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An extraordinary mixture of piano and singing through which Bach's baroque music and Bukowski's hard-driven lines sound simultaneously! Willem van Ekeren formed several bands as a teenager, and as the years passed he found himself drawn more and more to classical piano. In 1994 he chanced upon the book The Last Night of the Earth Poems by Charles Bukowski, and he immediately fell in love with it. In 1997, while reading it for the third time, he was struck by the fact that "You know and I know and thee know" was the ultimate text for the F minor prelude of Bach's Well Tempered Clavier. The next day at the piano he started to combine the two pieces, and the results are presented on this excellent disc.