Nobody has to explain the blues to these 4 men no longer; feelings can not be learned.
After playing nearly all facets of all various musical styles, they have served to join the origin to return to the Blues. And they play it with passion, with corners and edges, with love, with sadness, anger ... and for all with just feeling, everything is concentrated in twelve bars of blues. With all this Harp Mitch & The Bluescasters does not only exceed emotional boundaries: 3 of the four musicians come from the Netherlands, the remaining 25% come from neighboring Germany. Apart from some discussions on soccer it has no doubt that this compilation harmonizes.Harp Mitch & The Bluescasters is not about the old, youthful kick to preserve, while other contemporaries turned at the direction of popular music. They sound fresh and honest, sometimes stamping loud, quiet times vulnerable, bubbling undercurrent of quiet ballads become still suddenly true rock monsters. They don’t invent the blues at new, and why would they?
Yet they do not sound canned, not losing in nostalgia and melancholy. And while blues and melancholy are so close together, so often regrets the abandoned, in many cases the name of the stringed instrument has modelled, treat Harp Mitch & The Bluescasters a little luxury: the luxury of the 4th man, the extra portion of sound witch so many rock and roll and blues trio’s are missing.
Singer and rhythm guitarist “Loud Mitch” makes the difference; He is the proof that physically tactile events can transform into songs. He knows like no other, with his blues harp or biting slide guitar to tell stories in which the notes are replaced by words. The repertoire of the band consists of a mix of Texas blues and the undistorted Nederblues, Jump blues, Slow blues. ... and an atmospheric mixture of super warming songs from Stevie Ray Vaughan, Cuby and the Blizzards, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, John Mayall and many others.
Making music has to be fun, and you can see the four musicians take themselves not to seriously, this also notice the audience.
And this is why it happens many times that at a performance from Harp Mitch & The Bluescasters the roof is blown off……
Michel Zwiers (Guitar/Vocal/Bluesharp)
Helmut Jakobs (Guitar)
Laurens van Venrooij (Bass)
Cees van Hoekelen (Schlagzeug)
