INEKE VANDOORN & MARC VAN VUGTThe Soundmakers ProjectBaixim records Bij de jaarlijkse race voor de Boy Edgarprijs mag zoonderhand wel eens worden gedacht aan zangeresIneke Vandoorn en gitarist Marc van Vugt. Al vanaf deBraziliaanse band Baixim, begin jaren tachtig, zijn zeactief met z’n tweeën. Sindsdien hebben ze grotestappen gezet, via de conventionele jazz naar zowatalle […]

Gijsbert Kamer wrote a very nice review in one of our national newspapers.”Despite moments of shock when the choir sounds like meowing cats, “The Soundmakers Project” remains captivating”. https://www.volkskrant.nl/muziek/ondanks-schrikmomenten-waarop-het-koor-als-miauwende-katten-klinkt-blijft-the-soundmakers-project-boeien~bc79a3e9/

Een weergaloos project…, een opmerkelijk album… lees de lovende review in Jazzbulletin van het Nederlands Jazz Archief

Ineke Vandoorn / Marc van Vugt / Christine Duncan / The Soundmakers – The Soundmakers Project  10.07.2025  More than once our pages have reviewed the works of Dutch musicians Ineke Vandoorn and Marc van Vugt, both together and separately. Our regular readers have had the opportunity to appreciate van Vugt’s subtle, creative guitar playing and […]

The first reviews of the Soundmakers Project album are being published, preceding the September 6 release. This one is by Coen de Jonge for Jazzism Recensie: Vandoorn | Van Vugt | Duncan – ‘The Soundmakers Project’ Het album The Soundmakers Project van Vandoorn, Van Vugt en Duncan combineert koorimprovisatie met jazz en vereist aandachtige beluistering; […]

We are happy that on September 6 a new album will be released of our Soundmakers project. It will be available on all streaming and download services and on CD through our own Bandcamp store. Presaving on Spotify is available as of August 30. The Soundmakers project revolves around the human voice, in all its […]

We just found out that Marc’s solo acoustic guitar album The Lonely Coyote was in the jazz top 200 of the US Rootsmusicreport 2023 ánd my second solo acoustic guitar album The Curious Badger was in their jazz top 200 of 2024. Roots Music Report is the number one independent music chart in the world. […]

Marc’s single Dancing in the Wind of the album The Curious Badger is becoming a hit single. Since the release in January the single was in the top 10 of the prestigious American website Allaboutjazz.com for six month in a row and is now still in the top 25 on number 23.

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Marc is elected in the top 3 acoustic guitar players in Gitarist Magazine and a full page interview was published. You can read it here. ‘Marc van Vugt’s new album covers a huge range with absolute mastery and exquisite playing’ Jens Hausmann Akustik Gitarre ‘One of his country’s strongest acoustic guitarists…..Marc van Vugt’s compositions are […]

Rinus van de Heijden – Jazznu.com “Song art is practiced here, in a way that will surprise even seasoned music lovers.”“Rarely, perhaps never heard how two musicians find each other in this way: monumental, unrelenting, closely matched, mutually uplifting. ““Dancing on Water is a giant album. The joining of two such different greats could have […]