01	Radio						04:01
	02	Supersisterretsisrepus						00:18
	03	Psychopath						04:00
	04	Judy Goes On Holyday						12:39
	05	Pudding En Gisteren Music For Ballet						21:01
	06	She Was Naked						03:45
	07	Missing Link						02:57
	08	Gonna Take Easy						01:48
	09	WOW Live Recording						12:58
	10	The Groupies Of The Band						04:29
	11	Spiral Staircase						03:06
	12	Fancy Nancy						02:40

Pudding En Gisteren (c) 1972
Superstarshine (c) 1971


Supersister [Netherlands]
Present From Nancy (70), To The Highest Bidder (71), Pudding En Gistern (72), Superstarshine (72), Iskander (73), Spiral Staircase (73)

I have two Supersister albums, Present from Nancy and Iskander. I've also heard parts of To the Highest Bidder and Spiral Staircase. To the Highest Bidder and Present from Nancy are generally the recommended starting places. Showing strong Canterbury (e.g., early Soft Machine) and some Wigwam influences in the organ department (lots of organ), Supersister blend their own Dutch ideals and a touch of humor into a unique mixture of progressive rock. Plenty of flute or sax or both can be heard weaving in and out of the varied organ and piano. Sax is very prevalent on Present from Nancy. On this album, and the similar ...Highest Bidder, the music doesn't sit still very long, shifting constantly through different times and keys yet always developing. When the lyrics are present, they seem breezy and carefree, even playful, the melody often echoed by sax or flute. There is no guitar. Iskander steps down a small notch. The sound continues on in the vein of Present from Nancy but the sax is gone. This helps to give the band more of their own unique sound. The flute is much more prevalent now. However, some of the writing is a bit weaker. There are fewer time changes and so forth. There are many excellent moments but a few times I noticed I wasn't "into it' as much as I was with Present from Nancy. It's also more experimental and meditative (i.e., spacy) for about half the album. Based on what I've heard of Spiral Staircase is the weakest of their albums. It seems they ran out of good musical ideas and relied more on the humor. One song is based on a rhumba! Supersister doesn't play the most complex music you might hear, but the first several albums are very good none-the-less. Supersister is a good band for Canterbury/UK fans to break into the Dutch and Scandanavian scenes. Start with the first album and work your way forward.




SUPERSISTER
Supersister from The Hague started out in 1968 under the name of Sweet O.K. Supersister. Line-up: Robert Jan Stips (vocals, keyboards), Ron van Eck (bass, guitar), Marco Vrolijk (drums, vocals) and Sacha van Geest (vocals, flute).

In 1973, the latter two were replaced by, respectively, Herman van Boeyen (ex-Livin' Blues) and American Charlie Mariano (brass, very active in the jazz, e.g. in Ambush and Embryo). In 1974, the group broke apart; in their last days they played with: John Schuursma (guitar, ex-Brainbox, to Third Eye), Rob Kruisman (sax, flute, ex-Bintangs, to Carlsberg) and Englishman Elton Dean (sax, ex-Soft Machine and Just Us, later in the re-born Georgie Fame & Blue Flames).

Robert Jan went to Golden Earring; Ron to Stamp 'n Go; Marco to CCC, Herman to Red White & Blue; Charlie to Porkpie.

1970 She was naked/Spiral staircase Blossom 2103002
Fancy Nancy/Gonna take easy Polydor 2050048
LP Present from Nancy Polydor 2441016
1971 A girl named you/Missing link Polydor 2050090
No tree will grow/The groupies of the band Polydor 2050141
No tree will grow/A girl named you Polydor 2001252
LP To the highest bidder Polydor 2925002
1972 Radio/Dead dog Polydor 2050182
LP Pudding en gisteren Polydor 2925007
LP Pudding and yesterday [in Duitsland] Polydor 2310205
LP Superstarshine vol. 3 Polydor 2419039
1973 Europe on 5, 10 or 20 dollars a day/part 2 Polydor 2050232
Wow/Drs. Dee Polydor 2050244
Bagoas/Memories are new Polydor 2050272
LP Iskander Polydor 2925021
1974 LP Startrack 1 Polydor 2491002
LP Spiral staircase Polydor 2441048
1975 Coconut woman/Here comes the doctor
[Sweet O.K. Supersister & Los Alegres] Polydor 2050369
1977 LP Pudding en gisteren [re] Polydor 2419058
LP Present from Nancy [re] Polydor 2419061
1979 LP To the highest bidder [re] Polydor 2485133
LP Iskander [re] Polydor 2485134
Dutch charts:
SUPERSISTER
30-5-70 SINGLE 11 7 SHE WAS NAKED
27-2-71 SINGLE tip A GIRL NAMED YOU
27-5-72 SINGLE 21 5 RADIO
17-6-72 ALBUM 11 4 PUDDING EN GISTEREN [Album v/d week @ 10-6-72]
6-10-73 SINGLE tip BAGOAS









