Hi,

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I'm a Dutch/French, Amsterdam-based musician, coach, unconscious bias trainer and men's circle facilitator. Welcome to my music page.

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For my solo releases up until now I've been drawing inspiration mostly from spiritual trainings and retreats and from personal stories with their trapdoor to the universal.

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My newest release however will tap into the by far larger body of all songs ever made: Songs in the key of romantic love.

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In November 2024, I released my new single Big Hungry Hearts, which was followed by Wield Your Fire in December 20th. Both songs are part of my new album  "Big Hungry Hearts" which will be released in 2026.​​

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PAST, FEATURES & LIVE

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​​​​Before becoming mostly a solo artist I played in various ensembles and bands.

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In 2005 I played with Pablo Fagundez at the tribute to Serge Gainsbourg in the main hall of Paradiso, a concert hall where I later also played with my latin band SON5, rock formation Humanos Magicos, singer/songwriter formation Lee Mason and singer/songwriter formation Robin Block, with whom I also played live in the tv show De Wereld Draait Door in 2009. ​

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Along with Nora Fischer I feauture on the Robin Block album Comfort Zones (2011) with bass & vocals. And I feauture on the Diggy Dex album Lange Nachten, Korte Dagen (2010) with saxophone.

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In 2018, I released my first solo project Oase Sessions I, followed by Oase Sessions II  a year later.

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My full length album Both Sides Of The River was released in 2020. 

For this record, I saved up songs that were specifically inspired by trainings, workshops and ceremonies within the realm of men’s work. 

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In 2023, a long cherished project came to fruition: For the first time I released an album with songs in the French language only: Les Cahiers de Marinette.

The album is a collaboration with my French mother Marinette Oomen-Myin, who wrote the lyrics.

Most of the songs have a double perspective throughout time, as I asked my mother to add new parts to poems she wrote when she was 20-22 years old. The album thus encompasses a time span of more than half a century.

Oncle Pierre was released as a single, and was performed to great acclaim in the final of the Concours de la chanson Française (2023).

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Both Sides of the River and Les Cahiers de Marinette were (co-) mixed by Skiggy Rapz.

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For live shows I sometimes team up with my ex-partner Lenneke van Staalen, a master​ of (northern) Indian classical music on violin, who comps me in my songs as well as playing mesmerising improvisations. Other collaborations include Pernilla Kannapinn, Ecstatic Dance DJ Martyn Zij and more recently Elena Gramatikovska. Elena is a Macedonian pianist & singer with whom I've uncovered a big new well of inspiration, weaving a variety of genres into our own unique blend, from pop music to classical, and from Macedonian/Croatian folklore to French chansons.

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I also perform, arrange and produce as a sideman in the Robin Block formation, playing mostly bass and cuatro. In May 2023, I went on tour with Robin in Indonesia, a special experience after having grown up there as a child (till age seven).

The tour was a big success. Other band members in this formation: Ro Halfhide from the Netherlands; and Hadi Irawan & Wilis Permadi from Indonesia.

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​​Next to music and fatherhood, I devote my time to Stichting de Vrolijkheid, where I run a crew of young coaches with a refugee background.

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With my colleague and friend Fares Al Qadi, I facilitate trainings on Unconscious Bias & DEI; topics I also facilitate as a subcontractor for Newbees INC.

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Since 2018, I've been hosting a monthly Men's Circle in Amsterdam Noord.

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