Tuur Florizoone - Night Shift (2020)

Castelfidardo is a town in the Italian province of Ancona with less than 20,000 inhabitants. Castelfidardo has an accordion museum and factories of no less than 28 different brands of accordions.

In 1999 Tuur Florizoone bought a chromatic accordion from the renowned Bugari Armando house. This instrument is cherished by him and has accompanied him since that year on his adventures, travels, concerts and encounters. They are inseparable. Florizoone literally closes the instrument to the chest and embraces it. "I love to feel the music and the deepest notes vibrate against my chest as I play." Florizoone gets everything out of his accordion. He enjoys the fact that it sometimes squeaks, sighs and creaks with certain notes or strikes, that in other words it has "lived" and that is precisely why he likes to incorporate those "imperfections" during concerts. He also does this on his first solo CD.

The title Night Shift was not chosen by chance. During the first lockdown he realized that the time was right for a very first solo CD. The recordings took place mainly at home, at night while the children slept, because during the day they demanded his attention. So composing, improvising and recording took place during countless 'night shifts', while Tuur is actually a morning person.

As he says himself, Night Shift contains 15 cinematic and intimate soundscapes, but the compositions may be a bit more abstract, but Florizoone's melody lines remain palpable. From melancholy and modest to intimate and tender, but in all cases very visual. In Cycle you can see his long legs pedaling the pedals with the wind in the back and in To Autumn a rain of autumn leaves swirls down the subtle bass lines to form a beautifully colored carpet. Sometimes the Bugari seems to want to tell its own story, such as in the airy Hmpf or in Buzz where a humming landscape passes by. In the stormy landscape in Cap Gris Nez you can feel the wind from the Pas de Calais and you can almost see the white rocks of Dover.

Florizoone sees his solo CD as an ode to his instrument, but also to how it feels to be lonely. What do you think? starts lonely and transforms when the rhythmic bass line is joined by a cheerful melody and gradually melts into a restrained but intense percussive party on the square centimeter, in which every fiber of the Bugari participates. The gems on Night Shift have been tested and found positive.