Seemon & Marijke
Seemon & Marijke
Group from Netherlands
Genres: the netherlands, dutch, psychedelic, folk, london
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About Seemon & Marijke
The Fool was a Dutch design collective and band in the psychedelic style of art in British popular music in the late 1960s. They worked closely with The Beatles in London, painting George Harrison's Mini car, John Lennon's piano and a three story high psychedelic mural on the outside of the Apple Boutique on Baker Street (since painted over). They also designed album sleeves. The original members were Dutch artists Simon Posthuma (1939-2020) and Marijke Koger (1943), who were discovered by photographer Karl Ferris among the hippie community on the Spanish island of Ibiza in 1966. He took photographs of clothes they designed, and sent them to London where they were published in The Times. Ferris took The Fool back to London, and together they opened a studio, with the Dutch artists producing clothes and art, and Ferris pursuing photography. Barry Finch (1943-2021), a maverick public relations man in the music scene, discovered the couple's talents and working for Brian Epstein got them their first designer deals in the industry. When the offers kept coming, Marijke Koger insisted that Josje 'Yosha' Leeger (1943-1991), her best friend and a fashion designer with whom she had collaborated in Amsterdam, come over to join the two. Barry and Yosha Finch became a couple and so The Fool was born. The Fool also released an eponymous album, The Fool in 1968, in the psychedelic folk style, produced by Graham Nash. Posthuma and Koger released a second The Fool album, this time under the moniker Seemon & Marijke. Son of America (A&M Records, 1971) was once again produced by Graham Nash, in collaboration with Booker T. Jones, in 1969. Backing vocals were provided by Joni Mitchell, Rita Coolidge, Morreen Thornton and Colleen Fortune. The second single 'I Saw You' was a hit in the Netherlands in 1972. Seemon & Marijke recorded a third album, Mediterranean Blues (1972), produced by Booker T. Jones in his Homegrown Studio.
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