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BRUNNEN - Sometimes my Arms bend back

Format: LP Label & Cat.Number: Vrystaete 3 Release Year: 2015 Note: very rare & final BRUNNEN album, the project of FREEK KINKELAAR (one half of BEEQUEEN) that has often been compared to a "lighter", even more melancholic & soft version of LEGENDARY PINK DOTS... melancholic songwriting with lyrics, based on guitar, bass, synths & drumbox, charmful fairy-tale Pop! lim. 150 copies, handprinted linocut cover & inlay, the LP contains older / deleted / rare material and two new songs Price (incl. 19% VAT): €22.50 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info "Brunnen is one of those best kept secrets from Holland... known to many in a small part of the music universe... of course he is known for his own releases... of which most are rather obscure records... but he is also known as being part of Beequeen... solo he writes light psychedelic folkpop tunes... sounding a bit like a lo-fi Legendary Pink Dots... and in a way he is truly a modern day acid troubadour telling small stories accompanied by minimal instrumentation... this is probably the last Brunnen record ever... and although this is a collection of new and older songs (some of them in a different version) this record was created with a narrative of its own..." [label info] vrystaete.nl "There are a small number of artists I should not be writing about. For the simple reason that I know them all too well, personally as well as being 'partners' of some kind. Brunnen is one such artist, being the solo project of Freek Kinkelaar, who sometimes worked as Beuatiful Glass Bottom Boat, but is perhaps best known as one half of Beequeen; there you go. Within the latter constellation he is, these days, the prime composer and lyricist, pushing the music towards a more pop front. Maybe, just maybe, one could say that as Brunnen we have a proto-Beequeen sound; maybe a bit more sparse, maybe a bit more primitive, stripped of whatever else is added by who-ever else in Beequeen, but essentially the same kind of dreamy chords and like-wise vocals. Here of course Kinkelaar sings everything himself, a duty left to Olga Wallis in Beequeen. This is the final Brunnen release, clearing the archives for one last time. Some of these pieces were released on 'Goodbye Bye Brunnen' (see Vital Weekly 77 - that old!), long deleted of course, which is probably the fate of this record too: only 150 copies of 'Sometimes My Arms Bend Back' were made. Inspired by the sad likes of Syd Barrett and Nick Drake (and maybe also Edward Ka-spel), Kinkelaar (free of any narcotic abuse however) sings with a similar melancholically a song, with a dramatic intonation that shows that all is dark but there is always light at the end of tunnel (eat your heart out, Nick!). A particular private affair of melancholia. Quite folky and dark at times, but not the kind of folk noir you need to wear your military gear too. If this is the end of Brunnen - and who knows, it is for now - then this is most lovingly exit, ending on a sad low note." [FdW/Vital Weekly]