Last weekend to vote for Chabliz songs in the Snob 2000

It’s the end of November again, and that means the voting for the Snob 2000, an initiative by Ondergewaardeerde Liedjes and Pinguin Radio, is open! This is your last weekend to vote for songs by Chabliz!

Visit the Snob 2000 webpage and type in Chabliz. You’ll see four songs: Nightporter, New Dawn Fades, Moon, and Bite My Tongue. You can vote for 2 of these songs, as you’re only allowed to vote for a maximum of 2 songs per band. After that, you need to select at least 3 songs by other bands (you can choose more if you like—it’s fun!—but remember: a maximum of 2 songs per band).

At the bottom of the page, you can also add free song choices if your favorite track isn’t listed. However, we don’t recommend doing this for Chabliz, as there’s a good chance your vote might get lost in the crowd. But it might work for more well-known, non-underground bands.

Why is this important to us? Among the audience of the Snob 2000, there are many people who share a similar taste in music to ours but may not have discovered our music yet. This is the perfect place for them to get to know Chabliz. By voting our songs into the Snob 2000, our tracks will be played on the radio and included in the Snob 2000 playlists on Spotify. This not only means more airplay but also that music lovers and booking agents will get to hear our music.

Thank you so much in advance; we’ll be eternally grateful for your support!

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Chabliz music video nominated for The Hague Film Awards 2024

Great news: our music video ‘Senta‘ has been nominated in the ‘Best Music Video‘ category of the The Hague Film Festival (THFF). The music video was created by film director Lars Smetsers and his wonderful team, and the music was ours of course. We also had small cameo’s in it. We received this message:

‘I hope this message finds you well. It is with great pleasure that I, on behalf of the THFF team, announce your nomination for the prestigious Hague Film Awards. You have been nominated in the ‘Best Music Video’ category with ‘Chabliz Senta’. We believe that your work showcases exceptional talent and creativity, making you a standout candidate in this category.

The award ceremony is scheduled for the 23rd of November, commencing at 20:00, with the reception starting at 19:30. The event will take place at the Diligentia Theater. The dress code for the evening is Black Tie, Creative Black Tie, or Festive Attire, allowing for a touch of creativity in your attire. Be a Rebel or a Royal. Secure your tickets and make reservations by visiting THFF.NL or contact us directly at cc4u@cultureclash4u.com.

For your convenience, please find our latest promotional video at the following link.

Fingers crossed! 🙂

Update 11/30: There were 3 music videos nominated (out of many), one of them was our music video Senta. But unfortunately we didn’t win the award, which makes us a good 2nd or 3rd prize winner. However, it was a fantastic evening and quite well organized! We saw several beautiful short films and the great actress Tanya Shpadi won the Best Actress Award for her short film The Maimed! She also played a big role in our Senta music video, so we’re extra proud of her.

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Autumn in Holland

On the evening of Sunday, September 29, we performed another Livestream Concert, featuring completely improvised music on grand piano, analog synthesizers, double bass, and vocals. You can listen to parts of it here. Our next free Livestream Concert will take place on Sunday evening, January 5. Furthermore, we are spending this beautiful, warm autumn writing lyrics and arranging, rehearsing, and recording new songs for our upcoming EP. In addition, we’re working on arranging new performances.

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Senta on the ‘Nacht van de Korte Film’

We’re back from vacation and we have good news: our music video Senta, created by film director Lars Smetsers and his amazing team, has been selected for the Night of Short Films at Oogst in Hengelo. This event will take place on September 6th. We’ll also be giving another free Livestream Concert in September, on Sunday, September 29th, at 8:00 PM CET. It will be an exciting concert again, featuring completely improvised music on grand piano, synthesizers, double bass, and vocals. Watch our previous Livestream Impro Concert here.

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We wish you a beautiful summer

June was a good month for us, with live concerts and working on new repertoire. On June 30th we gave a quite nice live outdoor concert in Breda, to a great and interested audience, and with two marvellous hosts. Watch the pictures here and here. We also gave an impro livestream concert, with Pim on his new (vintage) synthesizers and grand piano, Marcel on double bass and Petra on vocals. The concert had a magical atmosphere, despite Petra’s cold and a slight sync problem. Watch it here. In September we’re back with more concerts, one of them will be a Livestream concert again. We’ll use this summer for working on new material, writing lyrics, rehearsing and booking new concerts. And for short holidays, rest and inspiration. We wish you a beautiful summer, with good weather (it’s raining a lot over here!) and we’ll see you again in September!

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Live concerts in June

We gave a quite interesting Livestream Concert last Sunday, with completely improvised music. We were inspired by Pim’s new synthesizers and sequencers, which resulted in one of our best impro concerts in the last two years, despite the singer having a cold. The original live stream had a slight sync issue, so the sound has been remixed from the multi-track that was recorded at the same time and so the sound quality is even better now. A few highlights of the concert are here, here, here and here (and you can find more highlights in the shownotes of the video). Watch the complete video here (and it would be great if you subscribed to our YouTube channel, too):

AND on Sunday afternoon June 30th we give three short live concerts on the Gluren bij de Buren festival in Breda. Free entry. It would be great to meet you there!

By the way…… did you already watch our new music video Senta? It has been released in May.

We wish you a beautiful summer!

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New music video Senta + live concerts

More news: Our new Senta music video was added to the Cool Top 20 Playlist on YouTube. And a week ago the Free 40 Alternative Charts placed our Senta song on their chartlist. Together with our old colleagues from Dizzy Panda! More news to follow…

AND we’re giving two live concerts in June. On June 16th we give a free impro livestream concert again. And on Sunday afternoon June 30th we give three short live concerts on the Gluren bij de Buren festival in Breda. Free entry. Check our concert schedule for more information.

