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Recording vocals for RWT

Ferdi — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:55:39 +0000

Last week I had a session for the Rotterdam Community-Based Theatre. The cast of their new show ‘Luna en de nieuwe stad’ came over to my studio to record some vocals for a CD which is going to be handed out in schools thoughout the region. Below are some pictures.

Art’n'Go @ Sziget Festival

Ferdi — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:38:10 +0000

Last month, I spent a week in Budapest, Hungary, rehearsing for, and performing at the Sziget festival with the Roots & Routes International project Art’n’Go.

The performance took place on the A38-Wan2 stage, one of the festival’s main stages (10.000p capacity), on Sziget’s Zero-Day, right after Prince. It featured scenes from all six Art’n’Go live productions: About Traffic, Braincheck, Coloured Life, My World, Reality in Disguise and Traces.

These shows were created by a group of fifty musicians, vocalists, dancers and visual artists over the course of the last two years. The individual concepts and productions all center around ‘consciousness’ and were put together and performed during several creative residencies in a.o. Remsheid / Cologne, London, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Lille and Barcelona.

Full versions of all shows were first presented at the Fabbrica Europa Festival in Florence in May 2011.

The performance at Sziget was the first integral presentation of all productions in a single performance based around consciousness.

The media team is still working very hard on finishing up the audiovisual recordings and press material, but I’ve added some pictures and video footage on here to give you a general impression. Naturally, as soon as the ‘proper’ material is finished you will be able to find that on here as well.

All pictures copyright by Saira Awan of SAI Photography. (Check her out. She’s awesome)

Recording for Nanda

Ferdi — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 01:03:42 +0000

I’ve recently started recording some tracks for a Dutch singer I play bass for, named Nanda Akkerman. She has an album out called ‘Horizon’, which you can buy here or on iTunes. This particular track is a soul version of a song previously released by a Dutch ska/pop group called Doe Maar somewhere along the 1980s.

Attached is a sneak peak video featuring the amazing Wesley Nuis while he lays down some smooth guitar tones in my studio.

Welcome to my new and improved website!

Ferdi — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:57:43 +0000

After a long time of traveling, working in the studio, performing and friends insisting i’d finally change my homepage, here it is. A new website! As soon as I get readjusted to this new social media inflicted system, I’ll try to keep you posted on all my new adventures. And since so much has been happening lately, I might highlight some of the experiences of the last couple of months as well.

For now I’ll leave you with this wonderful quote by Richard Bach:

Don’t be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

Goodbye