"The three excellent musicians play brilliant individual solos. In addition, in this unusual line-up, they generate an incredibly beautiful and sonorous band sound." (Muziekwereld, Michael Klier)
The music of Pelican Three is surprisingly versatile. The new trio of Iman Spaargaren (saxophone), Mark Tuinstra (guitar) and Dirk Beets (trumpet) ranges from the lyrical meditative composition 'Yorke' and the virtuoso thundering '332' to experimental sound experiments in 'Imandi'. Tuinstra wrote eight of the eleven idiosyncratic songs. The album also contains a mysteriously hushed version of 'Tainted Love' by the English new wave group Soft Cell in 1981.
The album title is a reference to the band Radiohead, but also a critical reference to the Dutch radio landscape 'where you have to look very hard for finding surprising music'.
The three excellent musicians play brilliant individual solos. In addition, together in this unusual line-up, they generate an incredibly beautiful and sonorous band sound. Take the intriguing Gee-O-Gee for example, which starts as a chorale on a few broken guitar chords. This is a starting point for telling a mysterious, compelling story of which you can't get enough of.
After the raw opening, Put Your Head in the Radio takes you to angelically beautiful melody lines. (Michael Klier, Muziekwereld, 2024)
