CREDITS
All compositions by Benjamin Herman
‘Lamento’ original poem written by Remco Campert
Benjamin Herman – alto saxophone, dictaphone
Gideon van Gelder – piano
Sean Fasciani – double bass (tracks 2, 5, 6, 10, 11, 13)
Kasper Kalf – double bass (tracks 1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 12)
Joost Kroon – drums
Remco Campert – typewriter (tracks 6, 7) and voice (track 13)
Tracks 2, 10 and 11 taken from the original soundtrack for the documentary ‘Tijd Duurt Een Mens Lang’ by Thorvald Kleve, Jeroen Kostense and S. Rozendaal
LINER NOTES
“In August 2006, while finishing work on the London Session, I was invited to lay down a soundtrack for a documentary on legendary Dutch Writer Remco Campert. An interesting challenge. Apart from being one of Holland’s most respected authors Campert is also a big jazz fan. He has often featured music and musicians in his work over the last fifty years. As a popular columnist on one of Holland’s leading dailies he would occasionaly refer to concerts and records he likes. He even came to a few of my gigs- so naturally I was excited about taking part in the film.
Campert is one of a group of Dutch writers known as the Vijftigers, basically because they came onto the scene in the 1950s. That seemed like an appropiate starting point. How about doing a session connected to the postwar music scene here in Holland? There are some incredible Dutch players from that era whow I’d love to record. When the rushes of the documentary came in, a whole new dimension emerged. Obviously this was no lighthearted jaunt down memory lane; this was a highly personal film in which Campert looked back on his life as a child, a husband and a… more”
– Benjamin Herman