Great news for Yuri Honing. His single Aftel All, which was released in December 2017, has been played over 1.3 million times on Spotify. This makes it a true hit, a rarity in the jazz and classical music scene. This week, the accompanying video clip was presented on YouTube and Facebook. After all, is there a better way to bring attention to a new release? This is all the result of Honing’s successful 2017 release Goldbrun, with his Acoustic Quartet (with Wolfert Brederode on the piano, Gulli Gudmundsson on the bass and Joost Lijbaart on drums). Goldbrun is a timeless musical document, using his capabilities to their full extent. Artistically, everything from his career is combined on this album: music in the broadest sense of the word, combined with different forms of art en even history.
Later this year, Honing will make himself heard again. From September 22nd, there will be an exhibition with Mariecke van der Linden in the Fundatie in Zwolle (The Netherlands). Also, a documentary about Honing is being produced, which will be released later this year. Furthermore, his album Goldbrun will be released on white vinyl, in the autumn of 2018 You can watch Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet’s new music video here.
Saxophonist Yuri Honing comes after the successful album Desire, again with a jazz album that breathes peace, serenity, tension and mysticism. The inspiration comes from Honing’s love for classical music, history and art.
The central theme and motive for this album is Europe and heroism. In those times when people do not always realize the value of Europe and of 70 years of peace, Honing tells a binding story. During his research into the history of Europe, he chose Germany as a symbol of Europe. Because of their many good writers, philosophers, composers and painters. And because of its resilience and the leadership role they now take in Europe. He attributes to more proudness of among Europeans of the cultural DNA of our their continent. Honing was especially inspired by the beauty of Richard Wagner’s music (1813-1883) and his disciple Richard Strauss (1864-1949). Both were determined in their music, even though they did not match the taste of time. In track 4, Goldbrun IV, these two inspirations are processed.
Goldbrun, title of the album, is a non-existent term. For Honing, it stands for the way of composing this album. The (harmonic) themes are interwoven in a larger whole, which characterizes that each second interval of the main theme is a small second. This way of non linear composing he looked down from John Coltrane. He plays Lush Life (1961) ‘Like Someone in Love’ without piano. As a result, you can continuously oversee the whole piece. Honing: “I compose from a core and work from there to the edges, as are harmonic structures that start in the middle and spreads out. It’s a spherical thing, Goldbrun.” Through all the influences and cooperation around this project it has become a Gesamtkunstwerk. In a second phase, September 22, 2018, the exhibition Goldbrun, a collaboration of artist Mariecke van der Linden and Yuri Honing, opens in the Museum of Funding in Zwolle with a special space for this occasion, with installations, music and oil painting.
