Joep Beving & Maarten Vos releases 02/07

Pianist Joep Beving and cellist Maarten Vos have announced details of their first collaborative album, Vision of contentment, which will be released by Nils Frahm’s LEITER label and arrives on July 19, 2024. It follows work together on 2019’s Henosis, Beving’s third album, which came about after the two musicians shared a bill in Amsterdam in 2018. Mixed by Frahm at LEITER studio in the German capital’s famed Funkhaus complex, where Vos also has his studio, the LP contains eight brand new compositions and will be available on vinyl as well as via all digital platforms. It’s preceded by a single, ’02:07’, out today. ’02:07’ is the sound of a life well lived departing for a better place, while the title track’s spacious, quietly epic nine minutes seem somehow to celebrate absence itself.

Transitions are a theme on vision of contentment, not least because, by the time Beving and Vos had settled down to start recording, their friend Brounen had been fighting cancer for three years. Vos and Beving managed to see their friend in the days leading up to his loss, and were together in the studio when they ultimately learned he’d passed away, immediately turning to their instruments to put their feelings into music. The moment is captured on the deeply affecting ‘02:07’, named after the hour the news arrived, but each of vision of contentment’s pieces is similarly illuminated by his existence in their lives.

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JOEP BEVING & MAARTEN VOS LIVE

• 16/12 30CC, Leuven
• 17/12 Cultuurcentrum Hasselt, Hasselt
• 18/12 Schouwburg, Brugge
• 19/12 Den Atelier, Luxembourg