Swinging tropical Latin song with tongue-in-cheek lyrics about a guy who is too shy to declare his love for a beautiful girl on the beach and daydreams: what if…?
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Cuban Shuffle (English Version)

"The Flight of the Zamarrito" is an experimental project, a concept and a work in progress by Ecuadorian visual artist Andrea Boada. The project was inspired by the recordings made for the album "Maborosi" by Willem Hendrikse and Yuka Kawabe.

An international group of musicians traveled through Ecuador from March 19 till April 10, 2013, immersing themselves in the local culture and music. They met with resident artists and musicians and performed at a number of locations, producing a fusion of their own musical backgrounds with Ecuadorian and Latin music. 

Audio recordings were made during the journey and mixed and mastered in the Netherlands afterwards, resulting in this collection of beautiful and unique global fusion songs, combining Latin American music, Japanese and Indian flavors and elements of rock and jazz.

This track combines an Ecuadorian capishca, "La Venada" (The Deer), with a traditional Japanese song, "Akita Ohara Bushi", a dialogue between a hunter and a deer.

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La Venada-Akita Ohara Bushi

In 2009 singer Yuka Kawabe recorded a number of traditional Japanese and Tibetan songs in Willem Hendrikse's recording studio, without accompaniment of musical instruments. Willem then proceeded to weave beautiful instrumental creations around these haunting melodies using all the musical influences from his rich cultural background. This first volume of eclectic pieces is the result.

Shelkishopa is a traditional song From Tibet. It refers to a snowy mountain that looks like a chrystal wing.

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Chrystal Wing (Shelkishopa)

"The Flight of the Zamarrito" is an experimental project, a concept and a work in progress by Ecuadorian visual artist Andrea Boada. The project was inspired by the recordings made for the album "Maborosi" by Willem Hendrikse and Yuka Kawabe.

An international group of musicians traveled through Ecuador from March 19 till April 10, 2013, immersing themselves in the local culture and music. They met with resident artists and musicians and performed at a number of locations, producing a fusion of their own musical backgrounds with Ecuadorian and Latin music. 

Audio recordings were made during the journey and mixed and mastered in the Netherlands afterwards, resulting in this collection of beautiful and unique global fusion songs, combining Latin American music, Japanese and Indian flavors and elements of rock and jazz.

El Toro Barroso is a traditional Ecuadorian song, played at festivals. This recording takes us through a festival day, starting in the early morning with the theme played on the bansuri, followed by the village brassband with fireworks and the Zamarrito project playing the song in the evening.

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El Toro Barroso

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Corazon Latino

Laredo Rose (Bonus Track)

A mix of Italian songs played by The Spice Daddies with guitar, accordeon and vocals.

Italian Demo 1 - Spice Daddies

I recorded this song with a little help from friends and colleagues: Kok de Koning on accordion, violin and harmony vocal by Sabine Vieregge and harmony vocal by Susanne Verdaat.

Leaving Town

I Think It's Time

The lyrics of this song were originally written in Italian by Luca Mauro, I composed the music. I decided to translate the lyrics in English for this recording. Naomi Adriaansz played a very nice tenor sax solo.

Sexy Luna

In the Eighties I was a great J.J. Cale fan (still am, actually) and I wanted to write a song in his style. Since then, the song changed a bit with the wear and tear of playing it live. But I still think there is a bit of J.J. Cale in there. wahat do you think?

Trixie

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Denk Aan Mij

Dagdroom (Cuban Shuffle)

Dagdroom ((Cuban Shuffle)

An instrumental tejano huapango featuring bajo sexto and accordion.

Taxco Silver and Cuervo Gold

Tex-Mex corrido featuring Dwayne Verheyden on accordion and Willem Hendrikse on bajo sexto.

My Heart Is Lonely

Polka, originally from the Dutch Caribbean island Curacao, played in Tejano style featuring accordion and bajo sexto.

Instrumental bolero featuring Bass VI solo.

Surfin' Acapulco

Satie’s Gnossienne No 1 played in bolero rhythm on bass instruments, featuring Fender Bass VI (Willem Hendrikse), Bass flute (Mariël van den Bos), bajo sexto and double bass (Fred Snel).

Gnossienne No 1

Cumbia norteña with English and Spanish lyrics, featuring accordion and bajo sexto.

Cumbia Fever

Growing up on my native island Curacao in the Dutch West Indies my first musical impressions came from Latin music: Cuban, Venezuelan, Mexican and of course our own Antillean music and folklore. 
As a teenager I was drawn to rock music (Vanilla Fudge, Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep, Jethro Tull) and particularly the latin-rock of Carlos Santana.
In my twenties I became a fan of country & western and southern rock after long days (and nights) listening to Neil Young, CS&N, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Charlie Daniels Band and so on. At the same time during my guitar studies I was exposed to a lot of Brazilian music, especially Bossa Nova.

All these different musical influences manifest themselves in my songwriting, I love them all and so I use whatever comes to mind. Thus, although my albums offer a seemingly eclectic choice of songs, they represent where I stand musically nowadays.

In the eighties I came to live in Eindhoven in the Netherlands. I perform all around Europe, alone as a singer and guitar-player, or as a band, accompanied by accordion and double bass.

Willem Hendrikse

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