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1. Chenard Walcker - Vize Verze
"An album made out of dutch samples only (i've sampled all 52 Weeks Project tracks, plus thousands of other sources, including stuff curated for me by Jan Turkenburg). Well, as i don't speak dutch, this funny project is a kind of cadavre
exquis. As a result, in a song named Zuster (religious sister) you hear the dutch speaking Soeur Sourire say that she has met God one night and that he rescued her with his love, after which you hear the radio-gymnastics teacher say: And pull ... two, four ... to the floor!"
Release: WM recordings
Chenard Walcker's website
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2. Phil Spitalny's music - A medley of canadian songs
(PHIL SPITALNY'S MUSIC [2tp-tb-2cl as-cl
ts-2v-p-banj-tu-dm-vo-vo3] Phil Spitalny dir., Bob Effros tp, Tommy Thunen tp,
Bill Coty vo, Scrappy Lambert vo.
Recorded New York City, ca Aug. 1930
1096
D A MEDLEY OF CANADIAN SONGS - vo-vo3 HOW 1096 )
It was a
great honour to be part (for three weeks) of the 52 weeks project with a
compilation of some rare 1930s card board recordings. I’d love to congratulate
Jan with this project. I guess it won’t be his last !! I love to post this
promo record for Hit of the week as released for the Canadian market. Last week
the first 2CD (of a set of four 2CD) that contain ALL Hit of the week
recordings was published by Archeophone Records. I’d love to recommend this
set: http://www.archeophone.com/product_info.php?products_id=61
Keep Swinging
Hans Koert
http://www.people.zeelandnet.nl/koerthchkz
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4. Louis van Dyke trio & Jongerenkoor van de Groenestraat - Ik was verheugd toen ik het hoorde (I was pleased when I heard it)
5. Louis van Dyke trio & Jongerenkoor van de Groenestraat - Het lied 'Mensen van God' (The song 'Men of God')
Almost at the end of this year I let all of the 52 weeks pass through my mind. What an amount! And to pick my favorite track from that?
Of course I could become sentimental and chose for old youth choir nostagia, memories from Malmédy, a Alkwin Coffe Concert or a cup of Nep-café, or for playfull things like PORTAS, carrilon jazz, or the Saint Nicolas Medley that our family use to have in those days too and which record we liked to use to do speed experiments with.
Maybe you'll notice that I tend to become a bit melancholy and therefor my favourite 52 weeks track is, maybe it'll surprise you:
Jules de Corte - Waar blijft de tijd?
This is also meant as a tribute to a musician/composer/poet/cabaret-artist who in my opinion didn't get the appreciation he deserved.
Unfortunately I don't have any Vinkeveen Youth Choir recordings that I find worthy to trust to the world wide web, but these tracks from an LP by Louis van Dyke and a youth choir from Nijmegen are. Thess are my favourite songs of that album.
Emiel Janmaat
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6. Louis van Dyke trio & Jongerenkoor van de Groenestraat - Als er twee of drie in mijn naam bijeen zijn (When there are two or three gathered in my name)
Zo aan het einde van dit jaar laat ik alle 52 weken nog even de revue
passeren. Wat een hoeveelheid! En daar een favoriet fragment uithalen?
Als ouwe sentimenteel kan ik natuurlijk kiezen voor ouwere-jongerenkoor
nostalgie, herinneringen uit Malmédy, een Alkwin koffieconcertje of een
kopje Nep-café. Of toch gaan voor ludiek, met de PORTAS international songs,
de Carillon Jazz of de Sinterklaas medley die wij thuis ook hadden en
waarbij we het leuk vonden om te experimenteren met het toerental van de
Philips grammofoon, zodat De Zwaantjes klonken als een ouwe nichten koor.
Je proeft misschien wel de weemoedige hang naar nostalgie,
"het is de tijd, net wat u zegt, het maakt mij wat melancholiek". Mijn
favoriete 52 weken fragment is dan ook, het zal u wellicht verbazen:
Jules de Corte - Waar blijft de tijd?
