latest news
| March 2011 |
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I've updated the
Metamorphosis page with 5 reviews (4 in
English, 1 in German). The debutalbum of Gert Emmens And Cadenced Haven, Life In Cosmic Highway, will be released by Groove on April 2nd. Laila (Cadenced Haven) made a beautiful videopreview, that shows about 40 seconds of each track on the album. The vid is on YouTube. I will have a stand at the E-day festival on April 16th at Oirschot, selling my soloalbums, the albums with Ruud Heij, Entropy's Evolution of Kubusschnitt, Peregrination of Cadenced Haven and the new album of Cadenced Haven and me. Hint: watch the concert of Remy...... I am collaboratin on a track with Remy on his forthcoming album, to be released at the E-day festival on April 16th. Ed Unitsky will design the cover of my forthcoming 1st progrockalbum, to be released late Summer or early Autumn this year by Groove. I contributed with a track on the Dutch Masters album, released by Groove, on which Dutch musicians got inspired by a painting of Dutch Masters (painters). My contribution is entitled Muurhuizen (Wallhouses). The 5th album of Gert Emmens & Ruud Heij is entitled The Sculpure Garden, to be released this Autumn. I am editing and completing the tracks for the album. Free System Projekt is planning to release a live-album at the E-day festival. This album will also contain the two tracks on which I played drums during their performance at the E-day festival of 2010. |
| December 2010 |
| Ruud Heij and I have decided to re-release our collab album ''Blind Watchers Of A Vanishing Night'' first released in 2005. The album has been sold out for two years. The album will be available again round half December. It is a registration of two concerts, with addition of some studio overdubs. If you like, you can order the album from us, but it will also be available again from most of the EM-retailers. |
| November 2010 |
| New soloalbum Metamorphosis is released! All info is on the page of the album, including the instruments used on the album. |
| November 2010 |
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Releases in 2010 and
2011 Since both 2010 and 2011 are (will be) years with quite some releases with me involved, I will give you an overview: 2010 March Gert Emmens - The Nearest Faraway Place - Volume 3 Cadenced Haven - Perigrination May Kubusschnitt - Entropy's Evolution November Gert Emmens - Metamorphosis
2011 |
| November 2010 |
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The Nearest Faraway Place - Volume 3 and Entropy's Evolution (the new Kubusschnitt album), were released on May 22th this year. Will add the Kubusschnitt album to my website soon, with some background info, since there is not much Kubusschnitt info left on the web. On November 13th, my new soloalbum Metamorphosis will be released. It is going to be my 10th album released by Groove Unlimited. Soundclips and info are available at the Groove website. The album is played with old analog pre-midi instruments only. A list of those instruments and on which tracks they were used will be on the cover. Laila Quraishi (aka Cadenced Haven) did a great job on the artwork of the cover, and she came up with the story behind the album. Talking about Cadenced Haven: the projects with Laila are going great. We have finished our first album with electronic music, the title is: Life In Cosmic Highway and it will be released by Groove Unlimited around Februari/March 2011. Besides that we are working on a huge project. A track that is going to fill one entire album. At this moment 56 minutes of basics are finished. The styles will be ambient, psychedelics, progrock and some Asian music (Laila is coming from Bangladesh after all :-)). And then the 3rd project we are doing is entitled Spiral Core, something completely different. A combination of Indie, pop, rock, funk. Ruud Heij and me are talking about a new album together. We hope to release it in 2011. It will be our 5th collab album. There's enough basic material for at least 3 albums, so it becomes about time... More news about that soon. There still are plans to release an album that contains the concert, or part of the concert that Free System Projekt and me (on drums) together did at the E-day festival on May 22th this year. Will keep you posted on that.
Groove has confirmed that
they want to release my first progrock album! The album was finished
quite some time ago. At this moment the album is planned for release
during the Summer of 2011. When there is more news to mention about it,
I will post it here. |
| April 2010 |
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Looks that the new Kubusschnitt album, in which I was involved is going to be released now soon. The album was finished two years ago.... I am very happy with the result, this is going to be one of my alltime fave EM-albums. The album contains 4 long tracks. Musicians involved are Tom Coppens, Ruud Heij, Jan Dieterich, and me. More news about it soon. The collab with Cadenced Haven is going very smoothly. A number of tracks have been completed now. You can listen to our first completed track here (at the Reverbnation page of CH, press the play button in the right top cornere). On May 22, I will be playing drums at the concert of Free System Projekt, at the E-day festival. I also will have a CD-stand on that festival. My son Frank is coming with me to assist in the stand.
