He’s rapping and singing on “Susie Saxophone” and “Elixir”.
Marc Sokpolie wrote the following about him (taken from the info of his Facebook page)
“ E1 TEN “
A.K.A the Rockattack Ten is the unpredictable silent, ever pensive guy in the corner of the room. The way he looks at the world, I mean in the most literal sense of the word, makes you wanna trow him a penny for his thoughts. A big mind seemingly at ease, in a wise weathered face, adorned with a spade, the secret sumbol of “Funk music”. One of Europe’ s true rap pioneers, the vocal torchbearer of Jimi Hendrix’ s mystic and Chuck D’ s energie, shocked his national peers and drew George Clinton’ s attention half way the 90’s, in fact from Holland via France, Canada and the U.S. His voice has been heard on countless recordings, solo projects, rap albums, Go- Go- styled efforts and Soul ventures and once you’ ve experienced his character and his voice, you will always recognize it, floating on top of the beat or dragging slightly behind it, ridding on the harmonies sideways like a surfer or straight up like a boxer."
I met him when I was touring with Tribute 2 Bob Marley in 2006. He came to the show to see his friend and colleague perform: Pieter “I Repeat” Both. Also, it turned out that we had some mutual friends from George Clinton’s P-Funk: Cordell “Boogie” Mosson and Michael “Clip” Payne, both spent quite a while in Haarlem and also collaborated with Gotcha!. I played with him when the Dutch band Gotcha! had a reunion tour in 2009. They called it the “Gotcha! Allstar’s Re-Onion Tour”; on a cold winter night in Burgerweeshuis, Deventer we played this song:
Look at the edgy photo of E1 Ten on his website or follow his activities on his Facebook Page.
This is the title track called Dark Horse. Just as in the album version it features sax and piano solos. It's a pretty wild performance, matching today's start of the Chinese New Year: THE YEAR OF THE FIRE HORSE!Live at Bimhuis, we added a drum solo. Afterwards, I decided to seperate it from the song and post it as an extra video below. Why not in one video?Because the video would become very very long and experience shows that people will not stick around for longer that 6-7 minutes. Yoràn's free drum solo is actually really great and in this seperate video, the true drum lovers can watch and learn from his drum story telling. Sometimes people ask me; What are drummers doing in their solos? To give you an idea of what Yoràn is doing in his solo: He starts with a pattern, an idea. He keeps the pattern going and plays variations over it. Then he combines it with soloing over it with call and reponse phrases and slides in new patterns. Technically it's interesting because he demonstrates a lot of independence and speed, as well as dynamics and sound colours, while telling a story, which means in musical context that the solo has certain elements which can be recognized by the (trained) listener. Many people in the Western part of the world miss the melodic and harmonic context during a free drum solo. It's fair to say a free drum solo without any accompaniment is like an abstract painting. Within the given context you can hear and see what you can manage, depending on your own frame of reference and expectations. In the end, it's about: does it resonate with you? Because both, the painting and the free drum solo, they lack a clear subject (no lyrics, no recognizable image), both forms are highly subjective and open to the interpretation of the audience. They function as a conversation between the artist's feeling and the viewer's/listener's perception.But you also can listen to it with a pure analytical drum ear and try to follow the patterns and phrases. As a musician and human I (try to) do both :-) Enjoy!More info:Susanne Alt: sax, Matthijs Geerts and Ike van Bergen: keys, Thomas Pol: bass, Yoràn Vroom: drums, Helene Jank: percussion Performed at 16th of January 2026 at Bimhuis, Amsterdam, Recorded by Onno Prillwitz Filmed by Robert Glass and Albert Nooij. - He’s rapping and singing on “Susie Saxophone” and “Elixir”.Marc Sokpolie wrote the following about him (taken from the info of his Facebook page)“ E1 TEN “A.K.A the Rockattack Ten is the unpredictable silent,ever pensive guy in the corner of the room.The way he looks at the world, I mean in the most literalsense of the word, makes you wanna trow him a pennyfor his thoughts.A big mind seemingly at ease, in a wise weathered face,adorned with a spade, the secret sumbol of “Funkmusic”.One of Europe’ s true rap pioneers, the vocal torchbearerof Jimi Hendrix’ s mystic and Chuck D’ s energie,shocked his national peers and drew George Clinton’ sattention half way the 90’s, in fact from Holland viaFrance, Canada and the U.S. His voice has been heard oncountless recordings, solo projects, rap albums, Go- Go-styled efforts and Soul ventures and once you’ veexperienced his character and his voice, you will alwaysrecognize it, floating on top of the beat or draggingslightly behind it, ridding on the harmonies sideways likea surfer or straight up like a boxer.I met him when I was touring with Tribute 2 Bob Marley in 2006. He came to the show to see his friend and colleague perform: Pieter “I Repeat” Both. Also, it turned out that we had some mutual friends from George Clinton’s P-Funk: Cordell “Boogie” Mosson and Michael “Clip” Payne, both spent quite a while in Haarlem and also collaborated with Gotcha!.I played with him when the Dutch band Gotcha! had a reunion tour in 2009. They called it the “Gotcha! Allstar’s Re-Onion Tour”; on a cold winter night in Burgerweeshuis, Deventer we played this song:Look at the edgy photo of E1 Ten on his website or follow his activities on his Facebook Page.
