Can you write a song in one day? I am Oak's Thijs Kuijken rose to the challenge after spending a day in the Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam as one of the guests of visual artist Joost Stokhof's (aka The Things We Are) project I See Plants Shaking Hands. Kuijken recorded his track Field Studies that same evening:
Writing a song based on one day and one location was a peculiar challenge. Completely void of any expectations or set methods we did manage to reach a point in the evening where we were both busy working on processing our impressions of the day – Joost drawing away behind his desk and me in recording-mode on the other desk. I tried to make scraps of observations, conversations with Joost and discoveries we’d made together wandering through the gardens and green houses that day into a song
Field Studies is released thru Snowstar Records and it is one of the 4 tracks on the 7" single that comes with the I See Plants Shaking Hands book documenting Stokhof's artist-in-residence drawings.
Live dates:- 12/14 Hamburg, Germany @ Warenwirtschaft
- 12/15 Berlin, Germany @ Rotbart Rixdorf
- 12/16 Köln, Germany @ Die Wohngemeinschaft
- 12/30 Utrecht, Netherlands @ EKKO
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» thethingsweare.com
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