HAEVN - No Man's Land
LCM Song Of The Day: ‘No Man’s Land’ - HAEVN
Our LCM feature track today is the last single from HAEVN’s latest album ‘Symphonic Tales’. Haevn are a Dutch band from Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 2015 by singer-songwriter Marijn van der Meer and film soundtrack composer Jorrit Kleijnen, who began writing music together in their studio in Amsterdam.
Receiving a piano from his grandfather had a great impact on Jorrit’s life. It was this piano that taught him to express himself through music. Following that passion has led him to pursue a career as a film composer, capturing emotions on the screen and translating them into film scores.
Marijn has always been inseparable from his guitar. Even during a long period of sickness which kept him in bed for 3 years there was nothing that could stop him from playing. This period made him discover and appreciate the healing power of music.
They quickly understood that Marijn’s soothing voice was a unique blend with Jorrit’s instrumental colors. In a short period of time, they developed a strong, intuitive ‘common sense’ to create their own musical world called HAEVN. In this universe, inspired by artists like LeonardCohen, Bon Iver, Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Ray LaMontagne but also film composers as Thomas Newman and Hans Zimmer, they are constantly in search of melodies,colours and lyrics that comfort them. The duo made it their sole purpose to comfort with their music.
For the production of their debut album they teamed up with the acclaimed producer behind London Grammar, Tim Bran. Their debut album 'Closed’ evokes feelings of solitude, seduction, conquer/victory and remorse. It was an evident choice that HAEVN recorded a string orchestra for their debut album to represent the film score influences.
With creating the HAEVN universe a whole other world opened up for Jorrit and Marijn. It was the first time people could form their own images and emotions whilst listening to the sounds of Jorrit. And for the first time, the songs on the album could have the healing effect for others in a way Marijn experienced it before.