Under the Surface is a new Dutch band formed by drummer Joost Lijbaart, guitarist Bram Stadhouders and vocalist Sanne Rambags. All the music on their new album “Trinirty” was recorded live in 2018 and are free

improvisiations.

Drummer Joost Lijbaart on Trinity: “After two years of playing and traveling together, we all felt the urge to capture our music on a live album. For me, playing live concerts with the trio resembles a growing tree. The music evolves naturally from silent and hidden to strong and fertile, from heavenly to earthy, from life to death to life.”

Drummer Joost Lijbaart (b. Amsterdam, 1967) belongs to the top of the Dutch jazz scene, Bram Stadhouders (b. Tilburg, 1987) is one of the most promising new young musicians in the European improvisation circuit and he received many awards and Sanne Rambags (b. Tilburg, 1994) is one of the few singers of her generation who is able to improvise in a very open way, sometimes with self-written texts and poems, sometimes by positioning herself completely between the musicians. This gives her voice an instrumental function which is beautifully in line with the open group sound and the playing of Lijbaart and Stadhouders.