Gather Roses - As The Sun Will Guide Me Home (2011).

Band: Gather Roses.
Title: As The Sun Will Guide Me Home.
Released: Nov 2011.
Label: Marista Records.
Genre: Singer/Songwriter/Jazz

Personell:  Roos Galjaard (Vocals, Guitar), Job Wiegnand (Keyboard, Guitar, B Vocals), Wim Jacobs (Bass, B Vocals), Freek Laban (Drums, Percussion, B Vocals).
Additional personell: Obed Brinkman (Trombone), Tobias Nagel (Guitar), Sebastiaan Wiering (Cello)
Production: Gather Roses.
Recording & mix: Walter de Vries @ Hundred Sounds Acompany Studio, Groningen, except ‘Strongest Man’: Obed Brinkman @ unknown studio.
Mastering: Michiel Cornelisse @ Blaisdell Studio, Groningen.

Tracklisting:
1. Butterfly.
2. Free Mind.
3. Keep Walking.
4. Gold.
5. As The Sun Will Guide Me Home.
6. Boy.
7. Hey!.
8. Dance Along.
9. Child Running.
10. Do They Know?
11. Strongest Man.
12. Do Care.

Notes:
After her previous album Roos reshaped ‘Gather Roses’ again, which lifted the level of the band even more. Drawing from her huge collection of old and new songs, the band arranged new songs with a strong and vivid jazz sound, with touches of Symphonica and African rhythms. ‘Hey!’ has strong African references, while ‘Boy’ is about her eldest son Yorin. The album got released on ‘Marista Records’, which also released albums by famous Dutch bands ‘Doe Maar’ and ‘De Kast’.

Website: www.gatherroses.nl.

Roos Galjaard - I Am Water (2010).

Band: Roos Galjaard.
Title: I Am Water.
Released: 2010.
Label: Self Released.
Genre: Singer/Songwriter/Jazz

Personell:  Roos Galjaard (Vocals, Guitar).
Additional personell: Phil Mills (Bass, Guitars, Vocals, Keyboards, Drums, Percussion, Piano), Fons Sluijter (Cello), Linde Nijland (Vocals), Bert Ridderbos (Bass, Citern, Banjo), Eric Bosma (Bass).
Production: Roos Galjaard.
Recording & mix: Phil Mills & Various @ Cryptic Recordings, Leeuwarden and various other studio’s and locations.
Mastering:  Michiel Cornelisse, Blaisdell Studio, Groningen.

Tracklisting:
1. Dance Along.
2. In The Night.
3. Samson’s Locks.
4. Unknown Falls.
5. Kiss Me.
6. I Am Water.
7. Stormy Waters.
8. Marleen.
9. Ten To Two (Live).
10. Strongest Man (Live).

Notes:
After her duo ‘September’ featuring Phil Mills stopped, Roos continued playing, both solo and in group formation. She played monthly gigs in café ‘Marleen’ on Singer-Songwriter nights for a while, recording songs occasionally. In 2010 she decided to compile the songs closest to her heart, picking tracks from live recordings and various sessions. Dissatisfied with earlier mixes, Phil Mills remixed several ‘September’ demos for the release, which was mastered by Michiel Cornelisse and released under Roos own name. ‘Unknown Falls’ is about African rivers, which Roos frequwntly crossed while visiting South Africa, her second home. ‘Strongest Man’ is about her former Gouda basketball-trainer, who had great influence on her musical education and who recovered from serious illness recently before the album came out. After the release, the album got great reveiews and Roos expanded her gigs to Denmark and the UK.

Website: www.gatherroses.nl

September - 2005 Demos (2005).

Band: September.
Title: 2005 Demos.
Released: Unreleased, 2005.
Label: Not Released.
Genre: Singer/Songwriter/Jazz

Personell:  Roos Galjaard (Vocals, Guitar), Phil Mills (Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Bass).
Production, recording, mix & mastering: Phil Mills & Roos Galjaard @ Cryptic Recordings, Leeuwarden.

Tracklisting:
1. Selena.
2. Samson’s Locks.
3. Ten To Two.
4. Torpor.
5. I Am Water.

