Onder Invloed is a project by Dutch journalist Matthijs van der Ven. The title means ‘under the influence’. Since June 16th 2008, he filmed numerous international musicians covering their favourite songs in sessions and at Onder Invloed live shows. His first book, Onder Invloed, was published in 2012.








PAUL TASKER

PAUL TASKER

Paul Tasker has been one of my favourite guitar players for a good amount of years and still manages to surprise me whenever I hear him play. Earlier this year he released his wonderful first solo LP Cold Weather Music, featuring instrumentals that just might make you cry, and November will see the release of...
CHATHAM COUNTY LINE

CHATHAM COUNTY LINE

This session has been waiting to be published for a couple of months and I could not be more excited to share it with you. I had the pleasure of filming Chatham County Line from Rayleigh, North Carolina. To celebrate the release of their seventh studio album Autumn, here’s the session we filmed in LantarenVenster,...
KACY & CLAYTON

KACY & CLAYTON

Second cousins Kacy Lee Anderson and Clayton Linthicum have been playing music together for over a decade and it shows. Joining together his strong and seeming effortless guitar play and her exceptional voice, you can’t help getting under their spell. Sure, Kacy & Clayton aren’t reinventing the wheel (yet), but why would you, if there...
THREE BLIND WOLVES

THREE BLIND WOLVES

Earlier this year Three Blind Wolves‘ singer Ross Clark jumped on a train to Utrecht on a day off from touring with a play in Luxembourg. In the short time we had we filmed a bunch of songs from the new EP The Bridge, two covers and a short documentary.
CALE TYSON

CALE TYSON

It is eight years ago today that I launched this website. There’s no way I could’ve imagined the long list of musicians who’ve recorded sessions since then. More often than not I’ve been surprised by musicians simply agreeing to a session, let alone the end results. It’s something I’ll never take for granted. To celebrate,...
SON LITTLE

SON LITTLE

The best thing about this entire project is being able to discover. Forcing myself to discover things; It’s all too easy to hang back and enjoy the pile of records I already own and love. Onder Invloed (The Influences) started as a way to discover music through the influences of my favourite musicians and I’m...