Come Baby

In December 2021 the lyrics and the song, Come Baby, emerged from the song Go Fury, that was written 4 years earlier. Come to see us tremble In different worlds That cannot hide the treasure leave To stumble on your dreams They fall apart in different tales of time. lyrics and artwork by Ria Roerdink […]
The Joker

The Joker is the 12th song of our first album, Walk barefoot over rocks and broken glass. The Joker who is a clown and a thief. The Joker who is full of lies. He is só big lyrics and artwork by Ria Roerdink | graphic design by Sophie van Kempen |
Print proof of the sleeve and booklet

Print proof of the sleeve, of the cd and the booklet have been approved and soon the final stage: Printing the cd! Very exciting how it will sound and look. The design of the sleeve, the cd and the lyric booklet of 40 pages including all lyrics and photos is done by Sophie van Kempen […]
Release cd and live concert at Brebl

The Release of the cd with lyrics booklet will be on May 3 2025 in BREBL Nijmegen. Cultural centre Brebl is a stage for live music. The address Waalbandijk 14D 6541 AJ Nijmegen It’s situated in the New Honig (former Honigcomplex) Doors open at 8.00 pm Start at 8.30 pm Free entrance https://www.brebl.nl You are […]
Release first album of Sonic Bazar

For the past seven years we have been working intensively on our debut album WALK BAREFOOT OVER ROCKS AND BROKEN GLASS It has been an immersive adventure; we compose write and play everything , with great pleasure, ourselves.It is music that takes shape while improvising; engaging, challenging, surprising and elusive. An adventure in which music […]
Optreden bij de finissage van de Tentoonstelling Mijn vlakke land

Optreden bij de finissage van de tentoonstelling ‘Mijn Vlakke land van Harrie Gerritz en Jan Tregot in Galerie LangeHezel46 door Sonic Bazar, Ria Roerdink en Jan Hoenselaar, 19 november 2023.
Go fury

The poem for ‘Go Fury’ I’ve written in the beginning of December 2017. Jan Hoenselaar and I had been working together for three years at that time – as ‘Poetry Songs’. In December of 2017 and January 2018 we made the song Go Fury. It was the start of a long journey, changing the song […]
Opnames eerste album Sonic Bazar zijn klaar

Twee jaar en drie maanden later, zijn opnieuw de opnames klaar voor het eerste album van SONIC BAZAR – Ria Roerdink en Jan Hoenselaar. Corona zorgde ervoor dat we alle tijd hadden om geheel nieuwe versies en nieuwe songs te maken. En eigenlijk gebeurde dit keer op keer. Nu is het dan eindelijk zover en […]
About us

Sonic Bazar is the name of the band of Ria Roerdink and Jan Hoenselaar. We started to make music January 2015. First under the name of ‘Poetry Songs’; since September 2021 it’s ‘Sonic Bazar’. From the beginning on we are interested in sounds; sounds of spaces, sounds of materials, of iron balls rolling over the […]
Aubade aan een landschap | Muziek in de Ooijpolder

Elke zondag in de maanden juni, juli en augustus van 11.00 tot 11.15 uur in de ochtend. Vanaf het bordes van het transformatorhuisje aan de Hezelstraat in Ooij. Optreden van Jan Hoenselaar op 12 juni 2022. organisatie www.maasartistresidence.nl