Adani & Wolf LiveLive Act // NL // Smooth Jazz
What the hell is wrong with Adani & Wolf? Couldn’t they decide which tracks they wanted to use and how the artwork of their new album ‘Supersteam’ should look like? Why on earth did they ask the visitors of their website and the audience of five special ‘Supersteam Sessions’ at infamous Supperclub to help?
Simply because Rob Gaasterland (Adani) and Daniël Testas (Wolf) have a very special bond with their fans - people with great taste, boys and girls that love to dance and are not afraid to experiment. Because you highly value their input you involve them with what you do. On the title song, the audience of one of these sessions even sang along. This was recorded, made it onto the album and therefore are now credited in the booklet.
Secondly because it’s not unusual for producers of dance music to test their tracks in an actual club first. Locking yourself up in a sweaty room filled with equipment will only give you a studio-tan. When you decide to get out there, give your thoughts and ideas the opportunity to run free they have the chance to develop into something better. And last but not least because most of the Adani & Wolf fans are very pretty. And as you can imagine, after spending months in a studio you can do with some eye candy too!
You can say that Dutch producers Adani & Wolf practically wrote the manual of ‘how to record a great album’. ‘True specialists with years of experience’ still isn’t an accurate enough description for a duo that was making jazz-dance in a time that Amy Winehouse was still wearing nappies. With Project 2000 they mixed Balkan beats with hip-hop and African vocals. Nobody could categorize their music but it rocked the crowds of many festivals. The ‘loungejazzdance’ albums they recorded with saxophone player Praful were so popular in the U.S. that this sympathetic musician can now only walk the streets wearing big sunglasses. You remember the previous Adani & Wolf records, don’t you? The one they recorded with Neobe for instance? And what about the albums they produced for top jazz musicians like Hans Dulfer, Saskia Laroo and New Cool Collective?
Naturally Praful and Neobe are not to be missed on ‘Supersteam’. Other guests include Howard Sie, Afra Mussawisade and Berenice van Leer -daughter of the genius behind the band Focus, Thijs van Leer and leading lady of the Wicked Jazz Sounds Band. Speaking of leading ladies; diva Mieke ‘Giga’ Stemerdink aka Lamiga is putting in her weight too and what a fantastic voice she has!
‘Supersteam’ is an album to dance, or simply hang to. An album that manages to impress because of the many ‘genuine pop songs’. When you think of it, ‘Supersteam’ is the album on which everything Adani & Wolf have done over the past years perfectly comes together.