Bart Peeters: "Wow... excellent guitar playing!
What a voice! You launch me instantly back to the sixties!"
Ann Lemmens: "This is right up my alley! AAA performance!!"
Atelier 32: "High level band! Think BB King, Dire Straits, Blue Blot! Wilk is a band you have to experience!
Rootstime.be: "Best performance of the festival... Class A!
Video
SITE
Yes - VTM, Belgium's got Talent
Wilk @woest Worry mama 11/11/2021
Running man - Missy Sippy
No Stoppin' - Missy Sippy
Biography
Hi, my name is Jorg and I'm a guitar player from Belgium.
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Started at the age of 11, today I am 42. After years of being a wingman on countless international projects, the time has come to tell my own story, ooh I am ready!
I'm afraid WILK won't fit just 1 box. Blues, roots, soul, rock that touches psychedelic boundries, americana and all them sub-genres that interconnect are dealt with, groove-wise. I have the impression that this kind of genres has been fallen a bit in the background in the Belgian music scene. There's plenty going on, but it's inconspicuously, out of the picture, somewhere in the back of a dark pub. WILK steps out of these shades, into the spotlight.
We wanna show that Ghent, Flanders, Belgium also has roots with groovy cajones in its guts! Raah...
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Music itself is limitless and free for me.
When I start to play, reality evaporates into some kind of parallel universe. Concepts such as time can lose their boundaries, that's why a Wilk song can take up to 10 minutes.
There is a reason why some music are categorised as "timeless". ;-)
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Wilk embraces the world in which I live, in a musical way.
The people around me, what I love, the society that frustrates, childhood memories, future prospects, ... I dump it all in songs and hurl them to a willing audience.
The guitar is put central. This instrument allows me to project my own emotion without difficulty. A bright red ES335, Gibson’64. Every musician can relate to the feeling of connecting with an instrument. It is the door to my soul. I immediately knew when I pumped this pearl through a '72 fender twin reverb that I had found my inner color.
All WILK songs start with sound, which is then filled with content. These lyrics come out of a gut feeling and find their way to paper.
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But WILK isn't just me.
Super thankful is a mega understatement to express my gratitude that I can play with such a classy musicians, that these people support, but above all strengthen me in bringing my story. Thanks!
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Let's kick it!
Wilk.
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The Band
Who’s Who
JORG DHONDT
Guitar & Â Vocals
STIJN DESPIEGELAERE
Tenor Sax
KATTY VAN KERKHOVE
Bariton Sax
SIEBE DUTHOIT
Trumpet
JAN BORRE
Keys
Danzel Hoever
Drums
JEF GHIJSELEN
Bas