Green Crow Collective: Belgian Punk, Banjo and Surrealism

Before founding Green Crow Collective, Roeland Vandemoortele built up solid experience on Belgian stages and beyond. In the 2010s, he travelled festivals and concert halls with his electro-punk duo Too Tangled, before working as a musician in theatre productions. It was from that dual background — the music stage and the theatre platform — that the idea for a new, more ambitious project emerged.

He then brought together three musicians with equally substantial backgrounds: Andries Boone, Mathias Moors and Bert Huysentruyt. Together, they created Green Crow Collective, a group whose stated sound — called eurodada — mixes rock, punk spirit, Belgian surrealism and sounds with a sense of escape, including Balkan influences. It is a formula that is serious in execution but unafraid of absurdity.

“Hard Drive Error”: a first album that opens wide the doors

In 2024, Green Crow Collective released its first album, Hard Drive Error, whose sleeve features a raven with greenish reflections. The record was warmly received by both the public and critics, and it propelled the quartet onto national and international stages.

The group has notably supported the New Yorkers Living Colour and the British band Skunk Anansie. Those appearances reflect the credibility Green Crow Collective has quickly earned. On the instrumentation side, the line-up goes well beyond the standard guitar-bass-drums-synthesiser set-up: violin, banjo, sitar and electric mandola broaden an already generous sonic palette.

Eurodada in action: humour, commitment and genre-blending. To understand Green Crow Collective’s world, its references speak for themselves: La Mano Negra, Fontaines DC, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard.

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