 Elise ten Hoor - vocals
Elise is a wonderful presence on stage. She has everything that anyone could ever wish
for.
A powerful and unique voice that manages to touch you and she is gifted with lots of flair
too, all of which immediately has you in its embrace.
Songs:
Hold On The Line
Feel So Fine
Sorrow
Session
Backing vocals
 Maaike Janssen - vocals
Maaike always surprises me again and again, she has an unbelievable range!
I’ve had the privilege of being allowed to work and write songs with Maaike for quite some
time now.
Songs:
I Need A Man
Another Day Another Night
It’s Gonna Change
Who Are You?
Text
It’s Gonna Change
Backing vocals
 Petra Schreurs -
vocals
Petra has a voice that just cannot be denied, one that takes you with it. Very experienced
and with her credentials as ‘singing master’ it fitted right into my street on this
project.
Songs:
Behind The Lie
Changes
Wanna Cry Out
Dust To Dust
Backing vocals
 Hessel Hoornveld - rhythm-guitar and vocals, songwriter and
initiator
I was allowed to compose all of the music and most of the text for this project.
Some of it had been able to mature for years whilst other parts were plucked out of the
cosmos more recently.
Also, the producing part of things was something I was pleased to do. I was provided by each
person with the necessary energy from which I could make a beautiful, robust album, one that
transports, hits home and takes you on a journey.
Songs that are constructed from solid rock, rock-funk, nice groove-hitting pop songs, a
ballad, an emotion.
Song:
Milly
Backing vocals on ‘I Need A Man’.
Producer.
 Ton Dijkman
-
drums
It is a privilege for me to work with Ton on this album. My favourite drummer.
Ton, who knows how to lay a foundation that nobody else can.
A warm person who wants to share music with you.
It isn’t without reason that he is the most asked for studio drummer in the Netherlands.
It’s worth knowing that Ton has a voice that you say ‘Sir’ to as well, and he writes
beautiful songs.
 Hans Voerman - keyboards
Hans knows how to let a Hammond organ erupt and just as easily let it tease too. A busy
musical jack-of-all-trades who knows how to let tapestries of strings and other sneaky
sounds melt together in a most fantastic manner. With here and there some solo extravagances
in just the right places.
 Wilbrand Meischke – bass guitar
As far as I was concerned I knew for sure whom I wanted as bassist.
In my view Wilbrand is the absolute top, certainly as far as adding substance to the songs
that I write is concerned.
To share the passion for making music with Wilbrand is a real pleasure. What’s more, he
really knows how to enjoy life and loves good wines. That’s a lot of inspiration.
Hans Elmers - guitar and recording
technician
Hans is the logical consequence of wandering about on this globe and making music. We have known one another for more than thirty years and, what we do, always remains a challenge.
Stimulus and appreciation are always part of the bundle of joy. In musical terms we don’t need to explain anything anymore, a nod is enough.
I admire Hans not only as a person, but also because of his unequalled guitar playing and the many styles ‘a la Hans’, that he conjures up and expresses through his fingers.
Text:
Behind The Lie, Sorrow
 Lucia Hebers - percussion, bass guitar and
drums
In her music Lucia is all about passion, being driven and musically tighter than an atomic clock as she is. Lucia plays drums as well as bass guitar on ‘Hold On The Line’, and the way she plays percussion, on all songs, can be described as more than tasteful!
Lucia... an exceptional person.
Voices Extreme - vocals (Maaike, Petra and
Elise)
’Voices Extreme’ came about, in fact, through an expression of surprise. I’m used to quite a lot in the studio, but what they
created with their backing vocals is a rare pleasure for me. Taking all
backing vocals for their own account, just as if they’d never done anything else, whereas, they had never worked together before. Three talents who get together for the first time in the studio and who give you the feeling that they’ve already known one another for years and
years.
Choirs taking form on the spot in the studio and creating atmospheres that only they can.
You feel how privileged you are as producer, through being allowed to work with these extraordinary voices (read; female vocalists), and by being able to occupy, momentarily, a timeless realm in another dimension.
Hessel with Hans Elmers - Recording Studio Lucan
Studio Lucan with its 24 track on 2" tape and Sony mixing panel, lovely analogue. Wonderful to be able to play everything in total peace,
all (sometimes searing ha ha!) with Hans and his analogue ears on the knobs and dials. The peaceful surroundings in Winsum with a room for
relaxing. A studio where I’m always glad to go to for recording and where I find Hans and Lucia are always ready and prepared to work songs out or to take part in playing them.
What a luxury!
Hessel with Michiel Hoogenboezem - Mixing Studio ‘Mix aan de Hand’
Never could have imagined, after 30 years, working with Michiel again, on this project.
Years ago, Michiel and I began sometime in the ‘Bleu Tape Studio’ in Tjallleberd.
When I sent Michiel the analogue recordings he was immediately prepared to do the mix of all songs in his own studio in Wergea nearby Leeuwarden, housed in a wonderful farm that looks
out over the Frisian landscape. Transferred the analogue recordings to ‘Protools’. It is a joy to experience how the Netherlands’s most successful producer leaves your songs completely for what they are, whilst adding an extra something to them that only Michiel is
able to do. Thanks maestro!
Darius van Helfteren - Mastering Wisseloord
Studios
Darius is mastering technician in Netherlands’s most famous studios that also has an international reputation. Many of the greatest artists in the world have recorded their albums there. Wisseloord is not unknown to me and it is the logical outcome to have the mastering done there in order to round off everything for the album. Mastering is a skill in itself and Darius is a person who more than understands his profession.
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