Remy Stroomer – the other side

“The Other Side” consists of four extensive music pieces. For the musical direction, Remy slightly refers to the kind of music from the beginning of his career, more than 20 years ago. Partially winking to the Berlin School of electronic music, but also including plenty of elements that make REMY’s unique musical style recognisable: stretched out, repetitive and story-telling pieces, evolving sequencer-patterns, and subtle details and layering. The overture, “A Different View”, is about thinking different and opposite from the mainstream. Approaching things from another point of view leads to new or different insights. The second track imagines a point of view which human being is never capable to imagine. We are constantly focussing on the things we know from experience, and all things we have been told and educated. What if “Everything is Distraction” from the real essence? If there is any. “The Perfect Dream” questions how dreams and reality are connected to eachother. A dream so perfect that it could be reality. Or is it reality? With musical and conceptual winks to Klaus Schulze’s album “Dreams” (1986), which has always been one of the main inspirations for REMY’s music. The concluding epos “Lost in Reality” is trying to find a way through a world of dreams and reality. Quietly putting things into perspective, while trying not to lose it from insanity. “The Other Side” includes a number of interesting collaborations, which resulted into this dynamic project. The album’s second track, “Everything is Distraction”, features drums and percussion by Bas Broekhuis (Broekhuis, Keller & Schönwälder). For the project’s finale, Joost Verhagen converted the project’s subject into text, and Judith Wesselius created the vocal structure. Both Grey Lotus vocalists make the second part of the 23 minute final epos “Lost in Reality” complete, trying to find a connection between dream and reality. While Judith relativates tranquillizing, the narrating Joost becomes insane near the end. Photographer Nausikaä de Blaauw did various photo sessions using a mirror to visualize “The Other Side”. Each of the selected photos is linked to one of the album’s titles.

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