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Quarantine Sessions & #8220; Sequime si podes & #8221;

This video from the series of 3 tango “quarantine sessions” films that I made in summer 2020 together with and conducted by Christiaan van Hemert (bandoneon / violin and artistic direction / editing) and fellow musicians worldwide.

These “leaders” from the (tango) music world contributed to this:

bandoneón 1 & #8211; Victor Hugo Villena (Argentina / France)
bandoneón 2 & #8211; Santiago Cimadevilla (Argentina / The Netherlands)
bandoneón 3 & #8211; Christiaan van Hemert (The Netherlands)
violin 1 & #8211; Derk Lottman (The Netherlands)
violin 2 & #8211; Andrea Karina Bentivoglio (Argentina / The Netherlands)
piano & #8211; Margreet Markerink (The Netherlands)
guitar & #8211; Elliot Muusses (The Netherlands)
bass & #8211; Joel Locher (Germany)

For me it was an honor and celebration, despite the fact that we all recorded from home, to know that we played in this special line-up!
A sunny moment in this sad Corona time.

 

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Now on show & hear, this cool piece from the Octeto de Buenos Aires: El Entrerriano (Piazzolla)
led by Christiaan van Hemert, again recorded online at home, as part of quarantine sessions & #x1f3b6;& #x1f3a7;& #x1f3b8;& #x1f3bb;& #x1f3ac;& #x1f3b9;
The miracle happened again: it still sounds! And how!

Christiaan van Hemert:

Every week I will try to collaborate with musician friends from all over to record something truly special. Everyone records their part at home and I & #8217; ll make a mix and edit a video from everything I get sent.

This is episode 5: a super hip arrangement of a very old tango standard called & #8220; El Entrerriano & #8221 ;.

There was a time before my jazz career when tango was the most important music in my life. I was obsessed with understanding the style techniques for the different instruments, the harmony and the arranging / orchestration techniques.

One group in particular had me completely captivated: the Octeto de Buenos Aires which was a very avant garde tango group led by Astor Piazzolla in 1955. The idea was to take old tango standards and arrange them in a fusion style which can be seen as a combination of tango, jazz and neoclassicism (Stravinsky, Respighi, etc.).

At that time most tango lovers hated his arrangements because they were simply too modern and not danceable at all! The group didn & #8217; t last long and the story goes that Piazzolla burned all his scores in frustration (not sure that & #8217; s true). Fact is there are no scores so I did what I had to do and I transcribed a bunch of those tunes note for note, which as you probably will hear is really a loooooot of work but totally worth it!

bandoneon 1 & #8211; Santiago Cimadevilla (Argentina / The Netherlands)
bandoneon 2 & #8211; Christiaan van Hemert (The Netherlands)
violin 1 & #8211; Derk Lottman (The Netherlands)
violin 2 & #8211; Andrea Karina Bentivoglio (Argentina / The Netherlands)
guitar & #8211; Christiaan van Hemert
piano & #8211; Margreet Markerink (The Netherlands)
bass & #8211; Joel Locher (Germany)

NB I know someone is gonna say & #8220; & #8230; octeto? isn & #8217; t that 8 people, I see only 7 people in the video & #8230; & #8221; Yes indeed, nice catch! In the original there is also a cello, but if you listen to the original recordings the cello is really not audible anywhere! The times that I might have perceived a note somewhere I just put it in the left hand of one of the bandoneons!

 

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This period of Corona has suddenly changed so much in the daily lives of all of us.
It will turn the world upside down in a few weeks.
For all musicians, this means that all concerts are suddenly canceled for a long period of time. And we musicians love to give concerts and perform together to make the audience and ourselves happy.
The great concerts this month and next in the Netherlands, Paris and Germany will probably all be canceled.
That is why we decided to start quarantine sessions with some musician friends under the leadership of Christiaan van Hemert.
Each of us remains in quarantine at home.

The first video with my participation is this amazing " Soledad ", a beautiful composition by Astor Piazzolla.

  • Christiaan van Hemert, bandoneon, electric guitar & technique
  • Derk Lottman violin
  • Margreet Markerink piano
  • Joel Locher double bass

Enjoy it. More videos will follow.

