Mark Ritsema
Encyclopedia
Mark Ritsema is a singer, guitarist
, songwriter
, journalist
and writer
from the Netherlands
. During the eighties and nineties he fronted cult bands Spasmodique
and Cobraz and currently he plays with Raskolnikov
. He also performs as the solo-artist Nightporter and plays guitar for John Sinclair
, Vera and Mecano (Dutch band).
in 1962. He grew up in Zwijndrecht
and Maassluis
; suburban towns around Rotterdam. In 1974 he moved with his parents to Rotterdam
.
After teaching himself to play guitar
, Ritsema started writing songs in the late seventies, inspired by the punk
and new wave
movements. He formed a duo with drummer Reinier Rietveld called Evil a.k.a. Puberpunk. Around 1979 the pair (with Ritsema now on bass
) joined singer/guitarist Arjo Hijmans, and guitarist Ed Versloot, to form their first serious, but short lived, band Torpedos.
. Here he met bassplayer Martin Doctors van Leeuwen and drummer Bob Stoute, who had just disbanded their band Slum. They joined forces, with Ritsema on lead vocals and guitar. Soon after their first show in a car-park in Nieuwerkerk a/d IJssel
in 1982, they were joined by Reinier Rietveld on drums and Arjo Hijmans on guitar. In 1983 Stoute left.
In this (classic) line-up Spasmodique
remained active until 1990, gaining a solid live-reputation in Holland and releasing a few cassettes during the first half of the decade. They released their first mini-album in 1986, followed by four albums, a mini-album and two singles. The quartet toured intensively throughout Holland, Germany, Austria, Hungary and the former Czechoslovakia. After Hijmans left in 1990, they worked with guitar players Niek den Brave, Hans Brussee and Raymond Gerrits, and finally broke up in 1992.
In 1998 the classic line-up of Spasmodique reunited. They recorded the soundtrack for the short movie In Forced Perspective by Favola Film (Rino Gouw and Hugo Goudswaard) and performed live in the Rotterdam club Rotown under the name Villa Delirium. Spasmodique started recording new material they had written around 2000. The album Villa Delirium was finally released in 2002 and the book Cellar Of Roses, about Spasmodique, edited by Jean-Paul van Mierlo, was launched at the same time. After a lengthy Dutch tour Ritsema decided to leave Spasmodique, which meant the end of the band.
In 1998 Ritsema was asked by the local radio station Radio Rijnmond to play during their weekly talk show Studio Gloria. Initially Ritsema reunited with Grem (on piano) and Aalberts, calling themselves Trio Raskolnikov. After a few radio shows, double bassplayer Peter Jessen was recruited and the band name was changed to Mark Ritsema & Trio Raskolnikov. Combining Ritsema’s new songs, written each week, with jazzy improvisations, they rapidly became an established band that began playing throughout Holland. With the financial help of Radio Rijnmond and Rotown they also released a collection of radio recordings on CD Studio Gloria (1999). In 2001 they were part of the music, dance and film performance Dorst, with Regina Magnus (choreography, dance), Sanja Hasagic (dance) and Favola Film (visuals) for Rotterdam Cultural Capital. In 2001, together with members of the Q-Club from Hoorn, Ritsema founded UNSOUND, an organisation and record label that established the musical freedom of its members in a lengthy manifest (UNSOUND0001), which is partly an indictment of the commercial, tunnel visioned, music world. In 2003 UNSOUND released new albums by both Q-Club and Raskolnikov
(with Aalberts again replaced by De Bruijn), and the two bands also shared the stage during the theatrical music show UNSOUND0007, with visuals and video footage by Favola Film. The recording of the on-line-only album Portrait Of Raskolnikov As A Young Man was financed by a group of Raskolnikov fans. During 2007/2008 Raskolnikov was fairly inactive, due to Ritsema’s solo-activities, Grem’s work for Charlie Dée and Jessens’s growing activities in the classical
/avant-garde
music world. New live shows and recordings are being planned for 2009.
