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There is a new video, made by Eus Menage and SJT, on YouTube (click on 'links'). The song that has been used for it is
'Cliffhanger', a song from the album HONEYMOON ON MARS (there are two other clips you can see on YouTube:
'Drinking and drinking and drinking' and 'In the studio'). More videos will be made!
A new novel by Joan Ter Maten (who is SJT), entitled PROFIEL ZOEKT LIEFDE was recently (November 2009) published by
the publisher IJzer. You can find more information about this at www.uitgeverij-ijzer.nl (click on 'links' on this site
and you can click on this address). At IJzer's site you can also read about Joan's first novel in verse HOOFDBREKENS
EN KOPZORGEN. If you're able to read Dutch (just try it and perhaps you'll understand more than you're assuming now),
you can read more about this book when you click on 'in Dutch'.
SJT's new album THE GOOGLING STALKER will be released in the spring of 2010.
We're happy to announce that there are two new songs by SJT on this site:
click on 'MP3's' and you can listen to the songs 'Yoshiko (dai su ki)' and 'Kick in the butt'. They were recorded in
Mike Meyer's studio in Amsterdam. Mike and SJT play all instruments.
The latest CD of SJT (released in 2004), entitled HONEYMOON ON MARS, has eleven new songs and an old one, the bonustrack 'Nightmares',
which was recorded for Warner Bros in 1983. You can read an account of the 'ups and downs' of this song in the weblog
on this site (shortly in English).
The songs were recorded and mixed in six days (in August 2004) at the Yland studio in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
The music is 'basic': it’s just guitar, bass, drums and piano (in two songs you can also hear a vibraphone and in one song
a steelpan). The songs, all written by Joan Ter Maten, are 'rootsy'; the music is a mixture of blues, pop, jazz, novelty,
rock 'n' roll and, occasionally, a hint of bossa nova (listen to the song ‘Kissed by a stranger'). And there is a
Christmas song! - 'Christmas in 3005'.
The first CD of SJT, LEAPS IN THE DARK, also recorded in Amsterdam, was released in 1992 by the Dutch record company
Music & Words. There was also a single on vinyl, which is a collector's item now: 'You ruined my party'.
In 1996 the second CD A BUMPY RIDE saw the light of day. This album was recorded in San Francisco and produced by
Scott Mathews, who a.o. worked with The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, John Lee Hooker, John Hiatt, Chuck Prophet, Roseanne Cash
and Elvis Costello (to mention just a few...). Another version of the song 'Nightmares' is on this CD.
ALONE WITH MY CLONE, released on Snork Records, the label founded by Joan Ter Maten, was SJT's third album.
It was well received and had quite some airplay, especially the songs 'For a change', 'Italian summer rain' and 'Alone
with my clone' (in mono!). The music was recorded in several studios in Amsterdam. The song 'Caroline' dates from the
1995 session with Scott. In the instrumental 'Mood swings' you can hear a fragment in which SJT's father plays double bass
- this fragment was taken from an old recording that was secretly made in 1944 (the Germans, occupying the country at
that time, didn't find out about this clandestine recording-session on glass 78 rpm records by these daring boys in the
middle of the night).
On this site there are songs of each CD that you can listen to. The price of each CD is 7,50 euros. If you live in Europe
and order all four CDs, the price is 27,50 euros and you will receive a little bag of SUN-DRIED TOMATOES FOR FREE! If you
want to place an order or if you want more information, send an e-mail to: snork@euronet.nl.
You can also order the CDs at CDBaby.com (where you'll find much more information about each CD and where there
are more songs of SJT that you can hear - click on 'links'), and... it's possible to download songs of all
CDs at iTunes, if you're only interested in a couple of tunes (click on 'MP3s' on this site; there you'll see the iTunes
links that will lead you directly to SJT's albums).
Send an e-mail to SJT, if you like (sjt@euronet.nl). You will definitely get an answer from Mr Tomato himself!
Joan is also on Facebook.
Some opinions in the media on SJT's music:
* 'Strikingly effective’ - OOR
* 'Perfect music for a summernight' - Aloha
* 'Well-sung and well-played - Music Maker
* 'I like it a lot!' - DJ Abel de Lange (Radio Noord-Holland)
* 'The music is well thought out... humourous lyrics' - Wereldomroep
* 'Great songs’ (RTV)
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