 

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Did you miss it last time?
Another retake: Friday evening Dec. 20 you can come and listen to the final evening of Keys of Light with several pianists one more time! & #x1f3b5;
From 7 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. I play half an hour of music from my CD “Moving Friends” and the Dom tower will be illuminated again 
And if you want to dance: super fun !!

Keys of light: play the piano and let the Dom shine with enchanting projections

With Keys of Light you can put the Dom in the spotlight in a unique way while playing the piano. Keys of Light is an interactive piano installation designed by Mr. Beam. An interplay between music, light and architecture. Everyone who plays the piano, with every note and every key combination, ensures an enchanting projection on our Dom tower. In short: everyone plays their own show!

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With great interest, Margreet gave a performance on the piano of Keys of Light on Thursday 31 October.
The Domplein was filled with the warm sounds of her self-written songs from especially her album & #8216; Moving Friends & #8217 ;. Her sounds were transformed into a dynamic light projection on the Dom.
Many passers-by remained amazed and enjoyed the spectacle, some couples even got themselves stimulated and spontaneously started to dance the tango.

Utrecht was able to get acquainted with the wonderful music of Margreet in this great way.

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Light project Keys of Light decorates Dom tower for weeks

Large projectors illuminate the Dom Tower and pianists can operate the lights on Dom Square. The project will remain in place until December 21.

There is a piano on Domplein that serves projectors that are aimed at the Dom tower in the scaffolding. Depending on the music being played, different projections appear on the Utrecht icon.
Christiaan Kuyvenhoven, known from the Dutch National Opera, among others, is the first pianist to play on the Domplein in Utrecht.
“From 16 October to 21 December 'Keys of Light' offers all kinds of pianists, from young to old and from amateur to professional, the opportunity to play and thus create their own projections. 'Keys of Light' can in principle be seen and heard every evening, except on Wednesday and Sunday evenings ”, according to the organization.

Keys
The project is an initiative of Stichting Utrechts EigenDom and subsequently created by the Utrecht company Mr. Beam, known among other things for the projection at the Nijntje museum. "An intimate gesture on the piano is grandly visible on the Dom Tower"said Mo Assem, director of Mr. Beam, “Everything influences the projection. High notes and low notes, the combination of notes and also how hard and how fast they play. "

According to the organizers, a work of art such as 'Keys of Light' has never before been shown on this scale in the Netherlands.

 

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This summer I had a very happy stay at the Castelnau in Lagardedes Fieumarcon with the Portuguese family Coustol / Mendonca from Lisboa and their friends: artists, journalists, writers and musicians.

It was very nice spending our time together and an honor to make music with them and perform the first concert ever on the new beautiful stage: a grand piano located on the roof tower.
While playing music we could hear the sound of the "crickets"
Pianist Simon from Australia was one of the other performers.

Beautiful moments I will never forget.

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On 26 September we performed together with Aubrey Snell (sax) in the radio program Opium on Radio 4.
Opium is a radio program full of classical music and steeped in Art & Culture. Presenter Jan Mom receives a main guest and there is live music! Every workday live from VondelCS in the Vondelpark in Amsterdam ..
We played LiberTango, Oblivion, Te Quiero and others.

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we enjoyed it a lot to give a concert and a performance at Paris
It was wonderful to play and stay in the heart of Paris.
(Eglise de Billettes with the Chorus Popayan / and at the tango society Le Temps du Tango

Thanks:
& #8211; Carla van Benschop for all the organization
& #8211; Hernan Alcala / conductor
& #8211; Genevièce Fradelizi hostess
& #8211; Chorus Popayan from Paris
& #8211; collegues Jacqueline Edeling bandoneon and Boris Franz double bass

1 with the demo preparation for a concert «Tango» tout and beauté, avec Margreet Markerink, TrioTangata and la Chorale Popayan. Quel bonheur the partager ces beaux moments. Plénitude & #x1f60a;
Fantastic concert with trio tangata. A lot of preparation but the result was there! Huge satisfaction.
& #8211; Carla van Benschop

 

 

The Popayan choir celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2018. Popayan is a city in Colombia where the founder of the choir was born: NURT ASTRID VILLANI RAMIREZ. The repertoire of the choir consists of traditional and popular songs from Latin America. The singers are a colorful group that share a passion for Latin American music. They like to share this pleasure during concerts, exchanges and parties.