Undone by The Lasses

For us, folk music is not about perfection, not about arrangements, talent or skill. We feel folk is about telling stories, feeling connected, sharing sadness, sharing happiness. We once had a conversation about making music with our friend Luka Bloom. He said - and we hope we quote him correctly – “Don’t use a beautiful song to show how well you can sing, but use your voice to show the beauty of a song.” And we hope that that’s what comes through when you listen to this album.

We found a wonderful producer sharing our love of song in musician Janos Koolen, who we met in Mulligans, the Irish pub in Amsterdam that hosts a singing session every Wednesday. Janos helped us recreate the atmosphere of a session by setting up the microphones in such a way that we could sing and play together, facing each other. Most of what you hear on this album was recorded by the single microphone in the middle of the room. So when you listen, we hope you feel like you are there with us, that we sing for you. During the recording, we both actually had a specific “listener” in our minds – someone different for each song. For some songs this was the person who wrote the song or taught it to us, for others it was the one who inspired us to write it, and for some it was a friend who we thought might need the song at that particular time. We like to thank each of these “secret listeners” for being our imagined audience. Thank you so much for inspiring us during the recording of this album, Philip, David, Mairi, Misha, Jimmy, John, Jack, Chandar, Timothy, opa, Richard, Sue, and our lovely hometown Amsterdam.

We are so grateful to the fantastic, kind, patient, reassuring Janos Koolen for helping us create this album. He didn’t just take care of the recording side of things, he also helped us arrange the tracks, played multiple instruments, and hosted and fed us, all the while keeping two self-critical singers afloat. We hope we can ever pay you back! Big thanks and love to Mirte, Auke and Morris. We are so happy you agreed to be part of this and adorn our songs with your beautiful playing. Thanks to Timothy Hull who spent a morning with us in a misty park capturing the Undone feeling in images and to Sjaak Kassies for bringing unity in our plethora of design ideas. Many thanks to the Sena Performers Muziekproductiefonds for helping us finance the recording of this album. We also want to thank our friends from the Backroom Session in Mulligans for being the most supportive musical friends one can ask for, and to our fans, friends, families and concert organisers for allowing us to do what we love best. Lastly, thanks to you, who bought this album, for encouraging us to keep singing.

Amsterdam duo singing trad folk & original songs with intricate harmonies.

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