Waan – We Want WAAN – Black vinyl

Description

Dutch duo Waan return with their sophomore album We Want WAAN, a genre-defying exploration of rhythm, improvisation, and emotion – on Sonar Kollektiv. Following the critical acclaim of their 2023 debut Echo Echo – which earned two Edison Award nominations and strong support from press and radio (including BBC Radio 2s Jamie Cullum) – saxophonist Bart Wirtz and keyboardist Emiel van Rijthoven push their musical conversation further on We Want WAAN. What emerges is a deeply textured, cinematic album that fuses jazz, electronics, and beat culture with raw emotional clarity. The albums creative spark was ignited on the remote Dutch island of Texel, where the pair retreated in summer 2024 to write freely – unburdened by format, genre, or expectation. Whatever the track needs, we give it, WAAN explains. That simple principle opened the door to sweeping strings, broken time signatures, crowd recordings, and boundary-pushing collaborations.