Best wishes for 2023! Let's hope for another wonderful year full of happiness and health. I am very excited to tell you about the new stuff I have been working on these last couple of months.

 

First of all, my debut album "In Our Time" is nearly finished! Based on Ernest Hemingway's debut short-story collection "In Our Time", I wrote a song for each of the short stories from this legendary collection published in 1925. There will be 17 songs total. I had the honour to work with the following amazing musicians: Danny van Tiggele on bass guitar, Jeroen Kleijn on percussion, Theo Sieben on acoustic guitar, electric guitar, lap steel and banjo, Saartje van Camp on singing saw and cello, and string arrangements by Reyer Zwart. The record was produced, recorded, engineered and mixed by Marcel Fakkers. As we speak, the songs are being mastered by Ed Brooks, in Seattle, WA. I am so excited to share this work with you. I feel it has become a unique endeavour, it sounds incredible, and I wrote some of my best lyrics for this record. Also, you are invited to find another work that merges literature and music in one album, I am nearly certain it does not exist yet... Stay tuned for the first single of the album, due in the spring of 2023!

 

It was quiet here, because my family and I were travelling through the United States, from coast to coast in an RV. We visited 20 states and saw so many incredible things: deserts and snow storms, countless gas stations and big cities, America's incredible National Parks and the beautiful Pacific and finally Hawaii. An unforgettable trip. What's more, you will soon find some of my merchandise in Hemingway's Birthplace House, in Oak Park, Illinois.

 

You can currently find me in theaters playing a show called Love Letter to ’83. Strange Brew is touring the theaters together with Leo Blokhuis and Blackbird to bring our hommage to the music of 1983. So expect Bob Dylan and Cyndi Lauper, but also Elvis Costello and Kenny Rogers. Fun stuff! 

Finally, should you have an unrelenting desire to have me play some music in your living room one day, you can now book me on hkconcerten.nl. I won't wreck your living room, I promise.