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Quiet by Ineke Vandoorn

From the album

Album Title: Dancing on Water
Baixim records
Released: 2024
Duration: 00:40:15

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About the Album

Quiet by Paul Simon is the opening track of Dancing on Water, a new album by Ineke Vandoorn (voc) and pianist Jasper van ’t Hof (pi/synth). Quiet gets a fully improvised new interpretation in which the song is broken down to the ground and then rebuilt. Reviewers call the performance ‘overwhelming’ and ‘at least as impressive as the original’. The adventurer among jazz singers’ (De Volkskrant). Dutch Grammy winner Ineke Vandoorn still lives up to this description. This time in an exciting duo with pianist and multiple award-winner Jasper van ‘t Hof. Both are known for their longstanding careers wherein they each developed their own inimitable styles. An unlikely but unique duo that offers a new perspective on the traditional ‘singer and pianist’ combination. Together they surprise us with a delicate dance of an expressive voice, with seemingly unlimited potential and warmth, and ten virtuosic, sometimes ferocious, fingers. They deliver an original and varied repertoire that combines intricately intertwined melodies with an Indian raga, a Paul Simon song, and dazzling improvisations. Musical conversations that evoke artists as disparate as Betty Carter, Joni Mitchell, Norma Winstone and Flora Purim.

Tracks

1. Quiet 05:40 2. Quiet American 06:07 3. Marsch Fur Oelze 06:17 4. The Way She Looks 05:28 5. Dance on the Water 05:57 6. Yagapriya 10:43

Personnel

Ineke Vandoorn

vocals

Jasper Van't Hof

piano

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