Label: Buzz
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917610727
Catalog number: ZZ 76107
Releasedate: 23-08-13
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917610727
Releasedate: 23-08-13
After winning the prestigious North Sea Jazz Festival Composition Assignment, Bram Stadhouders together with the Netherlands Chamber Choir performed on North Sea Jazz Festival 2012. This is the recording of this première concert.
- This CD is the recording of the recording of the première concert on North Sea Jazz Festival 2012
- Bram Stadhouders was the youngest composer ever to win the prestigious North Sea Jazz Festival Composition Assignment
- For this composition Bram Stadhouders choose to collaborate with the Netherlands Chamber Choir, a perfect choice because both are familiar with all different kind of music styles.
- "Super hard in-your-face, that's how Bram Stadhouders' Henosis sounds, according to Tim Sprangers for the newspaper "Volkskrant"
- Stadhouders is known for free improvised, spacey guitartouches that are quite at odds with the classical schooled approach of the choir.
- With his many projects, he always manages to capture the attention of listeners and press, and at the age of 21 he was elected as "Young VIP" by the Dutch jazz association in 2008.
- With his own projects he toured extensively all over the Netherlands, Europe and the USA
"Super hard in-your-face, that's how Bram Stadhouders' Henosis sounds. Forget your haircut, because it will stand stiff to the back, when the symbiosys forces that are blowing from the stage are over-exceeding the allowed limit. The guitarist got the composition assignment from the North Sea Jazz Festival in 2012, and chose to collaborate with the Netherlands Chamber Choir, 8 singers and conductor, and an improvising electronic musician, and drummer. Exciting in advance, because Stadhouders is known for free improvised, spacey guitartouches that are quite at odds with the classical schooled approach of the choir.
The vocal scores, all written by Stadhouders, are characterized by imposing, bombastic soundwalls that are folded over each other. The lushing underwatersounds from the guitar, whispering in many reverb effects, are bathing on this powerful foundation. Sometimes the guitarist doubles a few voices, more often he freely floats through the vocal parts. The compositions are varying from rippling soundscapes to almost sacred sacrificial rituals. Especially near to the end, when the threatening rhythms from drummer Onno Govaert are boosting, the guitarsynthesizer is opening up and the choir brings multiple layers on top and elevates the climax to an orgasmic altitude. In the history of the North Sea Jazz composition assignment, Stadhouders' interpretation is undoubtedly the most striking one."
These were the words of Volkskrant music reviewer Tim Sprangers, after the première concert in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. This album is the live recording.
The vocal scores, all written by Stadhouders, are characterized by imposing, bombastic soundwalls that are folded over each other. The lushing underwatersounds from the guitar, whispering in many reverb effects, are bathing on this powerful foundation. Sometimes the guitarist doubles a few voices, more often he freely floats through the vocal parts. The compositions are varying from rippling soundscapes to almost sacred sacrificial rituals. Especially near to the end, when the threatening rhythms from drummer Onno Govaert are boosting, the guitarsynthesizer is opening up and the choir brings multiple layers on top and elevates the climax to an orgasmic altitude. In the history of the North Sea Jazz composition assignment, Stadhouders' interpretation is undoubtedly the most striking one."
These were the words of Volkskrant music reviewer Tim Sprangers, after the première concert in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. This album is the live recording.