Jazz Articles about Rik Cornelissen

About Rik Cornelissen

Album Review

Rik Cornelissen: Sounds of Interstellar Space

Read "Sounds of Interstellar Space" reviewed by Peter J. Hoetjes

by Peter J. Hoetjes
June 21, 2021

Less than five hundred people reside in Aartswoud, a tiny village situated in the northern half of The Netherlands, some sixty kilometers from the city of Amsterdam. Its horizon, interrupted only by scattered far-off buildings, occasional wiry trees, and the sleek, aluminum windmills replacing the wooden variety romanticized by the country's seventeenth century painters, hovers improbably over miles of flat, irrigated farmland. The narrow vein of Schoolstrat provides what little commercial development the town has to offer, and is home ...

Album Review

TRIFID: Dreamscape

Read "Dreamscape" reviewed by Peter J. Hoetjes

by Peter J. Hoetjes
February 27, 2019

A muse may come in the form of faith, love, or a woman with little or plenty of both, but it can hardly be argued that an artist of any discipline requires one. In their debut recording, Dutch/Polish trio named TRIFID have taken to the stars for theirs. Sticking firmly with an astrological theme, they take their name from a nebula visible in the Milky Way. Comprising the group are accordionist Rik Cornellison, vibraphonist Vincent Houdijk, and bassist Maciej Domaradszki. ...