Already some time passed since Pitch Blond released their first full-length album called ‘wise and ugly’. A roomy drum, pink rabbit duracel-breaks, a proper bass and the sometimes humming, sometimes moaning or crooning voice of Suzanne Ypma make up for the PB sound. Together with the band members we build in only two days an old-school speakerwall and cartboard instruments to create this imaginary world in which grown-ups are allowed to dream. But this band is for real, I suggest you google them, and you”ll stumble on some more artwork we made for them… Photography is done by Joyce Vlaming.

Het Dholhuis - Mithu & Goonga Sain - Trumpet by “Jana” Ramzan. Linocut & screenprinted. For availability: info(at)takeadetour.eu

We like to give you a sneak preview of a project we are working on; The topic of our story, the deaf and mute dhol player Goonga Sain from Lahore, Pakistan. Although he was born deaf, he is considered by a lot of people as the prominent master of the genre. We came in contact with him about a year ago during our extensive travel in the subcontinent, and decided to make a tribute to him. Last thursday it finally happened (it was extremely difficult to create the right environment for the recording because of this night actually being a religious ceremony): a special recording session was arranged at the sufi shrine of Baba Shah Jamal where he and his brother Mithu Sain perform every thursday night, the night before the holy friday.

At the same time in the Netherlands, while Nina is listening to the hypnotic beating of the drum, she is working on a giant linocut.

To be continued…