After having played one, just one song on a session in a club in the Netherlands, the French drumpoet Toma Gouband invited bassplayer Brice Soniano and Harmen to tour in France. For Harmen this tour became one of the most important events in his development as a musician and as a human being. This tour took place in 2000.
For some years the band operated under the name Par 4 Chemins, later this changed into Aneris.

During the last years Aneris invited some of the greatest contemporary musicians from Europe to perform and to record, like the American sax- and clarinetgiant Michael Moore, the unbelievable flute player Magic Malik and the Scandinavian hero Fredrik Ljungkvist on clarinet and sax.

Harmen chose the name Aneris, because of the symbolic reference of this name and its mirror. Aneris is the goddes of order and non-being, comparable with Harmonia. The mirror Sirena refers to the Greek mythology, in which the Sirenes, very beautiful goddesses, sing such beautiful songs, that the travellers passing their island cannot resist the attraction, and head for the source of this devine music. The tragic result is that the travellers are killed by the Sirenes after they suffer shipwreck; the Sirenes even suck out their vitality... good Lord!

"I guess it's not necessairy to mention that this is not our primary goal when we perform. So there's no need to be prepared like Odysseus, in case you want to attend one of our concerts, so... no beeswax in the ears please!"

Harmen Fraanje.