Jazz, blues and nostalgia. ‘And the horizon tempts eternally…’
‘I need nothing more than a pipe during my look-out and a good glass in the fore-cabin’, Dutch poet Slauerhoff writes. One hour filled with music about the sea. With ‘Singing Tramp’ Frans van Schaik ("Geef mij maar een schip"), the Comedian Harmonists ("The way with every sailor"), Bette Midler ("On a slow boat to China"), Casablanca actor Conrad Veidt ("When the lighthouse shines across the bay"), the British dance orchestra of Harry Roy ("We saw the sea"), Gospel formation The Four Knights ("He said he’d calm the ocean"), Toon Hermans singing in English ("Méditerranée"), Jim Reeves singing in South African ("Die blonde matroos"), Louis Davids from London ("Schevenigsche zee") and much more from the sea-filled repertoire.
