WigAb Baars / Ig Henneman

Perch Hen Brock & Rain

2023

"Perch Hen Brock & Rain featuring Ab Baars, Ig Henneman, Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey is an improvising quartet drawing on myriad experiences and backgrounds. Each member is conscious of their own weight and power to add to the communal conversation, understanding silence and restraint can be as powerful a contribution to the whole as density. Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey represent the best of the New York scene while Ab Baars and Ig Henneman are key members of the idiosyncratic Dutch improvised music community. Either duo showcases the kind of telepathic interplay that comes from years of dedicated playing. Together, the wealth of experience allows limitless possibilities."

Ig Henneman

2022

""Few people dare to be as extreme in their musical choices as composer and viola player Ig Henneman. Her oeuvre, revealing an immense drive, is uncompromising and above all totally individual in an unruly way. However angular and steep the rhythms and melodies often are, this is music that communicates almost in spite of itself, that never makes it easy for the listener, but at the same time always reaches out. It is music that, precisely because Henneman does not seem at all intent on it, often touches the listener particularly deeply. In honour of Henneman's 75th birthday, "Outside the Rain Has Stopped" once again brings together her interests and qualities. For instance, her love of poetry is contained in a piece based on a poem by the equally unruly poet Emily Dickinson and two readings by Dutch poet Anneke Brassinga. The six musical works are mutually distinct. Yet you can immediately hear Henneman's hand in them. Organs play a major role in half of the pieces. A golden touch, because the organ, grand and elusive, is right up her street. Just take the unforgettable opening piece "Galina U", an ode to Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006). After just a few notes, you know you've never heard anything like this before." -Mischa Andriessen"

Ab Baars & Joost Buis

2020

"Featuring adaptations of compositions by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn."

Ab Baars & Ig Henneman

2020

"This album bundle includes two CDs--Goofy June Bug & Live @ The Ironworks Vancouver--by Ken Vandermark / Ab Baars and Ig Henneman Sextet."

Ig Henneman

2020

"[...] Ig Henneman has discovered a third route, a fusion of the Lied's finesse with the straightforwardness of a jam session. Her Solo Songs for bassoon, bass clarinet, violin, viola and cello trace a semi-improvised road towards song, starting from an instrument. The musician plays, and plays on, till a tipping point is reached where text presents itself as an answer to the questions uttered by the notes as they were groping, searching, dancing, growling, whining. At this point, replete with climactic musical energy, the musician starts to sing, pressed by an urgency too strong for the voice to withhold: it must speak out. It is the turning point. The words of Ingeborg Bachmann, Anneke Brassinga, Emily Dickinson, Sarah Lawson and Nanao Sakaki provide first aid, in magical ambiguity. [...]. —Bas van Putten"

Ab Baars

2018

""Since I first started making music I listened extensively to ballads that were being played by the great saxophonists. These inspiring examples became part of my playing, my sound, my language. This CD is a salute to that tradition". -Ab Baars"

Queen Mab Trio

2018

"Galina U has been compiled from compositions that Henneman contributed to the Queen Mab Trio albums, See Saw and Thin Air, along with ‘Overtoom’, from a previously unreleased recording session. For See Saw Henneman contributed three tracks: ‘Marilyn L’, ‘Lori F’ and ‘Galina U’. The latter is an evocative ode to the Russian composer Galina Ustvolskaya, in which Henneman endeavours to mirror Ustvolskaya’s idiom with ominous, compelling rhythms and piano chords hammered out with full force, and she succeeds in coming unmistakably close while fortunately retaining her own vocabulary. Marilyn Lerner – piano; Lori Freedman – bass clarinet / clarinet Ig Henneman – viola "

Duo Baars-Henneman

2018