IT GOESHOES

It Goeshoes is a project by visual artist Michel Pol, together with the Kleefstra Bros. It is part of the temporary art exhibition 'Te Plak' in the Dutch village of Nij Beets on December 28th and 29th, 2018.

The Dutch province of Friesland is internationally important as a wintering area for Arctic geese. From October up to spring the numbers of geese can run up over 600.000 geese per month, mainly white-fronted and barnacle geese. They enrich the winter season and the landscape with their presence and sound. But since the province of Friesland turned more and more into a agricultural-industrial landscape, in which the monoculture of fast growing grass for milk production is holy, geese are not welcome anymore. Provincial politics, mainly conservatives, even made it possible for hunters to shoot over 200.000 geese a year and want the hunters to do so...

It Goeshoes is a small cottage in which geese made out of peat, poetry and sound welcome the Arctic geese, like a safe haven in an area where there is hardly any room left for wildlife and biodiversity.

The Kleefstra Bros created a track for It Goeshoes that is played in the cottage. It is available as a free download on Bandcamp.

JAN KLEEFSTRA'S COLLECTION OF POEMS @ BANDCAMP

We added four collections of poems by Jan Kleefstra on the Kleefstra Bros Bandcamp. These are three collections of Dutch poems and one with Frisian poetry, published since 2014. You can order the books for €12 each and then we'll send them over. Go to the merch-page to have a look.

EILEAN COMPILATION FEAT. LJERKE

At the end of another year Eilean Records publishes a compilation with all artists that published new work on the label in 2018. One of them is Ljerke and the compilation features the track 'Marwylgen'. The compilation is up for pre-order, but be quick since there are just a few copies left.

Eilean Rec. published the Ljerke cd on January 8th, 2018. It sold out pretty quick, but the album is still available at Eilean as a digital download.

FEAN IS OUT!

FEAN is out! There are a few copies left at Moving Furniture Records. You can also have a listen there too. After playing the Explore The North festival in The Netherlands with FEAN we hope to do some more FEAN-shows. If you are interested to get FEAN on stage, then contact Popfabryk.

FEAN started as a musical artist-in-residence project in a little church in the Frisian town of Katlyk. The group consists of all four Piiptsjilling-members (Mariska Baars, Rutger Zuydervelt, Jan Kleefstra, Romke Kleefstra) and Annelies Monseré, Sylvain Chauveau and Joachim Badenhorst.

PRE-ORDER FEAN CD

November 23rd FEAN will be released and presented at the Explore The North Festival in the Dutch city of Leeuwarden. The cd is up for pre-order over at Moving Furniture Records. You can also checks some tracks there too.

FEAN started as a musical artist-in-residence project in a little church in the Frisian town of Katlyk. The group consists of all four Piiptsjilling-members (Mariska Baars, Rutger Zuydervelt, Jan Kleefstra, Romke Kleefstra) and Annelies Monseré, Sylvain Chauveau and Joachim Badenhorst.

FEAN LIVE

PIIPTSJILLING: FEAN

In the first week of April we spend two days in a nice little church in Katlijk (NL) for the project FEAN. We had some very special guest joining us: Annelies Monseré, Sylvain Chauveau and Joachim Badenhorst. We recorded loads of new music, just like we always do, just start from scratch and see what happens. We can't wait to share the results of the sessions, but it will take a while to mix, select and edit the hours of music we recorded. In autumn we will do some FEAN-shows. And there will also be a documentary made. But about all of that more news later on.

(picture of the church by Marc Quere).

FEAN

Early April Piiptsjilling will be involved in an artist-in-residence project, together with the Belgian musicians Sylvain Chauveau, Annelies Monseré and Joachim Badenhorst. Theme of the project is peat (fean in Frisian) and mainly how peat soil is rapidly dissapearing under influance of the expanding, intensive agriculture. The deep draining of the soil makes the peat oxidate with an enourmous carbon dioxide emission as a result. Apart from that the sinking of the soil cuses damage to houses, dikes and the landscape. It is a big (ignored) problem in the Netherlands and in the region the Kleefstra brothers are living, it is also a problem in several European countries.

The content of this is the underlying motive that encourages the musicians to express themselves through music and poetry. The project wants to show that artists are involved in what is going on and how they translate this into art.

April 4th and 5th Piiptsjilling and the other artists come together in a small chuch in the north of the Netherlands, where both an artistic and theme-related exchange takes place resulting in a recording session. On the 5th an exclusive work-in-progress session will take place which you can visit and meet up with the whole bunch. The recordings will be used for a release in fall.

NEW RELEASE: LJERKE

We start 2018 with a new release: LJERKE. LJERKE is a Dutch-Norwegian project, featuring the Kleefstra Bros and Sytze Pruiksma from the Netherlands and Alexander Rishaug, Hilde Marie Holsen and Michael Duch from Norway. We toured the Netherland from 6-13 November 2016, together with the video artists Marco Douma and Haraldur Karlsson. A project of live impro music, poetry and film. During the tour LJERKE also recorded material, which is now published on a cd + dvd by Eilean Records. The cd contains six pieces, the dvd five videos. Pre-sale: 2 January 2018, official release: 8 January 2018. Go to our Bandcamp to order LJERKE (just a few copies left)!