TOUR aka The Oblong Urban Recorder aka Jimmy Harmony aka Thaddeus Outmust Rung (Stijn Segers, Belgium, 1977) makes music about places. Acoustic and electronic. For real and unreal spaces. He makes field recordings and incorporates elements of the local folk music. Currently he is working on a soundtrack for an imaginary road movie following the European highway E40. With it’s 8.500 km one of the world’s longest highways, Tour creates songs and soundscapes for planned and unplanned stops along this route. He travels from Calais in the north of France to Ridder near the Chinese border in Kazachstan, from the west to the east. Central thoughout the work is man, on his way to a specific (travelling) or unspecific goal (wandering), succeeding (moving) or failing (halting). Tour invites video artists and photographer to join and make imagery for the music. For the moment he is working on his debut album Keep Well To The West, containing 12 songs from the first 2000 km of the journey. In the meantime he works on various smaller sound projects, which you can find on this website. Photo © Stijn Segers