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De Tovenaar van de Nederpop
Robert Jan after viewing ‘de Tovenaar van de Nederpop’.
See the Documentaire ‘de Tovenaar van de Nederpop’:
Het Uur van de Wolf
uitzending 24 januari
NPO2 – 22.55
SUPERSISTER PROJEKT 2019 Album & Concerts
Persbericht, 15 januari 2019ROBERT JAN STIPS / SUPERSISTER PROJEKT 2019
Zo’n 50 jaar na dato neemt Robert Jan Stips – tussen zijn bezigheden met de NITS door – de uitdaging aan nieuwe songs in de stijl van zijn legendarische eerste groep SUPERSISTER te schrijven.
Onder de naam ‘SUPERSISTER PROJEKT 2019’ heeft hij dit materiaal met een aantal muziekvrienden-door-het-leven, onder het wakend oog van Het Uur van de Wolf *, opgenomen en ligt het album ‘RETSIS REPUS’ eind maart klaar voor release.
Stips: “Niemand speelt dwarsfluit zoals Sacha van Geest en niemand kan bassen als Ron van Eck dat deed…”. Daarom heeft Robert Jan gekozen voor een totaal andere, niet vergelijkbare bezetting en heeft hij 2 strijkers en 2 trombones toegevoegd aan de basis van bas, drums en toetsen. Het Supersister typerende ontbreken van gitaar houdt dus wél stand…!
Om dit bijzondere Supersister nieuws te vieren zullen begin april twee exclusieve concerten plaatsvinden: op 8 april in Het Paard in Den Haag en op 9 april in Paradiso in Amsterdam.
Gastmuzikanten op het album (o.v.b.):
Robert Jan Stips, keyboards en vocals
Marco Vrolijk, drums
Cesar Zuiderwijk, drums
Freek de Jonge, vocals
Rinus Gerritsen, bass guitar
Rob Kloet, drums
Henk Hofstede, vocals
Joke Geraets, vocals
Peter Calicher, keyboard
Leon Klaasse, drums
Thijs Kramer, violin
Marieke Brokamp, violin
Bart Wijtman, bass guitar
Rob Wijtman, drums
Bart van Gorp, bass trombone
Junior Huigen, trombone
* Documentaire ‘de Tovenaar van de Nederpop’:
Het Uur van de Wolf
uitzending 24 januari
NPO2 – 22.55 regie: Marcel Goedhart
de TOVENAAR van de NEDERPOP donderdag 24 jan documentaire Uur van de Wolf over RJS NPO2 – 22.50
de TOVENAAR van de NEDERPOP’
Robert Jan Stips neemt de uitdaging van de NTR aan 50 jaar na dato nieuwe muziek in de stijl van zijn legendarische eerste groep SUPERSISTER te schrijven. Regisseur Marcel Goedhart volgt in deze documentaire Robert Jan en zijn muziekvrienden-door-het-leven bij de opnames van dit bijzondere materiaal tijdens een tropisch hete oktoberweek in strandtheater de Fuut op het Haagse Zuiderstrand – interviews en historisch beeldmateriaal geven meer inzicht in RJ’s muziek- en privéleven –
mmv :
Aad Link (productie) Anton Corbijn Bart Chabot Bart van Gorp (bastrombone) Bart Wijtman (bas) Cesar Zuiderwijk (drums) Dorien van der Valk Freek de Jonge Jan-Willem Bullée (fotografie) Joke Geraets (vocal) Junior Huigen (trombone) Henk Hofstede (vocal) Leo van der Vegt (locatie) Leon Klaasse (drums) Marco Vrolijk (drums) Marieke Brokamp (viool) Paul Telman (techniek) Peter Calicher (toetsen) Rinus Gerritsen (bas) Rob Kloet (drums) Thijs Kramer (viool),
Rerelease Sweet OK Supersister 2 DVD Live Paradiso 2000
This week there will be a rerelease of the Sweet OK Supersister 2 DVD.
Also more Supersiter CD titels will be soon available again.
We are now working to get the payment section in the shop up and running.
Stay tuned!
Supersister – Dreaming Wheelwhile blue vinyl pressing
Music On Vinyl is honored to unveil ‘Dreaming Wheelwhile’, a one-of-a-kind compilation of the band’s early period. Songs like “A Girl Like You”, “Dreaming Wheelwhile” and “No Tree Will Grow (On Too High A Mountain)” are presented on two 10″ records, packed in a gatefold sleeve. The first pressing will see the daylight as a limited edition of 500 copies on coloured vinyl. Available while stocks last!
Note that there is no CD version of this compilation!
Filmed at Record Industry, Haarlem, Netherlands.
Song: Supersister – “Judy Goes On Holiday”
LONG LIVE SUPERSISTER ! – NEW LIVE SUPERSISTER RELEASE
On the 13th of April at the Mega Platenbeurs in the Jaarbeurshallen in Utrecht, a new SUPERSISTER live (!) album was released, by PSEUDONYM RECORDS.
“LONG LIVE SUPERSISTER !” is a deluxe 180gm double-LP set presenting unreleased material from live performances recorded in 1971 and 1973, along with four rare studio tracks, cut in Germany in 1971 with orchestral accompaniment conducted by Alfred Hause. All are dynamically remastered in the 24-bit domain from the original master tapes. The album comes in a gatefold cover featuring rare photos and exclusive new interview material with Robert Jan Stips.
This is no good news…
Supersisters and brothers
Supersisters and brothers
This is no good news…
Since July 20th, wednesday morning, our dear friend bass player Ron van Eck is no longer with us. After several years of heavy health struggling his body ‘simply’ had to give up – the end was reached. The end of his working so hard and so patiently on recovering, which even one day resulted in the fact that he picked up the bass guitar again. Supersister even started to rehearse – very cautiously – we had high hopes to be able to play Nearfest ’11 after also completing a short TV appearance in September ‘10.
Sadly enough we had to cancel all this shortly after : Ron suddenly suffered from significant fall-back. It seemed as if Ron had to start all over again – which he did, as he had done everything before, utmost bravely, but as we know now, half a year later: in vain…
Ron was Supersister’s architect and philosopher – without him it would have been something else completely, as well musically as lyric-wise. We sure will miss him badly, our dear music mate and friend with whom we went through so many stages in life together.
Bye bye Ron, thank you for all your notes, words, ideas… our Red Giant !
Supersister Nearfest 2011 canceled
We’re very sorry to let you know that Supersister won’t able to play at Nearfest 2011. At first we decided to accept the invitation of the festival after several test rehearsals, things changed however when last week Ron was taken to hospital after a sudden pneumonia. Though now he’s home again and doing quite well, we feel and found out the hard way that he is still in the middle of recovering from leukemia and we should give him more time to recover completely. We do hope you can understand that we would love to present ourselves at Nearfest in 2012 the way we really want : in good shape and in good health. Hope to see you there as well,
Ron, Marco and Robert Jan.
