Maarten Rischen (The Netherlands) is the personification of “man with no plan”, unless the plan would be to do a completely different thing every other day. This would normally result in an intangible mess of unrelated skills and artistic output, but somehow for Maarten a lot of what’s thrown at the wall does stick to an confusingly impressive degree. He has been touring the big stages and released a successful string of albums with bands like Shaking Godspeed and Tommy Ebben & The Small Town Villains, written and performed music for world class theatre and dance ensembles, owned and operated several music studios where he was at the helm of dozens of albums, worked in a circus, and set up music venues in Asia. He also has a vivid memory of being able to breathe underwater until the age of four. Whilst still active in ensembles such as progressive artrock collective Clocktopus, his own jam band And/Orchestra based around his producers moniker AND, and producing albums for hiphop outfit VHS, his latest semi-focused main endeavor is releasing his own solo work under his own name. And with solo we mean very, very solo; from writing to production to playing all instruments. This enables him to disregard any second opinion and go balls out in the hyper eclectic, hyper emo, hyper happy, hyper whatever he thinks is a valid human emotion to express-kinda music. From tiny minimalist-melancholic piano bits to odd-time-signature-layer-the-crap-outta-everythingwall-of-sound.