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2012/2012
Talking Cows & Yuri Honing Wired Paradise
are very excellent dutch bands with their own styles and musical identities.
Pleas listen to Yuri & Wired Paradise “White Tiger”-CD & the new CD from Talking Cows “Almost Human”?
Yuri Honing Wired Paradise had some fantastic concerts in Germany, Korea, Macedonia, Norway & Slovenia
with an enthusiatic audience, whereas Talking Cows played in several well-knowned
Festivals & Venues in Austria, Germany and Portugal with success.
Please have a first look at the informations and please download the current CDs
and give me a feedback.
We are looking for cooperations in the future.
Yuri Honing Wired Paradise (NL/D)
www.yurihoning.com
www.myspace.com/yurihoning
Download CD-Release 2010
Yuri Honing Wired Paradise
White Tiger
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6220797/White%20Tiger.7z
Yuri Honing Wired Paradise (NL)
White Tiger (Jazz in Motion 2010)
Review from All about jazz .com ( the most visited website on jazz in the world)
about Yuri Honing Wired Paradise 'White Tiger' by Ian Patterson
‘Honing’s tenor has something of the pure tone of Jan Gabarek and the lovely vocal quality of a balladeer”
“A gorgeous rendition of Bjork’s Isobel and David Bowie’s Space Oddity , follow the respective vocal
melodies closely before Honing peels away, following his muse with muscular, searching solo’swhich
are all the more powerful, given the almost minimalist setting from wich they emerge.”
‘White Tiger is a beautiful, compelling recording”
2011
by arrangement
Yuri Honing Wired Paradise (NL/D)
“White Tiger”
Yuri Honing...Saxophones//Frank Möbus...E-Guitar//Stefan van Es...E-Guitar//Mark Haanstra...E-Bass//Joost Lijbaart...drums
Groove, groove, groove is his musical imperative – that’s what Yuri Honing tells me. On the occasion of the festival The Hague Jazz,
we are sitting, relaxed, in the cantina of the World Forum in the Hague, eating asparagus and other delicacies. Wired Paradise had
just finished its power performance and their impressive wall of sound still resonated inside me. At the center of the group stands
Yuri Honing’s full and yet transparent saxophone beam. He is escorted by the two very different guitarists, Frank Möbus and Paul
Jan Bakker, who throw each other musically explosive balls in a question and answer game without finding an upper limit of the
Richter scale. Here, the codes of pop/rock/funk meet up with the idioms of jazz, in both an intuitive and balanced manner. Supporting
it all, a dream duo of the Dutch rhythm scene conveys the foundation of a timeless understanding of jazz: Tony Overwater on the
electronic bass and Joost Lijbaart on the drums. Wired Paradise throws out beats more oriented around the popular four-four rather
than swing-like ternary sparks. The concept takes hold every second of the evening. Yuri Honing crosses limits, he is one who has
uncovered the limitlessness of jazz in his dealings with other styles and ethnic musical cultures. So, to create his own sound, he
makes use of all musical genres. David Bowie’s “Major Tom” (live in concert) and Schubert’s “Winterreise” (on the CD) take their
place next to his own compositions without causing any trouble. In his youth, jazz was the counter-concept to his everyday musical
life – he talks about his classically directed, musically professional family, who suggested he pursue a career as a classical concert
pianist. In an act of liberation, he dissociated himself from the piano and chose an instrument and a music that appeared the furthest
from classical music: the saxophone and jazz. For Yuri Honing, jazz is a feeling and lifestyle rolled up into one. The external forms
of groove, harmony and melody always face the inner ‘form’ of a linear atmosphere – gladly using electronic tonal colors. With
Wired Paradise, we have to deal with groovy idylls. One feels his overwhelming desire to experiment in the triangle of pop, jazz and
classic without any kind of finger pointing. High culture is really only a question of perspective for Yuri Honing.