Biography
Four guys in Den-Haag (The Hague): Robert-Jan Stips (keyboards, vocals), Sacha van Geest (flute), Marco Vrolijk (drums) and Ron van Eck (bass) formed a band in 1968, Sweet OK Supersister. The name was soon changed to Supersister. Their progressive music got noticed and the band earned some status in the club circuit. They became the main band in the Provadya? scene (with for instance Ahora Mazda). At some time Rob Douw (trumpet) and Gerhard Smid (vocals, guitar) were part of the band also.

In the fall of 1970 a single was released: She Was Naked/Spiral Staircase. The song became a hit, and they got a record deal with Polydor. Together with producer Hans van Oosterhout a debut album, Present From Nancy, was recorded. Influences from Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention and from The Soft Machine (especially from the time when The Soft Machine was a trio) can be heard. Lots of organ and sax, and numerous key changes. A second single Fancy Nancy/Gonna Take Easy was released, which didn't do well, but the album sales were reasonable.

In 1971 a second album was recorded and released, To The Highest Bidder. They also performed at the Pinkpop festival of that year. In 1972 they toured a lot and in the same year another single was released, Radio/Dead Dog. Later that year a third album, Pudding En Gisteren (Pudding And Yesterday), was for sale. During a tour they performed it along with the Nederlandse Danstheater (the Dutch Dancetheatre). In the fall of 1972 a compilation album in the Superstarshine series was released. On the album are a collection of singles and b-sides. There is also a version of the favorite live song Wow.

In 1973 there was a bit of disagreement in the band. Stips and van Eck are a bit tired of playing at the same places all the time and they want to take a different musical direction. The next album is supposed to be a concept album about Alexander the Great, and the music should be more jazz-rock or fusion. Because of this Marco Vrolijk and Sascha van Geest left the band. Vrolijk joined folk band CCC Inc. and van Geest wanted to work on his own projects. Replacements were Herman van Boeyen (ex-Livin' Blues) on drums and Charlie Mariano (ex-Ambush and -Embryo) on saxophone and flute. With this line up, together with producer Georgio Gomelski, Iskander is recorded.

The new sound doesn't bring them new success. The fans don't really appreciate the change in direction. For Charles Mariano this is the sign to leave the band, he joined Porkpie. As guest musicians Rob Kruisman (ex-Bintangs) on sax and flute and John Schuursma (ex-Brainbox) on guitar joined the band. It causes a sensation when also Elton Dean (of Soft Machine fame) joined them. However, all these changes didn't do them good and the band is falling apart. Robert-Jan Stips joined the Golden Earring and made two albums with them. After that he played in Sweet d'Buster and eventually formed his own group: Transister. In the 1980's he joined The Nits and stayed with them for 15 years. After leaving The Nits he formed his own trio Stips. Herman van Boeyen left for Red, White & Blue and Ron van Eck founded the formation Stamp 'n Go. Rob Kruisman joined Carlsberg, John Schuursma was going to play with Third Eye and Elton Dean returned to England. In his retreat Sascha van Geest has recorded a solo album, Spiral Staircase, which was released under the confusing name Sweet O.K. Supersister.

To everyone's surprise Supersister is back, in the bestknown line-up, in 2000 to perform at the Los Angeles Progfest. As a try out, they first perform in Delft. They also do a short tour in the Netherlands to perform in Tilburg, Amsterdam, Den Haag and Groningen. The results can be heard on the double live album Supersisterious.

Not long after the success of this reunion came the big shock that Sascha van Geest had died of cancer.