Dit tevens als eerbetoon aan deze, naar mijn inzien, ondergewaardeerde
musicus/componist/dichter/kleinkunstenaar.
Helaas heb ik zelf geen Jongerenkoor opname uit Vinkeveen, die ik de moeite waard vind om toe te
vertrouwen aan het Wereld Wijde Web. Na vele malen kopiëren voor Jan en
Alleman had ik er meestal zo schoon genoeg van dat ik het origineel wiste en
het bandje gebruikte om goede muziek op te zetten. Misschien ben ik ook wel
te kritisch.
De Louis van Dyke opnamen zijn daarentegen wel de moeite waard. Deze drie stukken zijn mijn favorieten
Emiel Janmaat
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JJ |
Ik denk dat ik voor mijn favoriete track dicht bij huis moet blijven: het Water, wind & zeilen project is me het meest bijgebleven.
Het is iets wat gedurende het project bedacht is, en het heeft uiteraard met WM Recordings te maken en er staat één track op die er qua creativiteit en humor heel erg uitspringt. Iedere keer als ik 'm hoor, schiet ik weer in de lach:
Marco Kalnenek
I think I'll have to stay close to home for my favourite track: it's the Water, wind & sails project I'll remember the most. It's something that has been created during the whole project, of course it's connected to WM Recordings and it has got one track on it that excels in creativity and humour. Each time I hear it, I burst into laughter: JJ - Familie op de boot
Marco Kalnenek
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Kees Pruis
| 7. Kees Pruis - Lach en vergeet, waarom zouden we treuren? (1953)
(Smile and forget, why should we be sad?)
Mike Winkelman had één van de laatste weken zullen verzorgen, maar is daar door serieuze pech niet aan toe gekomen. Hij zendt ons echter alsnog één van de tracks die hij van plan was geweest om aan te bieden. Mike's website is gewijd aan vergeten nederlandse artiesten en is zeker een bezoek waard: www.vergetenartiesten.nl.
Hierop vinden we de volgende informatie:
Kees Pruis (1989-1957) , amusementszanger, was sterk in zingen. Zowel komische als
dramatische liederen kwamen sterk over. Hij zong ook wel het wat 'schunnigere'
repertoire, voor hetgeen vroeger schunnig werd genoemd. Kees Pruis begon al op
jeugdige leeftijd met zingen en is tot in de jaren'50 doorgegaan.
Mike Winkelman was scheduled to curate one of the last weeks, but couldn't make it due to some serious bad luck. He now sends us one of the tracks he had planned on bringing us. Mike's website is dedicated to forgotten dutch artists:
www.vergetenartiesten.nl
Here we can learn the following:
Kees Pruis (1989-1957), cabaret singer, was a strong singer who performed both humorous and dramatic songs. He also had a 'naughty' repertoire, at least what was considered naughty in those days
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* Kerstkadootje Oddio Overplay
Favoriete week 18. Splogman's zeezendershow Mag ik dit eigenlijk wel mijn favoriete track noemen? Ik heb hem zo vaak gedraaid en alle muziek hoort daar gewoon in die volgorde bij elkaar. Ik houd ook van de lange spaanse improvisatie in
32. Sessions in Champagne - de omgevingsgeluiden, zoals Duncan op zijn gitaar drumt, zoals jij luistert en hem volgt. Het is verrukkelijk.
Op de tweede plaats: je leerlingen, Zon in Scheveningen,
de nederlandse chinees, de Durium weken - Ach, wie kan daaruit kiezen? 52 weken verwonderde iedere week. Er zullen jaren overheen gaan voordat ik de essentie er uit gedistilleerd zal hebben.
Dank je, Jan en de curatoren!
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* Christmas present Oddio Overplay
Favorite week: 18. Splogman's Offshore Radio
Is it fair to name this as my favorite track? I have
played it so often, and every song in it belongs right
there with the others. I love it.
I also love the long Spanish improv piece in 32. Sessions in Champagne - the ambient sounds, the way
Duncan beats his guitar and the way you listen and
follow him. It is entrancing.
