Jan van de Putte (1959) dedicated four compositions to the poetry of Fernando Pessoa. The complete cycle appeared last autumn on the double CD Bamboleamos no mundo ('we waddle through the world'). The composer strikes at the heart of Pessoa's elusive texts with equally allusive music.
Van de Putte is one of the most original voices in the Dutch musical landscape and likes to defy our expectations. Fragmentary onsets of sound and seemingly random ambient sound...
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