. Between 2003 and 2007 this repertoire, and some new material, was recorded in Vale The Lobos Studios and Bed & BreakFast Studios in Portugal, in collaboration with producer Jules Otto, Portuguese singer/guitarist Rui Veloso
and Belgian/Dutch guitarist Dany Lademacher. In A Valley Of Wolves was released in late 2007 under the name Nightporter, followed by performances at Crossing Border Festival
and NuMoon Fest in 2008.
. The works (mostly edited in length, to suit the opening hours of the gallery) were exhibited in galleries in Middelburg, Stuttgart, Brussels and London.
In 2001 Ritsema played for the first time as guitarist for the American poet and writer John Sinclair
. They debuted at the Crossing Border Festival
l in Amsterdam and continued playing together in Holland, Italy, Spain and England.
At the same edition of Crossing Border, Waltzing The Storm, the second short movie by Favola Film was shown, with a soundtrack that Ritsema composed, sang and performed at the recording studio Studio 2X2.
In 2005 Ritsema joined the reformed, Amsterdam
based, new wave band Mecano, playing mainly in Greece and France. He also performed as a duo with Mecano singer Dirk Polak in Athens. Currently Ritsema and Polak are writing songs together, calling themselves The Polar Twins.
In 2005 Ritsema produced the first demo of the young singer/songwriter Vera Juhrend and continues to play guitar in her band (with Peter Jessen and Ron de Bruijn). They recorded Vera’s first album Leave A Line in mid-2008 with Dirk Polak as producer.
In 2008 Ritsema played guitar for Dutch writer and columnist Carrie in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
(Rotterdam). Words and music were inspired by, and performed in front of, the painting Shooting Gallery by Pyke Koch.
who regularly contributes to the cultural monthly magazine Uit Agenda Rotterdam, and the Lowlands Festival
newspaper Daily Paradise.
In 2008 Ritsema wrote a brief history of the Rotterdam underground scene in the eighties/nineties for the book Antiscene by photographer Carla van der Marel. He has also written introductions to the Spasmodique
book From the Cellar Of Roses (2002) and The John Sinclair reader IT'S ALL GOOD (Headpress 2009).
With visual-artist Arno van de Pol he created the graphic novel In A Valley Of Wolves which accompanies the deluxe edition of the Nightporter album of the same name. They continue working on new chapters, the second being published in the literary magazine
Passionate, which has also published Ritsema's short stories and poems. He has appeared in the poetry magazine Krakatau and is currently working on a novel.
Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...
, songwriter
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
, journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
and writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
from the Netherlands
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...
. During the eighties and nineties he fronted cult bands Spasmodique
Spasmodique
Spasmodique was an underground rock band from Rotterdam, The Netherlands from 1981 to 2005.-Sound:Spasmodique formed at the height of New Wave's popularity and existed somewhere near that genre's post-punk fringes. They sang almost exclusively in English...
and Cobraz and currently he plays with Raskolnikov
Raskolnikov (band)
Raskolnikov is a Rotterdam based band, consisting of four well-known musicians in the Dutch music world. They were brought together by singer, guitarist and songwriter Mark Ritsema in the late nineties to be the house band of a local radio show called Studio Gloria...
. He also performs as the solo-artist Nightporter and plays guitar for John Sinclair
John Sinclair (poet)
John Sinclair is a Detroit poet, one-time manager of the band MC5, and leader of the White Panther Party — a militantly anti-racist countercultural group of white socialists seeking to assist the Black Panthers in the Civil Rights movement — from November 1968 to July 1969...
, Vera and Mecano (Dutch band).
Early years
Ritsema was born in AmsterdamAmsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
in 1962. He grew up in Zwijndrecht
Zwijndrecht (Netherlands)
Zwijndrecht is a city and municipality located in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. It is at the southern tip of the island of IJsselmonde, at the confluence of the rivers Oude Maas, Beneden-Merwede, and Noord....
and Maassluis
Maassluis
Maassluis is a town in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality had a population of 32,847 in 2004, and covers an area of 10.11 km² .It received city rights in 1811...
; suburban towns around Rotterdam. In 1974 he moved with his parents to Rotterdam
Rotterdam
Rotterdam is the second-largest city in the Netherlands and one of the largest ports in the world. Starting as a dam on the Rotte river, Rotterdam has grown into a major international commercial centre...
.
