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Ljerke

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CD+DVD and download available here:
eileanrec.bandcamp.com/album/ljerke
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Note : DVD : only available for the physicals copies, it's not included in the digital purchase.
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Date : 08.01.18
Map Point : eilean 36
Color : white/grey
Season : winter
Duration : 44.12 mn
Edition (x 1 Disc + x 1 Dvd) : limited to 225 copies
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Ljerke is a multidisciplinary live project which took form in the Frisian landscape as as source of inspiration. The project includes some music artists from Netherlands (Romke Kleefstra, Jan Kleefstra, Sytze Pruiksma) and Norway (Alexander Rishaug, Hilde Marie Holsen, Michael Duch) completed with the video artists Marco Douma (NL) and Haraldur Karlsson from Iceland. A new project of live impro music, poetry and film, in the same context of former projects as Seeljocht (Piiptsjilling) and Skeylja (The Alvaret Ensemble).
It’s their first album studio.

www.romkekleefstra.blogspot.fr/search/label/ljerke
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VIDEO : www.vimeo.com/249173523
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Ljerke is a live project that uses the Frisian landscape for inspiration. With artists from the Netherlands (Romke Kleefstra, Jan Kleefstra, Sytze Pruiksma and video artist Marco Douma) and Norway (Alexander Rishaug, Hilde Marie Holsen and Michael Duch), as well as Icelandic video artist Haraldur Karlsson, the international collaboration is a behemoth when it comes to numbers, but musically, the result is a constricted sound full of cold design and blackened sunshine.

The project has been daubed with poetry, spoken word and film, and in the live and improvised music, slightly ominous textures and frigid electronics gather for midnight communion. Some tracks, like ‘Waarbekkasin’, move from dissonance to light. The darkened air slowly clears, moving from a swirling, smoky aftermath to something brighter.

The music itself is an eerie whisper, gracing the tips of protruding cliffs and passing over the final stretch of the North Sea; dislocated, skittering sounds, lightly salted by an even lighter, abrasive kind of grit, pass from one side to the other, becoming stronger with every passing second.

It’s an off-road, shadow-fuelled experience, but it’s never too dissonant or jarring. There’s a harmonious side to the music as a bleak light occasionally glints through it; in tune with an out-of-tune environment. Its stark, experimental flavour makes for honest music.

A rough texture pervades the album and grates against the skin, like the chilled bark of a tree’s manifesting skeleton. This far north, bones are quick to freeze, thanks in part to the whipped assault of a raw sea wind. This is an authentic album with plenty of body as well as a pretty decent punch. Actually, the heaving, lengthy and rumbling drones are reminiscent of the decibel-shredding Sunn O))), replacing an overdosed distortion spikier than Sonic the Hedgehog with a titanic, thick and dark cello that somehow matches the overdrive for sheer intensity and even beats it when it comes to natural flow. Ljerke provide music for the shadows.

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released January 8, 2018

Ljerke is :

Romke Kleefstra – guitar, effects
Sytze Pruiksma – percussion, dulcimer and guitar with effects
Alexander Rishaug – electronics
Hilde Marie Holsen – trumpet and effects
Michael Francis Duch - contrabass
Jan Kleefstra – poetry, voice
Marco Douma – video
Haraldur Karlsson – video

Recorded by Jan Switters at the Landscape studio te Gauw 7/8 november 2016

Mixed and edited by Rutger Zuydervelt
Mastered by Lasse Marhaug
Artwork by Marco Douma
Inside Photography by Mathias Van Eecloo
Design by Rémi Verdier

English translations poems copyright Willem Groenewegen

"Thanks to: Paul Giesen and the Popfabryk in Leeuwarden, Theater De Lawei in Drachten, Royal Norwegian Embassy in The Hague, Norsk Jazzforum, Jan Switters"

Eilean Records 36, 2018

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Kleefstra Bros Netherlands

The Kleefstra Bros are poet Jan Kleefstra and guitarist Romke Kleefstra, both members of Piiptsjilling, The Alvaret Ensemble, CMKK, Tsjinlûd, Kleefstra|Bakker|Kleefstra and several collaborations.

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