Second faves: Your Students, Zon in Scheveningen,
Dutch Chinese, Durium weeks - Oh who can choose? 52
Weeks was a marvel every week. Years will pass before
I can distill it down to its essence.
Thank you, Jan
and curators!
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Nina & Frederik |
8. Nina & Frederik - Listen to the ocean (stereo-version)
The Splogman's offshore radio show was in mono as was the single from Nina & Frederik I played in it. Later this year I found this LP: 'Nina & Frederik with the Jørn Grauengaard Quintet', with the same song in stereo.
De Splogman's zeezendershow was in mono, net als de meeste platen die ik erin draaide, waaronder het singletje van Nina & Frederik. Later dit jaar vond ik de LP 'Nina & Frederik with the Jørn Grauengaard Quintet', met hetzelfde liedje in stereo.
Jan Turkenburg
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9. Chenard Walcker - dada
Onder mijn favoriete weken bevinden zich die van Remco Takken (22 & 43) en bovenal hou ik van Toos Ligtenberg, maar mijn favoriete track is helaas niet Nederlands, maar Frans:
Louise Petit - A Da Da (week 28)
verzorgd door de Chocomix jongen die ik binnenkort hoop te ontmoeten (hij woont namelijk ook in Parijs). Ik hou van de Dada-beweging en dit is een sappige opname. Ik heb een eigen versie gemaakt met samples van Russ Garcia, The Beach Boys (66-67 Smile sessions) en wat klassieke Italiaanse grooves van Bruno Nicolai, Ennio Morricone, G&M Angelis en Piero Piccioni, maar eigenlijk is het origineel ongelooflijk veel beter.
Chenard Walcker
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The weeks Remco Takken curated (22 & 43) are among my favorites. I love Toos Ligtenberg above all, but unfortunately, my favorite track isn't dutch. It's french:
Louise Petit - A Da Da (week 28)
curated by the Chocomix guy i hope i will see soon (he also lives in Paris). I love Dada movement, and i find this recording succulent. i've made a version with samples taken from Russ Garcia, The Beach Boys (66-67 Smile sessions), and some italian classic grooves by Bruno Nicolai, Ennio Morricone, G&M Angelis and Piero Piccioni, but the original is far better in fact.
Chenard Walcker
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De week die mij het eerste te binnenschiet, is de Philicorda-special. Ook Quirass vond ik erg leuk
Van purple brain heb ik veel reacties gehad op
AND YOUR BIRD CAN SING
Mijn favoriete track in de weken die ik verzorgd heb is:
Scheur (Drumloos Trio)
(In de drumloze triobezetting van Schors speelt Remco Takken afwisselend basgitaar en synthesizer. Hier een opname met synthesizer. Niet eerder uitgebrachte alternate take van de cd SCHEUR (Schors 7).)
Remco Takken
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The week that immediately comes to my mind is the Philicorda-special. I also liked Quirass
I recieved a lot of response to the purple brain track:
AND YOUR BIRD CAN SING
My favourite track from the weeks that I curated is:
Scheur (Cut, by the drumless trio line-up)
(In the drumless trio line-up of Schors, Remco Takken plays bass guitar or synthesizer. Here’s a recording where he’s playing synth. Previously unreleased alternate take from the cd SCHEUR (Schors 7).)
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13. Sid Hamilton on the Philicorda - Margie |
Like Marco, my favourite week is Water, wind & sails and like Katya I find it impossible to choose, because they all belong there together.
There is one piece that didn't make it to w,w&s... though, not because it wasn't worth it, but a) it was a videoclip and b) I didn't have enough time figure out the best way to post it. It's a group effort by a modest art collective that I'm member of: The shoe box collective. For one year we swapped shoeboxes, containing small pieces of our works. Each time each one of us would add something to the artwork of one of the others. In this case it was choreographer and dance teacher Benno Hübner who made a one minute silent film called "Ik ben Benno" (I am Benno) that was later renamed into "dansTilte(n)".
