Cloud studies

Singer Anna Serierse and guitarist Gijs Idema met at the Amsterdam Conservatory. They had a click and debuted their quartet in 2020 with the well-received Motus. Successor Cloud Studies shows that the musical chemistry between Serierse and Idema has only grown over the years. Cloud Studies is an ode to ever-moving clouds and the way artists such as William Turner and John Constable immortalized them… on canvas. Idema and Serierse paint impressionistically with sound. Serierse's voice is a fourth instrument, with which she smoothly and melodically, without words, fills in the music. Cloud Studies sounds light and enchanting, like lying in the grass on a summer day and letting a beautiful cloud cover slowly pass by. (MR)more