OAK
The third song of the new album OAK is out: Dat it der al is (That it’s already here).
Check the video clip below, made by Douwe Dijkstra and Raffaella Rosset.
The album comes out in a slow release: from October 17th 2025 on we’ll release every third Friday of the month a new song together with a podcast, until the album is complete in March 2026. Then it will appear on CD and vinyl. These are the songs of OAK you can already find on Spotify:
> Dat it der al is with the accompanying podcast Nynke en Lex spreken David Van Reybrouck – release October 17th 2025
> Holding Space with the accompanyning Official Music Video – release June 13th 2025
> The Story of The Straight Line with the accompanyning lyric video – release June 13th 2025
Together with radio and podcast maker Lex Bohlmeijer I make the podcasts. In the first episode, which accompanies the song Dat it der al is, we speak to writer David Van Reybrouck about the contrast we have created between the world and the earth. How do we get closer to the earth again? Do we need a new story, a new language? In the following podcasts we'll meet composer/pianist Joep Beving, antropologist Jitske Kramer and writer Charles Foster, among others.
After a dream start at Oerol in June, we are developing the performance OAK for the theatre tour that will start in March 2026.
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About OAK
Singer and language artist Nynke Laverman draws you into wondrous worlds with her enchanting voice, always leaving you a little soul struck. Her latest show, OAK, is a magical journey through the realm of the soul, where trees, animals and stones tell their story. Together with sound artist Sytze Pruiksma, using songs, spoken word and storytelling, she weaves an ingenious musical landscape, sometimes edgy and contemporary, sometimes with the mesmerising cadence of an ancient ritual.
With OAK, she builds on what she sowed in her previous album, Plant. Through a timeless universe, Nynke explores and mirrors our western world view in a tender, humorous way, while at the same time bringing to life a different view of reality. The image of man as a destroyer of the earth can’t be the whole story. We are so much more.
OAK opens at the Oerol Festival in June 2025 and will tour the theatres from March 2026.
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Concert college with Jitske Kramer
Nynke Laverman and anthropologist Jitske Kramer have joined forces in the concert college ‘Tricky Times’. An energetic lecture that touches the head and the heart, about the current turbulent times of transformation and renewal, based on the book Tricky Times by Jitske and the songs from Nynke’s album Plant.
For bookings: please contact Roos Prins via roos@humandimensions.nl
