VVOLK

 

“As a listener you experience one sound, one cloud, one texture, with slow moving details within. While getting deeper in the sound of vvolk, the perception of time fades. It is astonishing how improvised music can create such a timeless, and calming experience for the listener. This timelessness clearly has an effect on the physical body. After a concert of ‘vvolk’ you will leave with an altered body state.”

This is the second Book of air chapter performed by ‘VVOLK’. The music of ‘VVOLK’ is played by a group of 18 improvisers with roots in jazz and classical music. The group investigates performing and improvising music, in close relation to present time; what are the possibilities in playing music, when changes in this music pass by unnoticed? How do we as musicians relate to the running time of a performance? How does our hearing and memory react to these slow changes? As a result ‘vvolk’ let’s you experience music which is less perceived in the present time, but rather occurs in our memory of the past. This clearly challenges the improvising musicians, and makes audience and performers discover new territories in collective improvisation.

Inspired by the slow tempo and invisible motion of nature; how the seasons pace without sudden turns, slow and gentle. Seemingly still, yet always in motion.

 

BUY ALBUM

CREDITS

01 lente > zomer
02 herfst > winter

Music performed by:

STIJN COOLS – drums
SEP FRANCOIS – vibraphone & percussion 
HENDRIK VANATTENHOVEN – double bass
NATHAN WOUTERS – double bass
LAURENS SMET – double bass & electric bass
BERT COOLS – electric guitar
RUBEN MACHTELINCKX – electric guitar
BENJAMIN SAUZEREAU – electric guitar
NIELS VAN HEERTUM – euphonium
VIKTOR PERDIEUS – tenor saxophone
THOMAS JILLINGS – tenor saxophone
ERIK BOGAERTS – alto saxophone
FRANS VAN ISACKER – alto saxophone
MATHIEU ROBERT – soprano saxophone
STEFAN BRACAVAL – flute
INDRE JURGELEVICIUTE – kankles
FRUZ TONTELING – harmonium
WOUT GOORIS – rhodes

Composed by STIJN & BERT COOLS

Recorded by PETER DESMEDT
Mixed by STIJN COOLS
Mastered by UWE TEICHERT 
Cover Picture by JOHN TAI 
Layout by JONATHAN KARSILO

Published by Sub Rosa 2016 SR413
Recorded january 7th 2015 at ‘deSingel’, blauwe zaal
Coproduction of ‘deSingel’ International Arts Campus