After teaching himself to play guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, Ritsema started writing songs in the late seventies, inspired by the punk
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
and new wave
New Wave music
New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...
movements. He formed a duo with drummer Reinier Rietveld called Evil a.k.a. Puberpunk. Around 1979 the pair (with Ritsema now on bass
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
) joined singer/guitarist Arjo Hijmans, and guitarist Ed Versloot, to form their first serious, but short lived, band Torpedos.
Spasmodique
In 1981 Ritsema began to work at a psychogeriatric nursing home in Capelle a/d IJsselCapelle aan den IJssel
Capelle aan den IJssel is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality had a population of 65,605 in 2005, and covers an area of 15.42 km² of which 1.13 km² is water...
. Here he met bassplayer Martin Doctors van Leeuwen and drummer Bob Stoute, who had just disbanded their band Slum. They joined forces, with Ritsema on lead vocals and guitar. Soon after their first show in a car-park in Nieuwerkerk a/d IJssel
Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel
Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel is a town and former municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland...
in 1982, they were joined by Reinier Rietveld on drums and Arjo Hijmans on guitar. In 1983 Stoute left.
In this (classic) line-up Spasmodique
Spasmodique
Spasmodique was an underground rock band from Rotterdam, The Netherlands from 1981 to 2005.-Sound:Spasmodique formed at the height of New Wave's popularity and existed somewhere near that genre's post-punk fringes. They sang almost exclusively in English...
remained active until 1990, gaining a solid live-reputation in Holland and releasing a few cassettes during the first half of the decade. They released their first mini-album in 1986, followed by four albums, a mini-album and two singles. The quartet toured intensively throughout Holland, Germany, Austria, Hungary and the former Czechoslovakia. After Hijmans left in 1990, they worked with guitar players Niek den Brave, Hans Brussee and Raymond Gerrits, and finally broke up in 1992.
In 1998 the classic line-up of Spasmodique reunited. They recorded the soundtrack for the short movie In Forced Perspective by Favola Film (Rino Gouw and Hugo Goudswaard) and performed live in the Rotterdam club Rotown under the name Villa Delirium. Spasmodique started recording new material they had written around 2000. The album Villa Delirium was finally released in 2002 and the book Cellar Of Roses, about Spasmodique, edited by Jean-Paul van Mierlo, was launched at the same time. After a lengthy Dutch tour Ritsema decided to leave Spasmodique, which meant the end of the band.
Cobraz
In the early nineties Ritsema started playing and composing with multi-instrumentalist Willem Cramer. Cramer had just left the Rotterdam based multi-cultural band East Meets West. They soon recruited more (ex-)members of this band – percussionists Alex Eind, Daniël Bloem and John de Wit – to join a 1992 tour of Holland with East Meets West and Hi Ho Silver, called Rotterdam Olay I (De Rotterdamse Daad). They were joined by Martin Doctors van Leeuwen on bass and changed their name to Cobraz. A CD was issued, featuring three tracks by each band on the tour. Most of the band members left after the tour, so Ritsema and Cramer were joined by percussionists Joke Hamminga (East Meets West) and Coen Aalberts (Willy Nilly), and drummer Ron de Bruijn. This line-up debuted in Rotterdam at the Metropolis Festival in 1993. Doctors van Leeuwen left to be replaced by Chris Grem. This sextet recorded Cobraz only studio album Sato Bar (produced by TC Matic guitarist and producer Jean-Marie Aerts) in 1995, and disbanded the following year.(Mark Ritsema & Trio) Raskolnikov
In 1997 Ritsema formed Last Side Show with Jean-Marie Aerts, Chris Grem and Coen Aalberts (replaced by Ron de Bruijnduring the first Dutch tour ) but the band broke up before the end of the year due to logistic problems. Live and studio recordings were made but never released.In 1998 Ritsema was asked by the local radio station Radio Rijnmond to play during their weekly talk show Studio Gloria. Initially Ritsema reunited with Grem (on piano) and Aalberts, calling themselves Trio Raskolnikov. After a few radio shows, double bassplayer Peter Jessen was recruited and the band name was changed to Mark Ritsema & Trio Raskolnikov. Combining Ritsema’s new songs, written each week, with jazzy improvisations, they rapidly became an established band that began playing throughout Holland. With the financial help of Radio Rijnmond and Rotown they also released a collection of radio recordings on CD Studio Gloria (1999). In 2001 they were part of the music, dance and film performance Dorst, with Regina Magnus (choreography, dance), Sanja Hasagic (dance) and Favola Film (visuals) for Rotterdam Cultural Capital. In 2001, together with members of the Q-Club from Hoorn, Ritsema founded UNSOUND, an organisation and record label that established the musical freedom of its members in a lengthy manifest (UNSOUND0001), which is partly an indictment of the commercial, tunnel visioned, music world. In 2003 UNSOUND released new albums by both Q-Club and Raskolnikov
Raskolnikov (band)
Raskolnikov is a Rotterdam based band, consisting of four well-known musicians in the Dutch music world. They were brought together by singer, guitarist and songwriter Mark Ritsema in the late nineties to be the house band of a local radio show called Studio Gloria...
