Yuri Honing's Peace Orchestra (vinyl) by Yuri Honing

Yuri Honing | Peace Orchestra

Yuri Honing's Peace Orchestra (vinyl)

Price: € 25.95
Format: LP 12inch
Label: Challenge Records
UPC: 0608917360424
Catnr: CRLP 73604
Release date: 26 September 2025
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Label
Challenge Records

UPC
0608917360424

Catalogue number
CRLP 73604

Release date
26 September 2025

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About the album

With Peace Orchestra, saxophonist Yuri Honing presents a new musical chapter where boundaries blur and sounds connect. This unique ensemble brings together a rich palette of influences, rooted in the spiritual jazz of the 1960s and ’70s, yet infused with modern electronics and an open, contemporary sound.

Inspired by legends such as Pharoah Sanders (The Creator Has a Masterplan), Charles Lloyd, and Sun Ra, the album is a tribute to musical freedom. The Peace Orchestra defies stylistic labels — it is a breathing, evolving entity where tradition, innovation, and improvisation continuously embrace each other.

Together, Yuri Honing – tenor saxophone, Remy van Kesteren – harp & electronics, Ella Zirina – guitar, Tony Overwater – double bass & bass guitar, and Yoràn Vroom – drums, create a sonic universe that feels contemplative, powerful, and wide open. Live recordings such as For a Script, Kaïn & Abel, and a surprising reinterpretation of Imagine showcase their dynamic energy and collective freedom.

Mit Peace Orchestra präsentiert der Saxophonist Yuri Honing ein neues musikalisches Kapitel, in dem Grenzen verschwimmen und Klänge miteinander verschmelzen. Dieses einzigartige Ensemble vereint eine reichhaltige Palette an Einflüssen, die ihre Wurzeln im spirituellen Jazz der 1960er und 1970er Jahre hat, aber mit moderner Elektronik und einem offenen, zeitgenössischen Sound angereichert ist.

Inspiriert von Legenden wie Pharoah Sanders (The Creator Has a Masterplan), Charles Lloyd und Sun Ra, ist das Album eine Hommage an die musikalische Freiheit. Das Peace Orchestra widersetzt sich stilistischen Etiketten – es ist ein atmendes, sich entwickelndes Gebilde, in dem Tradition, Innovation und Improvisation sich kontinuierlich miteinander verbinden.

Gemeinsam schaffen Yuri Honing (Tenorsaxophon), Remy van Kesteren (Harfe & Elektronik), Ella Zirina (Gitarre), Tony Overwater (Kontrabass & Bassgitarre) und Yoràn Vroom (Schlagzeug) ein Klanguniversum, das kontemplativ, kraftvoll und weit offen wirkt. Live-Aufnahmen wie „For a Script“, „Kaïn & Abel“ und eine überraschende Neuinterpretation von „Imagine“ zeigen ihre dynamische Energie und kollektive Freiheit.

Artist(s)

Yuri Honing (tenor saxophone)

In 2001, Honing met Paul Bley and recorded the album Seven, featuring Bley on piano, Gary Peacock on bass, and Paul Motian on drums. This album garnered Honing the Dutch Edison Award in 2002. In The Penguin Guide to Jazz (8th Edition), this CD was recognized with four (out of five) stars. For a few years Honing organized a special concert named Winterreise at the Paradiso in Amsterdam. In December 2015 he played his final show at the venue. After the success of his fusion band Yuri Honing Wired Paradise, which was characterized by its rock influence and electric guitars, Honing assembled his Acoustic Quartet in 2012. In 2016, the quartet won the Edison award for 'Best Instrumental Jazz Album' for their...

In 2001, Honing met Paul Bley and recorded the album Seven, featuring Bley on piano, Gary Peacock on bass, and Paul Motian on drums. This album garnered Honing the Dutch Edison Award in 2002. In The Penguin Guide to Jazz (8th Edition), this CD was recognized with four (out of five) stars.
For a few years Honing organized a special concert named Winterreise at the Paradiso in Amsterdam. In December 2015 he played his final show at the venue.
After the success of his fusion band Yuri Honing Wired Paradise, which was characterized by its rock influence and electric guitars, Honing assembled his Acoustic Quartet in 2012. In 2016, the quartet won the Edison award for 'Best Instrumental Jazz Album' for their second CD, Desire (2015). The group's third album, Goldbrun (2018), won this award as well, making it his third Edison in total.

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Peace Orchestra

Tony Overwater (double bass)

Tony Overwater is an award winning bass player whose sound and unique way of playing have established him as a key player in the European music world. He is a remarkable solo performer and leader of his own projects but also a collaborative and attentive sideman. He is well known for his pioneering work in Arab music.
In 1995 Tony Overwater went on tour with the Yuri Honing Trio through the Middle East, notably Lebanon and Syria, and fell in love with Arab music culture. He met musicians from lebanon, Syria and Iraq and started a long time collaboration with the Lebanese singer Rima Khcheich.
He has been involved in Arab music ever since and developed a unique new playing style on the acoustic bass which allows him to play the microtonality of the Arab scales. He has been studying the maqams (scales), rhythms and songs of classical Arab music. He recorded several albums with Rima Khcheich and eventually became the musical director of her ensemble. Regularly Rima Khcheich and Tony Overwater play duo concerts in which they perform classical Arab music in muwashah style in which the acoustic bass replaces the Oud. This has never been done before and is highly successful at festivals around the world.
Tony Overwater played concerts with many arab musicians among which Moroccan ud player Said Chraibi, Syrian clarinetist Kinan Azmeh and Algerian violinist Kheiredinne M’Kachiche.
He started a salon of Arab music in the Netherlands, Salon Joussour, creating a bridge between musicians from the Middle East and Europe.
in 2009, together with pianist Rembrandt Frerichs and percussionist/drummer Vinsent Planjer, Tony Overwater formed the Rembrandt Frerichs Trio. Three musicians with strong interest and highly developed skills in Arab music and with roots in Western classical music and jazz united in the trio to play with different guest musicians from the Middle East.
Tony Overwater has created the music for many documentaries, among which the Berlin Award winning documentary Justice For Sergei and Om de Oude Wereldzee about Dutch politician Abraham Kuyper.

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Remy van Kesteren (harp)

Yoràn Vroom (drums)

Ella Zirina (guitar)

Composer(s)

Yuri Honing (tenor saxophone)

In 2001, Honing met Paul Bley and recorded the album Seven, featuring Bley on piano, Gary Peacock on bass, and Paul Motian on drums. This album garnered Honing the Dutch Edison Award in 2002. In The Penguin Guide to Jazz (8th Edition), this CD was recognized with four (out of five) stars.
For a few years Honing organized a special concert named Winterreise at the Paradiso in Amsterdam. In December 2015 he played his final show at the venue.
After the success of his fusion band Yuri Honing Wired Paradise, which was characterized by its rock influence and electric guitars, Honing assembled his Acoustic Quartet in 2012. In 2016, the quartet won the Edison award for 'Best Instrumental Jazz Album' for their second CD, Desire (2015). The group's third album, Goldbrun (2018), won this award as well, making it his third Edison in total.

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