- searing quartet & iain matthews:
komende zondag 22 februari te zien en te horen in het tv-programma "Vrije Geluiden".
Ned 1 VPRO om 10.30u.
Hierin aandacht voor de nieuwe cd "Joy Mining".
- new recordings with the Mike Roelofs 4-tet:
Mike Roelofs - hammond
Peter Hermesdorf - tenorsax
Geert Roelofs - drums
Werner Lausher - bas
listen to: Brothers,But Different Mothers
listen to Jamtune
Iain Matthews & Searing Quartet 'Joy Mining'
Singer-songwriter Iain Matthews en Egbert hebben samen aan songs voor een nieuw album gewerkt dat gaat uitkomen onder de naam
'Iain Matthews & Searing Quartet'.
Er staan al een aantal cd presentatie concerten gepland welke te vinden zijn bij 'live'.
'2008 became a most special year for Iain in a very unexpected way. Another chapter of his writer series, Common Grounds took place
in January, at The Beauforthuis, in Austerlitz. Iain's guests were his old comrade Ad Vanderveen and a jazz combo,
The Searing Quartet. As usual, it was policy for him to perform songs with each of his guests, but what transpired that night
was beyond anyone's expectations, setting a new musical tone for the rest of his already glittering career. Iain and Egbert Derix,
the leader and key composer for The Searing quartet, decided to try out jazz versions of two of his older compositions,
Christoforo's eyes and Call the tune. The resulting twenty minutes were both magical and hair raising.
Something inexplicable and epocalyptical happened on stage, for performer and audience and singing as he's known it,
will never again be the same.
Fast forward nine months and a revolutionary new album, Joy Mining by Iain Matthews & Searing Quartet,
to be released this November. 'The best work I have ever done, without a doubt' says Iain. 'It took me fourty years to find
this place and now I'm here, I wonder where the hell I've been looking all those years'.
The quintet plan to dedicate the foreseeable future to playing live together and 'just see where it takes us'. |
All in all, I think it's safe to say that Iain Matthews, guitar at the ready, passion in tact and eyes fixed steady on the horizon,
is moving forward, still at the top of his game.'