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An exceptional multi-instrumental player, Satoshi Rei is most known for her skills with Asian instruments such as the “Yueqin” (Asian lute), “Ruan”, “Sha-Mi-Sen”, guitar and Lap steel guitar. In Japan, her music has been featured in various television commercials, as well as videos and as a beautiful backdrop at various events. To date, Satoshi Rei has released 6 CDs (2 as part of a rock band, 1 as part of Asian Music Project, 2 as a solo artist, 1 as part of improvised music group).

Satoshi Rei has also lived in France (2001) and the Netherlands (2003), where she continued to focus on music. Satoshi Rei continuously asks herself what it means to create/perform sounds as a person rooted in the Far East. Keeping the question as her primary focus, Satoshi Rei has strived to create her unique sounds by fusing the essence of Asia and Western, modern and traditional with her melodies of Asian ethnicity and also with Rock music. Through her works, Satoshi Rei has made an attempt to extract essences of ethnic distinctions and fuse them together. Ultimately, her sounds are driven for not being categorized into any of pre-selected musical style or associated with any ethnic backgrounds. Satoshi Rei also hopes that her sounds manifest protest to what our generation has lost (or is loosing) at the cost of modernization of the society in its recent history.

Satoshi Rei (vocal, guitar & yueqin)
Donnie Duvall (guitar)
Nenad Radosavljevic (bass)

On the following page you can find and listen to the artist’s music: Projects/Satoshi rei band

Thanks and see you soon!!

Thanks to Daddo and his design we have more updated look for the Silence Studio website.

The old and the  latest news are stil missing, some text is still messy, but everything else works fine. I’ll post the latest news a.s.a.p.

Thank you for your patience.

The sound quality for the casual Jazzy Lounge listener with the mp3pro plug-in will be upgraded from FM to CD.

In conjunction with the upgrade, Jazzy Lounge will have in rotation more tracks at 100 BPM or greater. Genres being eliminated from weekday rotation will be ambient, dance, most house, trip-hop, hip-hop and some electronica. Jazzy Lounge is aiming for a jazzier, funkier mix- more nu jazz, acid jazz, lounge, smooth jazz, downtempo, funk jazz, jazzy house and chill out.

The first segment of new format will probably be approximately three hours long and will be expanded throughout the day until it reaches a nine hour format.

So tune in and listen to some more Driftkikker on this wonderfuly eclectic radio station !

Marianne Fortuin, for Hart van Holland wrote:

Striking because of original music was the band Driftkikker. When asked for the origin of their name Daddo the singer/songwriter and gitarist of the band said: “We all three are not particularly impetuous but rather emotional. Fortunately we get along very well with each other and agree with the direction where we want to take our music to.”

You can check the photos of our performance at the media section.

2nd Appearance of Driftkikker @ Mercedes Benz, a true compliment to Driftkikker’s music !

Every two weeks a new edition of the Mercedes-Benz podcast presents three exciting highlights from the Mixed Tape compilation series. Covering a wide variety of genres - from soul and electronica to hip-hop and beyond - Mercedes-Benz Mixed Tape has been offering free downloads by the latest international talents since Juli 2004.

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I’m very pleased to say that after the debut “Coming of the light” caught international attention, there was a stear in the musicians community that lead to these collaborations, and all of these musicians are massive in their own field, (I won’t be giving it away yet who they are I’ll kep you posted as tracks are being made), this update is just to give you a headstart and prepare you for the things to come.

As usual there are more then thirty tracks made for the Album, and this will eventualy be narrowed to give a tight musical journey through dimensions of jazz, electroacoustic, funk, rock, latin and world, keping it true in tradition of DRIFTKIKKER style you all grew to like. So much for now, Till Soon !

Click on the image below to listen to the podcasts.

Through a cooperation with Wicked Jazz Sounds Driftkikker will be featuring at Sugar Factory in Amsterdam on 18 March at 22:00.

Wicked Jazz Sounds is an Amsterdam based organisation –where Jazz meets dance-. It brings an eclectic mix of the warmth and essence of Jazz and energy of nowadays dance music. It features DJs, live musicians, dancers, VJs and a whole lot of people dancing with a smile. It makes you travel a futuristic journey through jazz, hip-hop, soul, funk, broken-beat, house, drum & bass and beyond…

When I got the Driftkikker CD in my postbox, I thought in the first place that I had to review a Dutch hardcore punkband. Nothing could have been more further from the truth. “Coming of the light” is very relaxed album with trip-hop, jazz and rock influences.
The tracks are composed and produced by audiovisual artist Daddo from Leiden. He sings/raps over a base of swinging beats, creative programming and ambient sounds. Whole has enough sharp edges and original angles to avoid established paths of the “Lounge”. The number “What” was already selected for mixtape by Mercedes Benz and I think that more tracks of this alternating album will find their way to compilations…

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