Improvisations by Henri van Zanten

Improvisation is awareness between matter and spirit

Music Will Save The World might sound pretentious to those who doubt the fact we live in the music of the spheres. Trained in the Western and Indian classical vocal traditions, i have become addicted to the freestyle and instant composing approach to music of the latter. Improvisation is awareness, being a medium in the spheres of matter and spirit. I try to be the echo of what i sing. Undeniable presence i pretend to bring, and you’re lucky if you like it! I can’t sell myself. The resonance would renounce me. You hear what i am saying? As example of what i hopefully clarified, you can listen to the first CD with the same title as above: Music Will Save The World, by my raptrance formation Lucid Terror. It’s one of my hibernating bands.

More music and the “God knows the Absence revival” – reverse engineering a patented fluid conservation process

Nowadays I am trying to save the world sing with my natural born free jazz band called: The Black-Out Syndrome Club. At least our free jazz improvisations didn’t destroy the world as we know it either. Besides that I also sing in more intimate acoustic impro sessions with Fuck the Writer, Watch out! Brick!, Handsome of a Bitch, Venus’ Favourites. Ballads, blues improvisations, love songs, rap royal etc. And last but not least: God Knows The Absence reunited after 20 years.

Rotterdamned Unterground music: www.antiscene.nl

Our blood is music. Let it flow!

Here are some tracks from Lucid Terror’s album Music will save the world. For starters.

Tracklist Music Will Save The World

1. I Think I Am About To Say Something

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2. Time to leave

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3. I want to think as a bomb

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Listening to Lucid Terror, you comprehend that Music will save the world is more than a famous quote of the divine Catalan cellist Pablo Casals. My webmeister especially likes Casals’ interpretations of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cello Suites. It’s maybe a bit like Angela Merkel after a couple of too much Vodka with Red Bull, steaming through the streets of Pamplona… or something.

Well, for me it’s time to stop now with a certain anti climax: Madonna featuring Justin Timberlake conceived and produced together a promising DIY video podcast AKA music video how to save the world in 4 minutes. And 4 seconds to be precise.

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