Everything is there is a series of songs to lyrics by Elvis Peeters and composed by each of the five instrumentalists. And given the musicians' backgrounds, this results in a bricolage of styles: from jazz through cowboy tunes to trip-hop. This gives the individual songs each a distinct character and the whole a distinct sound. After all, arrangements, bricolage and piecing together happened together (via tight group work).
The end result oars and looks completely different from Never sleep again, the previous production of WALPURGIS that involved the same musicians except Judith. No piano, vibraphone or collages this time. But a sometimes whimsical, sometimes compelling mix of electronics (keyboards, self-constructed string and scratch tables, effects tracks) and acoustic instruments (saxophones, trumpet, tuba, clarinet, mandolin and drums). Soprano Judith Vindevogel and rock performer join voices. A cycle of songs with splits and balls. Everything is there, but we keep longing.
Since then, I have been falling, the second part of the double bill Everything is there, ever since I fell, integrates new and some older texts by Elvis Peeters. Those lyrics were selected and sequenced by An De Donder and Luk Mishalle.
Not to make a logical story out of it. But to show a tableau of events and emotions that appear to falter again and again. What is it with this Wiederholungsdrang? Is life getting wiser? Why run into the same wall with your head again and again? Isn't once enough to know it hurts?
This is the starting point. Something like this may make for a hard life, but in this case, it is also a kind of performance: lyrics are shouted, whispered and sung, to beats and between wild improvisations and quiet moments.
