Sometimes good things happen unexpectedly. In the fall of 1998 I received a call from a guy called Marcel van de Beeten. He asked me to listen to a cassette of his songs. He was planning to record the songs with a band and wanted to know if I was willing to play them. I immediately got into his singing voice, timbre, compositions, uniqueness, atmosphere, etc. When confronted with the tape Pieter Douma shared my enthusiasm and we decided, in collaboration with Marcel, to add bass and drums to his compositions. Tempos, grooves, sounds, energy, all pieces were done in a different way. Marcel himself took care of the production making it what I believe is the best sounding production I´ve ever played on.

For about 10 days we concentrated on recording solid foundations. We went about playing as diversely as possible. Again Pieter and I proved to be sound musical partners. It was a terrific experience for me and I am very proud of the result. The record also features some excellent piano and organ parts by Bert van de Brink and Robert Pijnenburg. The CD has become a good piece of work which deserves to be promoted well. Hopefully the album, which is called "Break the seal", will be a success so we can play live. The quality is already there, all we need now is that extra bit of luck!

Audiosamples (mp3, 128kbs):

 Slow down (900kb)
 Guru (1.5 MB)
 So nice (900kb)
 
Line-up:
Marcel van de Beeten vocals, acoustic and electric guitars
Pieter Douma basses
René Creemers drums/percussion
Bert van de Brink organ, piano
Robert Pijnenburg piano

  September 2004 we started working on a new album. Hopefully it is going to be as good as "Break the seal".