{"id":2266,"date":"2012-04-16T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/vifi\/"},"modified":"2015-09-11T21:08:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T21:08:26","slug":"vifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/vifi\/","title":{"rendered":"VIFI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;The quartet is an extremely convincing unit. \u201cAs if it\u2019s a single breath\u201d\u2026&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Buzz Bros Band is a remarkable quartet with an extremely agreeable sound, playing a distinctive type of acoustic\/electric fusion that\u2019s easy to the ear, yet not superficial. The quartet is an extremely convincing unit. \u201cAs if it\u2019s a single breath\u201d, says one of the group\u2019s members, and that\u2019s what the band sounds like most if not all of the time. Besides various guitars, composer Marnix Busstra uses an electric\/acoustic bouzouki in three tunes, and the instrument probably never would have thought it would feel so much at home in this type of music\u2026 Brother, co-founder and keyboardist Berthil Busstra mainly uses a Fender Rhodes that looks as if it has been around the world several times; the sounds Berthil chooses from his digital equipment are always tasteful and fully functional \u2013 no plastic effects, no smooth strings.<\/p>\n<p>The resourceful and extremely well-defined phrases of double bassist Ren\u00e9 Dissel perfectly match the cheerful yet solid groove from party animal and drummer Chris Strik, who almost seems to massage his minimalist drum set, using brushes and occasionally his bare hands. It\u2019s remarkable how relaxed the entire performance feels, and how no one tries to do more than the music needs \u2013 which is one of the elements that make the band\u2019s music attractive for non-musicians as well. Plenty of time and workmanship have been invested in the recording and the production of this album, the first DVD of the Dutch high-end label Turtle Record: sound quality is great, and the images almost seem to draw you onstage, allowing you to fully enjoy every single note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The quartet is an extremely convincing unit. \u201cAs if it\u2019s a single breath\u201d\u2026&#8221; The Buzz Bros Band is a remarkable quartet with an extremely agreeable sound, playing a distinctive type of acoustic\/electric fusion that\u2019s easy to the ear, yet not superficial. The quartet is an extremely convincing unit. \u201cAs if it\u2019s a single breath\u201d, says one of the group\u2019s members,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/vifi\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review-the-same-new-story","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3438,"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions\/3438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}