contribution # 4 | ENSEMBLE EXTRA ORDINAIRE | han buhrs and nora mulder
the musicians han buhrs and nora mulder are steadily building up a repertory in which han’s dutch lyrics are embedded in a stream of sounds elicited from a quite unorthodox set of instruments, featuring feedbackbuckets, frenchbeanslicerflappingbongo, woklidpercussion, an exisink and grumbledrawers. _as few of these objects have established a tradition in musical practice, the genre of e.e.o. is easily classified as ‘experimental’. _however, the e.e.o. members have thoroughly explored their potential in rehearsal sessions, to definitely know what they want when appearing on stage. _han’s lyrics are sulky, nasty and sick, preferably rewarded with a wry kind of smile. _from a musical point of view, nora and han are of quite different origins: nora is a contemporary classical pianist, han a simple rock- and bluesdude. _their common ground is that they both decided to deviate from the stylistic straight and narrow in their search for a more wayward and personal idiom