Een Rondje Holland is a live album by Ex Orkest, an orchestra

Orchestra

An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...

 made up of the Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 post-punk

Post-punk

Post-punk is a rock music movement with its roots in the late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid-1970s. The genre retains its roots in the punk movement but is more introverted, complex and experimental...

 band The Ex accompanied by 15 other musicians. The album features orchestral arrangements of previously released Ex songs (often with the band's standard English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 lyrics replaced with those in their native Dutch

Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...

) mixed with pieces of improvised music. The tracks were recorded over a series of four performances in Holland, Germany

Germany

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 and Belgium

Belgium

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, and compiled for release on the band's own label in 2001.

Tracklisting

1. "De Weg"
2. "Kokend Asfalt"
3. "Symfonie Voor Machines"
4. "Meer Nieuws"
5. "Spruitjes"
6. "Een Rondje Holland"
7. "Gronings Liedje"
8. "My Happiness"
9. "Rosenkohl"
10. "Uitgeest"
11. "Stukverdriet"
12. "De Klokkenluider"

Personnel

• Terrie (guitar)
• G.W. Sok (vocals)
• Luc (acoustic bass)
• Andy Moor
  Andy Moor (The Ex)
  Andy Moor is an experimental musician, best known as the guitarist of the UK band Dog Faced Hermans and the Dutch punk collective The Ex. He was also a founding member of Kletka Red and along with Isabelle Vigier and Yannis Kyriakides created the experimental music label Unsounds.Moor was born in...
  
  (guitar)
• Katrin (drums, vocals)
• Jaap Blonk (vocals)
• Han Buhrs (vocals)
• Jan Mulder (vocals)
• Roy Paci (trumpet)
• Felicity Provan (trumpet)
• Wilf Plum (drums)
• Michael Vatcher (drums, percussion)
• Ferry Heyne (valve trombone, trumpet, tuba)
• Wolter Wierbos (trombone)
• Joost Buis (trombone)
• Michael Moore (saxophone, clarinet)
• Wilbert de Joode (double-bass)
• Ernst Glerum (double-bass)
• Gert-Jan Blom (singing saw, groove-box)
• Hamish McKeich (director, electric bassoon)