April 23th |
| March 2010 |
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The Nearest Faraway Place - Volume 3 will be released on March, 15th. Besides the closing parts of the The Nearest Faraway Place trilogy, there is also a short collabtrack with Cadenced Haven, entitled: Conclusion. Susan Baird has designed the coverart. I've been involved in the debut album of Cadenced Haven, Peregrination. CH and I composed three tracks together, and I did some additions on two other tracks. Besides that I edited, mixed and mastered the album. After finishing this album CH got contracted at Groove. Her album will be released on March 15th as well, and Susan Baird has also designed the coverart of her album. Conclusion is also on this album, in a slightly different version. Cadenced Haven and I are collaborating now on another album, hopefully to be released later on in 2010 or 2011. The music is sounding more modern than most people will be used from me. On May 22, I will be playing drums at the concert of Free System Projekt, at the E-day festival. I also will have a CD-stand on that festival. |
| November 2009 |
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The Nearest Faraway Place - Volume 3 is almost finished. Jan Dieterich
has played guitarsolo's on two tracks, so I can start mixing the album
now. I've been involved in making a new Kubusschnitt album. Two of the former Kubusschnitt members got together and many basic recordings were the result. After that, I got the recordings and finished them with pad's, solo's etc. And, like on the other Kubusschnitt a guitarplayer is involved too. I think the album will be released in the first months of 2010. Besides the electronic music there's i've an progrockalbum ready for release now. Hope to release it in 2010. |
| May 2009 |
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The new album was released on April 11th at the E-day festival, where I performed. It's Volume 2 of the The Nearest Faraway trilogy. I've updated the website with a page for this album. Click on 'discography', and then on the album. There is an instrumentlist, with the instruments used on the album for those who are interested. The first reviews are also added. I'm working on Volume 3 now. As far as I can see now, Jan Dieterich will be playing guitar again on this album. |
| Februari 2009 |
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I've deleted my old myspace page, which was in the regular section of
Myspace, and started a new page at hte Music section of Myspace.
http://www.myspace.com/gertemmens
On April 11th, I will be
playing at the E-day festival. All info
here. The new
album will be released that day, and I will be playing the entire album
at the concert. Besides the Electronic Music, I'm focusing on progrock/symfo more and more, If you wanna hear some, go to my Myspace page and click on the 5th track (Everlasting Silence, an excerpt of a 10 minute track). Wanna release my first progrock album in this or next year. |
| June 2008 |
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Recently, Bert Strolenberg of Sonic Immersion had an interview with me. You can read it at the Sonic Immersion website. It also contains 2 refcent photo's of (one site of) the studio. On June 8, Ruud and I will have a recordingsession in my studio, and we will decide then, which tracks will be released on our 4th album. |
| May 2008 |
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On September 20, I will be
playing at a new festival for Electronic Music in Bielefeld, Germany. At this moment I'm busy finishing 10 Emmens&Heij tracks. After finishing the tracks, Ruud and I will decide which tracks will be released on our 4th album, to be released in September or October. |
| April 2008 |
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I will be on stage with Ron Boots at the E-day festival, April 13!! I have played Moogsolo on the first track (Hour of the Wolf) on the new album of Ron Boots, also to be released on April 13. The solo can be heared on the website of Groove (click on the mp3-icon behind the track). On September 20, I will be playing at a new festival for Electronic Music in Bielefeld, Germany. More information soon. |
| January 2008 |
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The new album is mixed and mastered. I think it can be released at or before the E-day festival. The album is entitled: ''The Nearest Faraway Place - Volume 1". In fact, it contains one very long track of about 71 minutes, but we will place a number of trackmarks in it, to make it more attractive for the listeners and the radiostations :-) I will be at the E-day festvial on April 13th, to support my recordcompany Groove. Hope to meet you there! |