Artist : Laura Arkana Met Peter Broderick
Album : Lentemuziek
Year : 2011
Genre : Folk
Quality : 205kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : CD
Playtime : 0h 28m
Size : 44.88mb
Label : Hush Records
Catalognr : HSH103
Tracklist:
01. Huilen 3:59
02. Luchtballon 2:50
03. Souvenir 3:17
04. Prelude I 3:02
05. Het Vuilnis 5:59
06. De Mooiste Tijd Van Het Jaar 4:57
07. Prelude II 2:40
08. Koos 2:11
Releasenotes:
It was late March in Paris when Peter Broderick was standing by the stage
selling his music after an afternoon performance at an arts center. This is when
Laura Arkana met Peter Broderick for the first time.
They became fast friends, strolling through the streets of Paris sharing stories
and later, passing a guitar back and forth, sharing songs. Broderick recounted:
"I was blown away by her songs. She sings in Dutch, these beautifully crafted
haunting melodies, over the most steady and gorgeously fingerpicked guitar. I
was in love with the music, but she was so shy about it, saying sheÆd hardly
played the songs for anyone and had never recorded anything before."
A fortnight later, Arkana flew to Berlin. They rode bikes, ate and cooked
amazing food, watched movies, and in a very casual way, recorded eight of
ArkanaÆs songs, six with guitar and voice, two for solo piano. Later, Broderick
added his touch: "Since she left i have fallen in love with the songs more and
more, listening to them on repeat all day and working on different arrangements
with instruments around the house." This is when Laura Arkana met Peter
Broderick for the second time. In music.
Shortly thereafter Nils Frahm mixed the album, and HUSH enthusiastically agreed
to release it.
The recordings are warm and unfussy. For her part, Arkana paints specific
details into her song-vignettes and sings with a conversational lilt. Her
finger-pickingûclean and anchoredûgives rhythmic flight to a sophisticated
melodic sensibility. It were as if she arrived fully formed.
For his part, Broderick combines a wealth of experience with his signature
restraint and sensitivity, letting the songs breathe while enhancing their
textural depth and dynamics with stringed instruments, vocals, and percussion.
With a discography that contains over a dozen solo titles, half a dozen
collaborative titles, and appearances on well over sixty other recordings within
in a time frame of five years, Broderick has demonstrated he is in a class of
his own as a musician, composer, and producer. Further, any record label would
do well to add him to A&R staff, having established a canny ability for
attracting and spotting musical talent. From his early work as a duo with folk
icon Justin Ringle of Horse Feathers, to championing neoclassical ⁿber pianist
Nils Frahm (after meeting him in much the same way as Arkana a couple years ago)
Broderick has proved to have something of a golden ear.
With Laura Arkana met Peter Broderick (the word "met" here fulfills an
international double entendre which translates to "with" in Dutch) listeners are
delighted to discover song-scape like so many sprouting vines and stems
intertwining with the relentlessness of Springtime in Paris, in Berlin, in where
you are now.
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