(with Aalberts again replaced by De Bruijn), and the two bands also shared the stage during the theatrical music show UNSOUND0007, with visuals and video footage by Favola Film. The recording of the on-line-only album Portrait Of Raskolnikov As A Young Man was financed by a group of Raskolnikov fans. During 2007/2008 Raskolnikov was fairly inactive, due to Ritsema’s solo-activities, Grem’s work for Charlie Dée and Jessens’s growing activities in the classical
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...
/avant-garde
Avant-garde
Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
music world. New live shows and recordings are being planned for 2009.
Solo
From the early nineties on, Ritsema performed solo, accompanying himself on acoustic guitarAcoustic guitar
An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...
. Between 2003 and 2007 this repertoire, and some new material, was recorded in Vale The Lobos Studios and Bed & BreakFast Studios in Portugal, in collaboration with producer Jules Otto, Portuguese singer/guitarist Rui Veloso
Rui Veloso
Rui Manuel Gaudêncio Veloso, commonly known as Rui Veloso, CavIH , is a Portuguese rock singer and musician. Regarded as the "father of Portuguese rock", this composer and interpreter had a great impact on the Portuguese music scene with the record Ar de Rock .Songs such as Chico Fininho and A...
and Belgian/Dutch guitarist Dany Lademacher. In A Valley Of Wolves was released in late 2007 under the name Nightporter, followed by performances at Crossing Border Festival
Crossing Border Festival
Crossing Border Festival is an annual festival in The Hague, Netherlands focusing on new pop music acts and literature. The first edition took place in 1993. The festival was once held in Amsterdam, but afterwards shifted back to The Hague.-1993:...
and NuMoon Fest in 2008.
Collaborations
Between 1998 and 2000, Ritsema participated as guitarist in the making of several sound sculptures, with the British artist/photographer Craigie HorsfieldCraigie Horsfield
Craigie Horsfield is an English artist. In 1996 he was nominated for the annual Turner Prize.Horsfield described his work as, "intimate in scale but its ambition is, uncomfortable as I find it, towards an epic dimension, to describe the history of our century, and the centuries beyond, the...
. The works (mostly edited in length, to suit the opening hours of the gallery) were exhibited in galleries in Middelburg, Stuttgart, Brussels and London.
In 2001 Ritsema played for the first time as guitarist for the American poet and writer John Sinclair
John Sinclair (poet)
John Sinclair is a Detroit poet, one-time manager of the band MC5, and leader of the White Panther Party — a militantly anti-racist countercultural group of white socialists seeking to assist the Black Panthers in the Civil Rights movement — from November 1968 to July 1969...
. They debuted at the Crossing Border Festival
Crossing Border Festival
Crossing Border Festival is an annual festival in The Hague, Netherlands focusing on new pop music acts and literature. The first edition took place in 1993. The festival was once held in Amsterdam, but afterwards shifted back to The Hague.-1993:...
l in Amsterdam and continued playing together in Holland, Italy, Spain and England.
At the same edition of Crossing Border, Waltzing The Storm, the second short movie by Favola Film was shown, with a soundtrack that Ritsema composed, sang and performed at the recording studio Studio 2X2.
