Stormvogel (piano) / Stormvogels Alter Ego: Onno Witte (drums) Thomas W. Andersen (bas) Thijs van Otterloo (sax) Tineke Postma (sax) add. Arjen de Graaf (violin) Jeroen Pek (flutes) & Vraja Sundari (dance) / Stormvogel Trio: Rico de Jeer, Guus Bakker, Marco van Os, Johnny Tevreden, David de Marez Oyens, Thomas W. Andersen enz (bas), Gunnar Graafmans, Joost Kesselaar, Onno Witte, Joost Kroon, Remco van Schaik, Jasper van der Wilden, Jasper van Hulten enz (drums) / Ladybirds: Anne Chris, Eline Gemerts, Saskia Groenenberg, Tamara Maria, Gaby Kaihatu, SaraLee Vos (vocals) / guests: Peter Lieberom, Benjamin Herman, Miguel Martinez, Mike Hendriks (sax), Eef Albers, Marcel Dorenbosch (guitar), Loet van der Lee (trumpet) and so on
Influences
Zeuhl, Progressive, Jazzrock, Jazz, Bebop, Freejazz, Concrete, Electronic, Ambient, Minimal, Symphonic, Classical, Barok, Middle-Evil, Gregorian, Folklore, Balkan, Jig, Raga, Qawali, Pansori, Funk, Ska, Rock, Blitz en Nederlandse Volksmuziek. To name a few... Magma (Christian Vander, Stella Vander, Jannick Top, Klaus Blasquiz, Didier Lockwood, Benoît Widemann, Bernard Paganotti and the new line up, and so on), John Coltrane, Richard Wagner, Miles Davis, Mahavishnu, Hammer, King Crimson, Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, Thelonious Monk, Sly & Robbie, George Duke, Maria Callas' Wagnerian chant, Billy Cobham, Stu Goldberg, Shakti, Narada, Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn, Fela Kuti, Oestvolskaja, Hildegard von Bingen, early Genesis, Pink Floyd (Wish you were here), Emerson Lake & Palmer, Alan Holdsworth (Against The Clock: Naomi Star), AC/DC & Bon Scott, Carl Orff, Anton Brückner, Richard Strauss, Nelly, KC & The Sunshine Band, Aphex Twins, Square Pusher, Anita Baker, Nat King Cole, Frank Zappa (+ band!), Jack DeJohnette, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Michael Brecker, Klaus Schulz, Terry Riley, John Abercrombie ("Nights" & "Timeless"), Caldera, Mary J. Blige, Oregon, Medusa, Ten Years After, Brand X, Mark King, King Crimson, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Richter's Bach-cantate "Ich habe genug"...), Lenny Tristano, Bud Powell, Art Tatum, Erroll Garner, Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, Herbie Hancock, Pergolesi, Chick Corea & Return to Forever, Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry, Igor Strawinsky, Edgar Varese, Astor Piazolla, Elis Regina, Django Reinhardt, Willam Dufay, J.S.Bach, Glenn Gould, Monteverdi, Guiseppe Verdi: La Traviata (Anna Netrebko!!!), Ruggiero Leoncavallo: Il Pagliacci, Friedrich Gulda, Bee Gees, Charly Mariano, The Police, Gentle Giant, AKA Moon, Gong, Raymond Scott & Bob Moog, (read http://www.raymondscott.com/moog.html !!!), The Sparks, Harrie Bannink, Thelonious Monk, Arnold Schönberg, Messiaen, Pink Floyd (Wish you were here), David Sancious' True Stories, Offering, Alan Stivell, Dan Ar Bras, Brad Mehldau, Billy Joel, Tears for Fears, Talk Talk, Prefab Sprout, Danielle de Niese, Neil Diamond, Ramses Shaffy, Gary Burton, Gary Husband (also piano!), Klaus Schulze, Billie Holliday, Chet Baker, Bulgarian Voices, Bruford (+ Jeff Berlin, Stewart & Annette Peacock), Jules de Corte, Donna Summer, Yazoo, Reinbert de Leeuw, Rob de Nijs, Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, Bobo Stenson & Anders Yormin, Jan Garbarek also with: Agnes Buen Vargas, Eberhard Weber, Hilliard Ensemble, Zakir Hussain, Hariprasad, Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, ABBA (Agneetha), Steps