(sources: Oor Popencyclopedie, Nationaal Pop Instituut, Album sleeves)











Discography

Present From Nancy
(1970)
Tracks:
Present from Nancy (R. Van Eck, R.J. Stips)
a) Introductions [2:55]
b) Present from Nancy [5:10]
Memories are new (Boomchick) (R. Van Eck, R.J. Stips)
a) Memories are new [3:46]
b) 11/8 [3:15]
c) Dreaming weelwhile [2:50]
Corporation combo boys (R.J. Stips) [1:21]
Metamorphosis (R.J. Stips)
a) Mexico [4:20]
b) Metamorphosis [3:26]
c) Eight miles high [0:20]
Dona nobis pacem (H. Van Oosterhout, Supersister) [8:34]
Musicians:

Robert Jan Stips: Keyboards, lead vocals, vibes
Ron van Eck: (Bass)guitar, fuzzbass
Sacha van Geest: Flutes, vocals
Marco Vrolijk: Drums, percussion, vocals
Information:
Produced by Hans van Oosterhout
Engineered by Pieter Nieboer
Recorded at Phonogram Studios
Sleeve design by Nico Venn.
This album has been released on CD together with To The Highest Bidder on Polydor 1990.

Review:
One of the absolutely best groups from the Dutch progressive rock scene. They had a sound very much in the Canterbury vein, and if I had to compare them to another band it would with no doubt be Caravan. This incredible debut-album features great tracks, lots of flute and distorted organ and a vocalist who sounds quite a bit like Richard Sinclair. The album opens with some excellent instrumentals, "Introductions" and the title-track. Very energetic, with great themes and very good performed. "Memories are New" features Caravan-like vocal parts and a very disharmonious instrumental part in the middle. The instrumental "11/8" is a energetic blow out dominated by the most distorted and Cantebury-ish organ sound you can imagine. The relaxed, beautiful and flute-dominated "Dreaming Weelwhile" is some of a contrast to all this energy. "Mexico" is a dramatic track with some awesome, jazzy riffs in the vocal part, while "Dona Nobis Pacem" is an atmospheric improvisation with some strange organ sounds and flute. One of the most essential bands from Holland.

(Tommy Schonenberg, Progforest)

Supersister released their first album in 1970, and the musicians pictured on PRESENT FROM NANCY's front and back covers look like teenagers. Although I cannot document it here, I believe they ranged in age from 14 to 16. Whatever their age, their musical abilities and ambitions were mature. Like most progressive rock musicians of that era, they did not think of "prog" as a category, but as a release from categories. Their music was far-ranging. An unsigned (but probably by Alan Freeman) article in AUDION #24 (March, 1991), written soon after the Polydor CDs came out, credits them with having been influenced primarily by "the Canterbury scene, and in particular the music of Soft Machine, Caravan and Egg" and by Frank Zappa. "Supersister's style involved a very multifaceted, complex concoction of rock, beat, psychedelia and jazz fusion, extensively featuring keyboards, flutes, a lively song style and many surprises. In common with many Canterbury bands, Supersister had no guitarist (a guest guitarist, one Gerhard Schmid, is featured on one track), in their music processed keyboards and bass guitar being given more freedom as solo instruments."
Robert Jan Stips was the keyboard player and lead vocalist (all vocals/lyrics are in English); Ron van Eck was the bass player; Sacha van Geest played flute and tenor sax and contributed vocals; and Marco Vrolijk was drummer and vocalist.
PRESENT FROM NANCY is an amazingly accomplished album for such a young new band. Here one finds piano segueing into Gentle Giant-like angular melodies, with Zappa-esque vocals. (One twenty-second track, "Eight Miles High," consists of the single lyric -- taking off on the Byrds' "Eight Miles High" -- of "Eight miles high, and the living is easy!") Into this is blended cabaret, maniacal laughter, and Canterbury-style instrumental sections. (The inner sleeve of the original LP has "psychedelic" art and doodles interspersed with lyrics and credits in the "hippie" style of the time.) And all the tracks are segued into side-long suites. Very trippy.

Dr. progressivo


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To The Highest Bidder
(1971)
Tracks:
A girl named you (R.J. Stips) [10:07]
No tree will grow (R.J. Stips) [7:38]
Energy (out of future) (R.J. Stips) [15:01]
Higher (R.J. Stips) [2:46]
Musicians:

Robert Jan Stips: Keyboards, lead vocals, vibes
Ron van Eck: (Bass)guitar, fuzzbass
Sacha van Geest: Flutes, vocals
Marco Vrolijk: Drums, percussion, vocals
Information:
Produced by Hans van Oosterhout
This album has been released on CD together with Present From Nancy on Polydor 1990.

Review:
Another album not to be missed. The tracks were longer this time, and the album consisted of just four. The opening track "A Girl Named You" is one of the best examples I've how of how el-piano should be used. The track itself is awesome. Intense with incredible themes and instrumental parts. The other highlight is the 15-minute "Energy (Out of Future)". Personally I can hear some minor Focus influences here, especially on the organ theme. But most of the track is in the Canterbury vein, both on the instrumental- and vocal-parts. A fantastic track and with no doubt progressive rock at its best. The two shorter tracks here never reaches the same heights, but they're quite nice and listenable anyway. And the album should definitively be in your house.

