Thursday April 18 - Test run evening with Senga Etna ! - 8:30 PM Free entrance!
Rik van Iersel : drums, percussie & electronica
Edward Capel : saxen, altklarinet & electronica
Senga Etna was founded in 2006 by Rik van Iersel as a playground for experiment and improvisation and as a portal for the Beukorkest. After the collaborations of Edward Capel and Rik van Iersel in the Beukorkest, they sought each other out more often to explore new possibilities of acoustic instruments in combination with electronics and loops and to apply Instant Composition within their musical field.
There is still a lot to be tested: acoustics, lighting, logistics, etc. We will do all of this in the near future and together with you on April 18. Welcome!
Photo by Viorica Cernica
Thursday April 25 - "O Tree" - 8:30 PM Entrance € 8/4 student
Wiek Hijmans guitar, Bart Soeters bass guitar, Mees Siderius drums https://vimeo.com/891236168/b712d55319
"O Tree", the new project by Wiek Hijmans, with Bart Soeters and Mees Siderius, is a jazz-rock trio that thinks as an innovative chamber music ensemble. "O Tree" uses everything stylistically necessary to tell a poetic story in music. Hijmans is the composer and the pieces take shape together, also through improvisation. The quest to use all the music that composer Hijmans holds dear and has taken root in his body for a compelling and coherent musical narrative is leading. A breakthrough in that journey was the composition of 150 guitar solo pieces, based on just as many psalm texts: by starting from the tone, atmosphere and dramaturgy of these poems/prayers, seemingly unbridgeable contradictions in musical stylistic elements seemed to disappear like snow in the sun. Or indeed very obvious contrasts within the dramaturgical sequence of the sounds. Examples of such a process include Hijmans J.S. Bach, Anton Webern, Miles Davis and The Beatles, with the extreme White Album perhaps even being too contrasting for some. For Hijmans, the album only radiates more and more unity over time. The pieces for "O Tree" have no literal word source. The stories are latently present as a proto-form for the compositions. The connecting image is the tree. The roots are as branched as the arms and leaves. An infinite source of inspiration, staring at the bark, feeling rooted again, from the head into the body, experiencing that body and mind are one, bending, cracking, growing, with the seasons. In Siderius and Soeters, Hijmans finds the ideal (literally!) companions for the musically challenging form he chooses. The fact that these are very sensitive, inventive and people-friendly musicians/makers is just as important as their impressive musical-technical background.
Thursday May 2 - MISANTHROPE TRIO (NL/PT/DE) - 8:30 PM Entrance € 8/4 student
Luis Lopes (PT) – guitar
Gonçalo Almeida - (PT/NL)- bass
Philipp Ernsting (DE/NL) - drums
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJREaEwPeCo
Misanthrope trio is an avant garde jazz noise guitar trio that brings together Portuguese guitarist Luis Lopes along with the rhythm section from Dutch jazzcore trio Albatre, with Portuguese Gonçalo Almeida on bass guitar and German drummer Philipp Ernsting, to create an innovative and unconventional musical experience.
Improvisation provides a foundation for the trio to explore new sonic territories where noise, with its emphasis on distortion, feedback, and unorthodox sound sources, adds a layer of unpredictability and experimentation to the music.
Luis Lopes is a versatile guitarist who is capable of a wide range of sounds and techniques and serves as the primary voice of the trio, allowing for expressive and adventurous improvisation.
Together, these musicians create a unique and boundary-pushing musical experience that challenges traditional notions of jazz and pushes the boundaries of what is possible in a guitar trio setting.
Presenting the second album GUT LIVER which is the result of their previous excursion in the Benelux, resulting in two live tracks on Cylinder Recordings label.
https://subcontinentalrecords.bandcamp.com/album/misanthrope
Saturday May 4 - AMALIE DAHL'S DAFNIE (NO) - 8:30 PM Entrance € 8/4 student
Oscar Andreas Haug (trumpet), Jørgen Bjelkerud (trombone), Nicolas Leirtrø (doube bass) and Veslemøy Narvesen (drums)
and saxophone player and composer Amalie Dahl.
Interesting links:
https://amaliedahl.bandcamp.com/album/dafnie
Amalie Dahl’s Dafnie is an energetic and expressive band from Norway, led by Oslo based saxophone player and composer Amalie Dahl. The quintet colour Dahl's strong, melodic compositions with playfulness and convincing weight. What we hear is harmonic yet avant-garde, with references to both old school, free jazz and modern contemporary reed-led bands. But rest assured, Dafnie is something of its own.
