L'OVADESE (Italy) - April, 2002

Doug Hoekstra - Around the Margins (Inbetweens) - Giovanni Pietro Scazzola

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What’s passing through the mind of a songwriter when he sets about making a new album? Sounds, images, colours, sensations?

Surely, Doug Hoekstra’s head contains a filter, detaining all that the others let go and reject. It focuses his attention on what lies around the margins, faith in the lives of the last, and in creative originality without compromises.

The music of Around the Margins contains sacred litanies of futuristic cathedrals, where people freely meet; the sacred fire of an interior monologue full of counterpoint harmonies; and the cerebral calculation of melodies and lyrics, brought together in one seamless blooded amalgam. The songs are bricks of soul squeezed and infused with the juices of poetry.

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