Description
Under the Surface is a new Dutch band formed by drummer Joost Lijbaart, guitarist Bram Stadhouders and vocalist Sanne Rambags. All the music on their new album "Trinirty" was recorded live in 2018 and are free improvisiations.
Drummer Joost Lijbaart on Trinity: "After two years of playing and traveling together, we all felt the urge to capture our music on a live album. For me, playing live concerts with the trio resembles a growing tree. The music evolves naturally from silent and hidden to strong and fertile, from heavenly to earthy, from life to death to life. Our concerts are still fully improvised and become ever more an immersive experience for the audience and ourselves – an experience which takes us out of our own comfort zone to a hidden world of tenderness, anger, security, abandonment, joy, grief, peace and all the other emotions every human being will experience during his or her life."
Drummer Joost Lijbaart (b. Amsterdam, 1967) belongs to the top of the Dutch jazz scene, Bram Stadhouders (b. Tilburg, 1987) is one of the most promising new young musicians in the European improvisation circuit and he received many awards and Sanne Rambags (b. Tilburg, 1994) is one of the few singers of her generation who is able to improvise in a very open way, sometimes with self-written texts and poems, sometimes by positioning herself completely between the musicians. This gives her voice an instrumental function which is beautifully in line with the open group sound and the playing of Lijbaart and Stadhouders. Under the Surface is a unique trio of three musicians from different generations who have found each other in a common urge to search for space and silence through improvisation.