Music

BasAlt
The BasAlt duo was born in the winter of 2007 when Mies and her husband Adriaan visited Pieter and his wife Rini in Cais das Manadas on the Azores. They took a plane to the island of Faial and had to wait a couple of days because of bad weather before they could get to the island of São Jorge. Every day they talked on the phone, they could see the other island but they could not reach each other. In the end they had a very nice time together and when Mies left she wrote a little poem ab...

Some songs that were never properly released and some rare recordings

Songs form the CD Pacer together with Frans Wessels

The Azorean Suite grew out of a piano improvisation that I have often played for friends in the last fifteen years. The piece has an unusual dramatic impact and it has been a favorite request piece at parties for a long time. When playing I always thought of a storm. The wind slowly building up. In the centre an inferno of wind, lightning and rain and then the wind slowly dying out. In my mind I could also hear a full orchestration of the piece played by a classical orchestra.

About ten years...