(Tommy Schonenberg, Progforest)


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Pudding En Gisteren
(1972)
Tracks:
Radio (Supersister) [4:00]
Supersisterretsisrepus (R.J. Stips) [0:16]
Psychopath (R.J. Stips) [3:58]
Judy goes on holiday (Supersister) [12:38]
Pudding en gisteren (Music for ballet) (R.J. Stips, R. Van Eck) [20:59]
Musicians:

Robert Jan Stips: Keyboards, lead vocals, vibes
Ron van Eck: (Bass)guitar, fuzzbass
Sacha van Geest: Flutes, vocals
Marco Vrolijk: Drums, percussion, vocals
Information:
Produced by Hans van Oosterhout
Engineered by Jan Schuurman
Sleeve design by Wouter Stips
Recorded at Phonogram Studios, Hilversum, Holland.
This album has been released on CD together with Superstarshine on Polydor 1990.


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Superstarshine vol. 3
(1972)
Tracks:
She was naked (R.J. Stips) [3.43]
Missing link (Supersister) [2.57]
(I'm) Gonna take easy (Supersister, H. Van Oosterhout) [1.46]
Wow (The intelligent song) (Supersister) [12.58]
The groupies of the band (Supersister) [4.28]
Spiral staircase (R.J. Stips) [3.04]
Fancy nancy (R.J. Stips) [2.40]
A girl named you (R.J. Stips) [10:07]
No tree will grow (R.J. Stips) [7:38]
Musicians:

Robert Jan Stips: Keyboards, lead vocals, vibes
Ron van Eck: (Bass)guitar, fuzzbass
Sacha van Geest: Flutes, vocals
Marco Vrolijk: Drums, percussion, vocals
Information:
This album has been released on CD together with Pudding En Gisteren on Polydor 1990.

Notes:
Although this is a compilation album, I have included it in this discography. It contains tracks that were released as singles, but haven't appeared, with a few exceptions, on other albums.
Another album in the Superstarshine series is volume 2 with Earth & Fire tracks.


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Iskander
(1973)
Tracks:
Introduction (R. Van Eck, R.J. Stips) [0.41]
Dareios the emperor (R. Van Eck, R.J. Stips) [4.50]
Alexander (R. Van Eck, R.J. Stips) [7.02]
Confrontation of the armies (R. Van Eck, R.J. Stips) [2:47]
The battle (R. Van Eck, R.J. Stips) [7.58]
Bagoas (R. Van Eck, R.J. Stips) [2.53]
Roxane (R.J. Stips) [3:21]
Babylon (R. Van Eck, R.J. Stips) [7.57]
Looking back (R. Van Eck) [4:30]
Musicians:

Robert Jan Stips: Keyboards, lead vocals, vibes
Ron van Eck: (Bass)guitar, fuzzbass
Charlie Mariano :Saxophone, flute
Herman van Boeyen: Drums, percussion
Information:
Produced by Georgio Gomelski
Recorded in the Manor Studio.
This album has been released on CD together with Spiral Staircase on Polydor 1990.

Review:
The fifth album, ISKANDER, goes off in an entirely different direction. It was not originally recorded in Holland as the other albums were -- and I never heard it before getting the CD. The album was produced by Georgio Gomelsky (who had a hand in early Soft Machine and Gong-offshoot albums) and recorded in England at The Manor (where Oldfield recorded TUBULAR BELLS). A jazz-fusion-oriented album, although traces of Supersister's distinctive melodic style peep through in places, it uses middle eastern motifs and is a "concept album" (as though Supersister's other albums weren't!) based on the life of Alexander the Great (Iskander was his Turkish name). Jazz saxophonist Charlie Mariano, who had gone to Germany to record with the German group Embryo, replaces Sacha van Geest, bringing a fuller jazz sensibility to the music. Drummer Herman van Boeven replaced Vrolijk, and Pierre Moerlen (of Gong) sits in for one track. AUDION notes that "the songs are rather subdued in a much jazzier music featuring Charlie's sax, flute and clarinet playing quite extensively, and with such a leaning the sound draws closer to the likes of National Health," but adds, "As a more sedate and serious respite ISKANDER (especially with the opening and closing deeply ethnic sounding nagasaram solos) is arguably Supersister's most complete and balanced album.." I would question that conclusion. The words "sedate and serious" offer a clue to my disagreement -- one could hardly apply them to anything else in Supersister's recorded output. ISKANDER sounds like Supersister processed and molded into a "respectable" jazz-oriented group, and lacks entirely their sense of humor and fun.

