JEUGDBRAND
“3 × hullo, hullo”

“Somewhere beneath the meticulously trimmed lawns of conventional music, a mole is digging. “Huuh, there’s a little mole coming up!?” A small upheaval of dirt, a sudden rupture in order – this is “3 × hullo, hullo”, the latest sonic burrow from Jeugdbrand, a project where the absurd meets the sincere, where the intuitive gestures of Dennis Tyfus (piano, organ, vocals, tapes) and Jeroen Stevens (percussion, melodica, organ) are reinforced by the magnetic disruptions of Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson (tapes) and Gerard Herman (loops). It is music that tunnels through genres, scattering soil in every direction, finding freedom in the subterranean.

From the first moments of “3 × hullo, hullo”, there is a sense of slow, deliberate emergence – an unfolding, an unearthing. The mole, that ridiculous, poetic little blind worker, is an apt metaphor. “The creature is practically blind. In its head, a pair of eyes perfectly fit for the darkness it is usually stuffed in. Under the surface, there is no light, only smells and sounds.” And that’s exactly how this record operates: an exploration of textures and echoes, of lo-fi transmissions and improvisatory impulse, guided not by vision, but by feel.

Take, for instance, the sprawling “Tomorrow, Tomorrow? I’m Talking Now, Forget About It!” – a title that could be mistaken for an argument in a café, but here unfolds as a loose, almost dreamlike cascade of erratic tape loops and detuned keys, like an old radio losing its grip on the signal. There’s an air of miscommunication, of conversation gone slightly askew. The record often seems to speak in tongues, slipping between fractured melodies, fleeting drones, and the occasional unexpected utterance, as if someone left the microphone on during a séance.

Then there’s the insistence of the title “There’s No Word for Ambient in Dutch”. An ironic observation? A challenge? Or simply a statement of fact? Whatever the case, the track itself is anything but passive – its shifting textures and delicate pulses refuse to settle into the expected. Much like a mole scraping through earth packed too tightly with cement, the sounds on this album navigate a world increasingly resistant to improvisation.”
Chain DLK magazine

Jeroen Stevens – Percussion, Melodica, Organ
Dennis Tyfus – Piano, Organ, Vocals, Tapes
Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson – Tapes
Gerard Herman – Loops