diepvriesfruit — 14 songs
diepvriesfruit — 14 songs
Frieda Gustavs
New release!
14 x 12,5 cm, 40 pages, hardcover
Texts Dutch, English and German
with QR code to the music
ISBN (NL) 978-90-79962-13-6
20,00 Euro
Releaseparty: 11th of december, 19:30 (doors open at 19h)
Salon de Ijzerstaven, Bickersgracht 10, 1013 LE Amsterdam
tickets: € 10 / €25 incl. book
The book has found its analog form, the website has emerged from its code and the songs are ready to join the virtual world of the internet. Apart from playing and listening to music we will go down memory lane together and look at some material that lies at the roots of the project. And there is another big surprise on the menu! Hint: it includes trees and bellies. I will be joined by Bjork (bass), Mafalda (sax), Natálie (violin), Nuno (bassoon & synth) and Pedro (guitar). There will be drinks and lots of time to chat.
Hope to see you there!
friedagustavs.net
Across the centuries, songs have carried stories and melodies through grand halls and down narrow corridors. In medieval courts, troubadours, minstrels and minnesingers wove together music and verse to entertain, inspire and reflect the lives of those who listened. Frieda Gustavs is a wordsmith, composer and singer with this same passion. These fourteen songs seek to resonate within moments of life’s stillness and fill the spaces where silence breathes deeply.
The songs that make up “diepvriesfruit” were written over a relatively long period of time. They reflect different life stages that are not directly related to each other and do not appear in
chronological order. They are like the rooms of a house, which have different functions and yet are all lived in at the same time. They are “heimat” — long familiar and yet constantly new. They
are a collection of accumulated sung treasures and a symbol for non-linear memory.
Diepvriesfruit is a CD. But because the physical plastic disc no longer exists and the songs can be listened to online via a QR code, the usual booklet has been expanded into a real book. In the format of a CD cover, of course. On the pages, listeners will find the lyrics and a brush drawing for each song. An illustrated book in music format. Slim, but with all the trimmings. The great world of Frieda Gustavs' songs summarised and materialised in pocket format, because listeners love an object in their hand, in addition to the digital link.
