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Draagvader – 2009-2011<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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I really love to play and experiment with music. From 2009 till 2011 I played in a Fusion HipHop band, playing the trumpet again after years of neglect. I love it! Great instrument! Great people to work with! With the band I started in 2009, when I was thinking about finishing the USKO choir. It started when I visited a bar, Kaf\u00e9 Belgi\u00eb, in Utrecht. Here I was chatting to guest \/ bar man Tomas Schro\u00ebn. We soon realized we went to the same high school, but in different years, that created a connection. He wanted to create an experimental Dutch HipHop band, and offered me to try playalong with the trumpet.
The band was called Draagvader, and we play different tunes. We all have different musical backgrounds, Classical music, Jazz, Punk, Metal, Grunge, and Hiphop. So it became an adventure, creating music from all these different mixtures. First we did some covers to get know each other a bit better, how we sound, etc. The covers ranging from, Buck65, Snoop Dogg, Cypress Hill, Def P and Meatloaf. Now we have a stack of five of our own songs. (Je moet gaan, Utopia, Roes, Fuck m’n intellect, Egypte.) They are in Dutch, because the hiphop poetry involved is in Dutch as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

USKO – 2002-2009<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Before I played in a band, I sang in a classical choir. The Utrecht University Choir and Orchestra. It is the biggest student choir in the Netherlands, and the quality was well respected. We often performed in the Vredenburg and in the Amsterdam Concert hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The picture is dated May 2009, a rehearsal on the tour we did in France. You can find me in the upper left corner. I am looking if something does not sound correct, the tune maybe, the balance of sounds, or the echo of the building. I don’t remember. For references see http:\/\/usko.nl\/concert\/history\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n