Karen Vrijburg - Listen to a Stranger (2014)

“Right there, in the space of a new tune, there’s a grasping for a vital connection with life”

It’s about navigating faith and reason, thought and instinct, sound and silence. Trying to hold a clear tune while departing from the written note.

Basically, it involves toying around with chord changes, looking for a melodic phrase here, a pattern there, and a pulse to give it life.

As jazz musicians we are not here to do what has already been done.


Tracklist:

01. Tell Me a Story (04:20)
02. You (03:55)
03. When She Goes (06:01)
04. Between You and Me (04:13)
05. Rhythm and Rhyme (05:59)
06. My Romance (05:24)
07. You're Nearer (04:04)
08. Intro (01:01)
09. All Was New (05:00)
10. Something Cool (04:11)
11. Moving Trough Life (04:06)
12. Pannonica (03:09)

Personnel:

Karen Vrijburg voice compositions ( track 1,2,3,5,9,11)
Dirk Balthaus piano, string arrangements
Marco Zenini bass,
Etienne Nillesen drums
Natalio Sued tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute
Jasper Le Clercq violin
Jeffrey Bruinsma violin
Oene van Geel viola
Emile Visser cello