Thursday, 11 February 2010

VLEK

My saxophone teacher Edward Capel is a member of a band called VLEK and by coincidence, my jazz workshop leader Jeroen Doomernik is also playing in this band. They were to perform in the Verkade fabriek last wednesday after I finished my saxophone lesson in Den Bosch. So I joined Edward and went to see them playing. Unfortunately you will probably be shocked by the sound when you play the video but in truth it was a great sound! It was not like any other "regular" music piece but every band member (almost everyone that is..) composed a piece they played. I hope I understood it correctly but one of the gitar players presented a "song" called replicants and it was about the question if aliens dream about electric sheep... (??) Very vague and no, there were no drugs involved. But when they played and that information in mind you could actually use your imagimation to make some sense of it. I liked it there and then but I am not sure if I could listen to it from a cd. Just wish I could play as good and easylooking as they are..