Henk Hofstede (Nits) meets Leonard Cohen in a TV-studio in Brussels in 1988. Henk has been a huge fan for many years and sums up his courage to talk to the man. They have dinner together at the cafeteria of the station. Cohen tells Henk about an upcoming world tour and how he doesn't have a band. And he asks whether the Nits would be willing to go out on tour as his band.... Unfortunately the Nits are on their own extended tour after the success of their album In The Dutch Mountains, a tour which leads through Europe and on to Canada, New York and even Moscow. Henk has to refuse the golden offer. Years later he still wakes up at night as he was dreaming of that world tour they didn't play.
A couple of years later, Henk put on a pilgrimage with movie-director Seppo Pietikainen, his friend from Finnland. They plan to make a short film about their voyage to Hydra,the island where Cohen wrote his first songs. In 2003, Henk meets the Belgian writer Marc Hendrickx on the very same island. Hendrickx is busy writing a book about Cohen. For the Dutch edition of the book, Henk records the CD "Yesterday's Tomorrow" with nine songs of Cohen's and one of his own about the pilgrimage to Hydra. These sober and authentic arrangements are developped with Pim Kops (De Dijk) and Marjolein van der Klauw (Powderblue). Arwen Linnemann, the ex-bass player of the Nits, joins for some of these tracks. Thus the Avalanche Quartet is born. They do some TV and radio-gigs and the CD receives good reviews.
The Avalanche Quartet has done concerts in Holland, Switzerland and France, some with guest-guitarist Oli Hartung, with whom the Quartet has recorded some more songs for the release of the CD on the Swiss Faze Records:
Leonard Cohen Songs
Who by fire , Take this waltz, Bird on a wire, Here it is, Famous blue raincoat, Dance me to the end of love, Seems so long ago Nancy, I'm your man, Avalanche, The guests, Sisters of mercy, Hey that's no way to say goodbye, Nightowl, Lover lover
Hey Avalanche Quartet Come check out the new song Alex Hirsch wrote after reading Einstein's private manuscripts and quoting his memoirs directly. The song is called, The Stormy Seas of Time and features Ken Oak on the Cellos, Bionik on the Drums and Production, and of course, Alex Hirsch on the guitars and singing. And remember, all it takes is 3 little dollars to get any of his full albums at www.keywinsproductions.com.
A fair price for up to 17 songs! Finally, good music that is priced correctly, not another record company rip off!
"DJ Monkey …soul-stirring, excitingly edgy music…just disturbing (read ‘mind-f**king’) enough to demand attention. There is a whole spice rack of auditory flavors here, served up like fractured poetry on a collection of intensely listenable Hallmark cards from Hell." Bill Margold, Cinema Seen, L.A. X..Press
Hey Avalanche Quartet! Come take a ride on a rocket ship with me to the outer reaches of the cosmos. We can take the time to look around and find out all the great and magical things about Einstein and physics and the world we live in. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyjofnE6dM4
Hello from the amazing Currently hot and windy plains just outside Calgary , Alberta(subject to change on the 1/2 hour with out notification) Wonderful music in your space.Many discoveries made at your space, very nice indeed to be m8s.Cheers ! (mO:) moreno
In a act of Kindness endorphin levels are elevated in the Giver, the Receiver and the Observer, how nice is that.
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Inner Peace , Love and Joy.mO
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Happy Landing Pim... this, *this* is what I'm up to...<br /><br />Sneak Preview for Last Call<br /><br />Claire and I have returned from our 3 months EU& UK tour. So, I just posted a note about what's going on with The Bowmans on facebook... and then I started writing a mass email... and then I decided against it... so I'm doing this instead. (begging) Will you visit my profile page to help me spread the word, pretty please??? We have a sneak preview of the new album (Produced by Malcolm Burn, Mastered by Greg Calbi) up for 5 days only… and it can be bought within the next 5 days only! <br /><br />Thanks in advance if you do. :)<br />
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