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Joost Lijbaart: Free

by Mark Sullivan
February 4, 2021

When a drummer/percussionist records a solo album—especially one with the title Free—a potential listener's first expectation would likely involve long, abstract drum solos. Nothing could be further from the truth. Dutch musician Joost Lijbaart took the opportunity offered by Covid-19 downtime to craft a suite of short pieces characterized by a rich variety of timbres (including ...

Article: Interview

Joost Lijbaart: Free Conversations With Myself

by Ian Patterson
December 11, 2020

For an artist, making any album is something of a journey—the birthing of ideas, the moulding and sculpting of concepts, the creative trial and error, the emotional highs and lows, and in the end, the satisfaction of a work completed. Dutch drummer/percussionist and composer Joost Lijbaart has travelled that road many times in a thirty-year career, ...

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Under The Surface

Active since: 2015

Three generations of unique Dutch musicians find each other in a common urge to improvise in which aesthetics, poetry and ensemble play have a major role. The listener is taken to an almost dreamlike new reality. Joost Lijbaart – drums / percussion Sanne Rambags – vocals and poetry Bram Stadhouders – guitar and electronics Under the Surface is a Dutch band formed in 2015 by drummer Joost Lijbaart (1967), guitarist Bram Stadhouders (1987) and vocalist Sanne Rambags (1994). The group released their succesfull debut album in 2017 which was nominated for an Edison award and bought the group to major festivals all over the world. In 2019 the group released their second album (Trinity, Challenge records) which was also nominated for an Edison. The last 7 years the group focused on fully improvised concerts and a lot of international touring

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Joost Lijbaart: Under The Surface

by Mark Sullivan
June 13, 2019

Dutch drummer Joost Lijbaart (known for his work with Dutch saxophonist Yuri Honing) first performed with this trio at the request of vocalist Sanne Rambags, along with guitarist Bram Stadhouders (known for his work with the Netherlands chamber choir, American drummer Jim Black and Norwegian vocalist Sidsel Endresen). At the time Rambags was twenty years old, ...

Album

Under The Surface

By Joost Lijbaart

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Silent Conversation; Above; Dream Cave; Adem; Together; Kyrie; After Silence; Under The Surface; Sibylla; Going Native; Before.

Article: Album Review

Joost Lijbaart: Under The Surface

Read "Under The Surface" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
November 29, 2017

Silence frames music--before it sounds and after the final vibration of the last note has died. Often associated with an absence of communication, silence is also revered in certain communal ritual/cultural spaces. Poetic or damning, eerie or calming, silence never leaves us indifferent. Some composers have embraced it to a significant degree as part of the ...