Hi there, I am Olivier. I like to create music for almost everything and for the fun of it.
You could think about music for computer games or for a ballet dance, theatre act or whatever. I have been busy with music almost my whole life…. Music ís my life….
I started playing the guitar at the age of five. After that piano/keyboards & bass guitar and some Saxophone.
AMIGA MUSIC
In my younger days I also created music for computergames and music for intro’s and demo’s for some well known (Dutch) groups on Amiga, like Random Access and Switch.
If you are interested you can listen to some of the songs I made on the Amiga, available on the Examples page on this website or checkout the Amiga Music Preservation website where you can find a whole lot more of my tracks?
I would like to thank my old buddy Jurgen Kempel aka “Jarre” , former member from Random Access for retreiving most of my tracks and creating 19(!) music compilation discs that can be found on Janeway exotica uk
Sadly not long after creating the music compilation discs he past away. My condolences go to his family and he will be missed!
BANDS
I played keyboards in bands for many years. Stopped doing that due the possession of a lot of keyboards and stuff that I had to carry around the whole time. In 1990 this made me decide to start playing bass guitar in Jazzrock/fusion bands.
CATCH UP
Most of the time we played on events like “Jazz in Duke Town” in ‘s-Hertogenbosch and even for some years in Spain (Calpe) where we played in a restaurant named “La Gitarra” (and also had a free holiday! xD)
BLACK TULIP
In 1990 with one of these Jazzrock/Fusion bands (“Black Tulip” from Vught, Netherlands) we where invited to Russia to play on a International Jazz concourse in a city called Tula (200 km’s below Moscow). Don’t need to say that we had an amazing time and experience!
DILAN
In between the Jazzrock/Fusion I also started playing bass guitar in a Multicultural band called “Dilan”. Turkish music with Western music influences. It was an amazing combination with the Electric Turkish Saz and singing & the mixture of “Western” Rock/pop/Metal/Funk/Reggae music styles. We where invited to play in many well known concert halls, for example “Willem II concertzaal”, “De Melkweg” and “Paradiso” and Festivals like “Mundial” and “Popwerk” in the Netherlands. We also made an appearance on national radio and television in a TV show called “The Mix” and a radio channel called “Villa 65”, both from the VPRO studios in Hilversum Netherlands, where multicultural bands like us had a chance to promote their selves to the Dutch audience.
Short example:
Alas, due my profession I had to stop following my heart and I had to sorta give up on music.
Many years later, I decided, after having a period of Burnout, that it was time for me to start following my heart again….. Here I am, here it is. This website is dedicated to myself and to everyone that shares the same heart for music.
BLINDMAN’S ROAD
After 2015 I joined some coverbands, but it did not satisfy me, because I like to play my own music.
So since a couple of years I am playing in a rockband again. Blindman’s Road, all selfmade songs.
Check our website www.blindmansroad.nl and/or youtube channel www.youtube.com/@blindmansroad
Also if you are interested in hiring me for a musicproject, contact me via the contact page.