SEVEN DAY HUNT is a new band.
Sort of, but not really
SEVEN DAY HUNT is a continuation of EGDON HEATH.
Sort of, but not really
In 1999 Egdon Heath retired. This
band from Friesland, The Netherlands had earned their wings in the world of prog
from 1981 on.
A valued group with four studio albums and
a double-live album of their final gig in their hometown Leeuwarden, Friesland. Eighteen years of passion for progressive music.
Two of the founders, Valere
Wittevrongel (percussion) and Wolf Rappard (keys) thought it was
done. And so the curtain fell.
For there was still a lot to do, the
remaining members continued. Progressive music was a way of life.
As
from January 2000, Jaap Mulder (keys, vocals), Aldo Adema
(guitar), Marcel Copini (bass) and Maurits Kalsbeek (vocals)
worked on new material with the new drummer Erik Koning. He had
played in the Police-coverband Synchronicity, but had
been a Genesis fan all his life. Things did not come easily. The band struggled
to find their way.
Not much later, Karlsbeek quit the
band because he couldn’t combine his work with the band anymore. The four
remaining members continued without a singer for a considerable time. New
horizons were explored. They experimented with new influences and styles. It
was in this period that the band suffered from a lot of tumult in their private
lives. These events were throwing sand into the machine. Spare time became
rare time.
But nevertheless, slow and sure, songs
were created and an own sound had been developed.
In the meantime Aldo Adema developed
more and more as the band’s technician and by his guidance they started the
production of the (future) album. From there on, he and Mulder worked
together on the songs to bring pace to the process. Steadily they focused their
attention on the arrangements, sounds and production.
Then the band came in contact
with Han Uil, singer-songwriter
and former singer/guitarist of Antares.
He turned out to be the right man for the job. With him the band fine tuned the
for the most part finished compositions. Thereupon Uil wrote the lyrics
and nothing stood in the way of the quintet to put the longly desired album
together.
And the name for the band was chosen: SEVEN
DAY HUNT. Because it sounded nice and because it said a lot about the
struggle, those long and lean seven years of the album’s completion.
It is typical for musicians in the world
of prog: don’t give up, but chase your dreams.
