Piiptsjilling is the duo of guitarist Romke Kleefstra and vocalists Mariska Baars & Jan Kleefstra, joined here by Rutger Zuydervelt, aka Machinefabriek, combining poetry with vocals, guitars and electronics in improvisational settings, creating rich sonic environments over which the voice guides the listener, speaking in one of the Germanic Frisian languages.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2017 Country: Netherlands Packaging: Fold out card stock envelope in plastic sleeve Recorded at Studio Landscape, in Gau, The Netherlands, on August 24th and 25th, 2016, by Jan Switters. Mastered by Lawrence English.
"Piiptsjilling combine poetry with vocals, guitars and electronics. Whether in the studio or live, they always improvise. Without much discussion, they just start, and the music magically pours out, sometimes ethereally beautiful and at other times abstract and noisy. Jan Kleefstra's poems are in Frisian, a language most listeners won't literally understand, but can just as well be experienced on a musical level, adding a sense of mysterious melancholy to the music. 'Fiif' doesn't so much mark a new chapter for the band, but rather an organic progression of their sound. There's a rougher edge to it then on previous albums like 'Wurdskrieme' (Experimedia, 2010) or 'Moarntiids' (Midira, 2014), and Mariska's vocals have gained an even more important role."-Peter Foolen Editions