Randolf Smeets (a.k.a. The Phlod-Nar)

Composer & Musician from The Netherlands, living in Belgium. Creating music since 1996.
 
 

Who is The Phlod-Nar?

Randolf Smeets, a.k.a. The Phlod-Nar is a composer/musician from  The Netherlands, currently living in Belgium. Smeets boasts an  impressive catalog of work featuring various orchestrations encompassing  classical, jazz, electronic, film music and other experimental genres in  between. He uses composition, improvisation, electronic, acoustic  (piano, guitar, clarinet, percussion, voice), field recordings, and other found sounds in his adventurous works. For Smeets the lines of genre and style  have begun to blur as his own distinctive compositional voice has taken  shape.  It is not uncommon now for Smeets to blend styles and sounds  within a single composition as he seeks the perfect expression of his muse. His music is an inviting safe haven where listeners can enjoy experimental music, freely get wrapped up in it and not develop a migraine. 

(adapted from several reviews)

Quote:Smeets is a highly creative composer by liberating musical constraints yet still keeping his works aurally pleasurable.” – Kelly O’Neil (review Works for Piano)


Projects and collaborations

Film composer for documentary ‘Arches & Bridges’ by Michiel van Hout + several short films and audio books. The MUN Astronauts (piano & electronics w/ Jaxx Rain), Agula (instrumental music on guitar, bass, percussion), Azimogu (treatments in sound), Vigilan Freeland (band member on keys, clarinet, bass), Randolf & Joke (songs for children), Feirledijika (jazz with movie dialogue), Concourse in Atmosphere (online collaboration), For Andrei (music, sounds & dialogue from the films of Andrei Tarkovsky), Chameleon Music (music for films), Temonos Productions (The Phlod-Nar’s production label)

 

Selected discography as The Phlod-Nar, unless otherwise indicated (1996-2014):

Electronic Black Paint and Red Ochre | album | 2004-2006 | 2022 re-issue

Improvisation The Crystalline Piano | album | 1998-2006 

Ambient Utriusque Cosmi | album | 1998-2006 

Experimental First Works | album | 1996-1998

Noise/Ambient Underneath the Surface | album | 1996-2006

Soundtrack For Andrei – Music, sounds and dialogue from the films of Andrei Tarkovsky | album | 2007

Various genres …at the Altar of Modernity | EP | 2006/2017

Classical Wanjina | album | 2007-2008

Soundtrack For Andrei – Chapter 2 | album | 2007-2008

Electronic To Inhale | album | 2008

Various Compilation | album | 1996-2009 [not available anymore]

Electronic White Roses in an Ocean of Blood | single | 2010

Classical/Electronic In Eternity | album | 2009-2010 | 2021 re-issue

Classical Randolf Smeets: Works for Piano | album | 2012

Soundtrack Randolf Smeets: Theme from Arches + Bridges | single 2012

Acoustic Agula: Curiosa | single | 2013

Soundscapes Morphogenesis | album | 2017

Film Music Selected Film Works 2007-2013 | album | 2014

Jazz Feirledijika: Shooting in Space | single | 2014

Acoustic Agula: Deformation | single | 2014

Ambient Tramontana feat. Joke Bosschaerts | EP | 2014

Improvisation The Crystalline Piano, Chapter II | album | 2016

Improvisation The Crystalline Piano, Chapter III album | 2016

New classical AZIMOGU: opians #1 | album | 2017

Experimental songs AZIMOGU: Exclusion of Life | EP | 2017

Soundscape "Now I will do nothing but listen …"  | EP | 2019

New classical AZIMOGU: opians #2 | album | 2021

Piano ambient PANSY | 202..



www.thephlodnar.com

 

 
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22 Januar 2015, News

Tramontana EP released

A new EP has been released with 2 tracks. "Song for Sverre" has the heartbeat of my unborn son to create the rhythm of the track. Track 2 is "Tramontana" which is a 15+ minute long atmospheric ambient track featuring the voice of Joke Bosschaerts. ...

22 Januar 2015, Artikel

Review: Works for Piano

While some pianists contentedly sit at the keyboard and noodle away life’s doldrums, Randolf Smeets’ atmospheric music has a sense of purpose.   The Dutchman breathes live through his Roland piano with his original works that could tell a myriad ...