Kyteman

Kyteman is the stage name of the Dutch musician Colin Benders ( born December 5, 1986 in Utrecht), of the registered success in the hip- hop genre, especially in his home country. His published in 2009 debut album The Hermit Sessions was composed by him and produced, in addition, he played all the instruments himself a. To present this work on stage, he founded in 2009 as a project Kyteman 's Hip- hop Orchestra, which was soon disbanded in favor of his production company Kytopia. In 2011, Kyteman the orchestra under the name The Kyteman Orchestra reassembled. It now consists of eighteen musicians, rappers, opera singers and a choir.

Musical influences and career

As a three -year-old Colin Benders received his first trumpet, a gift from his uncle Jacky Terrasson, who became known as a jazz pianist. Terrasson took his nephew with the North Sea Jazz Festival, which should have an impact on the career of Kyteman. Early Benders changed from a normal primary school in the Koorschool Cathedral in Utrecht, where accounts for half of the lessons on the subjects of music and choral singing. There Benders learned classical trumpet playing, besides jazz and classical singing had influence on his musical development. Then Bender went to the School voor Jong Talent in The Hague, which belongs to the Conservatory. There, as well, especially classical music, but also music theory was taught. At the time Benders began almost twelve years old to participate in the formation of Utrecht Six of Your Best Friends. He stated that he was interested in other styles as classical and jazz.

With 16 Bender was hired by Pete Philly as a trumpet player and has performed with the Grote Prijs together on this van Nederland in 2002 in Amsterdam, while Philly won the award for Best Muzikant in the genre Hip- Hop. Subsequently, he joined the hip- hop band from Haarlem Relax. The school left Benders not finish: By his own admission, he wondered at all subjects, whether they were important for his music, and why he should then deal with it, if this were not the case.

During his time at the Relax Benders began preparations for his first album The Hermit Sessions, for which he needed a total of two years. Great influence it had the painful experience of a failed relationship, the Benders processed in this way. Preliminary, he published three titles as EP (The Kyteman -EP, 2008). His debut album was released in 2009 in the top five of the Dutch charts, went platinum and stayed two years in the album charts in the Netherlands. Together with the Dutch jazz trumpeter Eric Vloeimans brought Benders 2011 another album out, this time under the project name Kytecrash on his own label Kytopia.

From Kyteman 's Hip -hop Orchestra at The Kyteman Orchestra

On his debut album Colin Benders had played all the instruments himself. At first he did not think about going with The Hermit Sessions on stage since the reaction appeared to be too difficult and too expensive. But then lured him the challenge: Fifteen orchestra musicians and some rappers who participated on the album was compiled specifically for live performances. In various festivals, he solved together with Kyteman 's Hip -hop Orchestra of great enthusiasm and won the Popprijs 2009 at the Noorderslag festival in Groningen. Despite this success, Bender decided against further appearances and solved the orchestra again to deal next alone with starting their own studios.

But already the end of 2010 Benders started again a collaboration with former members of the orchestra, which he extended to some musicians, opera singers, rappers four and a choir. After the reunion of the now renamed The Kyteman Orchestra ensembles appeared in March 2012 in the Netherlands the eponymous album from which the title The Mushroom Cloud was released as a single for Germany. This album was composed by Bender on Iceland and recorded in analog there. According to Bender, it is " time travel back thirty years ," one in which this time mainly oriented to the classical music there are stylistic elements of hip- hop, jazz, drum & bass and electro-pop. Ulrike Reichel wrote in tip, the album sounds " something like this when set to music Tom Waits a lost musical by Pink Floyd".