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This week a new Dutch movie had its premiere, called Koning van Katoren. The movie is based on a book by Jan Terlouw, that became very popular after it’s first release, and now there is also this movie with Mingus Dagelet and Abbey Hoes.
The score of the film is written by Bart Westerlaken, who chose to use different spheres for different parts of the movie. And one of them was bigband-style. So a couple of weeks ago we went into the studio with Bart and the Konrad Koselleck Bigband to record a part of the filmscore, and since the 1st of December the results are to be heard in the movietheaters all over Holland. The music turned out great, from energy bigband swing to cinematic effects – it’s all there. There’s even a scene accompanied by a drumsolo..
This sunday Traeben will be featured in the VPRO tv-program ‘Vrije Geluiden‘. Our album PUSH drew the attention of the program, and they asked us to be in it. We were very happy to do the recordings this week at the Bimhuis, and we hope it’s gonna be a great show. We’ll be playing one tune (Top Dog) and Jens and Olaf will answer some questions as personifications of Dutch vs Danish…
Sunday October 14, 10:30 Ned 1.
There’s a lot of stuff on YouTube, and since a lot of people film the concerts they’re attending, you sometimes find rare footage of yourself. This is an example that I just ran into, it’s a concert I played in St. Petersburg in 2010, when we were touring Russia for 4 weeks with the GMO. Obviously there was somebody with a camera backstage 🙂
Traeben is getting a lot of attention online lately. Besides the great Dutch reviews of the album ‘Push’ that we got at the beginning of the year, now there are also reviews in English, German, Danish, Finnish and even Japanese. For an overview check out our press-page. We’re releasing the album internationally by the 1st of October through Pladekisten, but there is a unique and limited presale if you go to the audio part of our website and click on ‘BUY CD’.
If you wan’t to check out what our music sounds like before you buy ‘Push’, then you could follow 10.000 other people and go to www.allaboutmusic.com. We’re ranked #1 in the Top Mp3 Downloads and in the Top25 Recommended Downloads with the track ‘Top Dog’. If you click on the track you’ll be able to download the mp3 for free. I hope you enjoy listening to it!
…featuring:
the Band!
10 september 2012, 20.30 uur, BIMHuis, Amsterdam
(Sroll down for the English version.)
Maandag 10 september starten wij het seizoen in het BIMhuis en dan staan de band en onze eigen solisten centraal. Arrangementen en composities op het lijf geschreven van ons uitstekende improvisatoren zo als Gerad Kleijn, Alex Simu, Bart Lust, Charly Zastrau… Eigenlijk heeft ieder band-lid zijn eigen karakter. Om daarvoor de juiste muzikale ruimte te creëren zet ik op dit moment nog volop al mijn tanden in de muziek. Maar er zal weer heel veel verschillende muziek te horen zijn.
Deze avond wordt opgenomen voor onze volgende cd Live at the Bimhuis. Sinds een jaar staat tijdens onze concerten de harddisk-recorder geregeld aan en wij kijken uit naar een mooie samenstelling van de beste tracks.
We hebben maandag wel een speciale gast: De acteur-performer Hans Dagelet. Wij werken samen aan een bijzonder project dat in 2014 plaats zal vinden: “100 jaar sinds de Eerste Wereldoorlog”. We geven een voorproefje, want dit thema mag natuurlijk niet ontbreken op de nieuwe cd.
De cd zal sowieso in het teken staan van onze bijzondere inspiratiebronnen zo als “Tien jaar na 9/11” met Claron McFadden en Osama Abdulrasol of de speciale buurten van Amsterdam. Met thema’s als maatschappij en geschiedenis komt mijn creatief brein op stoom en mijn grandioze band gaat heerlijk mee op pad naar de uithoeken van de (muzikale) wereld, hard swingend, ingetogen reflecterend, dan weer uitbundig en natuurlijk altijd bereid voor een knipoog of twee.
Ik hoop jullie allemaal te zien op maandagavond als de microfoons net zo op scherp staan als de musici.
September 10, 20.30 hrs
BIMHuis, Amsterdam
Tickets: €16 / €13
Werner Janssen, Katharina Thomsen, Alex Simu, Kees van Lier, Kees van Dooremalen: saxes, Charlie Biggs, Robbert Scherpenisse, Florian Sperzel, Gerard Kleijn: trumpets, Bastiaan Woltjer, Matthias Konrad, Bart Lust, Axel Schappert: trombones, Kai von Rosenberg: guitar, Charly Zastrau: piano, Reyer Zwart: bass, Haye Jellema: drums.
The Konrad Koselleck Big Band is something else. Time and again, band leader Koselleck finds adventurous combinations of jazz, cabaret, pop, rock, Latin and even classical music. This special edition, which will be recorded for a CD release, features the band’s soloists. They shine with improvisations in Koselleck’s original and remarkable arrangements and compositions.
‘Koselleck has a keen sense of atmosphere, he knows when to slow down or fire up the band… this ecstatic big band plays with phenomenal conviction’ (de Volkskrant).
It’s gonna be a busy summer this year! After the release of the new Træben-cd we played the release-tour throughout spring, and we got a lot of great reactions. Also the press picked it up, and we got some wonderful reviews in for example Bebop Spoken Here, Allaboutjazz.com and Draai Om Je Oren. Thank you all for supporting our music! This weekend you can hear us live in Luxembourg on a big jazz and blues festival throughout the city.
Another great show this summer is at the Parade, called La Ten Damme & Le Ratzke On The Rocks. Ellen ten Damme and Sven Ratzke put together a show especially for this year’s Parade, with a lot of glamour, vaudeville and sex&drugs&rock’nroll! It’ll be playing in all 4 city’s (Rotterdam, Den Haag, Utrecht and Amsterdam), come and check us out.
And last but not least: Mathilde Santing is gonne do one of the Robeco Zomerconcerten 2012 at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the 12th of august. She’ll be performing her Sinatra repertoire (with which she toured a while ago) accompanied by her jazz-quartet. That’s gonna be something..
I hope to see in one of these places!
Finally it’s there, the new Traeben album PUSH! After a great time of recording, mixing and mastering it’s all good: great tunes, fresh sound, super playing – well, you should check it out and hear it yourself. Hein van de Geyn did that, and these were his thoughts:
“Four men on a mission: to give the world real, honest, strong and beautiful music. Thank you gentlemen!”
So, there’s three things you can do:
– go to the Traeben website, there’s lots of information there, video’s, agenda. You can even subscribe to the newsletter. click here
– of course the cd is available on iTunes, with bonus tracks! click here
– come to the cd-presentation: we’ll play a nice concert at theater De Tobbe in Voorburg the 16th of March. All the pieces of the cd will be played, and of course the cd will be for sale there!
I hope to see you there, or at one of our other concerts, and let us know what you think of our music!!
The dutch radiostation Radio6 started a very nice initiative, called De Multitrack. It’s like a chain-letter: one musician records something, Radio6 sends it to another one who adds one or two things, and so on and so on ’till it’s a full track.
I was invited to play to a nice basstrack of Clemens van der Feen, which is broadcasted this week. Now it will be send to others, and hopefully there will be an update every week. Check out the website and keep an eye on track 13, I’m very curious what will happen..
And to all of you: all the best for 2012!