It started off on a tinkling piano one day and morphed into a musical explosion the next. The project came out of lots of conversations between me and arranger/composer Louk Boudesteijn and I of “how ARE we gonna we do this?”. We wanted musical warriors and every person in this group is a beast. So when we didn’t have a project title for the project, we realized on day 1 of rehearsal it could ONLY be The Rocketeers.
It’s a little mad, layered and super rich. It was recorded live. But my soul is soothed by the end. It’s a jazz orchestra. Or a Big Band. Or none of those two things but inspired by everything from them. I want to be a part of moving that genre forward. I sing in a lot of jazz orchestras in Europe and well, I wanted my own - simply put! This was no easy task. You can’t just lightly toss a project like this together like a summer salad. It took months and months of dozens of highly caffeinated conversations and arranging. It’s different than anything I’ve ever done and as an artist trying to align with her soul in today’s world. This felt like that path. Out on GroundUP Music. Listen all digital stores Buy CD/vinyl.