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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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 here, here 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! 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 yearlySNOB 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!
In the days before christmas we’re working on a new music video, with short film director Lars Smetsers. We’re looking forward to this collab. The music video will be released within a few months. We’re also looking forward to a bunch of concerts that we’re going to give in January and February. One of them will take place in De Brandweer in February. In January we’ll also give another Impro Livestream concert. More concert dates will follow within a few weeks.
On December 18th the Snob 2000 starts! From that day on, the playlist of that particular day will be published on a daily basis, until December 31. This means that the order of the list will be a surprise until the last day of 2023. Also for us and our songs. The Snob 2000 will be played daily on Pinguin Radio. Exciting!
On Thursday evening 21/12 we’ll give a radio interview on this local radio station about our new video in the making, near the shooting location.
We wish you happy holidays!
We made this Xmas music video almost 10 years ago, directed by Riske de Vries
We ask it every end of the year: voting for our songs in the yearly, Dutch Snob 2000. A position in this playlist gives us airplay on the radio and on Spotify, throughout the year. Not only during the last weeks of 2023, but it goes on in 2024. It takes only a few minutes of your time and hey, it’s nice to do: voting for all your personal favorite songs, plus 2 Chabliz-songs. This year we nominated 3 songs, although you can only vote for 2 songs per band. But the choice is yours: we nominated Nightporter, our Chabliz-version of New Dawn Fades and Bite my Tongue for a spot in this yearly Snob playlist. ‘Bite my Tongue’ is a coöperation with our colleagues from Dizzy Panda. Please choose 2 songs out of those 3 and we’ll thank you for ever! Go to this link to vote.
We gave another free, completely improvised livestream concert last Sunday. If you missed it, you can watch it here. We had excellent sound and good camerawork. There was one technical issue: the livestream didn’t open immediately and was available one hour after the start of the show…..quite weird. We apologize to the people who tried to watch the show live! We received several calls from the audience during the concert, but our phones were on mute. For that reason there was no livechat either. Anyway, it’s online now.
We also scheduled our next livestream concert in January. In January and February we’ll give a few live shows too. More dates will follow later. On top of that a new music video will be produced during the next couple of months. In the mean time we’re working on new repertoire.
We’re quite happy to announce our next, free, impro livestream concert on Sunday October the 8th, 8 PM CET. We’ll bring you completely improvised music, on grand piano, female vocals, double bass and synths. Anything can happen! Impro music is always exciting, it doesn’t exist untill it happens. Our improvised music is someting in-between pop, rock, jazz, world and classical music. All influences are present. Hopefully the sound will be as good as our most recent impro livestream.
Last month we gave our first ‘live-live’ impro set in the inspiring Barthkapel, an old chapel in The Hague. (We say ‘first’ because we usually play repertoire from our albums in live venues.) And there is more. In November we’re going to shoot a music video for our Senta song.
Currently we’re working on new material for our next album. This month our ‘Heroes and Foes’ album is one year old!
Hope to see you, virtually, on our free livestream concert on our YouTube channel on Sunday the 8th, at eight sharp PM CET.
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