Crooner

Baroque musical paintings for a seated audience Thirty years ago, Daan Stuyven decided that genres don't matter. Since then, he has been making his own kind of music - pop noir, indie rock, electro, country, ballads - and happily ignores the boundaries between them. What all his songs do have in common: melancholic and humorous lyrics full of visual metaphors, and an unstoppable urge to pour them into almost baroque musical paintings. In Crooner he does that with three. Daan behind grand piano or guitar. Isolde Lasoen - his regular musical muse for 25 years - on vibraphone, drums, trumpet, and angel vocals. And the virtuoso Jean-François Assy on his atypical cello - known from Alain Bashung and Yann Tiersen. Intimate hall, seated audience, the stories behind the lyrics. Theatrical cabaret full of emotion and ecstasy. Wie Simple missed: this is the sequel. With new vinyl and new songs added. And with Daan as he likes to be best: close by.