Anne-Maarten has allways played in several bands at the time. Some bands were short lived with one album and with some he played many years. As frontman or sideman playing bass, guitar or drums. Here is an eclectic list of some of the bands from the past...
Trio Brandhout
Trio Brandhout (Firewood Trio) was a three piece jazz band with Anne-Maarten van Heuvelen singing and playing double bass, Bas van Domburg on rythme guitar and Alexander Stakenburg on lead guitar. The band played jazz standards in the style of Django Reinhard.
Hills & Hamid
With Hamid Behzadian on vocals, guitar and harmonica and Anne-Maarten ‘Hills’ van Heuvelen on vocals,, double bass and guitar this duo combined country blues with traditional Persian music. Three EP’s were put out which was really a full album which you can find on Spotify and the duo played live for a couple of years.
Red Hot Percolators
As a side project Hamid Behzadian and Anne-Maarten played gigs for blues dancers. Anne-Maarten singing, playing guitar and drums and Hamid playing slide guitar and harmonica. They were regulars at many blues event.
Knarsetand
Knarsetand was a 10 piece band with frontman Martijn Holtslag who came up with the basic musical ideas that formed the debut album My Escape with an eclectic mix of Drum ‘n Bass, dubstep and pop and world music genres such as Gypsy, Balkan, Reggae and Ska.
The first line up was singer Miou Amadée, Arjan Houwers on keyboards, drummer Tom van Sadelhoff, on guitar Pim Kokkeler. It had a four piece brass ensemble with Pieter van Houte on sax and klarinet, Erik van der Heijden blowing the trumpet and the two trombone players Daniel van Loenen and Lorenzo Lorenzoni. Anne-Maarten played bass guitar, double bass and bass synth and helped with the artistic proces leading to the recording of the album.
Tracy Bonham
Tracy Bonham is mostly known for her second album ‘ The burdens of being upright’ and Anne-Maarten did two short tours as (upright bass) player with the American singer. On drums was the also Dutch drummer Marit de Loos. With Karen Proeme as tour manager and booker, this was an almost completely female tour. The first gig was at the Noorderzon Festival and there was a notable show in London. On one of the tour the Duo Kaiser Cartel came along. Tracy also contibuted as singer and violin player on the second NO blues album and the single Black Cadilac.
Richard Studholme
The English singer guitar player Richard Studholm has been a long time friend through the MarbleTones. Anne-Maarten has played as sideman for Richard a couple of times sometimes as bass player, but mostly as drummer in the Netherlands with Richards son Rob on bass.
Blauwe Vingers
In 2012 Anne-Maarten together with Martijn ‘Tinez’ van Toor en Tse Kao sang blues songs in Dutch about the city of Zwolle. They made an album with a capella songs based on American work songs. They mostly sang in the streets but at the height of their fame they were on the main stage of the Bevrijdingsfestival Zwolle.
Phonc & Hills
Remko ‘Phonc’ Verweij and Anne-Maarten used to get together in the studio and write and produce tracks. A combination of samples, synths and live instruments. A song with a sample from a Thai record from the sixties or a German song. ‘Populair’ is the german electro hit with the funky video clip. Enjoy!
Jo’ Buddy
The Finish blues man Jo’ Buddy asked Anne-Maarten for a couple of shows to play drums. Jo’ plays down home blues and that’s a style that this sideman had a lot of fun with! Check out Jo’ Buddy’s eclectic blues sound!
Tony Vega Band
The Tony Vega Band was in need of a bass player when they came to Europe in 2005. Anne-Maarten was contacted through the Nix Bbblues Club and did the seven week tour with Tony and Jeremy Pierce. The year after, the ex Fabulous Thunderbird bassist Preston Hubbard played with the Tony Vega Band, but the tours after that, Anne-Maarten was the sideman on bass guitar and double bass for European tours. The last tours with long time friend and patner in crime Theo ‘Thumper’ on drums.
Kill City Rebel
It was a short stint with the punk rock trio Kill City Rebel with frontman and drummer Egbert Joosten and guitarist Bob Walter. The band made the album IDGAF with Anne-Maarten on bass and there were a few but memorable very loud gigs. Untill Egbert broke up the band. It was a blast in more ways than one.
Judge Abraham & The Jury
Around 2002 Anne-Maarten was in search of a jazz band, but he was summoned by Judge Abraham for jury duty, in other words; Anne-Maarten had to fill the very large shoes of double bass player Tonny Ector who also composed a lot of the songs on the debut album ‘The Lost Recordings’ by Judge Abraham & The Jury. Memorable gigs were done, amongst others at the Crossing Border festival and the gig at the Effenaar where two bass players showed up and did the gig together opening for Galexico. The group started writing a new album and after recordings were finished, it was never clear what happened to the release as Judge Dave Adsma vanished into thin air… Check out the very low fi album that was released.
The Captain
As a young bass player Anne-Maarten saw The Captain playing at record store Plato in Apeldoorn. He was impressed by the weird songs by the band that were heavily influenced by Captain Beefheart. Later in life, Anne-Maarten was asked by Captain Henk Waninge to join the band with Edmond Valentijn on drums and Wim Rietveld on guitar. Anne-Maarten can be heared on the EP Flanders fields.
