Johan Bakker

’Desire’

A translation of the booklet,…in my best English.



Get teached how to play the piano takes a lot of energy.
Playing from sheet music demands attention all the time
This is not the way I can do it.

On ths album the piano is touched in a relaxed way, searched in a melancholy way
and without sheet music challenged.

This is music for sultry summer evenings, emotional people, dreamers
and people searching for a nice atmosphere.
The ‘music creations’are selected because of their emotional value.

This CD is dedicated to everybody who insisted on the recording of my music.

Compositions and production: Johan Bakker
Mastering: Ton Gelsing, AMMIX Nijmegen
Realisation:december 1995
Correspondation: Museum Kamstraat 62, 6522 GC Nijmegen, Netherlands
Solco 95412596


1. Rhytm of the water (4.43 min.)
On a hot summer evening three teenagers are dancing on a square in Rome
on the rhytm of the splashing of the fountains and bright spotlights.
It is a beautiful scene, where I got the inspiration for this piece of music.

2. Desire (3.55 min.)
Your desire becomes reality, will remain unfilled or it melts in time.
So common as this thought, so sensitive this peice of music is meant.

3. Tango disforestation (5.13 min)
The destruction of the rainforest is here subject of melancholy complaining.

4. Mi-beautiful (1.58 min)
Mia passes when I'm playing the piano and says ' beautiful'.
That is the way I didn' t forget this creation.

5. False waltz, speedy wind (4.20 min) In the first part of this piece the bass-line rules.
The music is melodious ' false' and the rhytm works heavy like a slow waltz.
In the second part a light wind starts blowing.
Something like that....

6. Bleibtreustrasse (2.27 min)
This piece is dedicated to the street in West Berlin with the same name.
The Wall was still there.
A visit to Berlin was at the same time with the creation of this piece of music.

7. Between 4.30 pm and 7.30 pm (3.16 min)
In the flatbuilding where I used to live, the piano was always played between 4.30 pm and 7.30 pm.
That was an agreement with all our neighbours.
This piece got his name because of that.

8.-11. Sultry suite (1.34 m, 4.53 m, 5.01 m, 2.21 min)
The music of the sultry suite sounds at his best on a sultry summer evening,
in the garden, with a longdrink in the hand.
Most important here is the 'color of the sound'.

Shirts ('Bloezen' in Dutch) or: four times a homelike blues
12. Railway view with ice (3.15 min) is a part of the 'Railway view symfony', a piece I wrote in 1990
mixed with a theme from the song 'Refrigerator from Hans'.
The living community I joined, was named Railway view
and the refrigerator form Hans always uninvited joined (in a noisy way)
the repetitions of the saxophone quartet 'Twilight work' in his living room.
And that's the way it is.
13. Tippex blues (2.25 min) is written in a way the title suspects:
with a lot of tippex ('correction fluid').
This is one of the few pieces I've been able to write it down on a partiture (sheets), more or less...
14. Soup with bread in it (3.05 min).That is very nice for lunch.
Listen to the drowning of the pieces of bread in the second part.
15. Rummage day (2.12 min). A day like anyone has.
And so this piece of music 'rummages' in a relaxed way on.­

16-19. Winterclouds and exhaustgases
This is an typical Dutch title. In this piece there is a battle on the keyboard
bewteen Royal winterclouds and small dirty grumbling exhaustgases.
A piacere (3.34 min) starts with an improvisation across the border.
The traffic view is one of shaking East German Trabants.
In Quasi slargando (3.57 min) the winterclouds demand on attention.
In Pomposo (3.12 min) the exhaustgases taste the melody.
And in Allegro (2.16 min) you may use your own imagination.

20. Love and sorrow (5.13 min)
This composition is developed cycling between a Marquardt piano and a Spaethe grand piano.
At the same time feelings of love and sorrow gnawed. But that didn't have much to do with playing the piano.
This piece of music is a summary of the 15 minutes symfony for orchestra with the same title.

21. Vamos adios (2.42 min)
We are leaving, goodbye. With those few Spanish words you can travel far in beautiful Southern America, is my experience.
This piece expresses a feeling of connection.


Total time: 73 minutes.

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