Haags Nachtorkest

Sleek Harmony, the jazzy-pop project of singer-songwriter Héllena from London and the Hague guitarist / bass player Ruud Nannes, experienced their Dutch festival debut. On Friday 18 January, this duo performed on the stage organized by Pinguin Radio Showcase during Eurosonic Noorderslag (ESNS 2019).
With their song "Believe in You", Sleek Harmony was selected by the 2Minutenshow, was given airplay and a stage for a 30' live show at Eurosonic festival by Pinguin Radio, a Dutch online radio station for Indie music.

Sleek Harmony is a musical collaboration between Héllena and Ruud Nannes, who started composing music 'from a distance' in 2017. "We started by exchanging demos without ever meeting each other in person. In this way the first songs have been produced, which we only recorded live in a studio in The Hague after a year.”
In London, her permanent place, Héllena works on her musical career as an indie rock / dream pop singer who also plays guitar and piano. The native Greek released the EP 'Kissed The Sun' half a year ago, with contributions from Lef Germenlis (keys in the prog rock formation Until Rain), Thomas Miller from Caper Parade and guitarist/producer Denis Efimenko. In November 2018 she released the self-produced video single Love is Dead.

Last week Sleek Harmony, a project initiated by the great vocalist Héllena from London and bass player Ruud, came to life. During an event called Ladies Night in the Dutch town Haarlem, Sleek Harmony proved to be as versatile and vibrant as the songs promissed to be when they were written and only known to its creators.

The live set was a mix of songs which Héllena wrote over the last couple of years, including new ones from her upcoming ep Kissed the Sun, and some jazzy & loungy covers. The jazzy and dreamy pop songs could easily stand the crowded center place of the venue, a cinema, packed with visitors who came not only for the joy of life music but also to witness the opening of a new movie.

Sleek Harmony proved to be a close and entertaining act, both musically and personaly.

This is a post about two songs to download for Free as a Christmas present!

It is from a new project I started with a talented Greek musician called Héllena, who’s living in London. We "met" online through Twitter exactly a year ago and since then we created two songs and recorded them just few days ago in The Hague. We took the opportunity to record for this exciting new project when Héllena was in Holland. Finally we met with each other in real life too.

She's a wonderful person, arrived at my place in the morning of December the 2nd, we rehearsed for the very first time together and the rehearsal was so easy going and smooth. After that we went to Labrie Studio and recorded while playing at the same time which made the recordings sound more real and intimate in our opinion.

We don't know when the songs are going to be released and we definitely have plans of creating more songs together but these two songs are the beginning of the "Sleek Harmony" project. Hope you enjoy the jazzy vibes.
We will give the 2 brand new songs as #Christmas presents to email subscribers ONLY! Make sure you're on the email list to get them! Register now (see the link below) and you will receive mail on Christmas-eve, X

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Hi there, how are you? Enjoying a summer break already, or still sweating to earn a decent living?
We have been discussing our plans for this Fall and guess what? We will continue our music project with 2 new guys: Flip is the drummer and Joop our 2nd guitar man. They've been recruited from a long list of names and these guys are prepared for the worst.
With the 4 of us, the name of the band doesn't fit the staff quota. We've decided that picking another name will be the most logic thing to do. September 22th a gig is planned where we will reveal our plans for the future.
Meanwhile TRES is still playing the same old songs and also some new ones are leaving the drawing table.

So, if you are in the Netherlands by then (09/22), stop in The Hague and join the show. Name of the Venue is Haags Pop Centrum, Burgemeester Hovylaan.

Have a great summer y'all, keep rocking and enjoy life to the max.

TRES

Hello subscribers,

We have some great news. TRES (from the Netherlands) and London based singer / songwriter Héllena have agreed on working together, creating new songs in the coming months.

We met Héllena through Twitter and made face to face contact via Skype. After a few emails and a Skype-conference we decided to join our creative energy. For now the intention is that we will work out some TRES-demo's which are a bit beside our regular repertoire.

Héllena is a very talented singer/songwriter from Greece who's living in London since a couple of years now. TRES plays only songs which are sung in Dutch by our guitar player JW. But music is an international language and has no boundaries as it comes to understanding and exchanging thoughts.

Since our songs are in Dutch, we like to know from you who understands the words and if not, is this a disadvantage or not? We hope not, and just for clearing things up: our theme's are as universal as the sun and the moon. We use our life experiences which everyone can relate to, as long as you are not living under a stone.

So thanks for listening to TRES, keep supporting our music, we will be back soon with a few more lines from the Netherlands.