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Reinier Baas is a guitarist, composer and recording artist from the Netherlands with a DIY approach and an idiosyncratic body of work. His latest records include #oneminuteradio 1-4 (2021-'23), ‘Mokum In Hi-Fi’ (2019), with long-time collaborator Ben van Gelder, and ‘Smash Hits’ (2018), with van Gelder and the grammy-winning Metropole Orkest. His ‘mostly instrumental opera’ from 2016, entitled ‘Reinier Baas vs. Princess Discombobulatrix’, and his 2012 record ‘Mostly Improvised Instrumental Indie Music’ both earned him an Edison Award.
Baas’ music is characterised by “unpredictability with a reassuring sense of overall form”. A description of The New York City Jazz Record reads: “The music was assembled in unusual ways. Arcane harmonies suggest Bartók or Stravinsky, but then structures would fracture and hip-hop rhythms would suddenly hit hard and then everything would become wild flurries and improvised cacophonies before the music returned to solemn, orderly, if angular forms.”
Baas is currently a member of <a href="spotify:artist:1dZtTzcPTFBsbmqNohoKUR" data-name="Benjamin Herman">Benjamin Herman</a>'s Bughouse, Ben van Gelder trio ft. Han Bennink & the Hammond trio <a href="spotify:artist:0iS5J1vASicYbTDEnHK05i" data-name="Deadeye">Deadeye</a>.
"A breathtakingly talented guitarist, who is able to impress and touch with his instrument, and a gifted composer who dares to take risk on top of this.” – JAZZISM
Photo credits: Ben van Gelder & Reinier Baas by Jonathan Herman. Princess Disco & Typex by Ivo van der Bent. Gigantic Chamber Music Mini Festival by Boaz Reisel. Portraits and goat by Govert Driessen.
Baas’ music is characterised by “unpredictability with a reassuring sense of overall form”. A description of The New York City Jazz Record reads: “The music was assembled in unusual ways. Arcane harmonies suggest Bartók or Stravinsky, but then structures would fracture and hip-hop rhythms would suddenly hit hard and then everything would become wild flurries and improvised cacophonies before the music returned to solemn, orderly, if angular forms.”
Baas is currently a member of <a href="spotify:artist:1dZtTzcPTFBsbmqNohoKUR" data-name="Benjamin Herman">Benjamin Herman</a>'s Bughouse, Ben van Gelder trio ft. Han Bennink & the Hammond trio <a href="spotify:artist:0iS5J1vASicYbTDEnHK05i" data-name="Deadeye">Deadeye</a>.
"A breathtakingly talented guitarist, who is able to impress and touch with his instrument, and a gifted composer who dares to take risk on top of this.” – JAZZISM
Photo credits: Ben van Gelder & Reinier Baas by Jonathan Herman. Princess Disco & Typex by Ivo van der Bent. Gigantic Chamber Music Mini Festival by Boaz Reisel. Portraits and goat by Govert Driessen.
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