Name: Up Jumped Spring by Bastiaan Berende
Duration: 3 min 9 s
Description: A four song EP with two of Bastiaan's originals; Steaming Up Stream and Bright Clear Design, one Jazz Standard; Up Jumped Spring, and one New Standard; Imagine. Bastiaan plays on a Yamaha grand piano and sings. No other instruments, no other effects, pure and natural. Recorded in Steve Hamilton's Studio in Milwaukee

A four song EP with two of Bastiaan's originals; Steaming Up Stream and Bright Clear Design, one Jazz Standard; Up Jumped Spring, and one New Standard; Imagine. Bastiaan plays on a Yamaha grand piano and sings. No other instruments, no other effects, pure and natural. Recorded in Steve Hamilton's Studio in Milwaukee

Up Jumped Spring

Lead The Way Compilation EP
Track 13
Prod: Union World Music 
2013 Bebble Rock Records

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Bastiaan Berende
The New Standard: Virtuous and Transcendent.
Bastiaan composes original songs and offers fresh arrangements of jazz standards, blues traditionals, and pop classics. His repertoire of songs and instrumentals have an often exotic essence, transformational meaning, or transcendent quality.

His piano arrangements are harmonically beautiful with a tinge of dissonance as they follow intricate rhythms. His sound is warm and deep, yet bright and clear. His voice alternately nestles within and rises above his virtuous piano accompaniment with emotion, lyricism, subtlety and sophistication, raw and powerful.

Bastiaan performs to uplift the human spirit and is most happy when he finds an audience receptive to a meaningful delivery of beauty, connection, and grace. He plays music to shift the sleepy mind away from daily routine to a dedicated sacred space. 

"Music is a bridge to reality. Melody, harmony, and rhythm point toward a lighter way of being. When I sing or playing piano, I am happy."

Up Jumped Spring

Bastiaan Berende

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