At the end of June 2006 Driftkikker released the debut “Coming of the light” containing 15 tracks of unusual but pleasing blends of musical styles. This debut is being critically acclaimed as a fresh, creative, innovative, radio friendly, easy to fall in love with and forefront of fine jazz tinted music. In twining styles s.a. jazz, pop, world, trip hop, electroacoustic, funk, rock and adding punchy lyrics about daily life issues on top of that while utilizing the power of modern technology with traditional instrumentation, Driftkikker succeeds in it’s goal to create a distinctive sound. So far this sound has been discovered by people from; USA, UK, Japan, Germany, France, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Greece, Russia, Indonesia, Australia, Canada, Argentina, Brazil and it’s native Netherlands.
Few Quotes:
“ I love it! It’s adventurous, contemporary, an adventure to listen to” - Elliott Randall guitar on Steely Dan’s “Reelin’ In The Years”, “Fame” and many more…
“A superb combination of styles and eras: nu jazz, ambient, funk and rock. U2 meets Incognito. We love it!” - Sandy Shore - President/Founder of Smoothjazz.com - SmoothLounge.com
“Enormously interesting, totally exceptional music, entirely varied…” - Co de Kloet from NPS Studio 6 (Dutch National Radio)
dK Podcast - Episode 1-3
Hello everyone! Time has come for our first podcast, herewith you can listen to it, download it and share it. This first episode is a release of our sessions titled “Three stooges of beastie worms in a spiral movement towards the hot center of the Earth, looking for the balance in the universe”, and it is divided in 3 episodes. All of the instruments were played live during the sessions by Ned @ Bass John @ drums & control pads and Daddo @ guitar & synth.