Ahead, Joe Zawinul, Weather Report, Wayne Shorter (Tom Brechtlein, Gary Willis & Mitchel Forman), Focus, Carl Orff, Carlos Santana (early works), Meat Loaf, Alberto Iglesias: Banda Sonora Originals de "Hable con ella", Kate Bush, Buxtehude, Rameaux, Frank Sinatra (also with Carole King), Otis Redding, Blue Nile, Katchaturian, Sibelius, Arvo Parth, Prokofjev, Shostakovitch, Eric Satie, Penderecki, Moussorgsky, Beethoven, Thomas Dolby, Henry Purcell, Lucia Micarelli, Gary Husband, Earth Wind & Fire (Maurice White), Paco de Lucia & Carlos Benavente, Steve Reich, John Adams, Kiss, Meat Loaf, Gino Vannelli, Karl-Heinz Stockhausen, Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice (JC Superstar the Film soundtrack: Andre Previn, Carl Anderson, Ted Neely), the soundtrack of The Wickerman (1973), Commodores, Doobie Brothers, Cecilia le Poer Power, Ravi Shankar, Mari Boine Persen, Steely Dan, Johnny Guitar Watson († rip), Bob Marley, Madness, the Specials, Björk, Defunkt, George Clinton, Fenton Robinson and Hound Dog Taylor, the tunes of The Persuaders and I Claudius... Everything that is good, inspired music, except Richard Bona (666), Mike Oldfield (because he stole everything from Magma!) In the Netherlands I pay tribute to my pianoteachers Peter Besseling, Carwin Gijsing and Karel Boehlee, ead of course all the musicians I played with, or would like to play with in the future. And of course I admire dark, shiny and brilliant pianodiva's like Klara Würtz (Brahms!), Ferial Karamat Ali, Rebeca Konc en Claudine Carmen Roma, and of course the electric mother of all talents Martha Algerich !!! Last but not least I like this young Kobaian singer called Jade, (that looks a lot like Stormvogel at the age of four), singing along with Magma.
And here are my most influential heroes themselves:
Magma in an obscure movie called 'Moi y en a vouloir des sous!' (English: 'Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful' Italian: 'Questo nostro simpatico mondo di pazzi') Tourné en 1972 par Jean Yanne, avait une spécificité qui intéresse tous les "kobaïens" et "kobaïennes": une scène d'environ deux minutes, dans une cathédrale futuriste et l'intervention musicale de "cinq barbus, aux défroques bizarres, qui interprètent un Kirie Déchirant".
Magma in 1973, when young master Storm (age 5) got his first Kobaian daydreams and hullicinations. In his believe it was this obscure Magma recital, Stormvogel saw on Dutch television.
Magma in 1976 playing DE FUTURA (composed by Jannick Top), with Christian vander, Klaus Blasquiz and Stella Vander. (For whom it concerns, the second drummer is Derek Bailey)
The following video is taken from French television in january 2005. It shows Magma performing a part from K.A. with Christian Vander, Stella Vander and Isabelle Feuillebois, and the young and beautiful Himiko Paganotti (Okita Sgëhmka) and Antoine Paganotti (Wöss Këmkah). Of course Philippe Bussonnet (Gëhnohr Dügohnn, bass), James MacGaw (Staiïss Ësslëhnt, guitar) and Emmanuel Borghi (Iüsz dëh Dzeuhr Ëmëhnëtt) form the backline. In fact no Magma line up has been longer together.
Here Magma is again, playing Mekanik Kommandoh during the big gathering in Le Triton (Paris, 2006). With a.o. Christian Vander, Stella Vander, Jannick Top, Klaus Blasquiz...
Beware: These video's aren't mine. I just found them on YouTube and placed an embedded hyperlink on my profile. Pay tribute to Magma and visit the official site www.seventhrecords.com ...or even better: visit a live concert!!!
