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'muziek om in te verdwijnen als in een weemoedige dagdroom'
Rik Binnendijk/GONZO/CIRCUS
'I am constantly amazed that, after so many years pursuing a diverse set of genres, styles and histories in music, that I can be flabbergasted by a new album, and unable to clearly articulate the music within. Such is the case with the latest Orquesta del Tiempo Perdido album.'
Phil Zampino/SQUIDCO
'Orquesta del Tiempo Perdido has become a mainstay in my headphones over the last year, and with two new albums in the space of a few months – Sepk and Rimpianti – there’s no sign of that letting up. Jeroen Kimman pulls countless threads through a whirling musical wormhole, putting together sonic and rhythmic combinations that are endlessly engaging.' Brad Rose/FOXY DIGITALIS
'Net als zijn twee voorgangers is 'Sepk' een meeslepende opeenvolging van ontregelende ritmes, mooie bitterzoete melodieën en vrolijke gekte, met weemoed als stevig bindmiddel. Een album dat geen moment verveelt.'
Rick Binnendijk/GONZO/CIRCUS
'It is the musical contrast between a certain lightness and exemplary pessimism that makes the orchestra's music very interesting.
The group's sound sounds soft as rubber, but Orquesta del Tiempo Perdido remains impassive, as if everything were normal and interprets this liquid musical vision with precision.'
Gonçalo Falcão/JAZZ.PT
'Sempre originalissimo, riconoscibile al instante. Un progetto che continua a meritare maggiori attenzioni.' Federico Savini/BLOW UP
'Words couldn’t do justice to what you will hear on this release. Analyzing all these beautiful pieces would be a challenge for a Ph.D. student.' Mark Daelmans-Sikkel/VITAL WEEKLY
'again a beautful potpourri of nostalgia, slip-ups, failed finishes, and limp patterns' Ken Vos/JAZZISM
'This is music in search of its own essence, constantly turning itself inside out.' Eyal Hareuveni/SALT PEANUTS
'Accompagnato da dieci straordinari musicisti di Amsterdam, Kimman presenta dodici brani compatti e coerenti tra loro in un ambiente innovativo che sembra al tempo stesso estremamente familiare.
Sepk è un LP sincero e riuscito, che cattura l’attenzione dei palati più fini ed esigenti senza mai risultare cerebrale o dispersivo.'
Samuele Conficoni/MUSICMAP.IT
'On est happé par ces titres au bord de la rupture, se relevant à chaque fois comme par miracle, gorgées d’humour et de poésie dadaïste. Un must.'
Roland Torres/SILENCEANDSOUND
'..we get highly exact non-exactness in the musical movements and highly styled styleless musical gestures.
The music runs after itself, shadowless. But nonetheless we (not completely) understand the music losing itself, running with grace outside the track.' Henning Bolte/EUROPEJAZZMEDIACHART
'Le travail à la guitare de Kimman reste toutfois l'approche dominante d'un musique insaisisable, touche-à-tout, la moindre mélodie accrocheuse, identifiable se diluant rapidement dans divers effets, croisant les rythmes plus rock e le jazz, traçant ainsi une musique psychédélique, souvent ludique, délirante.'
Pierre Durr/REVUE&CORRIGEË
'wenn jemand danach tanzen möchte, geht das nur mit Zwischenschritt.
Mitunter erinnern die Stücke an Arbeiten von Bill Frisell.'
Jele/FREISTIL
'Nel mare magnum dei dodici brani proposti, si respirano come si sarà capito climi e temperature variegate, peraltro con un equilibrio fra le varie parti poste a decantare assieme assolutamente lucido e conseguente (e non senza una punta—abbondante—di arguta ironia, non di rado di smagliante umore noir). C'è un minimo di dispersività, a volte una lieve genericità globale, elementi del resto quasi fisiologici, visto il contesto (diciamo pure il contenitore), ma l'ascolto rimane sempre stimolante, logico, diremmo opportuno.'
Alberto Bazzuro/ALLABOUTJAZZ
'the versatile Kimman approach that defies all musical laws'
Ben Taffijn/NIEUWENOTEN
‘Traantjes is a slippery ride, but a very good one.’
Byron Coley/THE WIRE
‘Kimman’s music is so engaging, drawing the listener completely into his wonderfully strange world. Traantjes is a whimsical and disjointing sonic ride full of bold ideas and enchanting experimentation.’
Brad Rose/FOXY DIGITALIS
‘A joy of listening from start to finish.’
Rene van Peer/GONZOCIRCUS
'A music that is overflowing with inspiration, imagination and deception, to say the least'
Federico Savini/BLOW UP
‘A group with a very unusual sound – one that's not entirely in keeping with the lovely paperback-style image on the cover, but which has a similarly evocative sensibility! We're not sure we've ever heard a group like this ‘
DUSTY GROOVE
‘Traantjes is an abundant treasury full of musical adventure, wit, and unexpected beauty.’
Herman te Loo/JAZZFLITS
‘There are times when you hear something so inexplicable that it stops you in your tracks. ‘Traantjes’ is one of those albums.’
Nick Roseblade/VITAL WEEKLY
‘Each composition performed by this ensemble seems to be lost not
only in time, but also in space.’
Evgeny Galochkin/JAZZIST.RU
‘…just to pick a few remarkable cuts from this utterly unique album. Truly something different.’
Baze Djunkiii/NITESTYLEZ
‘the beauty lies, as often, in the contrast’
’it works’
Gert Derkx/OPDUVEL
‘Traantjes is a succession of cheerfully crazy tracks, going in a spin before falling back on their four legs, leading the listener on one track before taking another, accelerating and braking at the same time, for a feeling of dizzy spells born from the creative intoxication. Very highly recommended.’