16. Benno Hübner "DansTilte(n)" (Ik ben Benno) (better quality downloads)
Photographer Margreet Vloon responded to that by making a slideshow with sound of her feet and water.
17. Margreet Vloon - Dance (better quality downloads)
Than sculptor Annet van der Kamp made a print of one of her own feet on a special paper. I don't have a good photograph of that but I scanned and edited it for the use of my contribution which consisted of all of the previous works edited in one videoclip. Naturally with a soundtrack by yours truly, using an Yamaha electronic organ and a sound edit program.
18. The shoe box collective - Wet Feet Dance (wmr 83,4 Mb) low bitrate - wmr 5Mb avi 300 Mb
The fifth member of the shoe box collective is graphic designer Berjan Podde who made the artwork for Water, wind and sails
Jan Turkenburg
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20. Toos Ligtenberg - Mislukt
21. Toos Ligtenberg - zondagavond-evaluaties
22. Toos Ligtenberg - Zonder censuur
Quite a few people fell in love with curator/ singer song-writer Toos Ligtenberg. Reason enough for me to give her a call and ask her to let her fans know how she's doing.
Well, it couldn't be better. On november 29 at 6'13 in the morning she gave birth to a healthy son: Jonas. Jonas and both his parents are fine. Toos is amazed by the response she got on week 17. "Just the idea that, for instance someone who I've never met, somewhere in an appartment in Paris, who doesn't understand a word of what I'm singing, started making cut and paste music with my voice and names this piece Toos Ligtenberg! Wow!" (Chenard Walcker - Toos Ligtenberg). Apart from 52-weeks her song "De nacht dat ik van eenzaamheid won" was broadcasted on both local and national radio. She also succesfully conducted her own children's musical in a local theatre. In january Toos will start with a preparation course for the music academy in Zwolle and somewhere during next year she plans to have a website of her own up and running. It looks like we're going to hear a lot more from this multi-talent.
Toos gladly offers three other songs from the same recording session as you could hear in week 17.
Again, words and music, voice and piano: T. Ligtenberg
(more download options)
Jan Turkenburg
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Although every track in this project is dear to me, there's one that I kept playing over and over again:
Wipstrik Jeugd - We willen een jeugdhonk, want anders flip ik
(week 36)
It's from about twelve kids in the age from 10 -16 rapping with the help of the local rap group Opgezwolle to persuade the mayor of Zwolle, Henk Jan Meijer that they really needed a safe place to meet other than the street. Well, they did get Mr. Meijer to spend a substantial amount of money on restoring and decorating a room in the building of a private community center for them. which is unique in this city. The fact that they were supported by so many people (among which was a crazy bunch of musicians!) made them win this battle.
One of the leading kids was Remco (11), a pupil of mine. His class teacher allowed him to write this story for the 52 weeks website as part of his language exercise program. I didn't have the time to publish it earlier, but there's what this epilogue is for too... Remco tells about how their club joined this rap workshop at the music school, how they were taught the basics of rapping, how they had to come up with a subject to rap on untill the moment he, himself(!), could hand over a copy of the CD to the mayor, how they first recieved an disapointing reply from the counsel, how they invented other actions and how finally they won and helped restoring and decorating the room, their room.
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D'r was natuurlijk ontzettend veel moois in die 52 weken,
maar laat ik de tweede track van jouw Grand Voyage als mijn favoriet noemen.
Of course there was a lot of beautifull stuff in those 52 weeks,
but I think I would call the second track of your Grand Voyage my favourite.
'listen'!
Harold Schellinx
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There are rules concerning privacy,
you know! |
Jan asked me to curate a few tracks from yet another obscure dutch band, but I prefer to present to you the only recording of him and me singing a duet.
Not that I'm so proud of, by the way...
Jan vroeg me om nog een paar opnamen van alweer een obscuur hollands bandje aan te bieden... Nee hoor, in plaats daarvan hierbij de enige opname waarop hij en ik een duet zingen. Niet dat ik daar zo trots op ben overigens ...