Dutch pianist Stormvogel plays jazz in several styles, - from mainstream to avantgarde, from swing, bebop and cool, to freejazz, jazzrock and electronic. As a leader he performs with his trio in different line ups, inviting special guests from the topscene of Dutch Jazz, like Benjamin Herman, Loet van der Lee, Eef Albers, Leo Janssen, Tineke Postma, Ben van den Dungen and Hans Dulfer. He is also a member of Ottomania Jazz Quartet (with tenorist Semmy Prinsen), SaraLee Vos Combo, Liberales (with tenorist Peter Lieberom), and combo's with Dutch jazzmusketeers Alexander Beets and Lodewijk Bouwens. Next to this, Stormvogel also plays jazz- and progressive, with groups led by Jeroen Pek (Pitch White Storm), Onno Witte (Wildcard) and Lucas Van Merwijk (Music Machine), using fender rhodes and analoge synthesizers. Combining elements from several other styles, he composes his own JazzBarock, which he performs with Stormvogels Alter Ego Jazzbarock Consort.
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As a writer Stormvogel began as a novellist during his schooldays with the distribution of handmade, illustrated manuscripts. Making his own works the subject of his literary exames, brought the young writer in the news. Through appearances in media and on national television, the young Dutchman was soon recognized by the influential author/publisher K.L.Poll († R.I.P.), who let him publish a fragment of his first book in 'Hollands Maandblad', a magazine on the subject of literature and art. During his study jazzpiano at the Conservatory of Hilversum/Amsterdam, (with pianist Karel Boehlee), Stormvogel already published his first novelle ’Bloed, Wild Vlees & Verboden Vrucht’ at Rothschild & Bach, Uitgevers te Amsterdam (1990), a new, self-willed and artistic publishing-firm, led by famous Dutch avantgarde theatredirector Jan Ritsema. Immediately Stormvogel's debutroman was chosen as book of the month and debut of the year, and the writer himself as "the crown-prince of the Dutch bookguild" by the wellknown bookcritic Jaap Goedegebuuren in prominent Dutch magazines 'HP/De Tijd' and 'Mekka'.
One year after, the novelle was followed by a roman with the title 'Naar de Alhaat' (1991), an occult-folklorological work containing 666 pages, which for yet unreveiled reasons was restrained from publishing on the road to the Central Bookhouse. _ _ _ Since that time Stormvogel has been busy as a student (theosophy, theology, history, art), publicist, editor, journalist, composer, pianist, synthersizerist, hurdygurdy-man, theatre-director, artist, painter, designer, teacher, cultural consultant, story-teller, castle-host, sworddancer, selfmade choreographer and director of multidisciplinairy dance-, art- & theatreconcerts. On occasion he suprises his audience with a kind of bizar trancepoetry, no-one has ever heard before. In 1997 Stormvogel brought on stage the midsummer open air mysteryplay "Eemsaga", about the middle-evil history and legends of the region Eemland, the central part of the lowlands where Stormvogel was born. In this project Stormvogel combined old and new music with folklore and history, art, poetry and dance, apparently under the influence of occult philosophy, masonic St John rithes and indo-germanic paganism. On his side were Dutch artist like Klaas Kloosterhuis (a singing blacksmith) and Leanne Lawalata (sjamanic arts), as well as Oscar Prinsen (conceptual arts) and Stormvogel's gang the 'Zoyster Kluft'. Leading part was payed by the German Tanzgruppe 'Faut Pas', with Dagmar Holsträter & Sri Mintarti Anouk Soutardjo. Based in Bochum/Essen, this group did several shows in the Netherlands and Germany with Stormvogel, composing synphonic suites inspired by choreography of Dagmar Holsträter. Over the years Stormvogel gained more and more knowledge on the field of analoge synthesizers, performing as an artist in jazzrock ensembles on the one hand, as a lector on the subject of electronic music as well.
