Created through a Jungian Art Therapy process that Pieter Bezuidenhout began in 2020, his latest album SOEKER is a weighty, classically-inspired pop offering hinged on existentialism.
In essence, it’s a concept album, inspired by eight archetypes – the explorer, the innocent, the creator, the hero, the ruler, the jester, the lover, the sage and the mystic – which Bezuidenhout explored throughout this process – put to music and left to the listeners’ interpretation. I won’t do you the injustice of attempting to pair each track with an archetype, but I did inadvertently choose the ruler as the feature photo for this piece and I think that speaks for itself.
Lead by Bezuidenhout’s unerring attention to detail, the album is lead by weighty compositional grace. The bare instrumental tracks, “Nature Child” and “Prins” are testimony to Bezuidenhout’s classical training while the rest of the tracks flex his poeticism.
Visceral and moving, “Boland” is a tribute to a home in the form of Breyton Breytonbach’s poem “Wy” put to music. “Gelukbringers” pulls through atmospheric textures in its urge to appreciate the little things in life, while “Wentelbane” and its chiming cadence is soaked in existentialism.
SOEKER is both a beautiful portrait of Bezuidenhout’s multifaceted nature, and a tribute to the lifelong search for meaning.
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Feature pic by Pierre van Vuuren
