• René Yedema

    RENÉ is our main studio technician making sure the music gets on air properly. His specialty is making perfect segues between tracks.
    As far as I remember my musical life started at the kindergarten with “Peter And The Wolf”. Later I discovered the very small collection of classical LP’s from my father, where Tsjaikovsky became a favourite. On the radio The Beatles ruled, but I never became a real fan. In secondary school-time things began to develop: first I heard the old Pink Floyd, The Who and Simon & Garfunkel. Later more symphonic bands came in the picture, like Supertramp, Solution and of course Genesis. I also became a jazz-rock-fan, especially when I came in touch with the music of Allan Holdsworth.
    New Wave was something completely different, but it had more similarities with symphonic rock than one might expect. I read a lot about music (remember Muziekkrant OOR) and was very pleased when I discovered Sym Info, that later became SI Magazine. After they had published a couple of critical letters and a file about one of my favourite bands, Crack The Sky, I had written, they asked me to become a reviewer. That was 1992 and although the magazine is now called iO Pages, I’m still writing for it and love it every time when I get a package with new CD’s. In 1993 there was a small ad in SI, in which a progressive rock-radioprogram, called Xymphonia, asked for a new co-worker. I was selected and have become one of the team-members since then. Over the years I’ve listened to and became interested in many music-styles beside progressive rock, jazz-rock, New Wave and classical music. Every time I discover an artist or band I didn’t know before and I hear something new, daring of something else that touches me, I’m excited. That’s what makes music so much fun, every day again. And there’s so much to discover yet!

    Top 2023
    1. Arkitekture - Rationalis Impetus (Merry-Go-Round / Arcàngelo)
    2. Exit North - Anyway, Still (eigen beheer)
    3. Dezolve – CoMoVE (King Records)
    4. Stafylakis, Haralabos [Harry] – Calibrating Friction (New Amsterdam Records)
    5. Birds Through Fire - The Sting Of Everything (Trench Edition)
    6. Raad Project, Elewout De - True Stories (eigen beheer)
    7. Panunzi, Stefano - Pages From The Sea (eigen beheer)
    8. Solstein – Solstein (Is It Jazz? Records)
    9. Waybright, Leah – Dreamed (Innertainment)
    10. Lumsk - Fremmede Toner (Dark Essence Records/Karisma Records)

    Top 2022
    1. Kumorigahara – Kumorigahara (Arcàngelo, 2021)
    2. The Fixx - Every Five Seconds (BFD Records / The Orchard, 2022)
    3. Andrea Chimenti: Il Deserto La Notte Il Mare (Vrec Music Label, 2021)
    4. Zaine Griff: The Helden Project // Spies (Sony Music Labels Japan, 2022)
    5. Archive - Call To Arms & Angels (Dangervisit / PIAS, 2022)
    6. Simon Phillips - Protocol V (Phantom Recordings/Universal, 2022)
    7. Green Asphalt: Green Asphalt (McBuddha Records, 2022)
    8. The Gong Farmers - Guano Junction (Spaceward Records, 2021)
    9. Snowy White - Driving On The 44 (eigen beheer, 2022)
    10. Sarah Perrotta - Blue To Gold (Third Star Records, 2022)

    Top 2021
    1. Corrado Rustici – Interfulgent (eigen beheer)
    2. MEER - Playing House (Karisma)
    3. Lyle Workman - Uncommon Measures (Blue Canoe Records)
    4. Pluto Jonze – Awe (Bird’s Robe Records)
    5. Stefano Panunzi - Beyond The Illusion (eigen beheer)
    6. Coevality - Multiple Personalities (eigen beheer)
    7. ProPoRTIoNS - After All These Years (Propsmusic (= eigen beheer))
    8. Andrew Wasylyk - Balgay Hill: Morning In Magnolia (Clay Pipe Music)
    9. Murcof - The Alias Sessions The Leaf Label)
    10. Needlepoint - Walking Up That Valley (BJK Music)

    Top 2020
    1. Dezolve - Frontiers
    2. Minster, Anastasia - Father
    3. Bumerang (Lorenzo Feliciati / Richard Hallebeek / Niels Voskuil) - Bumerang
    4. Yabuki, Taku - Modern World Symphony No. 3
    5. Jakszyk, Jakko M. - Secrets & Lies
    6. Sancious, David - Eyes Whide Open
    7. Moleslope - Slope
    8. Soften The Glare - Glint
    9. Zopp - Zopp
    10. Gerven, Twan van - How U Gonna Stroke Yer Solo

