Over at the Dutch progwereld.org/ I read that Robert Jan Stips is going to release a new album entitled Retsis Repus with Supersister(-style) music under the moniker Supersister Projekt. A concert in Paradiso, Amsterdam in April is also planned. Sounds interesting. There will also be a documentary about Mr Stips on Dutch TV this Thursday. I'll check it out to see if I can glean more info on the new album from it.
sweet!
If it isn't Krautrock, it's krap.
"And it's only the giving
That makes you what you are" - Ian Anderson
Looking forward to the documentary 'de tovenaar van de nederpop' (the wizzard of lowland pop).
Here's the Dutch site of RJ: http://www.stips.net/
Man! That’s pretty awesome. Thanks for the heads up.
I want to dynamite your mind with love tonight.
Oh how I wish I could be at the concert...
Hope this project has more shows planned!
No, This is a one time thing considering the long list of guests at the concert.Originally Posted by flytomars
He might do a short tour with a smaller band after the release of 'Retsis Repus'.
I've seen fairly recent interviews in which Stips' wit and cleverness seems every bit in place, so there's certainly some promise that this may come out nicely.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Very nice indeed.
"Always ready with the ray of sunshine"
Recording the documentairy this evening.
Interesting documentairy. Also some footage from their performance in Los Angeles in 1999.
Nice documentairy,RJ is a rare player but one of the best.
He is one of those musicians who keeps exploring and doesn't stick to the past.
Sad story about his dad.
Sweet...OK....!
Loved the documentary. It was mostly about supersister and just a bit about other bands he's played in. Just a few minutes about his work with the Nits, the band in which he played the longest and was the most commercially succesful. I guess that part is the best documented anyway so it does not really matter.
I loved the bit where he was complaining about that people always were trying to pigeonhole the music of Supersister. He said he only felt 'honored' that people reckoned Supersister to be a part of the Canterbury scene although he did not know any of those bands at the time.
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