Rood Adeo

{{Short description|Dutch musician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Rood Adeo | image = Rood Adeo (2012).jpg | caption = Rood Adeo, Hilversum, March 2012 | birth_name = Roderik Adeo Jansz | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1970|11|10}} | birth_place = Nijmegen, The Netherlands | instrument = Vocals, percussion, piano, keyboards, guitar, bass guitar | genre = rock, jazz, folk, blues | occupation = Musician, singer, songwriter | years_active = 1996–present | label = Polygram, Sony, EMI, Challenge Records International }}

'''Rood Adeo''' (born '''Roderik Adeo Jansz''', 10 November 1970, in Nijmegen) is a Dutch singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and recording artist. His musical style is influenced by rock, jazz, blues, classical, and folk. Adeo's flexible voice, ranging from tenor to bass, varies between a bright, high pitched sound and a duskier, harsh timbre.<ref name="QV-Music, May 2013, Mindful Indifference">{{cite journal|last1=Lardenoye|first1=Fred|journal=QV|date=1 May 2013|url=http://issuu.com/quovadis01/docs/qv_mei_2013_issuu_32b5b482a7b1ae|volume=20|issue=5|page=35|title=Rood Adeo: Mindful Indifference|language=nl|location=Nijmegen|publisher=QVuitgeverij|access-date=26 October 2014}}</ref> Founder of the band Rood & Nighthawks at the Diner,<ref name=Muziekencyclopedie>{{cite web|title=Nighthawks at the Diner|url=http://en.muziekencyclopedie.nl/action/entry/Nighthawks+At+The+Diner|publisher=Beeld en Geluid|access-date=24 October 2014|language=nl}}</ref> Adeo also recorded a number of albums under different names,<ref name="Oor, Mindful Indifference, 2012">{{cite journal|last1=van der Maas|first1=Hans|journal=Oor|date=1 November 2012|volume=28|issue=11|pages=77|title=Rood Adeo: Mindful Indifference|language=nl|location=Amsterdam|publisher=Argo Media Groep}}</ref> backed by a changing line-up of musicians.<ref name="Fret Magazine jan 2010">{{cite journal|last1=Jongeneelen|first1=Willem|title=Rood & Nighthawks at the Diner|language=nl|journal=Fret|date=1 January 2010|volume=17|page=09|url=http://issuu.com/fretmagazine/docs/fret171_januari_februari_2010?e=2308173/1621219|access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref> Adeo performs with piano, guitar, and with the occasionally use of other keyboards, accordion, and cajón.

