Jeroen van Vliet & Sikeda
Sikeda (pronounced SEE – KAY- DAH) is my newest group, besides myself consisting of 5 outstanding European musicians.
Our first concert was at the North Sea Jazz Festival 2008 performing my newly written music for the North Sea Jazz Composition Assignment. The concert was broadcasted on Dutch radio and captured on film as well (the dvd is available through this site).
The music I wrote for this group aimed to provide all musicians great freedom and to enable us to produce a wide range of images and sounds. I wanted to investigate a new world of colours and beats and structures, while the emphasis should remain the improvising. I had the chance to work with such beautiful players that I didn't want us to get caught in narrow alleys.
Besides the trio with Frans and Pascal that recorded The Poet & Other Tales in 2007, Afra was the perfect match, both on percussion and with his sounds and samples. I asked Erwin, with whom I had recorded several albums before, for his lyricism and beautiful ideas and sound. When I heard Jörg I was instantly hooked by his creative playing, so I asked him to join.
In june 2009 we recorded the music, barely rehearsed, most of it in a one- or two-take session. The post-production kept us busy for a while but now it's there: I'm proud to anounce that our newly recorded cd 'Thin Air' will be released march 2010 by Challenge Jazz.
The press on the Sikeda-concert North Sea Jazz 2008:
Amanda Kuyper, NRC Handelsblad
Impressive was also Jeroen van Vliet. He had with his composition assignment explicitly looked for adventure.
Frank van Herk, Koen Schouten, De Volkskrant
.... pianist Jeroen van Vliet with his sextet evoked a lot more. He used repetitive structures, almost silent ambient and floating layers, with a sense for adventure and truly surprising sounds.
Tim Sprangers, www.jazzenzo.nl
The opening of the festival was promising. Although it was a composition assignment, van Vliet had written down only little, but the pieces were powerful, lively and very fresh.
Maarten van de Ven, www.draaiomjeoren.nl
The closer [ ] was again a proof that with Jeroen van Vliet nothing is as it seems. The festival couldn't have had a better opening...
| Jeroen van Vliet | piano, synths |
| Erwin Vann (B) | tenor-saxophone, effects |
| Jörg Brinkmann (D) | cello |
| Afra Mussawisade (D) | percussion, sampling |
| Frans van der Hoeven | double bass |
| Pascal Vermeer | drums |