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Reflections

Spike

Beautiful Jazz tones by Thomas Nakas @to_mi_nor and Igor Iofe @igor-iofe-1

Days that gone never come back again. The name is of this project is representative of the process that music goes from Athens to Amsterdam and came back as feedback.

From Athens To Amsterdam And Back II [Trumpet: Igor Iofe | Piano: Thomas Nakas]

A song about getting old

LYRICS:

The skin you're wound in
won't keep the sound in
so stop pretending

You hiss and you are steaming
Your eyes are streaming
and I can't say here, no

Slip-on shoes and dripping blues
You're waiting for the shipping news
Birds dive beneath the waves
They're showing you an early grave
The sea is where we go to die
The moon is hidden by the night

Waterfalls run backwards
and continents will drift apart
The universe must shrink again
so you can have your heart restart

I can't stay here
No

Slip-on shoes and dripping blues
You're waiting for the shipping news
Birds dive beneath the waves
They're showing you an early grave
The sea is where we go to die
The moon is hidden by the night

Waterfalls run backwards
and continents will drift apart
The universe must shrink again
so you can have your heart restart

The universe must shrink again
so you can have your heart restart

Dripping Blues

A song about it never being too late to change

LYRICS:

Feel taller than a mountain
after hanging up the phone
You're 44 and counting
and you're drinking on your own

In summertime you wander through
the flowers in the park
to while away the hours
and you're home in bed for dark

You spent a whole lifetime
living in a confined environment
It's time to find yourself
a new retirement plan

You gotta turn on the gas
and you gotta set it all on fire, man
You gotta pack a bag
so can leave it behind you, man

Retirement Plan

https://open.spotify.com/track/0VhApN2e4K5vYMBsuXAQuW?si=a13805dc2ba14ddc
https://youtu.be/VjEbV-RCq24

It is Japanese lyrics.
If I translate it to English, it is like the below:

"Flowers And A Fridge"

Flowers and a fridge
Let's boil sweetly easily
Pretending to be a lie
Yes, gentian
Let's boil
Take the Ladle and set fire

Couldn't you fly?
Lonely... holly, holly, holly
Where are you now? It's strange
Hydrangea, gerbera, thistle, poppy and jasmine

White dress
Let's wear it tomorrow boldly
Sea breeze
Yes, Rindo
Let's sleep
Meet in the dream with moonlight

Couldn't you fly?
Lonely... holly, holly, holly
Where are you now? It's strange
Hydrangea, gerbera, thistle, poppy and jasmine

Flowers And A Fridge

Berry for Bears - Flowers And A Fridge

Life's Sunlight

Like an old boot,
with the bottoms wearing through.
Or a moon shoe,
the world has no use left for you. 

There's some new rules,
by which you struggle to abide, 
There's a rip tide,
your just taken off for the ride. 

I was wondering, what your thinking about me.
cos one day soon them thoughts are all i'll be, and there's nothing left (here) but you. 
ahhh oooo
ahhh oooo. 

It's a suitcase but the wheels are wearing down,
It's an empty shop, serving nothing out but frowns.
There's a few changes, 
that the years are throwing round.
You've been making your bets,
but the teams are pulling out. 

Like some sealing wax, 
or a pair of driving gloves.
Like a letter box, 
or the flowering of love. 

There's a old man, 
and a toilet in the yard.
There's a lifetime,
does it have be so hard.




Old Boot

Etudes II

Etude No. 38 in B minor

What's the meaning of human rights when they can be ignored without real consequences? What's the use of laws when they are not enforced? Song about migrant workers in the Netherlands. Where exploiting these people is actually still a lucrative business model. New mix & master 2023.01.21.

[Translation]
PICK THE PICKERS

Pick the pickers 
Pick them where you can 
Pick the pickers 
Get them to our country 

Promise them mountains of gold 
And give them a contract 
That they don't understand 
So you have them in your pocket 
Cram them into an apartment 
Ten men at a time 
Let them pay usury rents 
Fire everyone who complains
It really works, you can see it quickly 
This is a lucrative business model 

Pick the pickers 
Pick them where you can 
Pick the pickers 
Get them to our country 

Drive them to the greenhouses 
Drive them to the fields 
Don't pay all their working hours 
‘Less is more’ when it comes to money 
And if someone is sick 
Or looked too deep into his glass 
Then you give him a fine 
For stains in the mattress 
If some fall out, don't worry 
You will have a new pick in no time 

But one thing you must know 
If someone asks about it 
Hide that all of your business 
Can't tolerate daylight 

So wave away what they say 
With a friendly smile 
As long as the dogs sleep 
There is no one doing anything 
Play nice weather, don't flinch 
The rights of a picker exist 
Only on paper 

Pick the pickers 
Pick them where you can 
Pick the pickers 
Get them to our country 
Bring them to our beautiful country

Song & performance: Bas Kooman
Backing vocals: @HesterKirkels
Cover art: Jan de Waardt (1871-1909)

Pluk de Plukkers

PLUK DE PLUKKERS (mix & master 2023)

Igor Iofe is a
composer whose musical
paths lead to diverse stylistic destinations. Currently Igor's focus in music is Armenian traditional duduk repertoire which he performs on trumpet. He brings the beauty and warmth of the duduk into his trumpet playing.

At the Conservatorium van Amsterdam he studied with  Wim Hendrickx,Richard Ayres,  Fabio Nieder,Willem Jeths and Jorrit Tamminga. Igor attended masterclasses with Misato Mochizuki, Dmitry Kourliandski, Tristan Murail andTan Dun. His music was performed at the Composers’ Festival Amsterdam (2012 and 2013), Atlas Academy (2010-12),  Looptail XXX and at such venues as De Link, De Duif, Het Bethaniënklooster, Het Veem, STEIM, Muziekgebouw aan 't Ij and CvA in Amsterdam and other cities of the Netherlands. His piece Y+Ywas performed by the Joint Venture Percussion Duo at several venues in the USA and Europe.

Parallel to his Classical Composition studies Igor studied Composing Music for Film with Jurre Haanstra and graduated as a Master in Composing for FIlm at the CvA. During his studies he wrote music for several movies which were shown at the Beeldbuis Filmfestival, Keep an Eye Film Festival, VERS Awards, Cinekid Filmfestival, M2M Filmfestival and Pleinbioscoop Rotterdam.

Igor is one of the organisers of the Toets des Tijds Concert Series