Dr. progressivo


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Spiral Staircase
(1974)
Tracks:
Retroschizive (Introduction schizo) (R.J. Stips, S. van Geest) [2:21]
Jelly bean hop (R.J. Stips, S. van Geest) [1:36]
Dangling dingdongs (R.J. Stips, S. van Geest) [6:54]
Sylvers song (R.J. Stips, S. van Geest) [3:09]
Cookies, teacups, buttercups (R.J. Stips, S. van Geest) [4:01]
Gi, ga, go (Gollumble jafers) (R.J. Stips, S. van Geest) [4:01]
It had to be (R.J. Stips, S. van Geest) [3:46]
Nosy parkers (R.J. Stips, S. van Geest) [4:26]
We steel so frange (Epilogue) (R.J. Stips, S. van Geest) [2:54]
Information:
This isn't really a Supersister album. It is a "solo" album by Sascha van Geest under the name Sweet Okay Supersister. Among the musicians however are other Supersister members.
This album has been released on CD together with Iskander on Polydor 1990.

Review:
We are offered no personnel credits for SPIRAL STAIRCASE SASS (on either the original LP or the CD -- which also fails to give credits for ISKANDER; I gleaned those from AUDION), but van Geest is back, credited with "Set up, lyrics, and additional musical ideas," while Jan Stips is credited with "musical scores & arrangements." That seems to suggest that van Geest came up with the idea and the lyrics, while Stips supplied the music, and the song credits are uniformly Stips/van Geest, but AUDION claims the album "was entirely composed by Sacha van Geest." AUDION describes it as "To put it mildly, this is one of the craziest and eccentric albums I've heard! Opening as a continuation from the single, we are set for a trip of radical and schizophrenic invention, where almost anything goes: we have rock 'n' roll, calypso music, full-blown jazz-rock riffing (ex-Soft Machine [saxophonist] Elton Dean is featured as guest) and even bagpipes! This tongue-in-cheek set of eccentricity is almost certain to brighten up anyone's day." Indeed. It hooked me!

Dr. progressivo


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m.a.n.
(2000)
Tracks:
Present from Nancy -live (R.J. Stips) [7:23]
Radio - live (R. Van Eck, R.J. Stips) [2:20]
Mexico - live (R.J. Stips) [6:23]
Judy goes on holiday - live (Supersister) [9:07]
(2x3=) 6 Blauwe dwergen (R. Douw, R.J. Stips) [1:16]
Hommage (R.J. Stips) [3:35]
Sweet suicide (R. Van Eck, R.J. Stips) [2:32]
Modest man (R. Van Eck, R.J. Stips) [4:12]
Wine melody (R. Van Eck, R.J. Stips) [2:44]
Nothing is real (R. Douw, R.J. Stips) [3:56]
Workman's song (R. Van Eck, R.J. Stips) [3:10]
House in the country (R.J. Stips) [3:29]
Seven ways to die (R.J. Stips) [3:05]
Woods of frustrated men (R. Douw, R.J. Stips) [3:41]
Corporating comboboys (R.J. Stips) [0:48]
Manke boerenwals (R. Douw, R.J. Stips) [1:08]
Psalm (R. Douw) [2:13]
Musicians:

Marco Vrolijk: Drums
Sacha van Geest: Flute & vocals
Ron van Eck: Bass guitar
Robert Jan Stips: Keyboards & vocals
Rob Douw: Trumpet, ideas & vocals (lead on track 5)
Gerhard Smid: Guitar & vocals.
Information:
Reunion CD from their work from the early 60's and 70's.
Produced by Aad Link & Robert Jan Stips at the VAN studio and Buro GeluidsManipulatie.
On track 6 and 12: NDR recordings realized on 4-10-1971 with the Tanz- und Unterhaltungsorchester des NDR, conductor Alfred Hauser - engineer; Hans Heinrich Breitkreuz - producer; Wolfgang Kunert - Arrangements & edits.
"Manke Boerenwals" means (something like) "Lame Farmerswaltz".

Review:
Having not been familiar with Supersister prior to this year's Progfest, they have gained another fan because of it. So, whilst there at the fest, I picked up this special, limited edition disc that contained a few live tracks and several previously unreleased tracks. The band had split around 1975 and is only now getting back together. Their Progfest performance was their first in the US; hopefully it will pave the way for more.

