Tenderly

Paulien Van Schaik / Hein Van de Geyn

Label: Challenge Jazz
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917009927

Catalog number: CHR 70099
Releasedate: 26-02-10

This is the result (for the first time on record ten years ago and now in its re-release) of two people that had been musically growing towards each other, had been growing within themselves. It is friendship you hear, it is respect you can hear; respect for the music, respect for each other. It is risk you hear, it is naked truth you hear. It is the music of two passionate and loving people. Love and passion for life, music, the instrument, people......

Music with a tenderly vibe!
Because of it being sold out this is a re-release of the first record Paulien and Hein ever made together, ten years ago today!
For this record the duo received a Edison Jazz Audience Award
In the meantime, in the passing ten years, the duo has become internationally renowned
'Tenderly' gives us insight of the initial concept of this duo that has grown and developed even more in the past years

Paulien Van Schaik: vocals
Hein Van de Geyn: bass

Paulien van Schaik and Hein Van de Geyn met and kept bumping in to each other. They played together quite often and after a while they felt a record was a logical thing to do next: "So we had to record.... and man, that was going to be easy. A few good mikes, a good machine.... Hours were put on tape. And we listened, and we were critical.... and it just was never good enough. Close to perfect... yes, but lacking in that outward emotion. We couldn’t catch on tape what we had felt during those informal evenings at the club. In the meantime I had built a theater at my house. A cozy, lovely room with a stage, nice light, a good sound and place for 40 people to sit and have that glass of wine, and experience the utmost intimate setting to enjoy music in. So here we had it, the perfect ingredients: a place, an audience, those same mikes and recorder. Three Sunday afternoons were planned, people came. We all had a wonderful time together. Informal, intimate, magic. 5 hours of music resulted. And a great memory. And... it had worked. We captured the essence somehow. We took the best stuff, went to the studio of my main man Chris Weeda, who polished the music, and put the whole thing in a perfect balance."- Hein Van de Geyn in the linernotes of Tenderly

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