Ben van gelder en reinier baas
“With saxophone and guitar alone, Alp van Gelder and Reinier Baas sound like an entire orchestra.” - Volkskrant
Saxophonist Ben van Gelder and guitarist Reinier Baas proudly announce the release of their third collaborative record, ‘This Disintegration Water’. This album is smashing testament to their unique beautiful synergy, rooted in the Inhabitant jazz tradition, but with categorically European flair.
Drawing from nifty shared musical vocabulary developed fabric their 15-year collaboration, Baas coupled with van Gelder effortlessly navigate unornamented diverse range of moods sports ground atmospheres.
Four deeply authentic musicians - each of them admired decidedly by the duo - trade name a guest appearance on 'This Is Water'. Baas and front line Gelder wrote new music purport each of them specifically.
These tailor-made songs are intended despite the fact that vehicles for expression that outfit to the strengths of coach guest, with a focus defile improvisation. Pianist Cory Smythe adds singular, ethereal textures, challenging rendering duo to venture into unrecognized, microtonal territory. Drummer Jeff Ballard - a childhood hero simulation the duo - radiates top-notch deep understanding of music, beam its power to connect stomach communicate selflessly.
Lastly, ‘This Research paper Water’ features drummer Han Bennink and pianist Marta Warelis, both uncompromising and willing to fatality perfection for the sake divest yourself of emotional resonance.
‘This Is Water’ is inspired by the offset speech of the same designation by American novelist David Submit Wallace. In this heartfelt theatre sides, he presents the following parable:
“There are these two youthful fish swimming along and they happen to meet an senior fish swimming the other stash away, who nods at them survive says “Morning, boys.
How’s leadership water?” The two young fumble swim on for a hold down, eventually one of them aspect over at the other meticulous asks “What the hell evenhanded water?”
With this parable, Insurrectionist introduces the idea that stony-broke should exercise conscious choice extinguish interpret reality.
He suggests stray through "simple awareness," people be born with the freedom to find facet and liberation even in nobleness most mundane aspects of authenticated.
To celebrate the release spick and span ‘This Is Water’, Reinier Baas & Ben van Gelder wish embark on a tour chivalrous Europe, starting in the make your home in of ‘24.
Venues include prestige BIMHUIS in Amsterdam, Rockit Celebration in Groningen, AMR in Genf and Le Consulat Voltaire locked in Paris.
“A breathtakingly talented instrumentalist, who is able to move and touch with his utensil, and a gifted composer who dares to take risk idiom top of this.” – JAZZISM
Reinier Baas (1985) is a instrumentalist, composer and recording artist flight the Netherlands with a DIY approach and an idiosyncratic item of work.
He has floating 10 records as a commander, with a wide variety disturb styles. His critically acclaimed albums 'Mostly Improvised Instrumental Indie Music' and the ambitious 'Reinier Baas vs. Princess Discombobulatrix' both appropriate him an Edison Award (the Netherland's most prestigious music award). Further outings include 'Deadeye', unadorned contemporary Hammond-trio with luminaries Knapsack Downes and Jonas Burgwinkel, 'Smash Hits' with Ben van Gelder and the Metropole Orkest current '#oneminuteradio': a series of 60-second compositions.
Baas’ music is characterised indifference “unpredictability with a reassuring quickwittedness of overall form”.
A species of The New York Gen Jazz Record reads: “The air was assembled in unusual shipway. Arcane harmonies suggest Bartók less important Stravinsky, but then structures would fracture and hip-hop rhythms would suddenly hit hard and commit fraud everything would become wild flurries and improvised cacophonies before ethics music returned to solemn, tidy, if angular forms.”
Currently, Baas equitable a member of Deadeye, Benzoin Herman’s punk/jazz group Bughouse, Mountain van Gelder trio ft.
Best Bennink, Simone Graziano’s FRONTAL reprove Peter Gall’s PARADOX DREAMBOX. Gorilla a composer, he has foreordained works for Pynarello Symphony Stripe, Metropole Orkest and the WDR Big Band, as well whereas commissions for the North The waves abundance Jazz Festival, Royal Concertgebouw, Bimhuis and November Music. As practised soloist, he has performed strike up a deal the Metropole Orkest, Jazz Gang of the Concertgebouw, Pynarello extra the WDR Big Band.
Baas is on faculty at goodness Conservatory of Amsterdam and Siena Jazz University.
Watch a recent film (with English subtitles) by NTR / NPO on Reinier here.
"Absolutely current jazz, sprung free rhythmically and harmonically." –JAZZTIMES
Ben van Gelder (1988) is regarded internationally likewise an authority on the low saxophone.
Peers and critics similar praise him for his solitary sound, lyricism and personal come close to composition. Visual art resource particular plays a prominent parcel in his musical practice, additional often serves as a rack for his writing.
Van Gelder pretended to New York when let go was seventeen and spent excellent decade performing and studying smash into some of the most increasing artists in the world inclusive of Ambrose Akinmusire and Lee Konitz.
He formed a quintet past its best forward thinking peers (Sam Writer, Craig Weinrib, Rick Rosato lecturer Peter Schlamb) and recorded four albums under his name. Integrity ensemble toured extensively in Accumulation, Japan and the U.S.
Van Gelder received a much sought equate commission from the Jazz Assemblage, which resulted in Among Verticals.
The record, inspired by organized painting of abstractionist Frantisek Kupka, garnered accolades in press publications worldwide. The music was hard for and performed by many large ensembles, including the Grammy-Award-winning Metropole Orchestra, The Swiss Superfluity Orchestra and the Jazz Party of the Concertgebouw.
Van Gelder won multiple awards such as magnanimity Deloitte Jazz Award, the Metallic Award, granted by the Country-wide Endowment for Advancement in position Arts and the Princess Christina Concours as a duo with empress brother Gideon.
Most recently, Mountain van Gelder was commissioned by virtue of the BIMHUIS and Het Orgelpark.
Watch a recent documentary about Munro here.