The essence of the music of VONK is the unsought musical find. VONK inspires serendipity with all sorts of experiments, for example; collaborations with interesting musicians and the use of electronics. This results in intriguing, cinematic, groovy music. In VONK’s music there is a lot of improvisation, despite that it is not jazz, it is not funk, it is not film music, but a mutated variety of those styles. In their home base, the Serendipity Labs in Eindhoven, VONK has been working on their debut CD Sunlight And Grey. For this CD they collaborated intensively with featured guest musician saxophonist Edward Capel.

On November 15th, VONK released their debut album Sunlight And Grey. The initial recordings of this album were made almost 2 years ago in their Serendipity Labs studio. Since then VONK has been working on the album on and off in between other projects. The idea for this album was to document the music that the 3 had been developing up until now (some songs were initiated as early as 2003, some were much newer, and one song was never played before until recording it for the album). The other idea for this album was to build on the pure sound of the trio; real instruments. No sequencing was used, everything was played live. That doesnt mean that everything had to sound pure, in fact, a lot of effects were used during the tracking of the songs (mostly noticable in the Rhodes and sax parts, but also , be it more subtle, in the bass). What is next for VONK? Well, to take this music on the road, and in the mean time take a totally different turn in the studio.

History: This trio started as a side project of some of the members of the band Shadow Magnetic. In December 2005, Shadow Magnetic was put to rest but 3 key members decided to continue in the form of their spin-off side project. To move from a 7 piece band to a trio has proven to be a challenge in re-arranging some of the existing material, but has also provided freedom for more experiment and collaboration.