A BELGIAN is the name under which Daniel Vincke delivers
his, mostly instrumental,"experimental pop" compositions .
The influence of the sixties is undeniable in these short pieces ( rarely beyond three
minutes), both in the musical material as well as in the sound treatment .

Daniel Vincke is a singer-songwriter born in 1968 from a Guyanese mother
and a Belgian father. Mostly singer and guitarist, he likes to play any instrument.
Starting his musical carrier in late eigthies, he was, and still is, involved in several musical projects: Tam echo tam ( a capella ) since 1993, Sibel (turkish music) since 2000, Ana et Robi ( retro-futuristic acoustic duo) since 2004 .

From the day he borrowed from a friend, a 4-tracks tape recorder ( around 1990), he never stopped recording ideas and so-called songs . By the time he got familiar with bass, drums,
 keys , ... and used them  to re-create a virtual one man band .
Although "a belgian" is the project of a full-fledged singer, the voice is most often
used here as an instrument  except in a few "real songs" like "Parceque c'est l'été"
or" Shaking my tambourine".
" A belgian" is a way for Daniel Vincke to get back to his first musical loves : the 60-70 decade, its music, its sound, its spirit . If i mention : Michel Legrand, The Yardbirds, The Beatles, french yeye and 60's jazz, you might get an idea of the musical spheres this belgian is evolving into.
But it's not to say that he's ignoring what's happening and existing around him by the present times. But as he likes to put a little too much reverb in his mixes, to record drums with "only one mic but well placed", to use his crapy barely tuned guitar and other weird , exotic or home-made instruments, he may not correspond to clinic sound standars of "nowadays" music.
 Most of "a belgian" tracks have been  , untill now,  recorded on a "good old" 8-tracks recorder and then processed by computer. The sound treatment is an important component of Daniel Vincke's project which is rather a "studio" project than a "live" one. Playing on  effects, textures, construction is an exciting work in which he engages trying to build
 his own "wall of sound" , assuming the musical imperfections and the rough,sometimes "lo-fi" aspect of the tunes  as long as the result is, in his view, a living one .