| Oor review, Volkskrant interview and De Wereld Draait Door |
 Here's the OOR magazine review. Pretty awesome. Thanks Marcel! I also appeared on De Wereld Draait Door last nite. This show is Holland's best viewed tv show. I've been told they draw about 2 million viewers. But Jazz, the band and me remained unnerved. Actually, we had some fun! Lost the voice tho. And; here's the translation of the piece. JBM was part of Shine and Supersub and has been working the past 10 years as muso/producer for countless acts, among which Acda en de Munnik, De Dijk, Ellen Ten Damme, Eboman and Daryll-Ann. A very impressive cv, that raises the question why the 37 year old multi-instrumentalist didn't take some time off before to make a solo record. Especially considering the high quality of songs he's cooked up. Jan-Bart, who's assisted by rennomated musicians like german stardrummer Harry Bum Tschak, Wouter Planteijdt (Sjako!) and Ken Stringfellow (R.E.M., Posies, Big Star), serves a fairly conventional rock-idiom, in which very noticeable and audible a lot of attention has been paid to the sometimes lush, then compact arrangements. Spicy guitarwork is sometimes swapped around for almost symphonic keyboardparts, but the catchy melody and the song is always first. That this doesn't result in high coherence one should consider as secondary importance, because the commercial potency really bursts out. We're enormously curious about the stagework by JB and his exquisite club of musicians. Bang on, dude! |
