Chabliz

Adventurous dutch pop-noir band with enchanting female vocalist with a whopping four octave vocal range. Two released albums: a live album and a studio album. Both got a lot of good press reviews in the Dutch and international media. In October 2022 Chabliz released a well-received new album ('Heroes and Foes') and in December a single. In 2021 the band released a single and an EP. During corona Chabliz geve several livestream concerts, but they are glad to play also live again. The third album “Straight Stories” is released in Oct 2017. This album also received great reviews. The first track on the album is recorded with featuring artist Fay Lovsky on theremin and singing saw.
Chabliz took up influences from dreampop, rock, opera and gothic jazz. They won the Public Award of the Delft Fringe festival (category “music”). In 2016 the band toured in New York City (USA).
Piano, keyboards, double bass, and on the albums drums, sometimes also guitar. They’ve been compared to “New Romantic” -and other- bands (Bat For Lashes, My Brightest Diamond, Beach House, Kate Bush, Nina Hagen and Nick Cave). Three bandmembers are also influenced by Joy Division. Chabliz released several videoclips. You can find them on Spotify, Deezer, iTunes, Apple Music and many other platforms.

WHO:
Petra de Winter signed a record deal with major CNR-Arcade. She performed, a.o., at stages in London, Copenhagen and Tunisia. In Holland she was a guest of Paul de Leeuw at his popular national t.v. show. Petra has also worked with other Dutch musicians, such as Rowin Schumm (Lichterlaaie), Arie Spaans (Suburbs), Cor Gout (Tresspassers W), Daniel Derks (ex-de Dijk), Hans Eijkenaar, Michel van Schie and Tjeerd van Zanen. In the nineties she was the leadsinger of musical theatre group "Danse Macabre". She studied at the DJAM and the Royal Conservatory.

Double bass-player Marcel Peters has played the North Sea Jazz Festival five times. He also accompanied jazzvocalist Faye Claassen and Mariska Veres (Shocking Blue). Chabliz' studio album "Nightporter" has been produced by Wim Oudijk. He had several top 40 hits with his band 'Navel'. Last years he worked with bands as a producer; Wim produced a.o. "Venus Flytrap" and the famous hit-album of "Doctorandus P". He co-founded the "Tresspassers W".

Pianist-keyboardist Pim van Riezen had some small hits with several EDM songs on the Rave label.. He studied at the conservatory of Amsterdam and plays pop, classic organ and jazzpiano. His extra speciality is recording, mixing and producing. Guitarplayer René Meester studied at the SAE and played in many bands. he stil plays guitars in Faintlights. The new album has been produced by Pim and co-produced by Petra.

Guestplayers of Chabliz are guitarplayer and songwriter Henrik Olsen, who lives in Copenhagen, and guitarplayer and studio technician / producer Marcel van Ling. Marcel owns his own studio and did also some studiowork for the band.
Producer, singer and songwriter Wim Oudijk had several hits in the eighties. He produced the last album and he produced one song at the new Chabliz-album.. The production of the new album is in the hands of Chabliz (DIY). Cello player Giselle Bentvelsen played the cello at one of the new tracks. She also accompanied Barbra Streisand live in the dutch Ziggo Dome in 2013.

Where:
Chabliz did five short tours of Rumania (Bucharest) at the Jeunesses Musicales Festival and played there again in 2009 at the EUROPAFEST festival and at the Hardrock Cafe. Their concerts were broadcasted on the Rumanian State Television. The band played extensively all over Holland, in all sorts of clubs, festivals and venues from 2002-2015. Some highlights are the several clubcircuit-stages and festivals all over Holland, the The Hague Jazz Festival where they played gothicjazz, the dutch "Popronde", festival the Falckhof Affaire and several live radio concerts, also for radio 2. In 2016 they toured in Bew York City, USA.

What: The Live-to-DAT-recorded debut-album "Black Blue" was highly acclaimed by the Dutch music-press (a.o. OOR, Fret, Music Maker). Chabliz' studio album "Nightporter" has been produced by Wim Oudijk. This album got very good (even better !) press-critics in the Dutch and international music-press. Amongst Chabliz' fans and appreciators are several celebreties: the late Theo van Gogh, Van Dyke Parks and Adriaan Bontebal.
Chabliz made it to many finals, several jury's chose CHABLIZ ( for details, see www.ongekendtalent.nl) because they loved this music. In autumn 2017 the album Straight Stories has been released, in 2021 the band released a single and an EP and in 2022 Chabliz released the new 'heroes and Foes'album plus a single; 'Wings of the Night.'

Chabliz is playing live at several stages in holland right now. The new album is recorded in the bands own rehearsal room and homestudio, and produced by themselves.

Parts of our History:
In 2000 Chabliz' pianist Jan-Kees Haks deceased at the age of 37 years. He was replaced by Ewout Willems. After the release of the album "Nightporter" he left the band and was replaced by Henk Greven. Henk left the band in 2009 and was replaced by Pim van Riezen. In 2007 drummer Arthur van Keppel died, also far too young. After a short period of mourning he was replaced by Ap de Ree.
Half of the original bandmembers were gone now, which meant a lot for the remaining bandmembers.
In 2009 Chabliz recorded a demo with the famous dutch guitarplayer Dany Lademacher. In 2010 the band released a quite weird coverversion and video from Michael Jacksons song "Billie Jean". The band made a resonant gothicversion of this song. It was played many times at several radiostations, also on radio 2. People loved or hated this version, and there was nothing in between. In 2011 Chabliz recorded the song again, this time not in a demoversion, for the new album.
In 2013 famous Dutch multi-instrumentalist and singer Fay Lovsky became the featured artist in one of the songs from the new album. She played theremin and saw in this song.