Whilst their humourous bent might get them thought of as a novelty band, the do have some great jazzy-fusion-like chops. You can read my impressions of their Progfest performance elsewhere, but listening to the first four tracks here, which are the live ones, you can get a sense of the energy they put into their set. There are no dates for when the live tracks were recorded, but a note on the Supersister section of R J Stip's site, it mentions 1971. The album opens with a muscular version of "Present From Nancy" from their album of the same name. This is followed by a very nice version of "Radio" from Pudding En Gisteren, which so seamlessly glides into "Mexico" that if you aren't a Supersister expert, you might think its an extended jam on "Radio." Okay, at least I did, until I actually checked the tracking timing and the CD player. The production is very clear here, allowing the fullness of the arrangement to shine through. "Judy Goes On Holiday" is sharp-edged even with the fuzzed organ; in fact, it is that fuzzed organ that gives it that rough, ragged edge.

"Hommage" is the second of the previously unreleased tracks, and is a symphonic, classically influenced piece with beautiful keys and flute, somewhat tinny percussion and barely perceptible bass. This track and those that follow were recorded in 1971 with the Tanz-und Unterhaltungsorchester des NDR. "Sweet Suicide" has a playful feel, with stuttering keys, trilling flute, energetic percussion...and then the swell of the orchestra just opens it open. I'm brought to mind of Moody Blues, actually, and UK pop bands of the late 60's - Herman's Hermits is what springs to mind. "Modest Man" as well, though I couldn't help but think of "The Little Drummer Boy" while hearing this, as it slowly develops. It is a rather dark track, and the orchestra swell a third of the way through made me think of the incident music composed for movies made in the 30's and 40's, used to underscore a melancholy moment.

"Nothing Is Real" will sound familiar, as it forms one of the middle parts of "Judy Takes A Holiday," though it has more instrumentation and a lighter feel. Instead of deep bass taking the lead, it is the flute and keys. "Workman's Song" returns to the obvious humour of other tracks - imagine if Shirley Temple sang sweetly about committing violent acts...well, Shirley Temple with a bit too much testosterone singing sweetly about committing violent acts. "House In The Country" also takes that happy feel and twists it with dark lyrics. "Seven Ways To Die" is psychedelic...I'd say almost stereotypically psychedelic, but with Supersister one can't be sure if that's part of the point. "Woods Of Frustrated Men" is psychedelic as well, in the way that The Doors' "The End" was...in fact, I think "The End" is a very good comparison here, at least for part of it, as the track moves in so many directions.

Strangest here is "Psalm," where you're not quite sure whether they're laughing or crying through a familiar psalm. Actually I think it's both, one of those "we should be sad, but we can't help giggling" kind of things. And since they're singing in Dutch (I think), I'm not sure if there's more to the joke or not.

It's an interesting document, but I'd have to hear more of Supersister to see how the unreleased stuff compares to the released stuff. There are also tracks that date from the 60's, what is refered to in the booklet, cheekily, as their "Dutch period." Although it was compiled for their Progfest appearance, I suspect there are still copies available, either from Greg Walker at Syn-phonic, who seemed to be the only vendor selling it, or from the RJ Stips site.

(Stephanie Sollow)


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Supersisterious
(2001)
Tracks:
Disc one

Present from Nancy (R. Van Eck, R.J. Stips) [8:01]
Memories ar new (R. Van Eck, R.J. Stips) [9:16]
Mexico (R.J. Stips) [7:54]
A girl named you (R.J. Stips) [9:59]
No tree will grow (R.J. Stips) [7:16]
Judy goes on holiday (Supersister) [10:15]
Disc two

Corporation combo boys (R.J. Stips) [0:55]
6 blauwe dwergen (R.J. Stips, R. Douw) [1:03]
Energy (out of future) (R.J. Stips) [12:49]
Pudding en gisteren (music for ballet) (R.J. Stips, R. Van Eck) [22:00]
She was naked (R.J. Stips) [4:22]
Radio (Supersister) [3:57]
Wow - the story (R.J. Stips) [3:13]
Wow (Supersister) [9:53]
Musicians:

Robert Jan Stips: Keyboards, lead vocals, vibes
Ron van Eck: (Bass)guitar, fuzzbass
Sacha van Geest: Flutes, vocals
Marco Vrolijk: Drums, percussion, vocals
Information:
Recorded at Paradiso Amsterdam, December 3rd 2000.
"6 blauwe dwergen" means "6 blue dwarfs".