Inspired by the greatest gipsy guitarist of all time, Django Reinhardt, in combinatian with a great Western movie. Besides, I'm really not a very nice person; Il Bastardo pretty much sums it up!

Not so much as of late.

Gimme dem ducats

I started out exploring the world of music when my parents urged me to take music lessons (thanks for that, by the way) and later spanish guitar lessons. After that I bought an electrical guitar, exploring a wide range of styles, mainly metal and rock. Meanwhile, I taught myself to play the piano. My first CD consisted of solo pieces for guitar and piano. Later on, I discovered the music of Django Reinhardt, a Gipsy guitarist from the thirties. This resulted in the kind of music I presenly make. I think I can make a contribution to the genre, because there's a lot of excellent guitar players out there, all showing off on originals written by Django, but there aren't that many guitar players actually writing new material. I really think that's a pitty, and therefore I don't really play covers.

Django Reinhardt, Ludwig van Beethoven, Anton Bruckner, Frederyk Chopin, Bireli Lagrene, Guns 'n Roses.
I'd like to think of my music as having influences of punk, rock and metal as well but that's probably a long shot.

Nijmegen. Its downtown bars, its countryside near Berg en Dal (where I live), de Waalkade, Kronenburg Park.

This marvel of technology, the guitar
No, seriously. It's a great instrument.
For recording I use a Zoom Multitrack Recording Studio MRS-1266, except on older records (the paino music mainly), which was recorded on a really poor quality four-track (which my dear friend Veldgeest I using presently by the way ;D) with crappy microphones, that lead to the annoying and ever-present high-pitched noise.

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