27-04-2019 Jazzel's Blog
"Carefully chosen live recordings from six concerts in the Netherlands and Europe. They are snapshots that are worth listening to. The music is ethereal and intimate."
10-04-2019 Hifi.nl
"The music of the band that bears the name of the first album is clearly evolved in two years in a more natural interaction."
18-03-2019 3voor12
"An impressive performance on an album that is in any case filled with special moments: indeed the work of a close trinity."
16-02-2018 Jazzism
"It is not a guitarist that uses the organ as accompaniment, it's s the other way around: Stadhouders is moving the Rapsody with the guitar and laptop ... Stunning."
09-02-2018 Jazz in Europe
"I knew immediately we began to play together that we had something special,” says Lijbaart. “The combination of Sanne’s almost shamanistic singing and the sense of space that Bram creates was very inspiring and the elements of a kind of mysterious folk tradition that Sanne brings to the music seems to give what we’re doing a universal language."
18-12-2017 JazzFlits
"'The Rhapsody' is a technical masterpiece and a model of experimentation and creativity"
01-12-2017 Gitarist
"Improvised music with a barrel organ. That may sound like something impossible, but Bram Stadhouders proves that it can be done. And that it may not be as difficult as it seems."
29-11-2017 All About Jazz
"That the resulting music, so beautiful and affecting, feels finely sculpted, is down to the chemistry between these fine musicians."
11-11-2017 Het Parool
"In all cases, the guitarist demands a unique place in the world of music for this project."
01-06-2017 HiFi Stars
"The excellent recording quality makes the "reading" of this music an intellectual and emotional pleasure"
30-05-2017 Draai om je oren
"The trio has delivered a perfectly successful album with this album. I will not be the last one, at least that we hope!
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08-05-2017 Hifi.nl
"The on Challenge Records released album is daring and houses audiophile sounds."
05-05-2017 Music Emotion
"Joost Lijbaart is well not the default drummer as a wing bet or a piece of bossa nova of the Assembly line."
01-05-2017 JazzFlits
"They have the courage to empty there minds and create something original by improvising together."
15-04-2017 Slagwerkkrant
"A world full of sounds - and creating so much space. The space behind the music, in this case. That's where Under The Surface is mostly about.
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26-03-2017 Gonzo
"Melodies are rocking back and forth, expanding like they arise on the spot."
22-03-2017 Jazzenzo
""Under The Surface", an extraordinary and thrilling collaboration between drummer Joost Lijbaart guitarist Bram Stadhouders and debuting vocalist Sanne Rambags."
18-03-2017 Het Parool
"Listening to the album is an intense experience, attending the concert is magical."
01-06-2015 Klassieke Zaken
""Monasteria is with its seventeen tracks an extremely glorious and atmospheric album that everyone who falls for the sound of a guitar will delight you.""
04-05-2015 NRC Handelsblad
""Very strong is the organic and responsive manner in which the limits of an idea is explored and shifted and how the tonality is streched of even left." "
30-03-2015 Jazzpodium
"A perfect mix out of improvisation, minimalism and classical styles of playing. Excellent!"
26-02-2014 De Weekkrant
"Often classical and jazz / improvisation are two totally different disciplines which are difficult to reconcile. Bram Stadhouders proves the contrary. Henosis means "unity" in Ancient Greek, and that's exactly what Bram had in mind: Merge the best of two worlds into a large intense organic experience intense with bombastic but also very intimate atmospheres"
16-10-2013 De Volkskrant
"4 stars****
"Stadhouders keeps the tension constant, sometimes with furious electric game, then acoustic""
08-10-2013 www.opusklassiek.nl
""Let's be happy with this registration and especially enjoy the great talent. Remember that this is the work of a twenty-five year old""
06-10-2013 poprockmetal.blogspot
"One might think that classically trained musicians and jazz/improvisers are two different categories that are not easy to blend. Stadhouders proves that this is a wrong conception."
26-09-2013 Brabants Dagblad
""When the choir sings, his tones of his guitar brights and glides, he seems to be playing on a bed of voices"
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20-09-2013 Radio 4
"With his guitar and sound technology, he explores the boundaries between ambient, contemporary electronic music and free improvised jazz."
20-09-2013 De Gelderlander
"Guitarist and composer Bram Stadhouders is perhaps the most interesting improvising musician in Europe."
14-09-2013 www.gonzocircus.com
""It is clear that Bram comes from the improvisation corner, but exactly how much is improvised is not easily to guess""
