Randolf Smeets, a.k.a The Phlod-Nar is a Belgian composer and multi-instrumentalist with Dutch roots . Working as a music therapist, his first music adventures started around 1996 and within his first 10 years he completed 5 totally different albums, the genre-hopping Black Paint and Red Ochre, ambient works on Utriusque Cosmi, piano improvisations on The Crystalline Piano (both available on Bandcamp), and more. To express his individualistic creativity it’s impossible to pigeonhole his music. Even the ways of creating his music are limitless: from written scores, electro-acoustic noises, electronic programming, live played instruments, sound manipulation, improvisation, usually in a combination. Collaborations popped op over the years. One is The Mun Astronauts, his duo with Barry Schuwirth creating atmospheric ambient music with piano and electronics. As a composer of chamber music you can find works released under his real name Randolf Smeets. Krautrock and instrumental postrock was his, now-abandoned, project Agula, where all the instruments (guitar, bass, drums, percussion) are played by Randolf himself. Other solo-projects: extreme sound manipulation, using techniques like Xenochrony, plunderphonics and John Cage’s aleatoric elements you can find in A Z I M O G U. With singer-songwriter Vigilan Freeland he developed his playing abilities, in studio as well as live, with instruments electric bass guitar, acoustic guitar, clarinet and piano. www.thephlodnar.com