Apart from Dahl, the band contains four other well-known names from the Norwegian jazz scene: Oscar Andreas Haug (trumpet), Jørgen Bjelkerud (trombone), Nicolas Leirtrø (doube bass) and Veslemøy Narvesen (drums), who are active in bands such as Kongle Trio, Bliss Quintet, I like to sleep, We don’t Imagine Anymore, Hedvig Mollestad’s Tempest Revisited and Trondheim Jazz Orchestra. The band has recently been touring in the Scandinavian countries, Poland and Germany, playing on stages and festivals such as Avant Art Festival in Wroclaw, Krokus Jazz festiwal in Jelenia Góra, Sowieso Berlin, Copenhagen Jazzfestival, BrÖtz in Göteborg and the Oslo Jazzfestival.
In September 2021 Dafnie won the 1st prize in the Young Crocus Jazz Contest, in Jelenia Góra in Poland. On the 6th of May 2022 they released their debut album, 'Dafnie', with Sonic Transmissions Records, which has received excellent reviews:
“Her quintet's lively spirit and tuneful orientation falls in line with bands like Cortex and Friends & Neighbors. But this LP, her first as a bandleader, also displays Dahl’s strengths as an arranger and a composer. Each tune has a distinct character, drawing upon the ensemble’s strengths (...)” Bill Meyer, The Wire Magazine
Dafnie will release a brand new album in the spring of 2024. In the meantime, the band released the great single 'We Don't Want Your Stupid War'.
https://amaliedahl.bandcamp.com/album/we-dont-want-your-stupid-war
https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/amalie-dahls-dafnie-tickets-868722651837?aff=oddtdtcreator
Friday May 10 - 2x solo concert with Elsa van der Linden en Tobias Klein - 8:30 PM Entrance € 8/4
Elsa van der Linden - tenorsax
Elsa embarks on a sonic adventure with her tenor saxophone, infused with a blend of cardboard, foil, and metal. A 'feedback loop' is added, which controls the resonances of these materials. In her solo improvisations, a lively dialogue emerges between saxophone and 'feedback loop', with unexpected textures and resonances bubbling up from the resonating material.
Elsa van der Linden does research in catching the moment, through listening, performing and documenting. As a musician and scenographer she is interested in the unexpected happenings of the surroundings. She plays with the saxophone as instrument and the space as co-performer. Improvisation is for her a perfect tool to listen to what is already there and use that as the starting point to create a moment specific experience. Elsa is founder of improvisation platform and ensemble BUI.
Tobias Klein bass clarinet https://youtu.be/u4xbmkqu8C8
In January 2014, Tobias Klein was invited by the OSSO collective to visit their workshop in the Portuguese countryside. The area is in several respects the opposite of Tobias' hometown of Amsterdam: the peace, the space, the mild weather, the smells, the taste of the food... In the spacious hall of the workshop, Tobias developed a bass clarinet solo piece with video projection.
Tobias Klein is a bass clarinetist, saxophonist and composer. He is artistic director of the Spinifex ensemble. He can also be heard with the Dalgoo quartet, in duo with clarinetist Oguz Büyükberber and in trio with Marta Warelis and Frank Rosaly.
Sunday May 26 - Forges - 8:30 PM Entrance € 8/4
Rémi Ploton: piano
Samuel Mastorakis: vibraphones, bows, small objects
Tancrède D. Kummer: compositions, drums, percussions, toys
It is the idea of a music aware of itself, that ‘thinks itself’, where action and spontaneity prevail; where repetitions and thematic reappearances seem almost contingent and do not constitute an aesthetic requirement but more that of a déjà vu or a faint remembrance altered by time and interaction. If reoccurring, each motive has changed, attained a new form, nothing in them entirely dissolves within the performance energy, but nothing ever remains the same.
Album teaser: https://youtu.be/xOl5t8I1WUA?si=cmfiHqcAYuAD_R0v
Bimhuis: https://youtu.be/hIn7gSUWeDc?si=DcqLLAVHmLkgo4iX
Album: https://boomslangrecords.bandcamp.com/album/forges
https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/forges-chamber-jazz-tickets-876489903897