    Top 2019
    1. Dezolve – Area (King Records)
    2. Frank Wyatt & Friends – Zeitgeist (eigen beheer)
    3. Electric Asturias – Trinity (eigen beheer)
    4. Lu7 – 3395 (Vega)
    5. The Samurai Of Prog – Toki No Kaze (Seacrest Oy)
    6. Corrado Rustici + Peppino D’Agostino – For The Beauty Of This Wicked World (eigen beheer)
    7. Freedom To Glide – Seed (Ruby Storm Records)
    8. Yuval Ron – Somewhere In The Universe, Somebody Hits A Drum (Wrong Notes)
    9. Grice – One Thousand Birds (Hungersleep Records)
    10. Snowy White And The White Flames – The Situation (eigen beheer)

    Top 2018
    1. Cervello - Live In Tokyo 2017 (Belle Antique)
    2. Servants Of Science - The Swan Song (eigen beheer)
    3. Barbieri, Richard - Variants.2-5 (Orange Asylum Records)
    4. Maidman, Jennifer - Dreamland (Earthmusic Productions)
    5. Exit North - Book Of Romance And Dust (Exit North Music)
    6. Lux Terminus - The Courage To Be (Lux Terminus Records)
    7. Lady With, The - The Lodge (LEM)
    8. Pineapple Thief, The - Dissolution (Kscope Records)
    9. Helsdingen Band, Jeroen van – Hels!
    10. Holzman, Adam - Truth Decay (Big Fun Productions)

    Top 2017
    1. Phillips, Simon - Protocol IV (Phantom Recordings)
    2. RTFact - Life Is Good (AFL Music)
    3. Hallebeek, Richard - One Voice (Richie Rich Music)
    4. Kotebel - Cosmology (Musea)
    5. Fafard, Antoine - Proto Mundi (Timeless Momentum)
    6. Moonparticle - Hurricane Esmeralda (Moonparticle)
    7. Schmidt, MSM – Life (Laika Records)
    8. Isildurs Bane & Steve Hogarth - Colours Not Found In Nature (Ataraxia Production)
    9. Vilchez, Chema - Music & Change (Music & Change)
    10. World Trade - Unify (King Recordes/Frontiers Records)

    Top 2016
    1. Oak - Lighthouse (Apollon – PROG – Records)
    2. Nick Johnston - Remarkably Human (Eigen Beheer)
    3. Antoine Fafard - Sphère (Timeless Momentum)
    4. Freedom To Glide - Fall (Ruby Storm Records)
    5. Holon - The Time Is Always Now (Autumnsongs )
    6. Colin Edwin / Jon Durant - Burnt Belief - Emergent (Alchemy Records)
    7. Our Oceans - Our Oceans (Eigen Beheer)
    8. Choir Of Young Believers - Grasque (Ghostly International)
    9. Macroscream - Macroscream (Fading Records)
    10. Ryan Vail - For Every Silence (Quiet Arch)

    Top 2015
    1. Fjieri - Words Are All We Have (Emerald Recordings)
    2. Advent - Silent Sentinel (eigen beheer)
    3. Maurizio Di Tollo - Memorie Di Uno Sparring Partner (AMS Records)
    4. Grice - Alexandrine (Hungersleep Records)
    5. Birds Through Fire - Letters To Thurza (Trench Editions)
    6. Patrick Watson - Love Songs For Robots (Secret City Records)
    7. David Gilmour - Rattle That Lock (Columbia Records)
    8. Teleharmonium - Scenes From The Land Of The Mother Generator (eigen beheer)
    9. Eivind Aarset - I.E. (Jazzland Records)
    10. Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase (Kscope)

