It’s getting better all the time (It can’t get no worse)

The Apple And The Juice

Verrimayre

Tried to write and mix a song in Beatles 1963 style. This is the stereo version.

Better Than Never (in Beatles stereo)

Tried to write and mix a song in Beatles 1963 style. This is the mono version.

Better Than Never (mono)

Chewing on your fresh meat, dreamin’ ’bout my canned heat

Love In A Tin Can

Teacher

E-Conomy (starring Scratch E-Con)

Call it focus music, call it chill music, this is the kind of musical mantra that helps me concentrate when I really need too. 

It’s also great for knitting Norwegian sweaters. Give it a try.

Prequel The Sequel

Strawberry Fields Forever

Jubilee Northbound

Bring Me Home is the result of a fruitful collaboration with the wonderful Barbara Loen. Her voice has exactly the unique timbre that this song needs: soothing and melancholic, and yet powerful and exciting enough to grab you by the throat for the full 3.30 minutes. And sorry, she is not talking to you, but to her 18-year old self Hear what she has to say, and see if she’s right.

Bring Me Home

Bring Me Home (starring Barbara Loen)

You say you try to save the world since you were twelve
But you better save yourself

Full Circle

Next Best Thing is about toasters, flower power, macrame, mullets, floppy disks, Oasis, MySpace, blackberries and me. And I think you can dance to it, but don’t take my word for it. 

Ponies is… well, a flip side.

Ponies

Next Best Thing

When you listen after a heavy break-up, it’s about a heavy break-up. If you hear it after reading the news, it’s about the end of the world and starting all over again. And when you're horny, it’s about kinky sex. For that reason I think it’s best I won’t tell anyone what it’s really about. Ever. Unless you play it. Preferably lots of times. Then I will think about. Thank you much in advance!

Dropdown Menu

In the wake of the Dutch elections this indiefolk song tells the story of a farmer fighting for her kids’ future, an environmentalist dying to be heard and a politician realizing that every decision she makes will make victims. A traditional protest song about modern issues, packed in a frame narrative with a pretty intriguing end.

When They Win

My latest single Volunteer describes dealing with a loved one in pain, the helplessness that goes with it, and how you wanna take away the hurting, if only for a little while. Heavy subject, as always, I’m sorry. But musically and lyrically I try to approach it with a bit of lightheartedness and irony. As always. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it. And thank you all so much for your support this year.

Volunteer

'I ruin everything’ is the tagline of this song, and for the right reasons. In the last stages of the creation of Ruin the multitrack fatally crashed. Even Mr. Google couldn’t help, Ruin had ceased to be, it was bereft of life, joining the choir invisible. This was an ex-song. Thankfully there was this last stereo file. Although not tailored to perfection, it was good enough to be mastered into the energetic indierock song I had in mind when I wrote this hopelessly autobiographical lyrics. I hope you’ll make it to the end of this song without fatal injuries.

Ruin

Most of my lyrics are deeply personal, and in a way so are 'protest songs' like this one. Simply because the self destructiveness of human kind is something that keeps me up at night. I’m stunned about the way people close their eyes for global warming, even though the destruction of our environment makes subjects like geopolitics, housing and immigration totally trivial. Yet We Roam has become a lighthearted song, because, you know, I love a bit of irony: whoopie, we’re all gonna die.

We Roam

It’s not you, it’s me, I’m just easily disappointed

Disappointed

Normally I write my songs on an acoustic guitar. That is the fundament on which I build my arrangements. This time out, as an experiment, I started with Serum, 'init preset', which ment I had to build all the sounds from the ground up. It sounded plastic and cold,  like pop from the eighties. To fix the problem I embraced it: I created an eighties popsong. Bam. Added a bass guitar and some analog grit to darken things up, with some heavy lyrics as bitter cherry on a neon colored pie. Enjoy.

Birdie Lives

Don’t be surprised if one of these days a giant credit role drops out of the sky and 2020 turns out to be one giant Fellini movie.

Oxsener

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