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Luwten
Luwten

Album NL 2017 on Luwten / Silence Du Monde label
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Gatefold card sleeve - insert. The maxim for LUWTEN, Tessa Douwstra's creative conduit, is a simple one: space is the place. Well, maybe not outer space specifically, but a space unburdened by the strain of ones surroundings. A place where only one thing truly matters: the desire to create something that didn't exist yesterday. LUWTEN's music encapsulates that much-needed stroll around the block to clear your mind. A tranquil space to properly arrange perceptions of difference and similarity. Through her songs, Douwstra emboldens the shy person who musters the courage to withdraw. The person who'd rather consider all interactions, choices and dreams at his or her own desired pace. During the album's writing and recording process, Douwstra found a rewarding collaborator in percussionist and producer Frank Wienk (BINKBEATS). The album's supple, meticulous compositions are the result of two full years of exploring sounds, feeling ones way in the dark and unfurling elemental, once-veiled emotions to their bare essence. Douwstra's voice radiates like a human source of warmth amidst the music's glacial, free-flowing machinery. If by design this collection songs has a purpose, it is to remind oneself to enjoy and cherish your natural state in isolation, without influence from the outside world. And congruently, delaying the very act that both hampers and fuels Douwstra's intrinsic enthusiasm and urgency to create: to walk back on that stage.

Musicians

	Luwten , album by
	Ralph Pouw bass, harmonium, piano, guitar, backing vocals, synthesizer, moog, other, ms20
	Tessa Douwstra voc, concept by, engineer, additional recording, lyrics by, music by, mixed by, additional mixing, producer, vocals, guitar, piano, spinet, omnichord, drum programming, percussion, keyboards, casio sk-1, other, volca beats, bass, bolsa bass, piano, pocket piano, keyboards, yamaha ps-20, guitar, guitaret
	Mischa Porte dr, perc, NL drums, percussion
	Frank Wienk perc, dr, vib, engineer, additional recording, marimba, piano, spinet, drums, drum programming, sampler, percussion, backing vocals, guitar, guitars, bass, bolsa bass, piano, pocket piano, keyboards, analogue keys, vibraphone, vibraphonette, mixed by, additional mixing, producer
	Frank Van Kasteren , guitar, guitars
	Rutger van Woudenberg , piano, keyboards, casio sk-1, guitar, guitars
	Victor van Woudenberg lyrics by, music by
	Jasper Slijderink key, backing vocals, other, prophet
	Morris Kliphuis alp, frh, fh, *1986 french horn, other, prophet
	Marloes Brockhaus other, styling
	Vera Douwstra vocals

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