Roland Torres/SILENCEANDSOUND
'creating its own folklore'
AFRICAN PAPER
‘And all the way you sit at the far end of the chair to get all the details. For rarely have I heard music where the details are as many and exciting as here.’
Jan Granlie/SALT PEANUTS
'That Kimman is something else. He makes his own music, which really doesn't sound like anything but himself. His musical universe is located about 7 miles outside the known stratosphere, where life turns out to be remarkably agreeable.
The music in all its uplifting originality simply defies description.
Magnificent.'
HET PAROOL/Erik Voermans (NL)
Orquesta del Tiempo Perdido is a somewhat high-sounding, slightly nostalgic, somewhat provocative name, behind which lies the visionary mind of Jeroen Kimman, one of the most original musicians on the Dutch scene.
He composes, breaks up, assembles, shatters, cuts, recreates an infinite number of styles to obtain a meta-genre of unquestionable impact and communicative power.
But Stille is much more than a simple, bizarre collage, it is a unique musical universe, inventive, unconventional, supported by a strong sense of melody, where the surprises flap in a continuous stream and, icing on the cake, recorded in a superb way.
ALLABOUTJAZZ/Vincenzo Roggero (IT)
'Stille is an amalgam of styles, seemingly merged in an intuitive fashion. It's bizar, groundbreaking, overflowing with texture and especially diverse. Surprise reigns throughout the album.'
JAZZNU/Rinus van der Heijden (NL)
'I'm personally blown away by Orquestra Del Tiempo Perdido, a very creative album with great contributors joining multi-instrumentalist Jeroen Kimman.
The album really fits neatly in with other Clean Feed albums, having a distinctive jazz and orchestrated flavor with a modern edge.'
SQUIDSEAR/Phil Zampino (USA)
'Stille is an utterly original album, chock-full with playful musicality and a special knack for melody and rhythm. The musical content is vast and yet maintains accessibility throughout, in an uplifting and unique way. Wonderful record.'
OPGEDUVELD/Gert Derkx (NL)
'This bizarre yet immaculately orchestrated session from Jeroen Kimman’s Orquesta del Tiempo Perdido is one of the most intriguing things I’ve heard all year. In that way a Rube Goldberg contraption requires a clockwork precision to effect its insane series of events across an obstacle course of randomized components, so, too, is this inconceivable assortment of instrumentation and influences.
This is what is sounds like when creativity is allowed to roam wild and free.'
BIRD IS THE WORM/Dave Sumner (USA)
'What would have happened if Nino Rota meets Sun Ra, John Zorn, Moondog and Kszysztof Komeda? Perhaps something like Orquestra Del Tiempo Perdido would come to existence.
It's a world full of musical ideas, playfullness, micro scenarios, beautiful dreamy melodies, sensual exotica, tasty vaudeville, surprising plot twists, electroacoustic flavours.. a true cornucopia.
it's certain that the effect of their work magnetize with postmodern freedom and the amount of musical ideas.'
MULTIKULTI/Witek Leśniak (PL)
'One senses all kinds of influences pass by in this amusing universe created by Kimman and his team. Easy listening, much Americana, and more is touched upon. But they play in original and enjoyable way with these idioms. Resulting in pleasantly weird music. It is one continuous demonstration of playful madness yet accessible music also, albeit rhythmically complex and with many unusual twists. And it is not just weirdness that they produce. All influences are melted into something of their own. A bizarre and overwhelming musical world. Impressive.'
VITAL WEEKLY/Dolf Mulder (NL)
'Jeroen Kimman's music genuinely does sound unlike anything else. I don't know what it is, but it draws me in.'
IN LEAGUE WITH PATON (UK)
'The points of reference are deftly approached on their own terms, and recontextualised in impossible composites. Kimman has produced the sound world of the album in microscopic detail, taking the instruments further into deranged sonic territories. Despite the scope of the record, there is a unity to the music that owes more to the film soundtracks of Ennio Morricone and Nino Rota, and the virtuosic experimentalism of early studio pioneers such as The Three Suns, Les Baxter and Martin Denny, than to other contemporary attempts at eclecticism. The result may seem bizarre but it’s a work of genius.'
Rui Eduardo Paes (PT)
'Stille excels in peculiar 'songs' that combine playfulness with bizarre instrumentations and rhythmical caltrops. A lot of the tracks have hummable melodies, without ever following a trite plot. Above all the album sounds like the work of an utterly unique musical voice, from who we undoubtfully are going to hear much more.
The big question that arises from this recording project is whether it could ever be performed on stage? In that case Kimman would be a high contender to play festivals such as Transition, Le Guess Who? and Lowlands.'
JAZZFLITS/Herman te Loo (NL)
'A kaleidoscopic work that unifies diverse worlds. A hodge podge of styles, with a strong feel for pace. What ties it all together? Kimman's creativity and playfullness: no piece is the same and still they all manage to sound Kimman-esque. A big achievement.'
NIEUWE NOTEN/Ben Taffijn (NL)
'The album starts with a thema that sounds like children's music, like it could accompany a cartoon. After this initial surprise one starts to realize that from here on forward all will be surprising. Going through many different registers, sometimes it could be pure folkmusic, other times it's almost cabaret music, the soundtrack for a carousel (or roller coaster), and at other times it sounds more experimental and approaches the avant-garde. Without focusing on a single point, it challenges the listener, his prejudices and his preconceptions.
In terms of diversity, creativity and aesthetic originality, this music escapes easy cataloging, and will make it difficult for the owner of the record store to distribute the discs behind the usual style tags. It has been a long time since there was such a stylistic rebellion.'
BODYSPACE/Nuno Catarino (PT)