your voice....  oh my heart.   this is one of my favourite tracks of yours.  it's perfect.

Hauntingly beautiful. Stunning voice...magical song. Love it!

Great visceral vocal performance.  Awsome song. Love it.

Gitta it's gorgeous! Great arrangement. @Coen and the rest of the team also great great work!

Blanket Of Stars - Gitta de Ridder & Martha Bean

In opdracht van Heleen Oude Weernink voor haar boek "Helende adem voor een energiek leven".

Adem (i.o.v. Heleen Oude Weernink)

Download available from Bandcamp, where fans can support the artist directly -> https://gittaderidder.bandcamp.com/track/alternate-reality

'Alternate Reality' released on the 7th of October 2015, is the first single of the upcoming debut album (expected spring 2016) by Dutch-English artist Gitta de Ridder. 

Written, produced and recorded by Gitta de Ridder
Mixing and mastering by Coen Dingemans 
Photo by Asia Pracz / Artwork by Gitta de Ridder 

Vocals/Guitar/BV's/Drums/Melodica - Gitta de Ridder
Bass - Kai Liebrand
Cello - Simon Lewis
Additional Percussion - Leon Schmitz 

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You, you are, the man I’ll never have
Though I have wanted you since the day we met
But we can be together in this alternate reality

I see a road but I turn back
I see a house but I will pass
and I see a life that isn’t mine, I see a love that will never be

‘Cause you, you are, the man I’ll never have
Though I have wanted you since the day we met
But we can be together in this alternate reality

Oh these are the feelings I cannot feel
and these are the thoughts that I cannot think
and these are the secrets I hide away but they whisper to me they whisper to me
Oh these are the future’s that I contain
that I keep away so that they won’t be
and these are the moments, a thousand moments that never happened
They’ll never happen

‘Cause you, you are, the man I’ll never have
Though I have wanted you since the day we met
But we can be together in this alternate reality

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Alternate Reality

Gitta de Ridder - 'Lie With Me' 
Second single of upcoming Debut album expected Sept/Oct 2016 

In art we expose ourselves. In music we bare our souls and speak out about the things close to us, the things we feel, the lives we live. We bare that what lies and sometimes hides inside. We dress it up, we dress us up, in dresses and trousers and jumpers and fashions to say; look this is me and how I want you to perceive me. We mould ourselves into a shape and form. 

In simplicity, honesty, naked in song, in word, in sound we bare all. 
To speak our truth. 
For those who want to hear it. 
x Gitta

lyrics
Lie With Me 

Like a child in the dark 
I stay up late 
Like a radio-wave 
A sirens parade 

Lie with me, lie with me tonight 
Lie with me, till all is bright 

Like I'm one of the stars 
Simon said 
I fly from Venus to Mars 
All from my bed 

Oh come here and lie with me, lie with me tonight 
Lie with me, lie with me till all is bright 

Like a falling leaf 
We search for ground 
The silence smothering me 
I need you around 

So come here and lie with me, lie with me tonight 
Lie with me, lie with me till all is bright

released March 11, 2016 
Written, Performed, Produced and Recorded by; Gitta de Ridder 
Mixing and Mastering; Coen Dingemans 
Cover image credits; Wayne Grundy 
Artwork by; Gitta de Ridder

Lie With Me

The Magic Lantern, the musical moniker of Jamie Doe, is set to release his latest single Holding Hands on 30th October 2017 via Hectic Eclectic Records. 

The single opens with a defiant cry of hope, the lyrics “I’m searching…”, ringing out alone before two saxophones enter, freely weaving around the vocal, at once harmonising and echoing it. This texture builds as a third saxophone joins creating a rich brass warmth through which Doe’s voice glides, effortlessly leaping between the declamatory and the intimate. The  band enter with an infectious groove, and we are introduced to the songs’ key metaphor of a flood and the need for creative destruction - “One day, when all this is washed away, some will remain, full of hope in the pouring rain”. The track resolves with the triumph of hope over doubt.

