The Curious Badger – Ineke Vandoorn & Marc van Vugt

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Marc van Vugt – acoustic guitars

Marc van Vugt amazed with his first collection of guitar songs on The Lonely Coyote. Being a storyteller at heart one album was not enough to contain all the guitar stories van Vugt wanted to tell. The Curious Badger delivers another set of 12 compositions in which van Vugt continues his string of acoustic guitar adventures and deepens our understanding of how rich the acoustic guitar realm is. Acoustic guitar music in the tradition of Bill Connors, Ralph Towners, Pat Metheny and Egberto Gismonti.

‘Ever since I first taught myself a song on the guitar, Paul Simon’s Cecilia, I realized that all I wanted was to use everything I learned to write and perform my own songs. Out of curiosity and always looking for the unexpected I took off to create my own musical world.

On The Curious Badger, I continue my search for what it would be like if I stripped down my music and just let the guitars speak to me, no large ensemble to orchestrate, no other musicians to work with, just me and my guitars. It is like a pact that I created with all these 9 guitars. A wondrous combination like that of the badger and the coyote who sometimes choose to form a pack to hunt together.’

All compositions by Marc van Vugt
All music published by Baixim Music Publishing

PRESS
‘One of his country’s strongest acoustic guitarists…..Marc van Vugt’s compositions are short in scope but each of them is a small but very vivid and imaginative story that Marc van Vugt and all his guitars share with us.’ Leonid Auskern Jazzquad

‘On the mountain” is even better, featuring contrapuntal lines with evocative phrasing by exploiting changes in tone colour between the different strings; it reminded me of Martin Taylor at his best.’ ‘The playing is beautifully poised throughout, rhythmically incisive and technically secure. Marc van Vugt’s compositions are always imaginative with unusual harmonies and unexpected turns. Like Ralph Towner, he has found a fine balance between improvised and composed forms. Excellent all round.’ Stephen Godsall JazzHalo

The…compositions on this CD breathe enormous diversity.The Curious Badger is thus a worthy sequel to volume one, The Lonely Coyote…..cd’s which is terrain that you may only tiptoe into. For this fine package of acoustic guitar music is worth consuming in the same silence in which it was created. An added plus of this album is the sound quality……it shows how the characters of the instruments are “exhausted” in detail by their player. Rinus van der Heijden JazzNu

‘It is miraculous how someone can create their own unique world of sound using only stringed instruments.’ Van Vugt is no stranger to uniqueness, and this characteristic is also evident on The Curious Badger’. Hans Inverizzi Jazzflits!

He shows moving sincerity…..Unique in all its simplicity and complexity!
Marc van Vugt’s compositions are a gift to his listeners. ****/* Philip Verhaege keysandchords.com

‘Guitaristic tales, played with a rich and multicolored palette.’ ‘Again, it is an album that requires concentrated listening – you certainly can’t use Guitar Tales II as background music, then you really miss the subtleties’. Coen de Jonge Jazzism

‘van Vugt demonstrates not only his virtuosity on a wide variety of acoustic guitars, but also his compositional ingenuity, following in the footsteps of such illustrious predecessors as Ralph Towner, Pat Metheny and Egbertos Gismonti’. Pieter Wijnsteker Heaven
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CREDITS

Featured guitars

Guild F512 1978 twelve-string guitar (1, 7, 9, 11)
Lowden 2008 baritone steel string guitar (2, 6, 11)
Mariano Conde 2011 nylon string guitar (3, 8, 10, 11, 12)
Martin 000-21 1946 steel string guitar (4, 5, 7, 11)
Levin 325 1960 acoustic archtop guitar (3)
Lowden O32 1990 steel string (7, 11)
Tacoma P1 Papoose 1998 six-string alto guitar (7)
National Folkstar 1964 resonator guitar (7)
Guild acoustic bass guitar (7)
Prepared harp zither (11)
Percussion (11)

Recorded at Baixim Studios, Houten
Artistic mixing and mastering by Sander van Herk, Driebergen
Produced by Marc van Vugt and Ineke Vandoorn
Graphic design by Studio Derk Reneman
Cover photo by Cat Urbigkit
Photo Marc by Jiri Büller

Special thanks to
Ineke Vandoorn for your love, artistic inspiration and help in realizing this album. Sander van Herk for your artistic vision and the great afternoons we spent mixing and mastering.

Thanks to

Chris Teerlink – Luthier’s Gitaren, Derk Reneman, Jiri Büller, Co de Kloet, Cat Urbigkit, Ernst Fliek – Ernstamps, Mark Hamre – NeckUp Guitar Support, Teddy Randazzo – Dazzo Pickups, Danny Kok – TMA Benelux, Gianfranco Rizzi – Gr Guitar, Tom King – Atomic

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