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De pers over 'Powderblue'
Door: Andrew Keeling
Uit: Krimson News, 19 april 2004
Listening to a new album by Dutch duo Powderblue, called Powderblue.
I like this very much for its honest simplicity. It's a country
blues album, and the duo consists of Marjolein van der Klauw (vocals
and acoustic guitar) and Jac Bico who is a multi-instrumentalist.
The songs are mostly self-penned by Marjolein whose voice is like
silk, and Jac provides some especially nice dobro as well as just
about everything else. Gert-Jan Blom plays bass alongside Boyd Small
on drums and Ton van Bergeijk on harmonica. My favourite track is
She's Got My Heart which has a powerful hook line, and the
Gillian Welch/David Rawlings songDry Town closes the album.
It's a recent release on the Basta label. It's strange as one gets
older that listening to music with sophisticated simplicity seems
to fill the gap that music of apparent complexity fails to do. This
possibly says something about the various stages of life musicians,
like everyone else, pass through. The music of Powderblue, and Gillian
Welch for example, provides that.
Krimson
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