“Golem Mecanique works within the fringes of contemporary folk as well as touching upon the ashes & fibres of black metal and the DNA of gothic music.”

Stephen O’Malley presents Ideologic Organ 

Stephen O’Malley (US/FR) pushed the boundaries of (black) metal toward avant-garde with his drone band Sunn O))). Aside from being a guitarist and producer, O’Malley is also a respected graphic designer and, exactly fifteen years ago, he founded the Ideologic Organ label (with the late Editions Mego label boss Peter Rehberg) that focuses on avant-garde, drone and contemporary compositions.  

“The label is known for its high-quality, boundary-pushing releases and captivating visual art with curation and art direction still led by O'Malley.” The list of artists is impressive, including Kali Malone and previous BRDCST guests such as cellist Lucy Railton, extreme metal vocalist Attila Csihar and Lukas De Clerck.  

To mark the fifteenth anniversary, O’Malley is spotlighting the label at VanhaerentsArtCollection – an impressive art gallery in and old industrial warehouse a stone’s throw from AB. Blow-ups of Ideologic Organ artwork will also be on display at AB VITRINE (Steenstraat 23-27).

Golem Mecanique (curated by Stephen O’Malley) 

Golem Mecanique (FR) is the nom de plume of French multi-instrumentalist Karen Jebane. Her album Siamo tutti in pericolo (2025) is a profound and personal tribute to Italian, Marxist film director Pier Paolo Pasolini. 
Siamo tutti in pericolo (‘We’re all in Danger’) were also the last words spoken by the director in his last ever interview. A few days later, he was found gruesomely murdered – his heart torn apart, his face mauled and having been run over by a car multiple times – on a beach close to Rome. 

Jebane: “Pasolini has awakened me to many things. I remember seeing Accatone and Teorema when I was 14 years old, and I fell in love. I then discovered silent violence, erotism, desire, the raw aesthetic, ancient myth and wrath.” 

Her musical tribute is situated “somewhere between sacred minimalism, church music and medieval folk, it's music that joins the dots between Catherine Christer Hennix, Heather Leigh, Arvo Pärt and Cucina Povera”. (Boomkat) Jebane concludes: “Maria Callas and Scott Walker are also haunting this album. I just wanted his body not to lay alone on that cold beach.”