==Early life==

Rood Adeo was educated at Canisius College Mater Dei, and Radboud University Nijmegen. For eight years during and afterwards his study, he co-owned a stage bar in his hometown with a view to practice in psychology, but the release of his first album ''Fool's Tango'' (1997) won him over to songwriting and performing.<ref name="De Twentsche Courant/Tubantia 19 November 1998">{{cite news |last=Ouwehand |first=Ton |date=19 November 1998|title=Een stem als een dieselmotor|trans-title= A voice like a diesel |language=nl |newspaper= De Twentsche Courant/Tubantia|publisher=Royal Wegener NV|location=Netherlands}}</ref> Something of his psychology framework resonates in his lyrics, for example in the song "Paradise To Me".<ref name="QV-Music, May 2013, Rood Adeo: Mindful Indifference">{{cite journal|last1=Lardenoye|first1=Fred|journal=QV|date=10 January 2004|url=http://issuu.com/quovadis01/docs/qv_mei_2013_issuu_32b5b482a7b1ae|volume=20|issue=5|page=35|title=Rood Adeo: Mindful Indifference|language=nl|location=Nijmegen|publisher=QVuitgeverij|access-date=26 October 2014}}</ref><ref name="Paradise To Me">{{cite web|title=Paradise To Me|url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/paradise-to-me-mt0045272524 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=allmusic|access-date=26 October 2014}}</ref> At the age of five, Adeo began his classical piano training, which is reflected in songs such as "King in Yellow" (based on Pachelbel's Canon) and "To Be A Man" (opening with the postlude of Chopin's Nocturne in B major, Op. 32, No. 1). Though Adeo often mentions his affinity for the works of Ludwig van Beethoven, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Nina Simone, and J.J. Cale,<ref name="3voor12 VPRO 30 November 2005">{{cite web |url= https://3voor12.vpro.nl/lokaal/gelderland/nieuws/2005/november/nina-simone-krijgt-indrukwekkende-ode.html|title=Impressive Hommage to Nina Simone |author=Grafe, Klaas-Jan|date=30 November 2005|publisher=NPO|access-date=26 October 2014}}</ref> he presumably has been influenced the most by the music of Tom Waits and Robert Wyatt.<ref name="Fret Magazine jan 2010"/><ref name="Fool’s Tango Review Elégance 1997">{{cite journal|journal=Elégance|date=1 October 1997|title= Fool's Tango|page=5|language=nl|location=Amsterdam|publisher=Pelican Media}}</ref> As an hommage to Waits, Adeo debuts on stage at the 1995 edition of the Midsummer Blues Festival Wijchen as frontman of his band 'Nighthawks at the Diner', referring to Waits' 1975 live album.<ref name="De Gelderlander 5 September 1998">{{cite news |last=Megens |first=René |date=5 September 1998 |title=Rood & Nighthawks at the Diner slaan hun vleugels uit|trans-title= Rood & Nighthawks at the Diner spread their wings|language=nl |newspaper=De Gelderlander|publisher=Royal Wegener NV|location=Netherlands}}</ref>

==1990's== On record, Rood Adeo debuts with his Nighthawks at the Diner-album ''Fool's Tango'' in 1997,<ref name="Fool's Tango">{{cite web|title=Fool's Tango|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/release/fools-tango-mr0002628656|website=allmusic|access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref> introducing co-composers Frank de Kleer and Bob Wisselink. ''Fool's Tango'' is rewarded 'demo of the month' in MusicMaker,<ref name=" Demo van de maand, 1997">{{cite journal|last1=Versteegh|first1=Enrico|journal=MusicMaker|date=1 April 1997|volume=20|issue=4|page=6|title=Demo Van De Maand|language=nl|trans-title=Demo of the Month|location=Doetinchem|publisher=Misset Uitgeverij}}</ref> the foremost musicians' magazine in The Netherlands. The album draws the attention of jazz-bassist and A&R executive Hein van de Geyn, who paves the way to its release on the jazz-label Challenge Records International.''Fool's Tango'' also features Fay Lovsky singing a duet with Adeo on "You Invented Me". In 1998, Adeo is being asked by Sony/Philips to record with the newly developed digital recording system Super Audio CD.<ref name="SACD List 2001">{{cite web|title=SACD List Tops 350|url=http://www.avrev.com/home-theater-news/music-software-news/sacd-title-list-tops-350-mostly-stereo.html|website=www.avrev.com|publisher=Audio Video Revolution|access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref> This project results in his second Nighthawks at the Diner-album ''Walkin' On Eggs'',<ref name="Walkin' On Eggs">{{cite web|title=Walkin' On Eggs|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/walkin-on-eggs-mw0000046318|website=allmusic|access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref> published bij Challenge/Polygram. In August 1998, Adeo's Nighthawks at the Diner wins the Public and Press Award at the Sopot International Song Festival in Poland.<ref name="Winners Sopot Festival 1998">{{cite web|title=Historia Festivalu w Sopocie|url=http://operalesna.sopot.pl/sopot-festival-lata-90/62-sopot-festival-98|date=22 August 1998|website=operalesna.sopot.pl|publisher=Agencja Artystyczna BART |access-date=26 October 2014|language=pl|trans-title=History of the Sopot Festival }}</ref><ref name="The Independent 16 September 1998">{{cite news |last=Hill|first=Andy|date=16 September 1998|title=I Sat on a Euro Pop Jury |newspaper=The Independent|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/arts-i-sat-on-a-euro-pop-jury-1198444.html|location=London, UK|access-date=26 October 2014 }}</ref><ref name="Interview with Rood Adeo sept 1998">{{cite journal|last1=Bouwman|first1=Roel |journal=Fret|date=1 September 1998|title= Hightech kroegtijgers|trans-title=Hightech Barflies|page=38|url=http://issuu.com/fretmagazine/docs/fret_1998_09|language=nl| location=Amsterdam|publisher=SPN Amsterdam|access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref> In 1999, the single ''How About The Next Millennium''<ref name="How About The Next Millennium single">{{cite web|title= How About The Next Millennium |url= https://www.challengerecords.com/products/1391601426/|date=1 June 1998|publisher=A-Records|access-date=26 October 2014}}</ref> is being released and ''Walkin' On Eggs'' again presented at the Funkausstellung in Berlin. Adeo's ballad "To Be A Man" is released on the Polish Wroclaw Theatre Festival jubilee album ''Kronika XX Przegladu Piosenki Aktorskiej''<ref name="Kronika XX Przegladu Piosenki Aktorskiej">{{cite web|title=Kronika XX Przegladu Piosenki Aktorskiej|url=http://luna.pl/sklep/album/13|publisher=Luna Music|access-date=24 October 2014|ref=luna-luna.pl}}</ref> by Luna Music with amongst others, Nick Cave and Cesaria Evora. Concerts at the Baltic Song Contest, Sweden<ref name=" Nighthawks at the Diner in Karlshamn, Sweden 1999">{{cite journal|last1=van Essenburg|first1=Han |journal=De Muziekwereld|date=1 April 1999|volume=80|issue=4|pages=32–33|title=Nighthawks at the Diner in Karlshamn, Sweden|language=nl|location=Amsterdam|publisher=Uitgeverij NTB Amsterdam}}</ref> and the Wrocław International Theatre Festival, Poland follow shortly after. At this time, Adeo's songs are being described as 'the range between Chopin and a ''film noir''-soundtrack'.<ref name="Nieuwsbank 3 September 2001">{{cite web|title=Nieuwsbank|url= http://www.nieuwsbank.nl/inp/2001/09/03/N001.htm|date=3 September 2001|publisher=Radboud University Nijmegen|access-date=24 October 2014|language=nl|ref=info-communicatie.ru.nl}}</ref>

