This Heart of Mine

About this album

My first solo album, released in 2008.

 

CD This heart of mine

Following on from the completion of Storybook, came the inspiration to record a 2nd album. The album This heart of mine contains thirteen tracks of which one cover; the wonderful O que tinha de ser from the famous Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim. The other twelve songs were composed within three months’ time. To accomplish that Simone worked together with Karel Boehlee, Martijn van Iterson, Arnold van Dongen, Lo van Gorp and Dimitri Dimadis. Shortly after the writing process the project was recorded in the studio. Virtually all instruments were played at the same time which resulted in an honest and intimate sound. The result was again another high quality production, in which different styles were brought together into a beautiful musical portrait. Like Storybook, the second album This heart of mine, was released under the Storybook Music Label.

Tracks

1.Dedication (A.van Dongen, L van Gorp, S.Pormes)
2.If you were gone (D.Dimadis, S.Pormes)
3.O que tinha de ser (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de moraes)
4.This heart of mine (K.Boehlee, S.Pormes)
5.Song for Niels (M.van Iterson, S.Pormes)
6.Carefree (A van Dongen, S.Pormes)
7.What I see (K.Boehlee, S.Pormes)
8.Colours (D.Dimadis, S.pormes)
9.A thousand stories (K.Boehlee, S.Pormes)
10.Yoe (K.Boehlee, S.Pormes)
11.Mother Nature (D.Dimadis, S.Pormes)
12.After the fall (K.Boehlee, S.Pormes)
13.Where we long to be (K.Boehlee, S.Pormes)

Musicians

Karel Boehlee (piano and synth’s)
Simone Pormes (vocals)
Peter Tiehuis, Arnold van Dongen (guitars)
Usiël Pormes, Aram Kersbergen (bass)
Martin Verdonk (percussion)
Martijn Vink (drums)
Sarah Koch, Lorre Lynn Trytten, Robert Meulendijk and Bastiaan van der Werf (strings)
Dimitri Dimadis (bouzouki, accordion)

 

All edits by Simone Pormes
Produced by Karel Boehlee and Simone Pormes
Recorded at E-sound, Weesp
Mixed and mastered by Usiël Pormes

Photography by Ron Tetteroo
Graphic design by Lowtone, The Hague