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On March 8, 2011, Agent Wander appeared on the program Esperanza on Urgent.fm for an intimate live session and interview. The original multitrack recordings were lost, but the session was recovered in 2025 thanks to Miro Burgelman, who had kept an mp3 of both the performance and the conversation. Sound engineer Sigert De Jean provided a warm studio sound for a band that could get rather loud at times. The interview can be heard on YouTube and was conducted by Fien Louwagie. Playlist 1. Joe Henry – Sold 2. Richard Thompson – Sunset Song 3. Daniel Lanois – I Love You 4. Beck – We Live Again 5. Arizona Amp and Alternator – Where the Wind Turns the Skin to Leather 6. Grinderman – When My Baby Comes 7. J.J. Cale – Artificial Paradise 8. Morphine – Swing It Low |
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The EP/demo Vanguard [2011], recorded with the full Agent Wander electric guitar band, was tracked in Ghent in 2010 and released in early 2011. It features Wim Kesteloot on vocals and electric baritone guitar, Stefan Valenberghs on lead guitar, Bart Van Lierde on bass and Koen Gallet on drums and backing vocals. All songs are written by Wim Kesteloot. The mixing and mastering were handled by Wim Kesteloot and Stefan Valenberghs. The cover photo is by Philippe de Vuyst. |
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Nighttime Battles [2008] was recorded primarily live over three days in a living room in Ghent, Belgium. All songs were written by Wim Kesteloot, who plays guitar, vocals, and percussion. Thomas Noël plays piano, Rhodes, guitar, vocals, melodica, and percussion. The recordings were mixed by Pol Segers, with graphic design by Wilfrieda Paessens and photography by Thomas Noël. The album grew out of a loosely planned three-day session and tells, through nine love songs, a story that both wanders and comes home. Let the music carry you and discover what it chooses to reveal – or keep hidden. |
11/025 | Agent Wander Makes Complete Archive Public, Including Newly Recovered 2011 Session |
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The long-lost Urgent.fm performance resurfaced in 2025 and is now available alongside Agent Wander’s complete catalogue.
In 2025, Agent Wander brings his full back catalogue online for the first time. The release includes the newly recovered 2011 Urgent.fm session ‘Esperanza’, thought lost for over a decade, now restored from a surviving mp3 recording. Agent Wander is the musical project of songwriter Wim Kesteloot. The debut album Nighttime Battles (2008), recorded as a duo with Thomas Noël, was captured live in a living room in Ghent and carries the same intimate, drifting spirit as the nine love songs that shape it. In 2011 the EP Vanguard followed, recorded with the full band: one baritone guitar alongside a razor-edged Strat, warm round drums, deep bass, and Wim’s low, baritone voice — a downtempo, low-rock atmosphere that often moves in 6/8. That same year, Agent Wander appeared in an intimate live session on Urgent.fm’s Esperanza. The original multitracks were lost, but the session resurfaced in 2025 thanks to Miro Burgelman, who had kept an mp3 of the performance and interview. Wim is currently active as WiltMan, releasing a series of lo-fi and experimental albums including Lo-Files 1, 2, and 3, Amor Fati, and Compil Instrumental. He also accompanies his Dutch-language poetry with music, releasing that work under his own name. |
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