24. Turkenburg & Busé - Kom weer tot jezelf
(come back to your senses)
Eugène Busé
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For me, the highlight of 52 weeks was the Songs of Survival album, a
collection of vocal renditions of popular classics which were
reconstructed from memory and performed by a group of female internees
in a WW2 Japanese POW camp in Sumatra. And of these, the one that
touched me most was there angelic version of the
Largo from the "New World
Symphony" by Dvorak.
(Listen to Warren announce this recording on 2ser, Sidney Australia, May 14, 2004)
Closely following this in my list of faves is a
track that I prayed would be an positive omen in the weeks preceding a
certain event this year… Sadly it wasn't. It's called
"Satan In The
White House" by Marco Kalnenek…
I will be dragging it out again in four
years and hopefully it's magic will work then.
Merry Xmas and all the best for 2005
Warren Armstrong
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| 25. Identical Threat - The Guy With The Funny Glasses
(created by Erik Brassien)
Identical Threat = Erik Brassien & Berjan Podde. Berjan should have curated one of the last weeks with his own recently made music, but technical problems made it impossible to have his work finished before the end of this year, so he has sent in a recording of Identical Threat of which he is the illustrator and Erik Brassien is the musical creator. |
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Remember Small sister, week 14, the recorder project of Alet Meier and her pupils?
That was recorded in 1999 and 2000.
But this year Alet presented the "Muzerie Fun Factory": all of her pupils performing, playing music, acting and dancing in the theatre piece: Notre Dame.
Watch and hear their
26. encore
more download options
Jan Turkenburg
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32. Stepping Stone Visit - Wanna go home (Sloop John B.)
This recording is made on sunday evening December 4th in the train from Verviers to Brussels by a drunk bunch of musicians. One of the rare recordings of the full line up of The Stepping Stone Visit, including our girlfriends on backing vocals.
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Piet van Zwieten
(1922-2002)
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33. Piet van Zwieten - Kerstmis op het ijs (11,4 Mb) (5,7 Mb)
Emiel has send in this recording of our late friend Piet, reading his comical christmas story exactly twenty years ago on the local radio of De Ronde Venen, where we lived then. I so much wanted Piet to be part of this project, so he was as keyboard player of the youth choir in the prologue and now in a way he closes the project with me. Had he been still with us I'm sure he would have loved to curate an episode, for he too was fond of unusual music.
Emiel stuurde deze opname van onze overleden vriend Piet, die twintig jaar geleden zijn droog komische kerstverhaal voor Radio De Ronde Venen voorlas. Ik wilde graag dat Piet deel uitmaakte van dit project. Hij was als toetsenist te horen in de proloog en nu sluit hij samen met mij dit project af.
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34. Splogman's cut and pasted Christmas story (23,4MB) 13,6 Mb
There would have been a lot of other additions possible, but it is Christmas Eve, 8 o'clock in the evening now, while I'm typing this and we've got to face the fact: it's over. It's precisely 52 weeks ago that I've put the first episode online. It has been a great year and I've made a lot of new friends along the way. I'm not displaying a list of people who worked with me on this just yet, because I don't want to rush and forget someone. It will follow. There's one person however that I'm very greatfull for helping me through the last bit and that's Yann Chenard. But thank you everybody. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!
Het zit erop. Er zouden nog heel veel aanvullingen mogelijk zijn, maar het is tijd: Kerstavond 20:00 uur. Precies 52 weken geleden ging de eerste aflevering online. Het is een fantastisch jaar geweest en ik heb onderweg veel nieuwe vrienden gemaakt. Op dit moment publiceer ik nog even geen lijst van alle medewerkers, omdat ik bang ben in mijn haast iemand te vergeten. Die lijst komt nog. Eén persoon noem ik wel, want hij heeft in de laatste weken veel van mijn schouders overgenomen: Yann Chenard. Maar iedereen bedankt! Dank je, dank je, dank je!
Jan Turkenburg (splogman)
35. Epilogue's Echo part one (Toos teeth) (Chenard Walcker)
36. Epiloog Echo deel twee (punt!) (Jan Turkenburg)
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