I will not say that Jeroen van Veen is a great classical pianist in the specific way some others are as Marc André Hamelin is for example with his supreme cold mastery of the instrument ...
But he is certainly a master of minimalism under control ....
Here is an album of his own music but i want to get also everything he played from other minimalism composer... Perhaps 30 or 40 albums i dont know ...😁
His Gurdjieff/Hartmann music is the best version for me among the two others i own ...he make the Gurdjieff music dance...His rythm sense is first rate ...Over Kremsky and Cecil Lytle interpretation of Gurdjieff hartmann ...
His music is only a catalyst for meditation or best for trance induction or lucid dreaming ...
Amazing musician , if not a pianist in the more traditional way as Moravec ,Sofronitsky and my others heroes...
As Sun Ra was in his own way in a very different way, van Veen draw his own path , then as Sun Ra i consider him more a great musician than a great pianist ...But as Sun Ra did he plays mainly piano then he is a pianist as Sun Ra was...😊But saying that Sun Ra is a pianist even a great one as Oscar Peterson for example , is saying almost nothing about him and his music ...The same is true of van Veen ...
Here i think also about Scriabin music...Saying that Scriabin is a pianist is almost saying nothing about Scriabin music...Scriabin dont played the piano , he used it to convey a new vision and a new mystery to sight ...Sun Ra and Van Veen certainly do it in their own way and in their own world in their own vision style ...As Sorabji did ....
But if you dont like to meditate or to see ectasy again time to time because you already know it, if you dont like to think ; you may judge his music without any content, repetitive and even mechanical and full of borrowing from other composers themas ... It is not my feeling at all nor my perception of Van Veen genius ...
Van Veen music swim like a small serpent in the huge cosmic soul waters.... It is the way i will describe it ...
« What appear as a mystery for Gandhi may be boring for Rockfeller»-- Groucho Marx 🤓