This is my New Years gift to you: my interpration of an old Neerlands Hoop-song: Quo Vadis? A musical effort made in between all the food and drinks of this period:

http://www.box.net/public/sytuc8vqvm

Happy New Year


Jan

If necessary world peace would be realized through great military force.
(Markus, VPRO-gids dec.23 2006)

Three rare Christmas-songs in a row, from one of the finest singer-songwriters and pianists The Netherlands have ever known: Jules de Corte

Kleine Jezus - Herder Joachim - O Jesulein

The special Christmas show of Vreemde Geluiden, broadcasted this afternoon at Radio Zwolle is now ready for download:

first hour (alt. downloads: rapidshare - yousendit)

with several versions of Jingle Bells, a Dutch record with swinging ski-exercises and prog rock christmas songs

second hour (alt. downloads: rapidshare - yousendit )

starting off with a local Christmas party hit ("Hang the balls in the tree") finishing with a Christmas exotica-mix by Ton Rückert (downloadable seperately) , with (a.o.):

Herman Apple, ses carillons et ses percussions - J'ai vu maman embrasser le Père Noël
The Jethros - Silent night
Koreann Children's Choir - Jingle bells
John Klein - Jingle bells
Saint Nick - Jingle bells all the way
Tiny Tim - I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus
Recyclophonics featuring the 3 Barbra's - Streisand night mix
Ellis Chadbourne - Holy night
John Lennon - Christmas poem

This is a recording that is very dear to me. I don't know the exact date, but it must have been somewhere in 1988. Dirk is a pianist. I believe he was studying at the Music Academy in Antwerp back then.
We improvised on each other's themes. First I improvise on his themes and round 8:51 I'm playing in one of the upper octaves the beginning of the only piano/keyboard-solo piece I've ever written: Brainwave. He picks it up, takes it from there and I improvise on the flute on his interpretation of my music. I remember that I felt very good about this jam-session and I still enjoy listening to how things were developping. I'm not sure if we've ever played again afterwards. I can't remember anyway. What a pity...

Dirk and Jan - Jam-session (20 minutes yousendit)

Jan Turkenburg - Brainwave(1986) (Box.net)

Labels: de muziekdoos

Your friends will be speechless of amazement. You can play that soon!

You can reach us by telephone day and night.

Update

Yes, I know it still exists.

Wikipedia on Klavarskribo

Does anyone down in Antwerp know who this gentlemen imitating Prince is?

In my memory we just called him Prince. Recorded same evening april 9 1988

Labels: de muziekdoos

More about Peter here

Peter - various pop covers (hosted by GygaSize)

same file by yousendit

This is the complete set from which I took "Message in a bottle" earlier.

songlist:

Graceland
Message in a bottle
Yesterday
Walking on the moon
Space Oddity (featuring a drunken Dutch fluteplayer counting down at the bar ;-)
Your song
When I'm 64 (no, I'm not going to translate the conversation you hear meanwhile. It's mainly about the romantic aspects of life as a busker :)

Labels: de muziekdoos

I'm continuing my attempt to transfer my most valuable cassettes to my HD, before my cassetteplayers have both died from years of systematic abuse. The news about De Muziekdoos made me turn to my own Muziekdoos-recordings made with a sony tcs-470 (which is in coma for years now) in 1988.

Jan en Otto - The wild rover, Variation on Ah vous je dirai, In Dulce Jubilo

For years I've been thinking that this performance was my debut in public in Antwerp, but I've just been listening to the whole tape closely and I hear myself talking to a girl (who, by the way was an old acquaintance who happened to be in Antwerp with her fiancé) later on, saying this was the result of three days playing on the street. I'm not sure but I seem to remember Otto took me to De Muziekdoos the first day we met. Maybe that's on another tape, because I must have recorded that too. A few tapes have been lost during one of my many moves from town to town those days however.

I'm going to post most of my Muziekdoos-recordings here.

Labels: de muziekdoos

Leen van Zwol and Winston Dreves (who looks like a bit like Dorus himself) were in our show today to keep the memory of their idol Tom Manders (=Dorus, Dutch comedian/singer/actor/painter/TV-host from the sixties, early seventies) alive.

Leen van Zwol's site about Tom Manders:

Tom Manders thuisbladzijde

They played some classics as well as a few very rare collector's items and gave interesting facts, some from first hand because Winston had met several times with the artist himself.

The complete broadcast (with also music by Chenard Walcker, the French prog rockband: Ange and starting off with a recording of the appropriate "message in a bottle" made on april 9th, 1988 in De Muziekdoos) can be downloaded here:

first hour

second hour



Tom Manders as Dorus

This year certainly ends in a very sad way. I just got a mail from people who appearently noticed on a drifting part of my website that I used to be a regular of this unique music café in Antwerp. Etienne, the owner and manager of De Muziekdoos has ran into serious trouble with the Belgian tax-law and other regulations and he has to shut down his pub that is so wellknown and loved among buskers, music amateurs and professional musicians not only in Belgium (Deus started its career here) and The Netherlands but abroad too. Since appr. 1970 many musicians and groups performed here each night on a free stage for all. A monument of tolerance and inspiration is disappearing. From december 20th on De Muziekdoos will only open it's door for very few private occasions for a short period of time.

More info (in Dutch)

http://schaaflicht.blogspot.com/2006/12/rip-de-muziekdoos-joyous-cosmology.html

Labels: de muziekdoos

Bob Leverman a.k.a. Robert Long died on the age of 63. He suffered from a severe form of cancer after being completely recovered from a heart attack last year.
In the Netherlands he was most famous as a Dutch language singer songwriter of protest songs, but the last few years more and more of mellow songs about life in general and about homosexuality in specific. He started his career as lead singer of the band Unit Gloria with English language flower power semi-religious songs.






links:

http://www.unitgloria.nl/Bestof.htm

From his family: "He got into a coma for 3 weeks in september. He woke up but he hasnt fully recovered and doctors say he wont. He recognizes us and is able to speak but it is sometimes not that easy to understand."
Chenard Walcker is known in our circle as a very productive cut and paste artist besides his job as a teacher in one of the suburbs of Paris. Among other things he has got his own netlabel. He helped me out a lot on reaching the finish-line at my 52 weeks-project.
Not only he contibuted a piece of work which stole my heart in week 36. He shared bandwidth and webspace when I had filehosting-problems and he made this mixes, echoes, the moment I didn't have the energy to make all of them myself:


echo 43: purple brain
echo 44: Laminas Ucla
echo 45: Quirass
echo 46: Water, wind and sails
echo 47: Stepping Stone Visit
echo 48: Music Students
echo 50: Coffee Concerts
echo 51: Avsv Café
echo 52: last seven days

Toos Teeth

Update december 13 2006

Chenard's coma was diabetes-related. At this moment he is not suffering physically. He's recovering very slowly, his main concern being trying to speak again, but sofar he's come further than the doctors had eventually predicted.
His internet-friends are now organizing a tribute-album which is to be released on wm-recordings . Any submissions can be offered through the website.

and the actual first single I bought when I was about 9 years old.
I still love it.

Creator of Paulus de Boskabouter

Click picture for slideshow

Labels: dutch popstars

This one is for all my xenophobic fellow dutchmen

As a teenage boy I found her very exciting (might also have something to do with her habit of posing topless in magazines and on record sleeves to prove that she was really a woman and no trans-sexual)


through Mr Dante Fontana's visual guidance