Holding Hands was written during a moment of desperation, Jamie having travelled half way across the world only to run out of road.  Strung out and alone, he found himself writing this song for the true love he hoped to meet, as much an act of faith in their existence as a beacon to guide himself home.  Originally written for voice and guitar, it was after hearing Bjork’s ‘Anchor Song’ late one night that Jamie decided to arrange the song for saxophone trio. The timbre of the brass, the groove of the band, The Bad Plus style piano solo – it is an arrangement that brings together some of Jamie’s key influences which he describes as “the lyrical directness of folk, the harmonic openness and improvisational freedom of jazz and the craft of great songwriting. It’s a good example of how much more confident I have become as an arranger”. 

Born in Australia, before moving to the UK at 12, Jamie began performing as The Magic Lantern while studying philosophy in Bristol where he met and performed alongside friends This Is The Kit, Rozi Plain and Rachael Dadd. Moving to London in 2007, Jamie expanded The Magic Lantern into a quintet of friends and together they evolved a transporting sound, inspired by the immediacy of Jamie’s lyrics and lilting melodies and a shared love of improvised music. A debut album with the quintet was released in 2011 before Jamie returned to his solo roots with an intimate second album in 2014. The Magic Lantern has received praise from numerous publications including The Guardian, Acoustic Magazine and Folk Radio UK as well as BBC 6Music’s Lauren Laverne, Tom Robinson, BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction and BBC Radio 2’s Mark Radcliffe and Bob Harris among others. His third album, To The Islands from which Holding Hands is taken, sees The Magic Lantern return with a new ensemble drawn from London’s thriving jazz scene, exploring memory and hope in a world of near constant uncertainty. 

With Holding Hands, The Magic Lantern is ready to introduce further listeners to his bittersweet, beautiful sound. 

Holding Hands is out on 30th October 2017 via Hectic Eclectic Records.

Holding Hands

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Produced and Engineered by Crissy Tignor, 2009.

Played by:
Gitta de Ridder - Vocals and Guitars

Flawless-Accoustic "2009 - unreleased"

3rd track of Gitta's upcoming 3rd album called 'To Our Children' - album release on 10/10/2020

Lyrics: 

Round the backs of buildings where we’re soul brothering, soul sistering 
stop smothering and start believing in yourself 
Round the end of our lives so much soul bothering, soul bothering 
stop smothering and start believing in yourself 

All the time that’s wasted time we’ve wasted being so unkind
All the time this precious time we wait for someone else to make divine 
divine, divine, don’t let it pass you by 

Round the bend, we’re here again for soul brothering soul sistering 
stop smothering and start believing in ourselves
Round and round and round again this soul bothering soul bothering 
being too hard on ourselves 

All the time that’s wasted time we’ve wasted being so unkind
All the time this precious time we wait for something else to make divine 
divine divine divine, don’t let it pass us by
divine, divine
divine, divine, don’t let it pass us by

Round the bend oh loving friends let’s gather round all holding hands
cause we can stand the strongest winds these storms won’t do our spirits in
can always build whatever breaks and we must whatever it takes 
oh let us build and not tear down not drop the bomb not give a frown
oh can’t you see that we must find 

divine divine divine, oh let it come on by
divine divine 
divine divine divine, oh let it come on by

To Our Children

Soul Brothering, Soul Sistering

Marlon Penn - Dichterbij 

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Release: 01/05/2020 

Tekst, vocalen, instrumenten en mix door Marlon Penn
© 2020, Sagittarius Music.

Dichterbij

Dutch-English singer and songwriter Gitta de Ridder draws the listener into a world full of atmosphere and feeling. Feelings of joy, sadness and wonder. Stories, thoughts, dreams, hopes, and all that lies between wrapped up in a blanket of indie folk acoustic guitar sounds and beautiful melodies.
She grew up in The Netherlands leaving the family home to go study music at age 18. A journey that took her from the Netherlands to Germany, to Italy, Greece, Ireland and the UK, settling in London in 2008 where she has lived ever since. Her first single 'Mr Yesterday' released in September 2014 gathered attention from BBC introducing, Amazing Radio and several Dutch Radio stations and with her self-produced debut EP 'Come Find Me' released in January 2015 and received with shining reviews she is starting to be a name to remember.

"Her remarkable voice is given the space and attention it deserves. She really is a wonderful singer." - Alex Gallacher 'Folk Radio UK' on the 'Come Find Me' EP

"Gitta De Ridder's talent lies in creating moody, atmospheric melodies that could be dark, candlelit spaces but then lighting them up with her voice which is full of hope and quiet determination." - Roland Monger 'Listen With Monger'

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