painting, photography, and graduated with a short 16mm film which was shown in several theatres and at the Dutch Film Days, Utrecht (NL). During his last year at the academy, he signed his first record contract after a solo concert in Paradiso, Amsterdam. That marked the start of many releases, tours and musical collaborations.
Since 2010, his musical work extended largely into the field of compositions for modern dance companies (Scapino Ballet, Balletto di Roma, CCN Ballet de Lorraine, Burning Bridges, Hessisches Staats Ballett, Pennsylvania Ballet, and more)
Richard is currently working on hybrid forms of multimedia installation art and live performance.
Richard's musical work can be heard on many releases and on stage in a broad range of international venues: From alternative pop clubs throughout Europe to avant garde festivals (Sonic Acts) and festivals for modern composed music (November Music; Minimal Music Festival). From museums (Museum De Pont, Tilburg; Biënnale Venice) to prestigious theaters (Schouwburg Amsterdam; The Royal Opera House, Londen).
Other bands & collaborations
Epic Rick (2020-now)
Dead Lights (2020-now)
Palais Ideal (2017-now)
Daisy Bell (2013-2016)
Phallus Dei (1993-2018)
Sonar Lodge (1997-2006)
Strange Attractor (2004-2010)
