Colin Benders
Electro, Tech house | As a 17-year-old, trumpet player Colin Benders already toured Europe, South Africa and Indonesia. At the age of 22 he started Kyteman’s Hiphop Orchestra with which he won various prestigious prizes and awards like the Dutch Pop Prize 2009, an Edison and the Silver Harp.
But yet after one year he decided that it was necessary to put an end to this project, despite its enormous acclaim, in order to explore different musical pathways. With its successor, The Kyteman Orchestra, Benders chose a more classical approach with opera singers and a choir, bringing more than 50 people on stage for every concert. Contrasting the meticulous musical organization of a vast project like that, the next step Benders took with The Kyteman Orchestra was a series of completely improvised concerts: no scores, not a single note, scheme or key was prepared before stepping on stage, except a sort of sign language with which Benders could communicate with his musicians during the concert.
Once again, after The Jam Sessions, Benders decided that it was time to go down a very different path. No more shows with a complete orchestra on stage, but just himself with an orchestra hidden in a couple of boxes filled with mainly analogue synthesizer modules. With the setup he built, Benders takes a polyphonic and harmonic approach which is both refreshing and reminiscent of the dawn of the synthesizer era.
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As a 17-year-old, trumpet player Colin Benders already toured Europe, South Africa and Indonesia. At the age of 22 he started Kyteman’s Hiphop Orchestra with which he won various prestigious prizes and awards like the Dutch Pop Prize 2009, an Edison and the Silver Harp.
But yet after one year he decided that it was necessary to put an end to this project, despite its enormous acclaim, in order to explore different musical pathways. With its successor, The Kyteman Orchestra, Benders chose a more classical approach with opera singers and a choir, bringing more than 50 people on stage for every concert. Contrasting the meticulous musical organization of a vast project like that, the next step Benders took with The Kyteman Orchestra was a series of completely improvised concerts: no scores, not a single note, scheme or key was prepared before stepping on stage, except a sort of sign language with which Benders could communicate with his musicians during the concert.
Once again, after The Jam Sessions, Benders decided that it was time to go down a very different path. No more shows with a complete orchestra on stage, but just himself with an orchestra hidden in a couple of boxes filled with mainly analogue synthesizer modules. With the setup he built, Benders takes a polyphonic and harmonic approach which is both refreshing and reminiscent of the dawn of the synthesizer era.
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