==2000's== In 2000, Adeo records ''Rood & Emanuel: Retrato'', a Portuguese nontraditional fado-album, in collaboration with fado-singer Emanuel Pessanha. For the Weill-edition of the Theatre Festival 2000 in Wroclaw, Rood & Nighthawks at the Diner arrange four Kurt Weill songs. Rood Adeo's versions of "I'm a Stranger Here Myself" and "Lost in the Stars" appear on his albums ''Transit Cellophane'' and ''Perfect Life''. In 2002, Adeo's third Nighthawks at the Diner-album ''Transit Cellophane'' was released on the label NWR published by NWR/EMI<ref name="Transit Cellophane Muziekweb">{{cite web|title=Transit Cellophane|url= https://www.muziekweb.nl/Link/JK114820 |date=30 September 2002|publisher=CDR Stichting Centrale Discotheek|access-date=27 October 2014|language=nl|ref=info-cdr.nl}}</ref> .<ref name="MusicMaker 1 October 2003">{{cite journal |last=Lamberts |first=Patrick|date=1 October 2003|title=Nighthawks at the Diner at the Wisseloord Studios|url=https://www.musicmaker.nl/|language=nl|journal=MusicMaker|volume=26|issue=10|pages=13–18|location=Amsterdam|publisher=Keijser 18 Mediaproducties|access-date=26 October 2014}}</ref> In August 2005, he performs in Denmark and records Jessie Mae Robinson's "The Other Woman" for the Nina Simone tribute album ''Greetings From Nijmegen'',<ref name="3voor12 VPRO 30 November 2005"/><ref name="Greetings From Nijmegen">{{cite web |url= http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/various_artists_f2/greetings_from_nijmegen/|title=Greetings From Nijmegen – Tribute to Nina Simone | author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=28 September 2008|access-date=26 October 2014}}</ref> on which he also accompanies Dutch ''Idols'' finalist Maud Mulder on "Everything Must Change". Adeo's live performances are critically acclaimed,<ref name="Het Parool 7 May 2004">{{cite news |last=Verkerk|first=Corrie|date=7 May 2004|title=Indescribably Beautiful|trans-title=Onbeschrijflijk mooi|newspaper=Het Parool|language=nl|publisher=Persgroep Nederland BV|location=Amsterdam}}</ref> with reviews emphasising on Adeo's timing and expressive, dynamic piano play.<ref name="Rood & Nighthawks at the Diner Live, 2004">{{cite journal|last1=Engelshoven|first1=Ton|journal=Oor|date=10 January 2004|volume=20|issue=1|pages=64–65|title=NATD Live at CC Van Gogh|language=nl|location=Nieuw Vennep|publisher=NTG}}</ref><ref name="Popmagazine Heaven 1 May 2010">{{cite journal |last=Boeijen |first=Frank |date=1 May 2008|title=Rood Adeo |url=https://www.popmagazineheaven.nl/|language=nl|journal=Heaven Popmagazine|volume=10|issue=3|page=19|location=Geldermalsen|publisher=Firmament Music BV|access-date=26 October 2014}}</ref> Though Adeo refers to his lyrics as being non-political, he withdrew his contributions as a school music teacher in 2010, when the Dutch populist politician Geert Wilders actively participated in the Dutch minority cabinet 2010–2012, stating: 'I don't want to receive payments from the Department of Education, as long as it’s being run by individuals behaving like CEO's of an absurd, {{Sic|onworthy}} political hedge fund.'<ref name="De Gelderlander 18 November 2010">{{cite news |last=van der Louw|first=Wim|date=18 November 2010|title=Rood wil even geen ambtenaar zijn|newspaper=De Gelderlander|trans-title=Rood doesn't want to be a civil servant for a while|language=nl|pages=32–33|publisher=Royal Wegener NV|location=Netherlands}}</ref> After the dismantling of the cabinet Adeo resumed his teaching career. In March 2006, Rood & Nighthawks at the Diner close down the Night of Poetry Festival at Vredenburg Concert Hall Utrecht. "Observant Spectator" is being released on the DVD ''Dichters in Woord en Beeld'' (Poets in Word and Frame). In May 2006, Adeo composes the music for Frank Boeijen's song "Verloren Stad" (Lost City), which is being released on the DVD ''As''.<ref name="As CD/DVD Frank Boeijen">{{cite web|title=As|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/as-mw0001521693|website=allmusic|access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref> In Greece, his song "The Waltzes, The Polkas, And The Sad Songs" is being released on the 2008 album ''Muzine Three Red & White Mood''.<ref name="Muzine Three, February 2008, Red & White Mood">{{cite journal|last1=Mitsiáki|first1=Eléni|journal=QV|date=1 February 2008|url=http://www.muzine.gr/issue03.php|volume=02|issue=3|page=144|title=Nighthawks at the Diner: Transit Cellophane|language=el|location=Patras|publisher=Haramada Publications|access-date=13 January 2015}}</ref> In 2009, Adeo records the ROOD & Nighthawks at the Diner-album ''Perfect Life''<ref name="Perfect Life">{{cite web|title=Perfect Life|url=http://www.coasttocoast.nl/produkt.asp?Art=Sil-230&Artiest=Rood%20%26%20Nighthawks%20At%20The%20Diner|website=www.coasttocoast.nl|publisher=Coast To Coast|access-date=24 October 2014|ref=keesklop-coasttocoast.nl}}</ref> in collaboration with producer Loek Schrievers. ''Perfect Life'' also features bariton Ernst Daniël Smid singing a duet with Adeo on "Baby Don't You Like My New Tattoo".

