Yuri Honing Quartet

Yuri Honing is one of Holland’s most important saxophone players with touring experience in over 90 countries and a discography of almost 40 titles. Since a couple of years Honing leads his acoustic quartet with ECM recording artist Wolfert Brederode, Icelandic bassplayer Gulli Gudmundsson and Dutch drummer Joost Lijbaart. The group toured and performed on major festivals in Europe, Asia and South America.

For their new album Desire (released in beginning of 2015), Yuri used influences from from jazz, church music, contemporary pop music and modern classical music. Desire can be considered as Yuri’s most personal album.

Desire, is captured perfectly on Yuri Honing's new album. It is an instrumental opera about desire. The eight tracks reflect eight different feelings of desire. Some pieces are about pain, some are hopeful and dreamy, and others are more resigned or even peaceful. Renowned for mixing styles, Honing again explores his musical boundaries on Desire, with moving melodies framed by pop, classical music and early music compositional techniques. The track Lasciate Mi Morire (‘Let me die’) is even a very literal reference to the beloved madrigal of Claudio Monteverdi dating from 1614. Desire is a melancholy album, which will not only touch the listener, but grab him or her by the throat.

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