May 2025
Album by John Helliwell & Egbert Derix quartet
Supertramp saxplayer John Helliwell and I released our live album 'If We'd known' on May first.
The album features some jazz standards, original compositions and a new version of the Supertramp classic 'The Logical Song' in an arrangement of my own.
New PENSIONADO album
Finally the follow up to the 2021 Pensionado album Passive Harvest is here! It is called Laudatio and was released on April 16th. Again I did the synthesizer programming and playing.
Laudatio is a tribute to three great synth pioneers: Klaus Schulze, Jean Michel Jarre and Herbie Hancock. Hence the title 'laudatio'.
Interview soundtrack Ant Keeper
You can read an interview with me talking about making the analogue synth soundtrack for Daan Kmiecik's documentary on the musicophelia website.
Podcast 80Years of Liberty
Together with Marion Vervoort & Geert van den Munckhof , I made a podcast series about Hanna van de Voort.
Hanna was an important person in the Dutch resistance during World War II and saved together with Nico Dohmen over 100 hundred children from deportation by the nazi occupiers. Marion, Geert and I spoke a.o. with family members of Hanna and Nico and with survivors. The podcast is in Dutch and you can listen to it on Spotify.
March 2025
Ant Keeper
I just finished the soundtrack for ´Ant Keeper´ a documentary by Dutch filmmaker Daan Kmiecik.
It is the first soundtrack on which I played my new (and first) Oberheim synthesizer, the OBX8.
The documentary raises important questions about environmental issues and the way we are dealing with our planet. It shows us we can learn a lot from the way ants work together without losing sight of individual autonomy.
Boddicker Laudatio at Kasteeltuinen Arcen
My synth improvisation 'Boddicker Laudatio' from my album 'Being Time' can be heard walking through the Kasteeltuinen in Arcen (Netherlands). The title refers to Michael Boddicker , one of my all time favourite keyboardplayers and synthesists.
Passive Harvest
My synth track 'Passive Harvest' that I made with Pensionado is finally getting some airplay and reaching a broader audience. Some people call it 'deep house'.
I had a lot of fun working with Pensionado and there will be a follow up album this year. You can listen to the album on Spotify.
Gardens of Abundance II
Eric Vloeimans and I released our album 'Gardens of Abundance' part two. In March we played at the Transition Kids Festivals at Tivoli Vredenburg in Utrecht and did a couple of other concerts. On May 29 th we will play in Valkenburg (Netherlands) in the Openluchttheater.