WERF records

24/12/2025

Our gift to you this Christmas 🎄
Let’s wrap up the year with music from Helena Casella, Kunde, Meral Polat, KID., Kin Gajo, Margitte and so many more amazing W.E.R.F. artists!

Grab your free download🎁
https://werfrecords.bandcamp.com/album/2025-wrapped

23/12/2025

Dit Christmas we treat you to a free download featuring the best tracks of 2025! 🎁
With music by Helena Casella, Alex Koo, Margitte, Kunde, and many more amazing artists.

Enjoy!
https://werfrecords.bandcamp.com/album/2025-wrapped

18/12/2025

It’s the most wonderful time of the year!
Helena Casella landed 6th place in Indiestyle's Best Jazz Albums of 2025. We’re incredibly proud and very grateful to see her album and hard work getting this much love 💛
Congrats Helena Casella Dendooven and thank you Indiestyle 🙌!

Yes, Pit of Impressions is temporarily sold out, but it will be available again mid-January 2026. In the meantime, check our Bandcamp for more: www.werfrecords.bandcamp.com

17/12/2025

[NEW SINGLE]

For over a decade, Compro Oro has been travelling the world in sound. Rooted in jazz and psychedelia, the Ghent-based collective blends these foundations with global influences from every corner of the map.

Over the past year, the band developed a new project inspired by Kinshasa - quite literally. For this release, Compro Oro collaborated with Congolese likembé player, vocalist and dancer Bouton Kalanda.

Their first EP together, 𝘓𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘢, will be released on January 30. The single 𝘒𝘶𝘬𝘪𝘦𝘥𝘪 offers an early taste of what’s to come.

Have a listen!
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16/12/2025

[JOB ALERT]
We’re looking for someone to take over ticketing! 🎟️
Are you - or do you know - our new colleague?
You can apply until 6 January, so why not make it an early New Year’s resolution?

All the details 👇
www.kaap.be/nieuws/we-zoeken-een-nieuwe-collega-0

📸 Tijs Soete

12/12/2025

[NEW RELEASE]

A forgotten chapter from the 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘶𝘦 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘴 soundtrack sessions. 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘶𝘦 𝘖𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 gathers unreleased gems and fresh instrumental versions from KID.’s sonic universe for Terry Beks & Kim Vreys’ arthouse film.
Expect intimate sketches that never made the final cut but carry the same analogue-meets-digital spirit.
Terry Beks’ search for the perfect fusion of tactile analogue and limitless digital continues here, closing with a rework of the theme song by Toon Janssens (Forbidden Fruit).

These are not leftovers - just the raw, shifting residue of a cinematic world still in motion.

🎧 https://werfrecords.ffm.to/djqbm0e

12/12/2025

[NEW SINGLE]
Ragini Trio has returned to our sound universe with this new single of the upcoming album 𝟯!
𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘬𝘢𝘶𝘯𝘴 is the name of an emblematic pentatonic Indian raga, one of the most melancholic ones. This track has a very light and hypnotising drum groove, an oriental saxophone with subtle electronic effects and a double bass with a bow playing some very intricate ornamentations. It can’t be jazz without real solos but it can’t be Indian raga either because of the wrong instruments and the many broken rules.
If you do need to put it into a specific box, then take the ragini box.

🎧 https://werfrecords.ffm.to/66v0ya7

11/12/2025

As year-end lists start to appear, it’s great to see our artists - although often outside the mainstream - receiving the recognition they’ve earned. Big congratulations to Alex Koo for being named one of Knack Focus AND De Standaard Best Jazz Albums of 2025💛

Get the album 👇
https://alexkoo.bandcamp.com/album/blame-it-on-my-chromosomes?label=4251407707

10/12/2025

The second pressing of Helena Casella's 𝘗𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 is completely sold out - time for a repress!

The third pressing is 𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝟯𝟬𝟬 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗲𝘀 - do not miss out on this (again).
Pre-order now!👇
https://werfrecords.bandcamp.com/album/pit-of-impressions

05/12/2025

[NEW AND LOVING IT]
Following 𝘙𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘺, released in 2024, this second volume shows Don Kapot at their most liberated, with completely improvised structures that build as the album progresses.

“Antistrofos Illigos” means “Reverse Vertigo” and this album exudes a certain aesthetic radicalism that won't appeal to everyone. But it might be more necessary today than ever before, as the very idea of freedom is under threat.

The trio leaves no room for self-reflection, resulting in something raw and instinctive. They demonstrate their ability to instantly generate a clear narrative and give their all to the ensemble, in a single gesture.

🎧 https://werfrecords.ffm.to/3yd5qmr

28/11/2025

[NEW SINGLE]
For those seeking shelter from the storms these tumultuous times bring, 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘕𝘢𝘷𝘺 is that comforting blanket you can huddle into. A genre-bending piece of music from rapper, producer, and composer 𝗞𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲, who crafted this jazz-infused soundscape that balances psychedelic rock with wonky, Dilla-esque hip-hop grooves. Together with 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗮 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮, whose angelic voice can heal any broken soul, they paint the outline of a world you can only dream of belonging to, drawn in shades of navy.

It's the collab we have been manifesting for and your perfect soundtrack for today!
🎧 https://werfrecords.ffm.to/7av9r4a

24/11/2025

[NEW SINGLE]

Pianist Bas Bulteel Music has been exploring the boundaries of solo piano work for several years. His first solo album, 'Eye Of The Storm' (September 2024) was shaped by influences from minimalism and contemporary avant-garde pianists.

In the months that followed, Bas recorded an extensive collection of free improvisations - created entirely in the moment, guided by intuition and openness. These recordings will be bundled on the new upcoming digital release 'Improvised Textures' (January 2026).

Today, we’re thrilled to share the first single from that new project: 'Whist'. A piece born from pure artistic freedom - letting go, stepping into the unknown, and transforming that journey into spontaneous, boundary-free improvisation, shaped entirely by the mood of the moment.

🎧 Have a listen
https://werfrecords.ffm.to/olbmnwa