Thanks to his congenial musicians in Wired Paradise, Yuri Honing is able to create modern parallel worlds in which musical
interaction generates its own life of all the elements through candor and suspense.
Honing sounds like a tropical waterfall! What a great band! - Volkskrant
****4 star review. King Honing’s sweet revenge - Leids Dagblad
****4 star review. It cuts right through your soul - Koen Schouten
Honing sounds more dangerous then numerous rock bands - ED.nl
*****5 star review. Rock-steady compositions - Jazzism
Highlights
Jazzfestival Dublin/IR
Jazzfestival Skopje/MZ
Jazzfestival Jarasum/KR
Jazzfestival Maribor/SI
Jazz geht baden Baden/CH
North Sea Jazz Festival Rotterdam/NL,
all Major Festivals in the Netherlands
and
Int. Tours
2009 India, Nepal, Curacao, Bonaire, Suriname, Lithuania
2008 Tour Portugal, Tour Aruba Curacao and Bonaire
April ’08 Germany
Edison Jazz Award 2001 for Seven
featuring Paul Bley, Gary Peacock and Paul Motion.....
Diskografie
White Tiger new Release 2010
Meet Your Demons JAZZ IN MOTION 2008
Temptation JAZZ IN MOTION 2006
further CDs
PHASE FIVE YURI JONING & FLORIS VERVE 2009
WINTERREISE JAZZ IN MOTION 2007
SYMPHONIC JAZZ IN MOTION 2005
uvm.
Talking Cows
www.talkingcows.nl
Download
Talking Cows CD-Release 2012
Almost Human
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13758258/Almost%20Human.7z
Video
Talking Cows on the web from Dutch program 'Vrije Geluiden'.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6220797/Talking%20Cows%20play%20The%20Virus.flv.7z
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6220797/Talking%20Cows%20play%20Cows%20Samba.flv.7z
2011
by arrangement
Talking Cows (NL) Almost Human (Jazzsick Records)
Frans Vermeerssen ... tenor Saxophone // Robert Jan Vermeulen ... piano // Dion Nijland ... contrabass // Yonga Sun ... drums
Moo, or better, wow! Someone’s out letting the cows fly again. The Talking Cows from the Netherlands are furnishing us with their
Bop and Pop stories from their jazz biotope for the third time. According to the cover of their third CD, Almost Human (Jazzsick Records),
the curlers are glowing red hot in a retro look in the Talking Cows’ hair salon. Their humorous way of dealing with tradition is nothing
but the best and remains the trademark of this band. But be careful, on this record it’s not about coiffeur lovers’ small talk from the 60’s,
but about beastly good improvisational art of the present. In this music, nothing is mucked out, but neither is anything ruminated.
Consisting of Dion Nijland on bass and Yonga Sun on drums, the rhythm group operates excellently grounded. In the tension-filled tracks,
the space between the smoky, sinuous tenor of Frans Vermeerssen and the cool, lascivious piano of Robert Jan Vermeulen condenses
into explosive bio mass. Between grooves inspired by gospel, soul and funk with heavy piano chording and bop inserts staged with
tongue clicking accents from the saxophone, the quartet moves, breaking down every musical-ideological fence as they circle the earth.
In addition, of course, soft, cosmopolitan ballads can also be found, which appear to be inspired more from a New York lounge bar
than a cow stall.
So, just don’t take it all too damn seriously, or perhaps do? Ask the youth at the next mp3 milking parlor. You know where!
Highlights
Jazzfestival Loule/PT
Jazzfestival Bonn/D
Jazzfestival Greiz/D
Jazzfestival Kassel/D
North Sea Jazz Festival Rotterdam/NL
International Conservatoire Week Festival Petersburg/RU
Jazz Festival Middelheim/B
Jazz Festival La Paz /BO
Jazz Ahead Bremen/D
concerts in all Major-Jazzclubs in the Netherlands
Discography
Dairy Tales Morvin Records 2008
Bovinity Morvin Records 2006
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