Description

On the 16th of May 2022 our studio De Werf burned down to the ground.
The fire took everything. The fire gave us this album. The Tree is still standing. The bird is still singing. This statement summarizes in a nutshell the events that led to the creation of T H F, but also says something about the band’s determination to pick up the thread immediately. Based on i-pad demos that Henk Hofstede had made, the band started rehearsing and recording, first in a now rented rehearsal space, then in studio 150 in Amsterdam-Noord.
The texts sometimes reflect on a wandering through and around the building, or look from the perspective of a tree that has been preserved or a
woodpecker that has seen it all happen. The lyrics can be read as an allegory, which becomes crystal clear in the last song, in which the cold reality of this loss, but also loss in general, becomes staggeringly clear.