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On ‘Border Guards’, the debut album of Katleen Scheir (1983), you can enjoy powerful folk lyrics inspired by Joni Mitchell, Alela Diane and Beth Gibbons. It is a compilation of 12 very personal, emotional but often hopeful songs. The album reveals her own, personal story: from growing up in a disrupted family, to becoming an adult with ups and downs, and the process of a lingering disease to which her mother dies in 2016.
The recording of the album took place in Sputnikstudio, in Schoten (Belgium). Together with the core band members: Martine de Kok on accordion and piano, Lotte De Blieck on the bass and Hans Dockx on percussion and drums; Katleen, also enjoyed the collaboration of trumpet player Jon Birdsong (Black Flower, Beck, Jan Swerts), guitar player Geert Hellings (Guido Belcanto, Jim White), singer Nel Ponsaers (The Golden Glows, Stef Kamil Carlens), violinist Toon Dockx (And They Spoke in Anthems), cellist Charlotte Vavourakis, trombone player Maarten Scheir (Ambrassband), and the Italian, Grammy-nominated blues harp virtuoso Fabrizio Poggi (Garth Hudson, Robert Plant, The Blind Boys of Alabama).
Eventhough Katleen Scheir’s music education at the Conservatory of Antwerp was Jazz, she swiftly evolved in the direction of blues and roots music after graduating.
The recording of the album took place in Sputnikstudio, in Schoten (Belgium). Together with the core band members: Martine de Kok on accordion and piano, Lotte De Blieck on the bass and Hans Dockx on percussion and drums; Katleen, also enjoyed the collaboration of trumpet player Jon Birdsong (Black Flower, Beck, Jan Swerts), guitar player Geert Hellings (Guido Belcanto, Jim White), singer Nel Ponsaers (The Golden Glows, Stef Kamil Carlens), violinist Toon Dockx (And They Spoke in Anthems), cellist Charlotte Vavourakis, trombone player Maarten Scheir (Ambrassband), and the Italian, Grammy-nominated blues harp virtuoso Fabrizio Poggi (Garth Hudson, Robert Plant, The Blind Boys of Alabama).
Eventhough Katleen Scheir’s music education at the Conservatory of Antwerp was Jazz, she swiftly evolved in the direction of blues and roots music after graduating.
