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..
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