First Review "I Am Water"


Wieb "I Am Water": A high-end piano & strings arrangement.


Piano and strings go like bread and cheese which is richly signified in a recently released "I Am Water" by a Dutch outfit Wieb.

Taking off on carefully played yet very dynamic bars, it is as if I was witnessing a creature wake up from sleep and soon enough set itself at flight. Switching the lead between piano and cello the composition captivates, entertains and moves, its melody supported by elegant sweeps of the accompaniment, which - like wind blows - keep the piece well above the ground for its entire duration.

A masterful arrangement: https://open.spotify.com/track/6hzFS85tHGWniadXwITjEA

/RJ

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Titelsong "I Am water" added to Spotify playlists

ALBUM "I AM WATER" RELEASED

I AM WATER

NEW ALBUM

In stores from 12th of November

TRACKLIST:

1. Burst Of Life

2. Floating And Turning

3. I Am Water

4. I Am Water (Humpback Song)

5. The Ocean Remembers

6. The Sea’s Fringing Land

7. Number 7

The album is available in Spotify, Apple Music, Itunes, Deezer, Amazon and many more stores.

I decided to make an album inspired by the natural underwater world. When I am underwater the motion and patterns of the waves and the sealife trigger musical patterns and melodies in my head. The main instruments on the album are piano and cello. This album was funded by the Buma “new music” stimulation fund.

“I feel very relaxed underwater, the sense of drifting and floating”

IN THE MEANTIME........

Time is a strange thing. You are busy and suddenly a year has passed. And a nice and interesting year it has been. It started with a trailer for The Mauritshuis, then the docu “Unfinished Revolution”. A large part of the year I was working on the score and sound of “The Wondrous journey Of Little Sophie” animatic for a feature film which resulted in green light for the project and funding by The Netherlands Filmfonds! I then did the sound for a really interesting exhibition “Helende Krachten” for the dutch museum “Volkenkunde”. Then on to the music for a children’s exhibition about Rembrandt “Hallo Rembrandt”. After that I did the score for a film about the Swifterbandman called “Oer” which was an assignment by the Batavialand museum. The docu “The Dreamcatcher” was finished beginning of 2020. At the moment I am busy working on the score for “Mankracht” documentary.

MANKRACHT DOCU

Mankracht is a documentary about Tibor. Tibor is on a mission to make entrepreneurs the best they can be.

He developed is own methods by combining bootcamp methods derived from his time with The Special Forces and his own special take on the philosophy that you need to know yourself to become who you need to be. Only then you can line up your entrepreneurship with the rest of your life.

We follow two persons during the retraite and catch up with them a year later. Have their lives been changed forever?

The director Thijs asked for an epic score with elements of tension and emotion in the style of Game Of Thrones and Jeremy Wade Dark Waters. Fun project!

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UNFINISHED REVOLUTION documentary

Unfinished revolution is a documentary about the brexit and an unfinished revolution in Ireland:

synopsis: Jude Macrory is a dissident Irish Republican. Amid fears that Brexit will lead to renewed violence along the Irish border, Jude's name is splashed across the papers as the bomber of Derry courthouse. He speaks up about what he sees is happening around Brexit.

Although we didn’t have much time i think it’s a wonderful project. I also think the score really emulates the tension and emotions involved. Many thanks to Eva, who produced a wonderful cello part.

Distribution by Journeyman pictures

On imdb


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THE WONDROUS JOURNEY OF LITTLE SOPHIE-ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Finally! We started working on the animatic for “The Wondrous Journey Of Little Sophie” -an animated feature film about the book by Els Pelgrom (and The Tjong King). The first characters are being designed in 2d and 3d and already look wonderful! The first sketches for the decors and environments also look very promising.

All the scenes from the script have been recorded in dialogue and we are bringing the scenes to life with sounddesign, creating spaces and effects. They are then going to the animator which sketches up the whole film in 2d rough sketches to get a feel for the whole film. This phase will take up most of the coming half year.

Keep you posted!

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