June11 - The Temple Of Wood FLAC

June11 Belgium Ee Tapes Chanson Vocal Minimal 2011

Genre:	Electronic / Jazz
Performer:	June11
Title:	The Temple Of Wood
Style:	Chanson, Vocal, Minimal
Date of release:	01 Nov 2011
Label:	EE Tapes
Catalog Number:	EE23
Country:	Belgium
FLAC album size:	1565 mb
MP3 album size:	2923 mb

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Tracklist

1	600 Dolphins Viola, Violin – Kris LaukensVoice [Bini Voice] – Mary Osunbor
2	Before Your Cry Arranged By [String Arrangement] – Mirco Waem
3	The Art Of Losing Piano, Sampler [Halion] – Jacob D'Hollander
4	The Forces Clarinet – Stefan ThaensMusic By – Franz Schubert
5	Everybody Wants The Same Thing Saxophone [Sax] – Stefan ThaensVoice – Drita Kotaji
6	Ce Dimanche
7	Like A Flower Vocals – Mieke VersypWords By – Heinrich Heine
8	You Know Who I Am Words By, Music By – Leonard Cohen
9	The Jar
10	The Temple Of Wood

Credits

Artwork [Installation] – Aeneas Wilder
Bandoneon – Miguel Frasca (tracks: 2, 3, 8)
Cover – Jan Van den Broeke
Music By – Jan Van den Broeke (tracks: 1 to 2, 4 to 7, 9 to 10)
Piano – Mirco Waem (tracks: 6, 7, 9)
Recorded By – Jan Van den Broeke
Vocals – Katleen De Vos (tracks: 1 to 8, 10)
Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Keyboards [Keys], Piano, Sampler [Samples] – Jan Van den Broeke
Words By – Jan Van den Broeke (tracks: 1 to 7, 10)

Notes

Limited to 350 copies
First 75 copies are hand-numbered and come with a folded lyrics sheet and 2 photographs

Track 1: for Aeneas Wilder
Track 3: for Franz Schubert
Track 6: for Sonoko
Track 7: for Mariam

Recorded in Gent, Russeignies and Boekel (B) and La Vineuse (F)
Additional recordings by Mirco Waem, Stefan Thaens and Kris Laukens in Antwerp (B) and Miguel Frasca in Buenos Aires (AR)

Thanks to all friends & musicians involved
Thanks also to:
Jan Standaert, Minouche Van Laere, Salimata Kabore, Sonoko, Eriek "EE" Van Havere, Peter "This Window" Bright, Ian "Antonymes" Hazeldine, Wim Verbeiren, Aeneas Wilder, Franz Schubert, Khaled Hosseini, W.B. Yeats, Ebenezer Elliot, Iggy Pop, William Blake, Heinrich Heine, Leonard Cohen, Lucinda Williams, Abby Lincoln, Martine Bijn

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JUNE … in winter.
A sunny Sunday afternoon in winter, lit fireplace, snow in the garden, a cup of hot thee, home baked cookies, Christmas around the corner and completing the picture … JUNE11. “The Temple Of Wood” is that kind of record! Yes … life CAN be beautiful.
Poems from Heinrich Heine, translated and processed into a song (Like A Flower), a track based on work from Schubert (“piano trio in Eb, op. 100 - 2nd movement”) … Nice touches for music and literature students but nothing more as far as I am concerned. Playing around with Art does not necessarily lead to superior Quality.
What does? Good taste, talent and surrounding yourself with skilled and fine musicians! Jan Van den Broeke (ex THE MISZ) has good taste and talent and seemingly knows all the right people! Their names? Katleen De Vos, Mieke Versyp, Drita Kotaji, Mary Osunbor, Mirco Waem, Miguel Frasca, Jacob d’ Hollander, Stefan Thaens and Kris Laukens. Together they have turned Jan Van den Broeke’s material into an admirable temple where “sensitive” people can enjoy the quietness. “The Temple Of Wood” is a beautiful, elegant and refined CD, worth your money and attention. It offers 10 delicate songs, vulnerable and fluid …
Guitar, bandoneon, piano, clarinet, sax, viola, violin, and different voices and languages (English, French and Spanish) offer master painter Jan Van den Broeke a rich instrumental and vocal palette, which allows him to create an interesting, warm and varied singer-songwriters album.
One question... Does “The Temple Of Wood” really need a Leonard Cohen cover? I don’t think so. The work of Jan Van den Broeke himself is superior in any way.
“The Temple Of Wood” was recorded in Belgium France and Argentina and released on the first of November 2011. It’s limited to 300 copies. The first 75 copies are hand-numbered and extra photographs are added.
Another EE Tapes Quality product!
Didier PIETERS Peek A Boo Magazine 21/11/2011

The Belgian project June 11 released their debut CD in 2008. “The Temple Of Wood” was released during the 2nd part of 2011 and according to me it’s the most surprising CD I’ve ever heard on EE Tapes. I fully enjoyed “The Temple Of Wood”, which is a sweet voyage throughout different musical horizons and influences.
It’s a mix of jazzy passages, cabaret music, lullabies and a few South-American influences (the album was partly written in Argentina) like tango reminiscences. The vocals are sometimes reminding me of living pioneers like Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen. So I wasn’t really surprised to hear a cover of the Cohen song “You Know Who I Am.” It was reworked with a rather tango-inspired touch. But other songs are quite Leonard Cohen as well and I here especially refer to the beautiful “Everybody Wants The Same Thing”. Quite comparable and still a bit Cave-like is the more ballad-like “The Art Of Losing”.
“The Temple Of wood” also moves on the edge of a real lullaby on the French sung “Ce Dimanche”. And there are more surprises on this album as well. There is the more classical sounding “The Forces” inspired by the music of Franz Schubert and I also want to mention the piano ballad “The Jar”.
No doubt about it, this album is a little jewel full of sensibility and musical knowledge.
DP:8/9)DP SIDE-LINE (25 feb. 2012)