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Ard Zacht & Either id – Touch cheek, feel lips – MDR 2501
released January 12, 2025 (digital release only)
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Either id breathes new life into immersive electronics, textural sound design and spoken word. Centered around multi-instrumentalist and text-artist Ard Zacht, Either id is a shape-shifting collective, presenting dark, crispy ambient, rhythmic minimal and composed collages of texts.
With ‘Touch cheek, feel lips.’ Ard Zacht & Either id present a wandering flight through sound-designed texts from all over the world, taking form as shadowed experiences meant for the thorough listener.  
 
Either id Collective: Luc Laport, Sjoerd de Roij, Krijn Moons, Hugo Ariens, Dalton Danks, Wouter Smit, Ard Kok
Mix & Master: Wessel Oltheten, Drum recording: Bart Huskes, Recorded at: Erik’s House
Artwork: Maarten Huizing, Texts by: Ella Ostedgaard, Alba Liv, Theis Faber, Amanda Brannin, Courtney Munkres, Ard Kok
twelve sad songs and one blues – MDR 2404

Herbert de Jonge – piano solo

CD release: september, 2024
Digital release: July 7, 2024.
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These songs are exercises in melodic minor, diminished and lydian modes. And at the same time exercises in compassion for the child within. “Play it soft and it’s almost like praying..”

Recorded at ‘the secret house’ studio amsterdam, april 2024; piano tuning andré oorebeek
recording albert van veenendaal, herbert de jonge; master production chris weeda;
grafic layout tosca lindeboom ; cover photo freepik design

PIN – Who Cares If I Mind – MDR 2403 [digital release only] Released: okt. 2024. Listen/buy on BANDCAMP

P I N is a free-improvising electroacoustic quartet based in Rotterdam. P I N aims to maximise collaboration with improvisors from all over Europe. Led by Jonathan Ho [ i n n e r f r o ] on double bass & electronics and Andrew Moreno on guitar & pedals, the quartet is complete with Laurens Buijs on drums & objects and Jun on vocals & effects.

PIN features in this album specific use of analog and digital electronics, namely No Input Mixing [N.I.M] and Max MSP audio programming. As much as PIN is fundamentally an experimental improvisation group, PIN emphasises heavily on melodic phrasing, harmonic & rhythmic suggestions, guided by carefully chosen moods, subjects, and dynamics. One can expect to experience personal stories of each of us within this controlled cacophony of sounds and textures, even if some stories are told in dialect or just simply selected onomatopoeia. “Who cares if I mind” is their debut experiment on this unique sonic journey of storytelling.

recorded on October 14 2023, produced by i n n e r f r o, phone recording #4 outro by Yi Huijun, images by Yi Huijun

Songs from the secret house – MDR 2402
Released spring 2024. Click HERE for further information.
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Albert van Veenendaal prepared piano, singing bowls, e-bows, little instruments; Koen Boeijinga singing bowl, double flute, bells, cymbals, mouthpiece choir, small flute, bagpipe chanter; Mees Siderius drums, vibraphone, gongs, woodblocks, percussion;
Mieke van Dam theremin; Rogier Hornman cello; Steven Kamperman alto clarinet, clarinet

Ten years after the release of my solo album for prepared piano Minimal Damage I decided to create a new story in sound, together with musicians I admire for their creativity and open mind. The recordings for this album are made in the Secret House Studio, hidden somewhere in Amsterdam. The songs reveal secrets to those who know how to listen deeply, with open hearts and ears. The album is produced by Pjotr Lasschuit

Prashant Samlal – Atma – MDR 2401
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‘Atma’ is a short story about introspection and self inquiry. The mini-album contains a collection of personal compositions written by guitarist and composer Prashant Samlal, performed by himself and his quintet ‘Atma’. The music is inspired by dealing with different facets of one’s mind, reflecting on fear, love, creativity and the temporal state of emotions. And how expressing oneself through music and art can be seen as a way of navigating the mind.

Daniël Clason – trumpet. Marco Bernardi – alto saxophone, Prashant Samlal – electric guitar, acoustic guitar and synthesizer (track 5). Jonathan Ho Chin Kiat – double bass , Domen Cizej – drums

The Bluebird Flew – MDR 2303 [digital release only]
Bora Kim, Oene van Geel & Albert van Veenendaal live in Splendor Amsterdam Released: December 1st, 2023
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Bora Kim: vocals, electronics, Oene van Geel: viola, 5 string violin, orchestral bass drum, Albert van Veenendaal: prepared piano

How destiny unfolded… After Oene van Geel and Albert van Veenendaal played a live streamed duo concert at the BIMhuis in Amsterdam, the organisers of the Korean Jarasum Jazz Festival saw the material and were keen to broadcast the footage in Korea. In Oene’s subsequent contact with the festival, he got to hear several musicians/bands from the Korean scene. What immediately struck him was ‘that voice’. So much power and colour! It turned out to be Bora Kim. In an exchange between Korea and the Netherlands, Oene, together with Joon Suh of the Jarasum Jazz Festival, he organised a concert at Amsterdam’s Splendor for Bora, Albert and himself.

RARA AVIS – How Do I Listen – MDR2302
Released 20 april 2023. Click HERE for further information
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The highly imaginative and acrobatic singing style of Jodi, the classical background and curiosity of Tineke, and Albert’s pictorial musicality all contribute to the miraculous sound of this trio. They find inspiration in a wide variety of texts including the eternal wisdom of the 14th-century Sufi poet Hafez, the poems of the Japanese poet Yosa Buson, a novel from F. Scott Fitzgerald, humorous modern newspaper headlines, a Handbook of Roses and Jodi’s writings. The album is fully improvised.

Jodi Gilbert – voice, spoken word, small instruments, Tineke de Jong – violin, Albert van Veenendaal – piano, prepared piano

Het Oog in de Naald – The Eye in the Needle – MDR2301
Released 20 April 2023. Click HERE for all texts and further information
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The Eye in the Needle explores what it means to be human in today’s challenging world. With songs, spoken word (in Dutch, German and English), poetry and improvisation we are telling stories that might even shed a new light on the challenges we are facing.

Roosmarijn Tuenter: viola, vocals, Francisca Snip: spoken word, vocals, Rogier Hornman: cello, Albert van Veenendaal: piano, compositions, Monique Besten: text

Tale Tellers from a Timeless Tribe – Talk of the Town – MDR 2300
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When Makki van Engelen and Albert van Veenendaal met, there was an immediate match and recognition. Story tellers, speaking the same language, experienced musicians getting down to the heart of the matter instantly. Pulsating landscapes, knife sharp grooves, magic minimal, deep statements and tribal trance, it’s all interwoven in their musical universe where drums and piano speak with equal voice.

Money For Your Whale – Twelve – Twelve – Twelve – MDR2200
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This album was conceived and recorded in 2012 and never ‘officially’ released. Listening back to the music convinced me that it deserved a second life on this newly founded label. Therefor, the album is re-released on Minimal Damage Recordings, available at Bandcamp only. Click here for further information

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