Filip Gheysen started in 1996 as The Imperturbable Ordinary Seaman, inspired by the music of Smog and Daniel Johnston. He dropped imperturbable because that didn' t sound catchy enough. So after recording a few lofi popsongs filip got more interested in the experimental side of music.

So maybe you can describe The Ordinary Seaman as melancholic experimental songs in combination with noise. The morc tape is less noisy though, definately his most poppy outlet. guitars, vocals and a drumbeat, that's the recipe...

It seems that filip is very busy with collaborations: he has worked with wio, Jurgen Deblonde (aka Kohn) Laurent cartuyvels of Toss, and is/was in several other projects, like ROT, random reflections; alpha, picturesque (who toured with the japanese jazz-core band Inu Yaroh) Most of these projects did some kind of release on filip's own glasvocht records.




The ordinary seaman: "turning mad"
tape - released oct 2001

Definately the most poppy outlet of this belgian singer-mutilated songwriter. We'd say this is a killer tape, if it wasen't such a lame joke.

3 € / + 5 $

-> klick on cover for details
-> mp3: beautiful girl (1'23)

v.a.: "Card-carrying supporters of romance"
cd- released june 2001

Excellent cd-compilation that brings together the likes of appendix out, sodastream, a boy named thor, fuck, jen turrell, rabbit in red, pernath, bingo trappers, minmae and lots of other romantics

10 € / + 15$

-> klick on cover for details and a few tracks
-> band info




the horror of looking in a mirror cdr
almost halloween time

drowning cdr
glasvocht

trial to a little mermaid tape
glasvocht

once this open place was a river tape
collaboration with wio
glasvocht

glasvocht / nosordo cd
also feat. dijf sanders, do, douglas ferguson...
glasvocht4 /nosordo