They called it a ‘synergetic coming-together’, a soundscape of Jeltje’s poetry and Robert Calvert’s and Sjaak de Jong’s musical improvisations: “It’s the city, it’s the city parks, it’s Europe and Australia, and constantly evolving.” Jeltje saw these collaborations as an invaluable opportunity to explore her own rhythms of speech, how much her exposure to Jazz and Rock (especially in formative years) had actually influenced the rhythms and structures of her poetry. As well as “3-minute” pieces, there are compositions based on snatches of dialogue, and abstract sound pieces which are hard to define, a bit like concrete poems put to music

Sound sample from track 2 on this CD
She smiles like a fish