In 2005 Ritsema joined the reformed, Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
based, new wave band Mecano, playing mainly in Greece and France. He also performed as a duo with Mecano singer Dirk Polak in Athens. Currently Ritsema and Polak are writing songs together, calling themselves The Polar Twins.
In 2005 Ritsema produced the first demo of the young singer/songwriter Vera Juhrend and continues to play guitar in her band (with Peter Jessen and Ron de Bruijn). They recorded Vera’s first album Leave A Line in mid-2008 with Dirk Polak as producer.
In 2008 Ritsema played guitar for Dutch writer and columnist Carrie in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is the main art museum in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The museum began in 1847 with the collection of Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans . Much of the museum's original collection was destroyed in a disastrous 1864 fire...
(Rotterdam). Words and music were inspired by, and performed in front of, the painting Shooting Gallery by Pyke Koch.
Writings
Ritsema is also a journalistJournalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
who regularly contributes to the cultural monthly magazine Uit Agenda Rotterdam, and the Lowlands Festival
A Campingflight to Lowlands Paradise
A Campingflight to Lowlands Paradise, also known as simply Lowlands, is a music festival, held annually in the Netherlands in August. Lowlands has about 55,000 visitors, over 200 acts and more than ten stages every year which are named according to the NATO phonetic alphabet apart from the Grolsch...
newspaper Daily Paradise.
In 2008 Ritsema wrote a brief history of the Rotterdam underground scene in the eighties/nineties for the book Antiscene by photographer Carla van der Marel. He has also written introductions to the Spasmodique
Spasmodique
Spasmodique was an underground rock band from Rotterdam, The Netherlands from 1981 to 2005.-Sound:Spasmodique formed at the height of New Wave's popularity and existed somewhere near that genre's post-punk fringes. They sang almost exclusively in English...
book From the Cellar Of Roses (2002) and The John Sinclair reader IT'S ALL GOOD (Headpress 2009).
With visual-artist Arno van de Pol he created the graphic novel In A Valley Of Wolves which accompanies the deluxe edition of the Nightporter album of the same name. They continue working on new chapters, the second being published in the literary magazine
Literary magazine
A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry and essays along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters...
Passionate, which has also published Ritsema's short stories and poems. He has appeared in the poetry magazine Krakatau and is currently working on a novel.
Discography
| Year | Title | Format | Artist |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Animals in Springtime | Cassette | Spasmodique Spasmodique Spasmodique was an underground rock band from Rotterdam, The Netherlands from 1981 to 2005.-Sound:Spasmodique formed at the height of New Wave's popularity and existed somewhere near that genre's post-punk fringes. They sang almost exclusively in English... |
| 1984 | Demo | Cassette | Spasmodique Spasmodique Spasmodique was an underground rock band from Rotterdam, The Netherlands from 1981 to 2005.-Sound:Spasmodique formed at the height of New Wave's popularity and existed somewhere near that genre's post-punk fringes. They sang almost exclusively in English... |
| 1985 | From Rotterdam | Cassette | Spasmodique Spasmodique Spasmodique was an underground rock band from Rotterdam, The Netherlands from 1981 to 2005.-Sound:Spasmodique formed at the height of New Wave's popularity and existed somewhere near that genre's post-punk fringes. They sang almost exclusively in English... |
| 1985 | Alienation | Cassette | Spasmodique Spasmodique Spasmodique was an underground rock band from Rotterdam, The Netherlands from 1981 to 2005.-Sound:Spasmodique formed at the height of New Wave's popularity and existed somewhere near that genre's post-punk fringes. They sang almost exclusively in English... |
| 1986 | Spasmodique | LP | Spasmodique Spasmodique Spasmodique was an underground rock band from Rotterdam, The Netherlands from 1981 to 2005.-Sound:Spasmodique formed at the height of New Wave's popularity and existed somewhere near that genre's post-punk fringes. They sang almost exclusively in English... |
