Marc van Vugt and The Curious Badger
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This week’s episode is a special Catch-Up episode with the Dutch guitarist and composer Marc van Vugt, who was previously featured in Season 2 with his album The Lonely Coyote. Today you’ll hear a selection of highlights from his new solo guitar album, The Curious Badger. We caught up on some of his recent projects, and he also shared some wonderful insights into his creative process, and different ways for independent musicians to find audiences for their music. Like all my episodes, this is available on your favourite podcast player as well as a video on YouTube, and the transcript is linked here as well on my website: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/marc-van-vugt-the-curious-badger Please consider buying me a coffee to support this independent podcast - you can do that through Paypal on my support site: https://ko-fi.com/leahroseman Thanks! If you missed the episode with jazz singer Ineke Vandoorn, Marc's partner: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/ineke-vandoorn Marc van Vugt website: https://www.marcvanvugt.com/ Timestamps (00:00) Intro (02:37) The Curious Badger album (08:06) excerpts from 2 versions of Liefde (09:59) intro to Back to the Market Square, Zen story (15:15) Back to the Market Square (20:21) lowden baritone guitar (22:13) Marc’s advice about PR work, getting gigs and album reviews (30:53) please support this series! (31:30) intro to Dancing in the Wind, layering of different guitars (33:20) excerpt from Dancing in the Wind (33:18) playing on different guitars (35:55) intro to The Coyote and the Badger (37:08) excerpt from The Coyote and the Badger (37:06) influences of different guitarists, Bill Connors (39:39) intro to The Curious Badger (42:53) The Curious Badger (45:33) 2023 Canadian tour (52:00) Sound Makers Project Christine Duncan (55:35) Marc’s creative process (01:01:16) teaching composition
photo of Marc: Jiri Büller
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