The by now well known sounds come forward with the dark voice announcing the show, "Kairos, A meditation on latter day music". Modern, modern?, I wonder hearing the Medieval sort of music that finds it way into my ear. Perhaps that the instrument, a clarinet?, was not invented at the time, well it wasn't, but what I hear, sounds like an instrumental madrigal. It's a kind of music that just isn't made any more. Putting the mind, so reason, apart, I hear a sort of peaceful music that meanders itself through the composition. Peaceful is not the right word, as the music has a slight edge. It isn't sweet, although the first impression tells me it is. Listening deeper, there are inner tensions that come through in the plucky way of playing; pizzicato to make it sound posh. Nothing is round in Giovanni Bassano's 'Oncques Amour'. It's square with corners that can hurt. Fascinating what one can hear just by listening.
'Where Flamingoes Fly' is the title. Should it be a question, the answer would be, well wherever they go to of course. A droning sound over which sparse piano notes are sprinkled. Susanne Abbuehl's voice slowly flows over the sound. As slow as the piano plays. The darkness of the song is accentuated by Christof May's bass clarinet. With only slightly different accents to the music, it could be a song by Bebel Gilberto, to name one, modern bossa nova example. Now 'Where Flamingoes Fly' breathes a late night jazz atmosphere that could contribute to the mood in the diner of the nighthawks. It's strange and normal at the same time.


'The Ship' holds something sacred around it. The surrender to the waves, so to a higher power, that will carry us for good or for bad. I can hear that, but there's no way into this composition for me. Where does it go? What does it want from me? Even when I close my eyes for minutes on end, nothings happens to me. Just amazement. Underwater sounds like I know them from Jacques Cousteau's series and submarine movies enter the composition nearing the end. Spooky treated voices. But then what? "Wave after wave", repeated and repeated. For me this is a 20 minute plus ordeal to sit through. I'm glad that .No appreciates my present so much though. A happy ending to this part.
"Unkrûd" of the album "Piiptsjilling" is up next. Frisian? I'd say yes listening to the spoken lyric by Jan Kleefstra. Droning sounds accompany the text. All atmosphere, no song in sight. An electric guitar plays isolated chords. I've come to the point that I need a song. 'Ob-la-di Ob-la-da' for my part, bar 'Michelle' the worst The Beatles single 45 ever. I need it. Now!

'Quiet Music Never Ends' is the title of Dick Toering's self-released album. I'd hope so, I respond without having heard a note yet. There's another review to write soon and it will not be on quite music, I'm afraid. Nada Surf's gig is up next.
Toering plays an experimental tune in 'Are you waiting?'. I can't really fathom what I'm hearing. A mechanised Kilima Hawaians percussion? The lead instrument is a guitar fading the rest out and in. The mix is surprising in the beginning. The question remains: what am I hearing? I just don't know.

Wo.
You can listen to the August Kairos here:
http://www.concertzender.nl/player/?mode=rod&prid=345364
This is August's playlist:
00:10 Giovanni Bassano. Oncques Amour. Axel Wolf en Hugo Siegmeth.
Van album ‘Flow, Jazz and Renaissance – from Italy to Brazil’. OEHMS classics OC 1826.
03:25 Harold Courlander, John Benson, Elthea Peale. Where flamingos fly. 4:53.
Susanne Abbuehl, zang; Wolfert Brederode, piano; Christof May, basklarinet; Lucas Niggli, drums en percussie; Michel Portal, klarinet.
Van album ‘Compass’. ECM 1906 9871934.
08:06 Arvo Pärt. Veni creator.
Theatre of Voices en Ars Nova Copenhagen; Paul Hillier, dirigent; Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, orgel.
Van album ‘Creator Spiritus’. Harmonia Mundi HMU 807553.
11:06 Arvo Pärt. Ein Wallfahrtslied.
Theatre of voices; Chris Watson, tenor; Paul Hillier, bariton; NYYD Quartet.
Van album ‘Creator Spiritus’. Harmonia Mundi HMU 807553.
19:37 Brian Eno. The Ship.
Van album ‘The Ship’. Warp Records WARPCD272.
40:19 Mariska Baars, Romke Kleefstra en Rutger Zuydervelt (tekst: Jan Kleefstra).
Unkrûd. Piiptsjilling (Mariska Baars, Romke Kleefstra en Rutger Zuydervelt).
Van album ‘Wurdskrieme’. Expermedia XPCD012.
46:18 Kohachiro Miyata/trad. Sanya.
Kohachiro Miyata, Japanse fluit.
Van album ‘Japan, Shakuhachi-The Japanese Flute’. Electra Nonesucg 7559-72076-2.
52:33 Dick Toering. Are you waiting? (fragment).
Van album ‘Quiet music never ends’. Listermusic/eigen beheer.
56:10 Tarquinio Merula. Chaiccona.
Axel Wolf en Hugo Siegmeth.
Van album ‘Flow, Jazz and Renaissance – from Italy to Brazil’. OEHMS classics OC 1826
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