Enjoy watching the fifth video of our upcoming cd COME OUT, CAIONI. "Caioni Codex: The other Gypsies" includes beautiful, simple and repetitive melodies, with a single direction in the musical build up. It is the kind of music you hear for the first time, but it gives you the feeling that you have known it for ages! Performed by Black Pencil. Original title "Mas olah kettos" Arrangement by Black Pencil (2021). Jorge Isaac: recorders Matthijs Koene: panpipes Esra Pehlivanli: viola Marko Kassl: accordion Enric Monfort: percussion Recorded in the De Duif Amsterdam (NL), June 2021. More info: https://www.blackpencil.org Video: Movitch Media Audio: Studio Ladon Special thanks to Stadsherstel Amsterdam. Story: The monk Johannes Caioni in 1652 received a music collection from his teacher. The collection was in incomplete form and took over the task of adding compositions, an activity that he continued until 1671. The collection became known as the CAIONI CODEX. In the 1980s, the music bundle was found in a wall of a shelter where monks had hidden it from the Russian soldiers during World War II.

Enjoy watching the second video of our upcoming cd COME OUT, CAIONI. "Caioni Codex: Come Out, Caioni" includes beautiful, simple and repetitive melodies, with a single direction in the musical build up. It is the kind of music you hear for the first time, but it gives you the feeling that you have known it for ages! Original title: Ötodik Tancz hatodon, Sz. Bernard latasabol published in 1670 Performed by Black Pencil. Arrangement by Black Pencil (2021). Jorge Isaac: recorder Matthijs Koene: panpipes Esra Pehlivanli: viola Marko Kassl: accordion Enric Monfort: percussion Recorded in the De Duif Amsterdam (NL), June 2021. More info: https://www.blackpencil.org Video: Movitch Media Audio: Studio Ladon Special thanks to Stadsherstel Amsterdam. Story: The monk Johannes Caioni in 1652 received a music collection from his teacher. The collection was in incomplete form and took over the task of adding compositions, an activity that he continued until 1671. The collection became known as the CAIONI CODEX. In the 1980s, the music bundle was found in a wall of a shelter where monks had hidden it from the Russian soldiers during World War II.

333, Happy Birthday Bach!

Happy 334 to J.S. Bach! Kdf, Contrapunctus V, arr. by Roderik de Man.

Here is our second Bach video. Contrapunctus IX by J.S. Bach. Arrangement by Roderik de Man. Recorded in the Beemster Keyserkerk (NL).

Our Bach series third video, the unfinished Contrapunctus XIV which was written in the last decade of Bach's life. Arrangement by Roderik de Man.

Enjoy watching the third video of our upcoming cd COME OUT, CAIONI. "Caioni Codex: The Count" includes beautiful, simple and repetitive melodies, with a single direction in the musical build up. It is the kind of music you hear for the first time, but it gives you the feeling that you have known it for ages! Performed by Black Pencil. Original title "Tegnap groff halala – Chorea" Arrangement by Black Pencil (2021). Jorge Isaac: recorder Matthijs Koene: panpipes Esra Pehlivanli: viola Marko Kassl: accordion Enric Monfort: percussion Recorded in the Vondelkerk Amsterdam (NL), June 2021. More info: https://www.blackpencil.org Video: Movitch Media Audio: Studio Ladon Special thanks to Stadsherstel Amsterdam. Story: The monk Johannes Caioni in 1652 received a music collection from his teacher. The collection was in incomplete form and took over the task of adding compositions, an activity that he continued until 1671. The collection became known as the CAIONI CODEX. In the 1980s, the music bundle was found in a wall of a shelter where monks had hidden it from the Russian soldiers during World War II.

Enjoy watching the fourth video of our upcoming cd COME OUT, CAIONI. "Caioni Codex: Scottish dance" includes beautiful, simple and repetitive melodies, with a single direction in the musical build up. It is the kind of music you hear for the first time, but it gives you the feeling that you have known it for ages! Performed by Black Pencil. Original titel "Tancz" Arrangement by Black Pencil (2021). Jorge Isaac: recorders Matthijs Koene: panpipes Esra Pehlivanli: viola Marko Kassl: accordion Enric Monfort: percussion Recorded in the De Duif Amsterdam (NL), June 2021. More info: https://www.blackpencil.org Video: Movitch Media Audio: Studio Ladon Special thanks to Stadsherstel Amsterdam. Story: The monk Johannes Caioni in 1652 received a music collection from his teacher. The collection was in incomplete form and took over the task of adding compositions, an activity that he continued until 1671. The collection became known as the CAIONI CODEX. In the 1980s, the music bundle was found in a wall of a shelter where monks had hidden it from the Russian soldiers during World War II.