Long Conversations and the Closet Orchestra

About Me

"THE GETAWAY", OUT NOW. CHECK WWW.LONGCONVERSATIONS.NL, OR WWW.MINDERBINDER.NL ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------Writing songs, on and off, since he was thirteen (among the first few: "Why am I so small", "Soup for the lonely" and "Your head looks so big when you're close to me"), Olaf started taking his music seriously almost three years ago (or four, could be four); drinking with his band Jalowski and performing solo stuff on an irregular basis. After being rejected by the Rockacademie, he ran into some old friends from high school, who just started their own record label, in August 2007. They offered to work with him without having heard a single note of his music and the collaboration resulted in a four-song demo. 2008 had more in store than he could have imagined. Jalowski disintegrated and, focusing only on his solo stuff, Olaf won the Grote Prijs van Zuid-Holland in March, and started playing a sickening number of shows (most cherished: Desmet Live, Amsterdam; SUB071, Leiden; Tivoli, Utrecht; 't Bonte Palet, Den Bosch; Greenhouse, Noordwijk; Q-bus, Leiden). In December, LCATCO competed for the Grote Prijs van Nederland, reaching the finals in Paradiso, and ultimately coming in third. He is not bitter. No, he is not.With the means presented to them by the GPZH, LCATCO recorded and released their first full-length; The Getaway, which you can now listen to FOR FREE at www.longconversations.nl, for the time being. You can also order it through there, or might show up in a record store near you, you never know. As for the live stuff, Olaf will start playing shows regularly again in the New Year, promoting the album, pouring his heart out, making an ass of himself.LIVE IN PARADISO, DECEMBER 13, 2008:

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 20/10/2007
Band Website: longconversations.nl
Band Members: Edoardo Felici -- drums; Kelly Ting -- cello; Bastiaan Tichler -- piano, bass, melodica; Celia Carver -- vocals; Stef Spronck -- violin; Harmen Kuiper -- vocals, bass, drums.
Influences: Ryan Adams, Arcade Fire, Belle and Sebastian, Blur, Bonnie 'Prince' Billie, Bright Eyes, Chinup, Death Cab, dEUS, Dinosaur Jr, Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Jayhawks, The Lemonheads, Lucky Fonz, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nirvana, Pulp, Radiohead, The Stones, Skik, Elliott Smith, Spinvis, Sugar, M Ward, Whiskeytown, Wilco, Neil Young
Sounds Like:

"Into Your Arms" -- Tour Switzerland & Italy, May 2010:

House-show @ Bernardo, Leiden, March 2009:

Record Label: minderbinder.nl
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Tour diary part 2 -- Alba, Italy

Alba, Italy. May 25, 2010. And then it turned out that every single town in the south of Europe is absofuckingbeautiful. Whatever happened to tiny alleys in our neck of the woods? Why cant we ...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Jun 2010 05:01:00 GMT

Music video "Into Your Arms"

Hi boys and girls, The next part of the tour diary will show up here either tonight or tomorrow, but first watch this: It's the new (and so far only) Long Conversations music vide...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:48:00 GMT

Tour diary part 1 -- Winterthur, Switzerland

Okay, so obviously I'm way behind with this, and I thought that modern technology would allow me to upload pictures on the road etc, but then I ended up not being able to check my email for four days ...
Posted by on Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:00:00 GMT

Italy!

Okay, shit I was gonna take out more time to write this, but it doesn't matter anyway; the important stuff is yet to come.Yesterday I spent 4 hours on a train to play three songs and it was lovely. So...
Posted by on Sun, 23 May 2010 07:51:00 GMT

Saturday

Breakfast=Coffee, 1.18pm At night, I sometimes think of the gun or the bullet, rather. The way it would travel through my brain, what thoughts it would take in that last moment, if there is a w...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:49:00 GMT

Bear Is Home

Bear was humming the tune of Randy Newmans My Country, improvising his own lyrics as he went: This is my city / these are my bears / this is the world I understand. But it dawned on him that th...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:17:00 GMT

Give Bear Time

Give It Time (Part Two of the "Badly Shaved Bear" Saga)Suddenly it occurred to Bear that he was a Whitmanesque bear. This was an interesting thought and he decided to pursue it. It was a week after ...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:43:00 GMT

Jonathan, Youre Not A Bear

And when the rain falls slowly on your window, you aint nothing less than beat. Its your screen that draws the attention, the words he wrote to easily --- it comes too easily to him. ....
Posted by on Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:43:00 GMT

Holy holy holy holy

There is no way to come back and not fall headlong into sadness and awfulness and glory and ecstacy. So here we are.Holy holy holy holy everything is holy. Yes, I've been writing songs and yes I shall...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:29:00 GMT

Looking Backwards

Okay, so I know this is kinda old, but there were some delays. I've been in California for a while now, actually, so I'm hoping I can write something substantial about that, but so far I've just been ...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:29:00 GMT