UPDATE June 3rd: The Dutch Alternatieve Muziekman wrote a nice article about our new music video.

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Music video Premiere Tonight, on May 6th at 8:00 PM!

Great news: we’re releasing our new music video ‘Senta‘ tonight, on Monday evening, May 6th, at 8:00 PM CET sharp. We will host an online premiere with a live chat option on our YouTube channel. It would be great if you could join us! Some members of the cast and crew are also present. The premiere will last approximately seven minutes in total. Afterwards, there will be an opportunity for friends and fans to keep chatting in the comment section. The music video was created by film director Lars Smetsers and his amazing cast and crew. Our band members have a ‘cameo appearance’ in the video. Pinguin Radio already published an article on their site about this premiere.

Update May 19th: It’s two weeks later. We received many good reactions on the video. There’s even some news about it that we can’t share yet….. AND the Free 40 Alternative Charts placed our Senta song on their chartlist. Together with our old colleagues from Dizzy Panda!

This is our cast & crew:

Roy: Andrew Vandaele
Ann: Tanya Shpadi
Michael: Jeroen van Hoorn

Director, Writer, Executive Producer: Lars Smetsers
Producer: Chabliz
Production Assistants: Marcel Peters, Petra de Winter

D.O.P.: Lars Smetsers
Camera Assistant: Pim van Riezen
Clapper/loader: Jochem van Eeten
Gaffer: Mitchell voor den Dag
Best Boy: Chung Dha Lam
Electrician: Roan Poldermans
Trainees: Floyd Loorbach, Storm Blok

Art Director, Costume Designer: Lars Smetsers
Make-up Artist: Sarah Camphuysen, My Desi Look

Sound Recorder, Editor, Visual Effects: Lars Smetsers
Sound Designer: Pim van Riezen
Colorist & Visual Effects: Tony Wattimena

Extras (in order of appearance):
Marcel Peters, Petra de Winter, John Geerts, Pim van Riezen, Maikel Kokx, Miranda Clemens, Sylvia Pool-Raden Soepano, Liesbeth Peels, Jeroen van Hoorn

Special thanks to:
The neighbours of Bungalowpark L ’Air Pur, Beton Aparte International BV, Bungalowpark L ’Air Pur, Mounttec

Music composed by Petra de Winter, Pim van Riezen & Marcel Peters. Lyrics by Petra de Winter, Karianne Hylkema & Pim van Riezen. Vocals: Petra de Winter. Keys: Pim van Riezen. Contrabass: Marcel Peters. Drums: Sergio Bisbal. Music produced by Pim van Riezen. Assistent producer: Petra de Winter.

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New music video and more

Great news: In May we’ll release our new music video. Film director Lars Smetsers shot this music video, together with his wonderful crew. Our bandmembers have some ‘cameos’ in it… Curious for backstage footage? Go herehere and here (scroll down). The day before the video shoot our singer gave an interview (in Dutch) about Chabliz and the new music video to local radiostation Omroep Baarle, because the set was situated in this interesting village:

And we’re recording new songs again! In February we gave a few well-received live concerts in Gouda and Vlaardingen. At the moment we’re booking new concert dates again for the upcoming months.


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We wish you a beautiful 2024

We wish you a beautiful 2024! The previous year was good for Chabliz and its individual bandmembers, and hopefully for you too. But for Holland, Europe and other parts of the world it wasn’t a good year at all. We’re deeply worried about the wars and political situation in several countries. That being said, as a band we look back to an inspiring year which broke several positive records. We never had so many listeners on Spotify before, right after our single release Bite My Tongue, together with our colleagues from Dizzy Panda last Summer. This single (or actually it was a small EP with two songs) also received much press coverage in Holland. We also started last year with completely improvised livestream impro concerts and we’ll go on with this in 2024. Our first Impro Livestream concert of 2024 will be quite soon, on Sunday evening January 7th. On top of that we gave several live concerts all over the Netherlands. Last year we also received a few belated, but beautiful album reviews of our Heroes and Foes album. During the last week of 2023, two days before Xmas, we recorded our next music video, of our Senta song. Film director Lars Smetsers shot this music video, together with his wonderful crew. Our bandmembers have some ‘cameos’ in it… The video will be released within a few months. Curious for backstage footage? Go here, here and here (scroll down). The day before the video shoot our singer gave an interview about Chabliz and the new music video to local radiostation Omroep Baarle, because the set was situated in this interesting village. You can listen to this lively interview here (in Dutch):



On top of all that we reached our highest position ever in the yearly SNOB 2000, with position 217 for our version of New Dawn Fades and position 225 for our Nightporter song in December '23! We're back in the Snob list on Pinguin Radio with no less than 4 songs. Also our Moon song (position 1505, so glad we made it) reached the list, and of course the new Bite My Tongue single (on posision 1054). We thank you so much for voting our songs into this beautiful alternative radio playlist!  We're grateful for that. We also would like to thank Ondergewaardeerde Liedjes for all the effort (again, year after year!) in organizing this beautiful, big event! And not to forget the great Pinguin Radio DJ's!

In 2024 we’ll release the new music video. And we go on with our live concerts and our livestreams, a few of them already will take place in January and February. At the moment we’re also writing and recording new songs. Expect new single and/or EP releases in 2024! As a band, we’re growing at the moment. We receive more attention, more plays and streams, more playlists are adding our songs and we get more Shazams and followers. Hopefully this growing line will continue in 2024. We’re working on it, quite hard. In the mean time we would like to thank you for your support!

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