Roelofs: Rope Dance

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Label
BIS
Release Date
May 7, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      ROELOFS, JORIS
    • PERFORMER
      Sambeek, Roelofs, Looze, Feen, Vink
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 07, 2021
    • UPC
      7318599924533
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2453
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Jazz
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Beware the Buffoon!

      Composer: Joris Roelofs

      Performer: Joris Roelofs, Bram van Sambeek, Clemens van der Feen, Bram De Looze, Martijn Vink

    2. II. Sweet Superman

      Composer: Joris Roelofs

      Performer: Bram van Sambeek, Clemens van der Feen, Bram De Looze, Martijn Vink

    3. III. Rope Dancer

      Composer: Joris Roelofs

      Performer: Bram van Sambeek, Clemens van der Feen, Bram De Looze, Martijn Vink

    4. IV. Are Your Feet Light Enough?

      Composer: Joris Roelofs

      Performer: Bram van Sambeek, Clemens van der Feen, Bram De Looze, Martijn Vink

    5. V. If You Gaze Long into an Abyss…

      Composer: Joris Roelofs

      Performer: Bram van Sambeek, Clemens van der Feen, Bram De Looze, Martijn Vink

    6. VI. Off Balance

      Composer: Joris Roelofs

      Performer: Bram van Sambeek, Clemens van der Feen, Bram De Looze, Martijn Vink

    7. VII. Eternal Recurrence

      Composer: Joris Roelofs

      Performer: Bram van Sambeek, Clemens van der Feen, Bram De Looze, Martijn Vink

    8. VIII. The Three Metamorphoses

      Composer: Joris Roelofs

      Performer: Bram van Sambeek, Clemens van der Feen, Bram De Looze, Martijn Vink

    9. IX. …The Abyss Will Gaze Back into You

      Composer: Joris Roelofs

      Performer: Bram van Sambeek, Clemens van der Feen, Bram De Looze, Martijn Vink

    10. X. The Master Can't Dance

      Composer: Joris Roelofs

      Performer: Bram van Sambeek, Clemens van der Feen, Bram De Looze, Martijn Vink

    11. XI. The Convalescent

      Composer: Joris Roelofs

      Performer: Bram van Sambeek, Clemens van der Feen, Bram De Looze, Martijn Vink

    12. XII. The Laughing Child

      Composer: Joris Roelofs

      Performer: Bram van Sambeek, Clemens van der Feen, Bram De Looze, Martijn Vink


The award-winning Dutch composer and bass clarinet player Joris Roelofs is also currently working on a PhD dissertation on Friedrich Nietzsche, improvisation and the notion of freedom. On the album Rope Dance he is able to combine all of this, in a suite of twelve pieces inspired by Nietzsche – ‘by far the most musical of philosophers’ according to Roelofs. It is especially the parable of the tightrope walker in the opening section of ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None’ that has provided him with inspiration for his own ‘Light-Footed Music for All and None’. It is not surprising that Nietzsche’s thoughts about free spirits, liberated from conventional constraints and belief systems, resonate particularly well with musicians working with improvisation and across genres. Roelofs has therefore been able to gather a group of highly versatile colleagues from the Benelux jazz scene to perform his music: pianist Bram de Looze, bass player Clemens van der Feen and Martijn Vink on drums. The album also confirms the multi-faceted talents of bassoonist Bram van Sambeek, following previous recordings on BIS of classical, pre-Romantic and contemporary concertos, as well as hard rock covers with the group ORBI (the Oscillating Revenge of the Background Instruments).