Marijn

acoustic

1) Marijn van der Meer. With melancholy lyrics and subdued music, Marijn dreams his way into the hearts of his audience. After playing the piano for many years, he took up the guitar when he was twenty, and knew he wouldn’t let go of it. In 2006, his desire for musical inspiration and development led to a plan that rapidly took clear shape: Marijn and his guitar were to depart on a journey to unknown destinations, and discover where his music would guide him. A grim culmination of misfortune shattered this dream at the last moment. Following 2006, he spent three years fighting a tumor and struggled with his soul within. Everything that could have gone wrong went wrong, and the fact that he had to secede part of his freedom because of this, weighed on him heavily. Despite this, even while positioned horizontally, he couldn’t give up his guitar, and this made possible a great growth of his music as well as of himself. By 2009, he had wrestled out of his sickbed and with a renewed, clear mind decided it was time for the Rest of Days. Guitar on his back, he departed, onwards through Europe, heralding his good years. Marijn feels reborn and that distinctly echoes in the music he makes. Every song is filled with hope, confidence and warm tones that blissfully resonate in the listener’s head. Composed with meticulous attention to detail, yet varied in performance; some songs a rough sketch of feelings, others much more intricate and delicate in composition. A wholly new per...