Description : Three different soundscapes welded together for a documentary movie Leon Vlems made in the summer of 2012 for a DVD that will be part of a book dedicated to the restoration of the St. Martinus church in Cuijk (The Netherlands)
Description : This track was inspired by Jimi Hendrix' song 'Rainy Day, Dream Away' from the album Electric Ladyland. Towards the end of his life Hendrix was wandering in a more jazz-orientated direction. My tribute is a fantasy: jazzlicks combined with Hendrix-style wah-guitar. I am very grateful to Looperman-member Aereas whose loop 'Jazz Groove'was the basis for this track.
Description : 'Bosa Marina' is the second song I recorded with Phil B. - leadsinger of the famous Dutch bluesband King Mo - in 2012 (first was 'Rain'). This is probably my most intricate Jimi Hendrix-hommage until now. The lyrics where there first. I wrote them during a stay (2010) on Sardinia, the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. I had just re(read) 'Crosstown Traffic', the definite book on Jimi Hendrix by Charles Shaar Murray. With me I had 'Hendrix, setting the record straight' by John McDermott & Eddie Kramer and 'Room Full of Mirrors' by Charles R. Cross. From these three books I could distill some of Jimi's interests (other than music). I learned that he was fond of science fiction, the idea of time travel, ancient civilisations, native Americans (his grandmother was fullblood Cherokee), reincarnation and voodoo. I tried to combine these elements in lyrics I wrote in a place called Bosa Marina on Sardinia, actually feeling the past and the future melting together under a blistering sun on the beach. The music came a year later when I stumbled on the very beautiful loop 'piano pad combo' by Looperman-member ShortBusMusic. This was the exact, laid back, jazzy mood I was looking for. The loop was the fundament I build the track on. After Phil B. recorded the lyrics, I filled in the structure with sounds 'answering' the lyrics or announcing them, hoping to give it a really space-out feeling. I'm very grateful to Phil who did an excellent job on this. All in all 'Bosa Marina' took two years to finish.
Description : Continuous chill-flow with a bolero-like build-up that was originally inspired by an ambient-track called Libra that was released in the nineties by an artist called Dfuse. I was and still am a very fond of that track that gains it's hypnotic strengt from a 'ripple-effect' based on an endless loop. I placed this idea in a new context using middle-eastern and African voices voices and exotic strings combined with rock-guitar in a loose Hendrix-style, hoping to create a 'Fifty Shades Of Grey meets Scheherazade'-atmosphere. The poemfragments are by Pablo Neruda, spoken by KR Silkenwood. 'Please Hurt Me' was recorded and mixed in the summer of 2012.
Description : New 'houserock'-mix combining rockguitar, houserythms and a classic theme. This track owes a lot to Looperman-member Chris Neal who produced the Silhouette-melody you can hear in the beginning. This is the Leitmotiv for the whole track, giving it a 'floating feeling' (I hope). Also I introduced some Phil Collins-like drumbreaks that are essentially rockbased and don't belong in house - if your are a purist - but I used them anyway because I love the 'delayed pleasure'-effect it achieves.