| 1987 | From the Cellar of Roses | LP | Spasmodique Spasmodique Spasmodique was an underground rock band from Rotterdam, The Netherlands from 1981 to 2005.-Sound:Spasmodique formed at the height of New Wave's popularity and existed somewhere near that genre's post-punk fringes. They sang almost exclusively in English... |
| 1988 | Start to Believe | LP | Spasmodique Spasmodique Spasmodique was an underground rock band from Rotterdam, The Netherlands from 1981 to 2005.-Sound:Spasmodique formed at the height of New Wave's popularity and existed somewhere near that genre's post-punk fringes. They sang almost exclusively in English... |
| 1989 | North | LP/CD | Spasmodique Spasmodique Spasmodique was an underground rock band from Rotterdam, The Netherlands from 1981 to 2005.-Sound:Spasmodique formed at the height of New Wave's popularity and existed somewhere near that genre's post-punk fringes. They sang almost exclusively in English... |
| 1989 | Primitive | 7” | Spasmodique Spasmodique Spasmodique was an underground rock band from Rotterdam, The Netherlands from 1981 to 2005.-Sound:Spasmodique formed at the height of New Wave's popularity and existed somewhere near that genre's post-punk fringes. They sang almost exclusively in English... |
| 1990 | Haven | LP/CD | Spasmodique Spasmodique Spasmodique was an underground rock band from Rotterdam, The Netherlands from 1981 to 2005.-Sound:Spasmodique formed at the height of New Wave's popularity and existed somewhere near that genre's post-punk fringes. They sang almost exclusively in English... |
| 1991 | Spiling/Boston Tea Party | 7” | Spasmodique Spasmodique Spasmodique was an underground rock band from Rotterdam, The Netherlands from 1981 to 2005.-Sound:Spasmodique formed at the height of New Wave's popularity and existed somewhere near that genre's post-punk fringes. They sang almost exclusively in English... |
| 1991 | Who's afraid | CD | Spasmodique Spasmodique Spasmodique was an underground rock band from Rotterdam, The Netherlands from 1981 to 2005.-Sound:Spasmodique formed at the height of New Wave's popularity and existed somewhere near that genre's post-punk fringes. They sang almost exclusively in English... |
| 1995 | Sato Bar | CD | Cobraz |
| 1996 | Evil Rhythm | CD | Cobraz |
| 1997 | In forced Percpective | OST | Spasmodique Spasmodique Spasmodique was an underground rock band from Rotterdam, The Netherlands from 1981 to 2005.-Sound:Spasmodique formed at the height of New Wave's popularity and existed somewhere near that genre's post-punk fringes. They sang almost exclusively in English... |
| 1999 | Studio Gloria | CD | Raskolnikov Raskolnikov (band) Raskolnikov is a Rotterdam based band, consisting of four well-known musicians in the Dutch music world. They were brought together by singer, guitarist and songwriter Mark Ritsema in the late nineties to be the house band of a local radio show called Studio Gloria... |
| 2001 | Waltzing The Storm | OST | Mark Ritsema |
| 2002 | From Villa Delirium | CD | Spasmodique Spasmodique Spasmodique was an underground rock band from Rotterdam, The Netherlands from 1981 to 2005.-Sound:Spasmodique formed at the height of New Wave's popularity and existed somewhere near that genre's post-punk fringes. They sang almost exclusively in English... |
| 2003 | The Jezebel Shanty | CD | Raskolnikov Raskolnikov (band) Raskolnikov is a Rotterdam based band, consisting of four well-known musicians in the Dutch music world. They were brought together by singer, guitarist and songwriter Mark Ritsema in the late nineties to be the house band of a local radio show called Studio Gloria... |
| 2005 | Portrait Of Raskolnikov As A Young Man Part 1 | Downloadable CD | Raskolnikov Raskolnikov (band) Raskolnikov is a Rotterdam based band, consisting of four well-known musicians in the Dutch music world. They were brought together by singer, guitarist and songwriter Mark Ritsema in the late nineties to be the house band of a local radio show called Studio Gloria... |
| 2007 | In a Valley of Wolves | CD | Nightporter |
| 2008 | Urban Sundown | Downloadable CD | Nightporter |
External links
- Mark Ritsema official website
- Nightporter
- Spasmodique
- Unsound
- Mark Risema at DiscogsDiscogsDiscogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc., and are...
- Mark Ritsema at Nationaal Pop Instituut
- Mark Ritsema at ArtFacts
- Mark Ritsema at musicfrom.nl (in Dutch)