Kika Sprangers - Mind's Eye (2022)

Kika Sprangers is one of The Netherlands’ most captivating jazz musicians. After her 2019 debut Human Traits (nominated for an Edison Jazz Award – the Dutch equivalent of the Grammy), her new album Mind’s Eye is another example of her artistic quest for what makes us human. For Kika, imagination is key. During several periods of lockdown, Kika was found in an abandoned TivoliVredenburg – the concert hall that she is working at because of a two-year Artist In Residence Program.

“I never expected this silence and emptiness to be inspiring to me. There was literally no one and nothing, and it triggered my imagination. And then I realized, this is exactly what makes us human: the ability to imagine.”

The outcome is a rich conceptual album that explores the cross overs between modern jazz and neo classical.