==2010's== In 2012, ''Mindful Indifference'' is being released on the label Supertracks/Challenge Records International.<ref name="Mindful Indifference">{{cite web|title=Mindful Indifference|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/mindful-indifference-mw0002412009|website=allmusic|access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref> On this album, Adeo started experimenting as sound-engineer, producing and recording his songs single-miced, playing most of the instruments himself.<ref name="Mindful Indifference credits">{{cite web|title=Mindful Indifference credits|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/mindful-indifference-mw0002412009/credits|website=allmusic|access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref> Music magazine ''Oor'' considers the album “an important milestone in the interesting music firmament”.<ref name="Oor, Album Roots, Mindful Indifference">{{cite web|title=Oor Albums Mindful Indifference|url=https://oor.nl/albums/mindful_indifference/|website=Oor|access-date=29 October 2018}}</ref> In March 2018, Rood Adeo switches to the record label Kroese Records, who releases ''Voluntary Intakes'' in October 2018.<ref name="Voluntary Intakes">{{cite web|title=Rood Adeo's Voluntary Intakes|url=https://www.kroese-online.nl/artikel/3839351/Rood_Adeo/Voluntary_Intakes|website=kroeserecords|access-date=29 October 2018}}</ref> The album, first of a diptych, comprises seventeen tracks and contains previous, new and live recordings. According to Adeo, the title alludes to the desired character of assumptions. As he explains in a 2018 interview:<ref name="Vrijwillig innemen">{{cite web|last1=Wetering|first1=Inge|title=Vrijwillig innemen|url=https://www.beauforthuis.nl/uploads/docs/2018/2018-12-22-intRood-VoluntaryIntakes.pdf|website=beauforthuis|access-date=22 October 2018}}</ref> “Every intake, every assumption, should be voluntary. Our way of life has become a labyrinth of involuntary assumptions, built on the dung hill of older unconscious assumptions. The believes in a God, legal systems, universal human rights: they’re all assumptions. Voluntary or involuntary, it’s all fiction. If we want to pursue mental or spiritual freedom, we have to start chucking assumptions overboard.” The second album of the diptych, ''Worn Love'', is released in 2021.<ref name="Worn Love">{{cite web|title=Rood Adeo's Worn Love|url=https://www.kroese-online.nl/artikel/4218037/Adeo_Rood/Worn_Love|website=kroeserecords|access-date=29 October 2018}}</ref>

