By creating a platform for artists, the Wandering Songs project can be part of this process. It gives people the opportunity to tell their own stories -in music- and make others aware of matters they deem important.
EVERT DANIEL AALTEN is musician and studio engineer (Scandal Studios), making field recordings all over the world. Evert spent three months in Jamaica, where he recorded reggae music in Kingston with i.a. Sly & Robbie, Sugar Minott and Kiddus I. For ‘Boot Recordings’, he travels through Europe with a mobile studio, recording singer/songwriters on tape from the boot of a car.
KARIN VAN BEMMEL is a cultural anthropologist and has undertaken fieldwork in Guatemala, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Centre for Studies in African Humanities, Ghent University, focusing on local discourses and the conceptualization of nodding syndrome in northern Uganda. Karin spent fifteen months in Kitgum.
SJORS SWIERSTRA is an independent filmmaker who has produced several well-received documentaries. His latest documentary ‘The World According to Monsieur Khiar’ was selected for the IDFA Competition for Dutch Documentary 2015. Sjors is currently filming and editing the Wandering Songs from refugees and asylum seekers in the Netherlands.
ERIK VAN BEMMEL -born in Kenya- is graphic designer and photographer. He graduated in sports and marketing, completed a two-year study in the field of web-design and is now enrolled at the school of photography (‘Fotovakschool’) in Amsterdam. He is currently having exhibitions in Amersfoort.