vlou

My first single is a year old today! Thank you for the love and listening since its release 🧡 Excited to be working on my EP - more news on that soon! 😊

Revisit "Scenes from a Dream" 🎧: https://songwhip.com/vlou/scenes-from-a-dream

Mastered by Q***r Ear Mastering
Photo by Gemma Garman
Artwork design by Lerusha Reddy

Proche - what a wonderful event. From the powerful exhibition to the great sound, lighting and audience, we had an amazing time 🧡

Thank you Michelle Geerardyn and AB - Ancienne Belgique 🙌🏾

📷 Daria Miasoedova 🙏🏾

It's tonight! The opening of Proche at AB - Ancienne Belgique 🧡

- Doors from 7pm
- Michelle Geerardyn photo expo all evening
- We're on at 9pm

Event link in comments.

📷 Emile van den Berghe

It's a strange and beautiful thing reflecting on the first year of this project. I was so scared to put myself out there, but once I did I wondered why I put so much pressure on it. Reading Elizabeth Gilbert's book Big Magic (thank you Gemma Garman 🙏🏽) helped me shift my thinking on this - create and share, without expectation - and I hold onto this whenever I feel my fear starting to take over. I can't believe how much has happened in a relatively short time frame, considering lockdowns, being in a new city/country/continent, and also at times getting in my own way. vlou has also developed in a way that was not intended - because of the uncertainty of live music, I planned to focus on online; releasing music more regularly and building towards sync licensing. But the opportunity to perform live kept presenting itself, and having missed it for so long it felt like a natural shift. A single, a music video, some features, reviews, playlists and a few soul-fulfilling shows seems like a good start to me, and I'm so looking forward to doing more of this over the next year. If you've read this far, thank you, and thank you for your support 🧡

📷 Emile van den Berghe

Match Day 2022 was incredible! 🏳️‍🌈 It felt so good to perform again and to share my music live 🧡 Very grateful to have been a part of the celebration, and to be amongst the the other wonderful artists exhibiting and performing 🙌🏽

Congrats and a big thank you to Britt and the Match Belgium team 🔥

Thank you to Nathalia Lourenço for playing keys so beautifully with me, to Emile van den Berghe for the great photos, and to everyone who came to support 🧡

In studio exploring some routing and setup options for my upcoming shows 🧡

Happy to have Nathalia joining me on keys 🎶

I've been working on my live set 🎸

Having mainly played in band settings, there's a lot of newness to navigate. It's been fun learning more about running tracks while performing and which DAW works best for what I need, and I'm also enjoying tweaking my demos for the live context.

I'm excited to share this new setup with you soon 🧡

📷 Emile Van Den Berghe

Easing into 2022. Cosy 🧡

After a wonderful December with family and spending some of January recovering from the latest addition of the Greek alphabet, creating has resumed.

Retreating back to my little home studio as the days get colder, shorter and greyer 🎧

I'm excited to work on my next release, and I'm so happy that my first music video was so well received and has over 2k views.

Thank you for the support 🧡

Very happy to have some local coverage of the music video for Scenes from a Dream 🇧🇪

Dankjewel Luminous Dash and Ann - have a read below 🧡

VLOU- Scenes From A Dream Vlou is het soloproject van de Zuid-Afrikaanse bassiste en componiste Vee Lourenço. De door Khruangbin, Flea en Marcus Miller geïnspireerde muziek van vlou is geworteld in de fusie van moderne psyc…

1 day to go 🧡

Here is my most in it, feelin' it, groove-induced bass face for your pre-viewing pleasure 🤨

So excited to share my first music video with you tomorrow! 📹😄

3 days to go! We had a lot of fun playing with camera angles during the shoot, and it was particularly interesting finding different ways of capturing the bass 🎸

Music video out 10 November - link in comments 🧡

7 days until the music video is out 🧡 This is a still from one of my favourite shots in the video - Emile captured the solo section in one beautiful, continuous shot and I can't wait for you to see it 🎸

Link in comments to find my YouTube channel 🔗

Check out my first Spotify Canvas - it's also a little preview of my upcoming music video, out on November 10 🎥

Link in comments 🧡

Filmed by Emile Van Den Berghe
Edited by Emile Van Den Berghe and Vee Lourenço
Choroegraphed and Danced by Catarina Duarte

The scene of "scenes from a dream" 🎥

Check out my stories for the inspiration and how we got this lighting 🧡

We finished shooting the video for "scenes from a dream" 15 minutes before my birthday, and it was a wonderful way to bring in my next trip around the sun 🌞 Editing is in progress, and I'm excited to share some moments from the process with you!

I am very grateful to Catarina and Emile - as well as Megan and Nathalia not pictured here - for the late nights, input and creativity, and making the process fun and supportive 🧡

📷 Nathalia Lourenço

When the light is just right 🧡❤️

Video coming soon!

📷 Emile van den Berghe

Two evenings of shooting done and I'm feeling invigorated, exhausted and so so so excited 😅🧡

Emile took this photo when we were done with some test shooting last week and we noticed the sunset was looking particularly gorgeous 🌅 We have a little-ish ledge outside our kitchen window and I was telling him how I'd always wanted to try and and capture something out there but was a bit nervous because there's no railing. As you can imagine, there wasn't much moving around involved 😉

We start shooting today! After some fun and experimental test shoots, we're ready to get stuck into it 📹 Very excited and grateful to be working with these amazing people on the video for "scenes for a dream" 🧡

Photo by Emile van den Berghe

My debut single was the first time I mixed and produced my own music, so to be included in this amazing playlist of women and gender diverse producers and engineers is so encouraging 🧡

Thank you so much Girl Gang Music and Jen Miller

Shout out to Q***r Ear Mastering for the incredible master and for being a safe space for q***r artists 🌈

Go have a listen! Link in comments.

I've been preparing and planning the video for "scenes from a dream" 🎥

These photos are some camera and light tests - there's some amazing afternoon sun in this spot ☀️ It's going to be a live style video and I can't wait to start shooting! 🎬

If you haven't listened to the song yet, find the link in the comments below. If you have, go listen again 😏🧡

📷 Emile Berghe

Grateful to be a highlighted creator on Q***f - a platform for all things q***r in Belgium 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇪

"I picked up the bass, it was incredibly healing and soul-fulfilling for me - the vibrations I felt in my chest when I played soothed (and continue to soothe) me."

Check out the full highlight here: https://www.queef.be/vee

Vee Lourenço — Q***f. Vee Lourenço is is a South African bassist and composer currently based in Brussels. She completed her Bachelor of Music degree from Rhodes University, South Africa, in 2013 and has over 14 years of experience in various musical contexts as a bassist, composer, performer and recording artist in Sou...

Happy that my new track was added to the Instrumentals for TV and Film playlist on Spotify 🎥

I hope that my music will support visual stories in the future 🧡

Link in comments.

"vlou’s sound is decidedly calculated, carefully wrought, and wholly infectious."

Thank you so much for the feature Texx and the City & Skye Mallac, read the full article below 🧡

Meet vlou: who’s making instrumental mood music for your Sunday afternoon and "scenes from a dream" is the start Vee Lourenço, South African bred, Belgium-hailing bassist and composer has struck out on her own tangent with her brand new solo project, vlou.  With a background in composition, and a Bachelor of Music from Rhodes University