Notes:
Inbetween playing with ‘Gather Roses’, which at the time became some kind of loose collective, Roos joined Phil Mills (ex-‘Nerve’) in songwriting. Inspired and monitored by him, she focussed more on playing the guitar, further developing her sound. With Phil she formed duo ‘September’, which played several gigs and recorded some demo’s, of which this selection was given to me for broadcast purposes. Unreleased in this shape, though ‘Samson’s Locks’, ‘I Am Water’ and several other tracks later emerged in remixed or live-versions on her 2010 solo-album ‘I Am Water’.
 
Website: No website (Defunct).

Gather Roses - Tribute - EP (2002).

Band: Gather Roses.
Title: Tribute.
Released: 2002.
Label: Self Released.
Genre: Singer/Songwriter/Jazz

Personell:  Roos Galjaard (Vovals, Guitar), Eric Bosma (Bass, B Vocals), Sietze Jan Boer (Drums).
Additional personell: Tobias Nagel (Guitars), Phil Mills (Keyboards).
Production, recording, mix & mastering: Phil Mills & Gather Roses @ Cryptic Recordings, Leeuwarden.

Tracklisting:
1. No More.
2. Tribute.
3. The Fate In Which We Drown.

Notes:
After the release of ‘Together’, the band changed line-up and new songs were written. Three of them appeared on this EP, which was released on CD-R with self printed cover. 'The Fate In Which We Drown' is about the stories she heard while supporting refugees trying to find their way into Dutch society during their asylum application.

Website: www.gatherroses.nl.

Gather Roses - Together (2001).

Band: Gather Roses.
Title: Together.
Released: 2001.
Label: Self Released.
Genre: Singer/Songwriter/Jazz

Personell:  Roos Galjaard (Vocals, Acoustic Guitar), Tobias Nagel (Guitar, Bass), Phill Mills (Bass, Piano, Keyboards, Guitar, Percussion), Jascha van Pommeren (Drums).
Additional personell: Mathew Tembo (Vocals ‘Nimmawa’), Linde Nijland (Backing Vocals ‘The Sea’), Mirjam Saaltink (Violin), Conny Essbach (Trumpet).
Production: Gather Roses.
Recording, mix & mastering: Phil Mills & Gather Roses, Cryptic Recordings, Leeuwarden.

Tracklisting:
1. Nothing For Us.
2. Come And Go.
3. Hymn.
4. I Can’t Stay My Love.

5. I Wonder.
6. Together.

7. In My Heart.
8. Wings.
9. Yora.
10. The Sea.
11. Wild River.
12. Nimmawa.

Notes:
Second slightly jazzy tuned CD by Groningen based ‘Gather Roses’, fronted by Gouda-originating Roos Galjaard, augmented in this lineup by Phil Mills, formerly of ‘Nerve’, who recorded and co-produced the album in his studio. The album got good reviews and gave the band regional attention. ‘Nimmawa’ is a duet with Ghanese Reggae-singer Mathew Tembo, for which Roos added backing vocals on his ‘Save My Soul’ album. Linde Nijland of ‘Ygdrassil’ sung backing vocals on ‘The Sea’, which was the first time ever she did backing vocals on an album outside ‘Ygdrassil’.

Website: www.gatherroses.nl.

Gather Roses - Beautifull World (1998).

Band: Gather Roses.
Title: Beautifull World.
Released: 1998.
Label: Self Released.
Genre: Singer/Songwriter/Jazz

Personell:  Roos Galjaard (Vocals, Guitar), Tobias Nagel (Guitar), unknown members.

Production, recording, mix & mastering:  Tobias Nagel.

Tracklisting:
Unknown at the moment.

Notes:
After her escapades with semi-punkbands like ‘Accidental Coitus-s’ in Gouda, Roos started to wander around the world, travelling through Europe and second home Southern Africa, while moving her base to Groningen. First to study, later for work and living. Here he formed a band with her husband at the time, Tobias Nagel, releasing her first CD. She refused to sell me one in 2000, as she had moved on at the time. Since the Cd has been sold out since, info is currently unavailable.

 Website: www.gatherroses.nl