Only By Memory (taken from the 7" 'Haarlem Vinyl Stad' EP)

Club Helmbreker is a musical project featuring an informal and fluid collective of musicians. The purpose of the project is to reinterpret hits, hidden gems and rarities by another artist in one day. Club Helmbreker was initiated by Martijn Bosman, Mathijs Ton, Yorick van Norden and Huub Reijnders in April 2014.

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of one mr. Beck Hansen's commercial breakthrough with the song 'Loser' in April 1994, a group of Dutch musicians gathered together at the Netherlands' Studio Helmbreker on the 7th of April 2014 to pay tribute to Beck.

After starting off the session with a fresh and exciting mash-up of the aforementioned 'Loser' and the song 'Novacane' and the dreamy Don't Let It Go, it was decided to move on to other territory: the brilliant 'Lonesome Tears' from the melancholic song cycle 'Sea Change' (2002).
In Club Helmbreker's take, the song takes on a Lennon-esque aura.
 
Among the featured musicians are (ex-)members of Baskerville, Wooden Saints, Daniel Lohues, The Kik, Guus Meeuwis, The Hype, Blue June, Gem, Gotcha! and Chef'Special.

For more information regarding the project, please visit www.facebook.com/clubhelmbreker or e-mail us at clubhelmbreker@gmail.com.

Musicians:

Yorick van Norden: leadvocals
Guido Joseph: electric guitar
Bernard Gepken: electric guitar
Arjen de Bock: grand piano, vibraphone
Thijs van der Klugt: electric guitar
Marcel Groenewegen: bass guitar
Martijn Bosman: drums
Annie Tangberg: cello
Natalio Sued: clarinet

Audio engineered and mixed by Huub Reijnders

Assistent engineers: Shai Solan & Paul van de Geijn

Project coordination: Martijn Bosman, Yorick van Norden, Huub Reijnders, Mathijs Ton

Design: Fanny Morrien

Club Helmbreker ft. Yorick van Norden - Lonesome Tears (Beck)

Club Helmbreker is a musical project featuring an informal and fluid collective of musicians. The purpose of the project is to reinterpret hits, hidden gems and rarities by another artist in one day. Club Helmbreker was initiated by Mathijs Ton, Huub Reijnders, Martijn Bosman and Yorick van Norden in April 2014.

It was in early July 2014 that the Club Helmbreker team met up with a group of faces old and new to follow-up the successful Beck edition of the project with something new and exciting.
Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney is among the most successful pop artists of the 20th century and has had more hits than any of his peers. 
But what the general public doesn't know and the press doesn't always acknowledge is that behind Paul's thumbs-up image and the string of hits lies the most interesting, creative, sometimes experimental and often overlooked body of work one can imagine.
And thus, CLUB HELMBREKER presents THE OTHER SIDE OF McCARTNEY was born!

In the summer of 1979 Paul retreated to his farm to record what was to be his second solo album, McCartney II. The result was a very daring, playful and often futuristic album where Paul fully indulged in the new sounds and synths some new bands like Talking Heads were using. No track on the album was to be as ahead of it's time as Temporary Secretary. Here is Club Helmbreker's take. Can you dig it? 

Among the featured musicians are (ex-)members of DI-RECT, The Kik, bewilder, Baskerville, Guus Meeuwis, The Hype, houses, Ape Not Mice, Gotcha! and Rilan & The Bombardiers.

For more information regarding the project, please visit www.facebook.com/clubhelmbreker or e-mail us at clubhelmbreker@gmail.com.

CLUB HELMBREKER presents THE OTHER SIDE OF McCARTNEY

TEMPORARY SECRETARY

Musicians:

Yorick van Norden: leadvocals
Diede Claesen: backingvocals
Paul Jan Bakker: electric guitar
Manuel van den Berg: electric guitar
Arjen de Bock: keys
Thijs van der Klugt: synths
Marcel Groenewegen: bass guitar
Martijn Bosman: drums

Audio engineered and mixed by Huub Reijnders

Assistent engineers: Shai Solan & Paul van de Geijn

Video produced by Haus of Waus

Project coordination: Yorick van Norden, Huub Reijnders, Mathijs Ton, Martijn Bosman

Camera operators: Sem Voortman, Jeroen de Koster, Jelle Helwig, Ruben Voortman

Editor: Jelle Helwig

Design: Fanny Morrien

Club Helmbreker ft. Yorick van Norden - Temporary Secretary (Paul McCartney)

Cool, Cool Water (instrumental insert)

Recorded at La Fabrik, Issoire, France during the summer of 2012.

Yorick van Norden: lead vocals, acoustic guitar, melodica
Wieger Bronstring: piano
Jeroen Harmse: bass
Guido Elshof: drums

Written by Yorick van Norden, Sandy Dane & Maarten Veldhuis, composed by Yorick van Norden & Sandy Dane

mixed and mastered by Wieger Bronstring
