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About Me

Close to a one-man show, the Dolorama Project has been staged by me, Roeland Dol, editor... hi... I write songs and record them at home, alone usually, but for this project I had some friends to help me, mainly on the vocals - you'll find them listed in the general info section.
September 2, 2007 I have terminated Dolorama Project -a project being temporary - only to make way for Lake 68, a band in and with which I will play some of the Subject to change material. You'll find us on MySpace shortly.
Meanwhile, somewhere on the other site of the net:
All tracks from the cd by this project, Subject to change, will remain digitally available on Lost Cat Records: http://www.lostcatrecords.com
Listen to yet another track on Last.fm: http://www.last.fm/music/Dolorama+Project
Listen to yet another track, featured on the Great American Music Hour podcast 60: http://www.podcastblaster.com/directory/podcast-2594.html
Read this review - in Dutch - in muzine Fret: http://www.popinstituut.nl/demontage/dolorama_project__subje ct_to_change.4764.html

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 20/08/2006
Band Website: http://lostcatrecords.com/dolorama.html
Band Members: Actually just me (see About... playing drums, bass, guitar and keyboards, and singing.
My guests on this project are Tomas Miguens Rijken, Joram Torny, Marianne Verbrugge and Andrea Poorterman on vocals. Additional acoustic guitar has been taken care of by Martijn Koolen, trumpet by Hermine Schneider and E-flat tuba by Tjitze Vogel.
Alex Geurink mastered the recordings with me, at Studio 8.
Influences: One might hear some echoes from Abba, Beatles, U2, Paul Weller, Weather Report, Bach, Motown and Frank Zappa.
Real influences are much more random than that and there's any number of audio earworms - however plain, heartless or braindead - that put their marks on my tracks.
Sounds Like: the album Subject to change contains `14 songs - in various tones, different voices - that emerged while doing the dishes of love and life'.
This description somehow suits both subject-matter and sound: it's a pretty varied lot, with a down-to-earth, traditional popband `line-up': vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, bass guitar, acoustic and electric piano, with some assorted extras - nothing too fancy though.
Some listeners more or less definitely heard some Joni Mitchell, David Bowie, Steely Dan, John Cale, Prefab Sprout, David Byrne and even The Sound in the songs.
Record Label: Lost Cat Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

070902 THIS PROJECT ENDS HERE

a project being a temporary thing, and a suitable ending being available, i close the proverbial book of the dolorama project.the `suitable ending' actually is a new beginning: the start of lake 68, ...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 05:16:00 GMT

070620 A BAND BEFORE TOO LONG

1$D just checkin' in for a quickie to let you know we're heading for a real band now; it's still a sort of covert operation, so i can't fill you in yet on the details, who's involved (or why?) and w...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:28:00 GMT

070317 - MUSICIANS WANTED: PLZ SIGN UP!

1$D: So things are not goin' down the way they were planned to. So you have had a rough time, it never stopped before, did it? RD: Yes, but this one's special. 1$D: So when's this band of yours coming...
Posted by on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:01:00 GMT

070106 - BUSINESS GOING ON

This new year started off really well for Dolorama Project, now that we joined Jerry Jodice's pet music company Lost Cat Records - yes, that's www.lostcatrecords.com - to distribute and promote ...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:48:00 GMT

061111 - FIRST RE&INTERVIEW

While he was busy leading his life some place comfortable, trying to make a buck maybe, some more or less reputable people in the industry surveyed his Project. At least one of the observations has re...
Posted by on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 04:39:00 GMT

061022 - INTRODUCING: 1$D

In the midst of getting across the message to the world - specifically the interested business partners in it - that Dolorama Project is happening, I find myself Subject to change in a way I wouldn't ...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:53:00 GMT

060930 - AND THERE IT IS, PAGE 4...

... actually: there they are... It took Gusem about 3 secs to ask `should those numbers be in black?'... two artwork errors, but if that's all, I can live with it: `perfect' is not allowed, somehow. S...
Posted by on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 05:57:00 GMT

060911 - ON THE DELIVERY OF "SUBJECT TO CHANGE"

This must be like how it feels when you're expecting a baby... meurk, what a sucky way to start your first blog... only to introduce my collection of songs Subject to change, being multiplied in 500-f...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 23:39:00 GMT