Sometimes you stumble upon really great bands and start to wonder why you never found their music before. Today I was digitalising my cd collection and add them to my digital collection when I stumbled upon The Golden Filter. They caught my eye because of their albumcover for the album Voluspa which is a photo of a person covered with a red cloth in the middle of an abandoned landscape. I started listening to it and it’s a really great album! I can’t really remember where I found it, probably on Last.fm in a list of recommended artists because it does sound a bit like some other bands I love, like iamamiwhoami and Zeigeist. I looked them up on the internet and found out that one of their latest records is an audiovisual project. I really like it when visual artists collaborate with bands to create something that’s somewhere in the middle of a movie and a videoclip. The film Syndromes is a about a young girl which seems to have some sort of talent to heal people. You see her struggle with the power to heal but also feeling sick because of all the ill people she has to visit.

Go to www.thegoldenfilter.com to see the film.

I also found that besides an interesting film the band also has some interesting photos, including the Voluspa album cover:

Songwriter Leendert played at De Bakkerij last friday and I made some photos. You can see the whole set on flickr.

On the 29th of november I made photos of the legendary banjo player from America: Curtis Eller. The support act was a jew’s harp player(not really sure if that’s the right translation, in Dutch it’s called a ‘Mondharp’) Danibal.

You can see a selection in this blogpost or you can view the whole series on flickr. I also made a movie which you can view on Youtube.

Danibal

Curtis Eller

Always finds new ways to play the banjo.

or places..

Curtis Eller & Danibal

Last saturday I went to make photos at North Empire Fest: a punkfestival which took place in De Bakkerij in Castricum. Here’s a selection, you can see the whole series on flickr.

I totally forgot to post some photos of the Uit Je Bak Festival on my weblog. The festival took place the 29th of July in Castricum. More photos can be seen here.

Silent Disco

Milou Bakker

Dress Up Dolls

Insayno

Silent Disco!

Party at the Silent Disco

John Coffey

Audience participation @ John Coffey

The crowd went crazy

The girls of Cirque Valentin

Kids With Guns

A party going on during Dearworld: the headliner

Even old people enjoy themselves

Dearworld

One of my biggest inspirations is iamamiwhoami: the visual music project of Jonna Lee, producer Claes Björklund and photographer John Strandh.
It started as viral video-music project; every once in a while they uploaded a mysterious video on youtube. Once more people were spreading the word, the videos became very popular. If you haven’t heard them yet, go to their Youtube channel and watch the wonderful videos.