CD ‘Sirenians’

Utrecht Deep Artment

This international octet from Utrecht, led by Michael Baird, play the suite ‘On the Way to Abstraction’! The Deep Artment dream, chirp and swing – with drums, percussion, tuba, bass, sax, trumpet, flutes, voice.

“From the first notes onwards, Sirenians pulls the listener into the deep, into a world that floats between dreaming and waking. This music is original down to its innermost fibre and defies any attempt to categorize it.” (NRC Handelsblad, NL)

“Utrecht Deep Artment dream, chirp and swing. There is a continual tightrope act going on, between humour and seriousness, improvisation and composition and, indeed, between abstraction and concrete, deep swinging structures.” (De Volkskrant, NL)

Michael Baird (drumset, percussion)

Nikos Tsilojannis (percussion)

Janice Jackson (voice)

Tjitze Vogel (acoustic bass)

Henk Raven (tuba)

Paul Weiling (alto sax, bass clarinet)

Hermien Schneider (trumpet, saw)

Mark Alban Lotz (flutes)

<a href="https://swprecords.bandcamp.com/album/sirenians">Sirenians von Utrecht Deep Artment</a>

Info

Sharp Wood Poductions, Utrecht 1998

Catalogue number SWP006

Press reviews

NRC Handelsblad 1999 (NL)
“From the first notes onwards, Sirenians pulls the listener into the deep, into a world that floats between dreaming and waking. This music is original down to its innermost fibre and defies any attempt to categorize it.”

De Volkskrant 1998 (NL)
“Utrecht Deep Artment dream, chirp and swing. There is a continual tightrope act going on, between humour and seriousness, improvisation and composition and, indeed, between abstraction and concrete, deep swinging structures.”