Music
2025
Rindert Lammers
Windstill ambient jazz from Nijmegen brings life to a Japanese slow-motion drama
Ambient is a genre of wanderings and then suddenly: focus. The musical path of Rindert Lammers can be described in a similar way. There was a prog rock band like Genesis, a spoken word duo with his brother, and an ambient project of which only one single was released. Lammers is now boldly doing this under his own name. His debut album, Thank You Kirin Kiki, was released this spring by Western Vinyl; saxophonist and label mate Joseph Shabason (Destroyer, The War on Drugs) plays on it. Lammers makes music that is not simply listened to like a film, but is precisely intended that way. It is like the beach scene from Hirokazu Kore-eda's Shoplifters in perpetuum, inspired by Hiroshi Yoshimura and the healing waves.
