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Rik Kaez:
Someone once invented the title Anti folk. Probably Anti singer / songwriter would fit Rik well. He does play guitar, blues-harp and vocals, this is a stereotype picture of a singer songwriter. Though Rik Kaez sound is raw and more aggressive than your usual Donovan. Influenced by American folk and grunge. His lyrics hit heavy subjects such as: religion, senseless violence, death, love that always ends, baby smuggling, drug abuse, social interactions and here and there you can find some personal and private notes hidden between the lines. The stage seems to be a well known territory to him where he maybe does his territorial pissings as well. In The Netherlands he has performed many a stage and has also been to Belgium, Germany and England to perform. One of the biggest adventures in Rik's musical tale would be performing in New York USA. This tale continued in Nashville where he recorded an E.P album at the OmniSound studios. The E.P is being promoted at mayor and independent recordlabels in America. Further more Rik Kaez did well in the International Songwriting Competition, though did not come far enough to be one of the lucky winners. In 2006 Rik Kaez was announced best singer songwriter of the region "Overijssel" in The Netherlands. "Besides all these wonderful stories it's still a crooked road through this music world. And it often leads to deception after wollowing in the mire", says Rik coughing out his cuff. You can read more about this at the news section. Lets ask Rik Kaez for a short description of his music:
Acoustic, Anti folk, American folk, Singer / songwriter, PunkRock, Grunge. A mix of this all.
Matthijs Nijkamp introducing Rik Kaez for rikkaez.com
Anti Folk
AntiFolk (or Anti-folk) is a genre of music related to punk rock and American folk music that originated in the mid-1980s in New York City.
AntiFolk had its roots in punk rock, and is still considered by some to be an active subgenre within that scene. By a loose definition, AntiFolk combines the raw, abrasive, and frequently politically charged attitudes of the punk scene with the sounds of American folk tradition.
This genre takes the earnestness of politically charged '60s hippie music and subverts it into something else: music that sounds raw and poorly executed, but mocks the seriousness and pretension of the established mainstream folk scene and also mocks itself. In AntiFolk, self-mockery and self-aggrandizement have somehow fused, just as political commentary fused with poppy love songs in the sixties.