    Top 2014
    1. Kilminster, Dave - "...and THE TRUTH will set you free..." (Killer Guitar Records)
    2. I’Anson: "In Chances Of Light" (Maker Ltd.)
    3. Kenso: "Uchinaru Koe Ni Kaiki Seyo" (King Records)
    4. Samurai Of Prog, The: "The Imperial Hotel" (Seacrest Oy)
    5. Rustici Trio, Corrado: "Blaze And Bloom - Live In Japan" (eigen beheer)
    6. Dunnery, Francis: "Frankenstein Monster - Stitched Back Together" (Aquarian Nation)
    7. Phillips, Simon: "Protocol II" (eigen beheer / Inakustik)
    8. Watt, Ben: "Hendra" (Unmade Road)
    9. Kaukasus: "I" (Autumnsongs Records)
    10. Antlers, The: "Familiars" (Transgressive Records, 2014)

    Top 2013
    1. Days Between Stations - Visionary - "In Extremis" (Eigen Beheer, 2013)
    2. Dunnery, Francis - " Frankenstein Monster -Stitched Back Together" (Francis Dunnery Music/Aquarian Nation, 2013)
    3. Toshimi Project - "SO" (ZiZO/Shiosai, 2012)
    4. Beady Belle - "Cricklewood Broadway" (Jazzland Recordings, 2013)
    5. Steven Wilson - The Raven That refused to sing and other stories (K-Scope, 2013)
    6. Ampledeed - "A Is For Ampledeed" (eigen beheer, 2013)
    7. Wintergatan - "Wintergatan" (Sommerfågel Records, 2013)
    8. Arc Angel - "Harlequins Of Light" (Frontiers Records, 2013)
    9. Oblivion Sun – The High Places (Eigen Beheer)
    10. Marsh, Rhys - "Suspended In A Weightless Wind (Covers, Volume I)" (Autumnsongs Records, 2013)

    Top 2012
    1. Choir Of Young Believers - Van "Rhine Gold" (Ghostly International, 2012)
    2. Di Tollo, Maurizio - Van "L'Uomo Trasparente" (AMS/BTF.IT, 2012)
    3. Former Life, The - Van "Electric Stillness" (Eigen Beheer, 2012)
    4. Grice - Van "Propeller" (Hungersleep Records, 2012)
    5. Kompendium - Van "Beneath The Waves" (7Stones Records, 2012)
    6. Dalis Car - Van "InGladAloneness" (51 Records/MK Productions, 2012)
    7. Argos - Van "Cruel Symmetry" (Progressive Promotion Records, 2012)
    8. Lo-Fi Resistance - Van "Chalk Lines" (Burning Shed, 2012)
    9. Hogarth, Steve & Richard Barbieri - Van "Not The Weapon But The Hand" (Kscope, 2012)
    10. Wackerman, Chad - Van "Dreams Nightmares And Improvisations" (Eigen Beheer, 2012)

    Top 2011:
    1. Jakszyk, Fripp And Collins - A Scarcity Of Miracles (Panegyric)
    2. Immram - The Voyage Of The Corvus Corrone (Escape Artists Recordings)
    3. Brett Garsed - Dark Matter (eigen beheer)
    4. Man On Fire - Chrysalis (10T Records)
    5. Sarah Fimm - Near Infinite Possibility (eigen beheer)
    6. Airbag - All Rights Removed (Karisma Records)
    7. Theo Bleckmann - Hello Earth! – The Music Of Kate Bush (Winter & Winter)
    8. Herd Of Instinct - Herd Of Instinct (Firepool Records)
    9. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine (Domino Recording)
    10. Toshimi Project - 1st Gear (ZiZo/Shiosai)

    SOME FAVOURITE ARTISTS AND BANDS
    Allan Holdsworth
    Genesis (especially the period 1970-1977)
    Happy The Man
    U.K.
    Kevin Gilbert
    Japan (including Solo)
    The Sound
    Crack The Sky
    Kenso
    Scott Henderson & Gary Willis/
    Tribal Tech
    Nick Drake
    Bill Bruford
    Alice
    Isildurs Bane
    Pink Floyd (especially the seventies)
    stop me, because there is so many

    SOME FAVOURITE CONCERTS
    Happy The Man (NEARfest 2000)
    Genesis (Ahoy, 1977)
    Isildurs Bane (Vervier, 2000)
    Solution (must be 1976)
    all Allan Holdsworth-concerts
    (in the 80’s, 90’s and this new century)
    Marillion (1984/5?- it was before Misplaced Childhood came out)
    Midnight Oil (1985)
    David Sylvian (2001)
    all Scott Henderson-concerts