==Discography==

===Albums=== *''Fool's Tango'' (1997) *''Walkin' On Eggs'' (1998) *''Walkin' On Eggs – SACD'' (1999) *''How About The Next Millennium'' (1999/2000) *''Rood & Emanuel: Retrato'' (2000) *''Transit Cellophane'' (2002) *''Perfect Life'' (2009) *''Mindful Indifference'' (2012) *''Voluntary Intakes'' (2018) *''Worn Love'' (2021)

===Other albums=== *''Kronika XX Przegladu Piosenki Aktorskiej'', 'To Be A Man', Poland (1999) *''Greetings From Nijmegen'', 'The Other Woman' (2005) *''Dichters In Woord En Beeld'' DVD, 'Observant Spectator' (2006) *''As'', with Frank Boeijen, 'Verloren Stad' (2006) *''De Ontmoeting'', 'Heaven and Hell' (2008) *''Muzine 03 White Mood'', 'The Waltzes, The Polkas, And The Sad Songs', Greece (2008)

===Compilations=== *''The Beauty Of It All'' (2010)

===Other contributions=== * Piano and vocals on Deborah Jean Weitzman's ''Beneath Your Moon'' (2002) * Piano on 'Cidade Amor Saudade', with Quatro Ventos on ''Barco De Papel'' (2003) * Piano on 'Everything Must Change', with Maud Mulder on ''Greetings From Nijmegen'' (2005)

==References==

===Footnotes=== {{Reflist|25em}}

==External links== {{Commons}} *{{Official website|1=https://www.roodadeo.com}}

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