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His ideas about electronic and analog devices, along with his taste for barok, minimal music, sufi, celtic and progressive rock, inspired him to compose his own kind of music, which he called "jazzbarock". Jazz for the amount of improvisation, barock mainly for the
ostinate basslines and rock as a warning, there are heavy drums involved. The music also has strong influences from progressive rock, metal, freejazz, beebop, avantgarde, minimal music, musique concrete, sufi, raga, pansori, schlager and dutch folklore. Although hard to classify, -jazzbarock will be loved most by the jazzwinged fans of Zeuhl- one can say it is not a kind of music you'll play on your first date, or on a birthdayparty involving your grandparents; It has to be played and listened to with full concentration, open mind and energetic power, by people prepared to leave the realms of reality and lower self.
For this compositions (gathered in a suite called "Drakenburger Concerto's") Stormvogel was round about 2000 recognized with the MTN Carte Blanche Utrecht, nominated for the first 'Jur Naessens Muziek Prijs' (Amsterdam) and artist in resicence in the 'Stranger than Paranoia Festival' (Tilburg). For a while, even the famous Dutch jazzconductor Henk Meutgeert was eager to enrich the repertoire of his Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw with some of the Drakenburger movements.
Between 1998 and 2002 the works were played by Stormvogel himself, with his 'Alter Ego JazzBarock Consort', a bounce of fine musicians with different background like barok, jazz and (celtic)rock, Remi Balvers, Karsten van Straten, Daphne Balvers, Marco van Os, Wieke Garcia, Thijs van Otterloo, Semmy Prinsen, Remko Smit Stalenhoef, Arjen de Graaff, Job Helmers and later on Onno Witte, Rob van den Broeck, Berna Kousemaker and Chander Sardjoe.
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Since 2003 Stormvogel took up the piano again, playing in his auto-didactive characteristic, adventurous and rousing - almost possessed kind of way. As a leader he plays on several locations in Gooi & Eemland, with the topcream of solists from the Dutch jazzsecene like Eef Albers, Leo Janssen, Lucas van Merwijk, Loet van der Lee, Benjamin Herman, Tineke Postma, Ben van den Dungen, Jeroen Pek, and lots of others. Besides these starplayers, the self-willed artist frequently askes old pioniers of Dutch jazz like Tony Vos, Chris Dekker and Carl Schulze to step in. Apart from playing jazz he is active in groups with Jeroen Pek (Pitch White Storm), Onno Witte (Wildcard), Semmy Prinsen (Ottomania) en Lucas van Merwijk (Music Machine), and on the field of workshops, editorship and organisation. In the year 2006 he initiated the first 'Festival de Muzen' in Theatre de Speeldoos Baarn, presenting on stage a few of the finest Dutch artists on the field of Jazz, Poetry & Art. Shortly after this he was made Artist in Residence 2007 by an organisation Vijfde Verdieping (Utrecht, SJU), resulting in the comeback of Alter Ego to do crossover concerts, with dance, poetry, art and VJ art. For these concerts, called 'Synergy', Stormvogel put together a new Alter Ego, met Thomas W. Andersen (bas), Onno Witte (slagwerk), Tineke Postma (sax) and Thijs van Otterloo (sax), on occasion Jeroen Pek (flutes) and Arjen de Graaff (violin), Vraja Sundari Keilman & Samadhi DC (dans), Mijpe (schilderijen) and Zanne (VJ-art).
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de itch zit'm ergens waar je 'm wel voelt maar je weet niet precies waar je moet krabben...
...na het beluisteren van je eerste track had ik dat (overigens nooit vervelend; het zet in beweging als het ware)
Friends of Stormvogel,
Please visit me on my English music account www.myspace.com/stormalterego for picts, music, tourdates and information (English).
Friends of Stormvogel,
Please visit me on my English music account www.myspace.com/stormalterego for picts, music, tourdates and information (English).
Hoi Storm, dankje voor je felicitaties, 't was erg gezellig hier zondag, wel jammer dat je er niet was hoor! Maar we zien elkaar gauw en drinken een biertje, ok?
