I TOOK YOUR NAME ON THE WEB: https://itookyourname.bandcamp.com The original plan was to make an ambient guitar record about rail yards. All that audiotransparent and kendler guitar player Chris van der Ploeg came up with was songs. He christened his project I Took Your Name, the name borrowed from an […]
http://www.blackoaktheband.com Black Oak is a new band formed around singer-songwriters Geert van der Velde (The Black Atlantic) and Thijs Kuijken (I am Oak). Just like the name of the band is a synthesis of both songwriters‘ other band names, so too the music a synthesis of the best that both […]
JACK BEAUREGARD ON THE WEB: www.jackbeauregard.com Berlin in march 2013. It’s still winter. I tell myself: „Snow doesn’t matter. It’s even beautifully white. The cold and the frozen damp are merely celestial whims, which need not concern you.“ I am travelling by bike. In my coat pocket is a media […]
AWKWARD I ON THE WEB: www.awkwardi.com Whispering can be beautiful: The debut album of Djurre de Haan from Groningen, also known as awkward i, was titled I Really Should Whisper. In 2009 everyone agreed this was a stunning album by a talented singer-songwriter, who by that time was making music […]