Peaceful Percussion

There is a percussion at the heart of everything. The rain on leaves. The tide against stone. The footfall in an empty hallway. Vinsent Planjer has spent a lifetime listening for it. On Peaceful Percussion, he distills that listening into five meditations — each one an invitation to stop, to breathe, and to hear the world anew.

These are not compositions in the traditional sense. They are presences. Environments shaped by hand, mallet, and resonance, recorded in DSD 256 by Jared Sacks at Banana Bread Studios to capture every whisper of overtone, every decay.

Vinsent Planjer grew up in Zwolle, where he joined the local marching band at age eight and never really stopped listening. Trained at the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague, where his teachers included Eric Ineke and guest masters Joe LaBarbera, Jeff Hamilton, and Cindy Blackman — he went on to become a central figure in Dutch jazz, performing at the North Sea Jazz Festival and throughout Europe with the Rembrandt Frerichs Trio, among many others.

His work spans jazz, contemporary classical, world music, and theatre, always guided by a core conviction: that percussion, without a single melody note, can carry the full weight of human feeling. Peaceful Percussion Performances is a distillation of that listening.

Vinsent Planjer, Percussion