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
Saturday June 8 - Imprevisiti Quartet - 8:30 PM Entrance € 8/4
Lorenzo Servali – double bass
Luca Zennaro – electric guitar
Guy Salamon – drums
Paolo Petrecca - trumpet
The main focus of the group is to explore the nuances of story telling through music. The band plays a set of music composed by the band members. The music is nostalgic of intimate and warm memories. Their music carry influence of many different genres and direct musical environment. The sound of this band is dynamic , taking inspiration from folk and electronic music in a jazz context . The musicians presenting the “imprevisti” record that will be released on Irma Records , around 15th June. During summer 2022 imprevisti recorded their first EP Available in streaming platforms under the name: Imprevisiti - “simple message” During summer 2023 the band recorded their 2 record, the LP features compositions by Lorenzo featuring the vocals of Tallulah Rose. The album was recorded live than produced in the studio by Antonio Todisco, Alessandro Mazzieri and AKA5HA.
https://soundcloud.com/user-378166441/sets/ep-2 Imprevisti quartet
https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/imprevisiti-quartet-tickets-896352052117?aff=oddtdtcreator
Thursday June 20 - "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.
Sunday afternoon June 23 - CoMA Eindhoven - 3 PM!! Entrance € 5
CoMA Eindhoven will give a concert on Sunday, June 23, in the Pavilion on Unheard Music. The amateur ensemble for contemporary music will play eight brand new pieces. The program includes a cello concerto by Amoret Abis. Soloist is Rik Kaasschieter. Jacques Palinckx wrote a composition especially for CoMA entitled Amok. You can also hear work by Howard Skempton, Ying Wang, Dominic Murcott and Angela Elisabeth Slater. The ensemble is led alternately by Wouter Kuyper and John Thomas.
Thursday June 27 - The Amygdala Sonatas for piano, grit and a dancer - 8:30 PM Entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
The Amygdala Sonatas for piano, grit and a dancer are 11 sonatas, each linked to what some call mental disturbances. We call it 'individual strategies to cope with the all-consuming normality'. We are OC/DC. An occasional ensemble that tries to explore the (political) power and beauty of those strategies to emphasize. With performances on a flat floor, whether in a place "affiliated with mental health care", or a "normal venue". Do you see the difference? We embed the sonatas in the story of a good man who wanted to change the world, and (not) survived the madhouse. In what is now Ukraine.
Reinier van Houdt: piano
Dennis Alexander or Guilia PianA: dance
Bas Alblas, double bass
Hansko Visser, compositions, translations, voice and six or seven more or less broken tape decks. Plus, one or more people from the audience who want to draw what is happening.
This project is supported by the Wilhelmina E Jansen Foundation, which helps us collaborate with two Russian artists "in inner and real exile" In consultation, we link part of our fee to a good cause (mental hospital in Dnipro, recently bombed and shelled...)
https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/the-amygdala-sonatas-for-piano-grit-and-a-dancer-tickets-908425694707
Saturday June 29 - The European Music Collective (EMC) - 8:30 PM Entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
The European Music Collective (EMC) is a union of musicians from all over Europe, which features improvised and contemporary music. For their summer tour, they invited NYC based trombonist and vibraphonist Selendis Sebastian Alexander Johnson, together with Canadian Cellist Laurence Gaudreau and EMC founder and guitarist Christoph Götzen. The Trio consists of some of the most ambitious youngsters of the improvising scene. Their playing is fresh, timeless, fearless, and surprising. Appearing within the world’s leading improvisors scene in Europe and America, these haunting souls are an exciting example and hint of what the future in improvised music might look like.
Reconnecting in Europe in Summer 2024, they will be on Tour for a carte blanche of free improvised music which is uncompromising and above all an unforgettable musical encounter of promising young talent from the USA, Canada and Germany.
Selendis Sebastian Alexander Johnson (* San Francisco) is a vibraphonist and trombonist.
Laurence Gaudreau is a French-Canadian cellist
Christoph Götzen (*Düsseldorf) is an experimental guitarist, composer and organizer