Wednesday March 26 - duo Marcus Wärnheim & Jonathan Bäckström - 8:30 PM ---- entrance (minimum) € 8/4
Swedish alto saxophonist Marcus Wärnheim and Finnish double bass player Jonathan Bäckström have been playing together as a duo since 2018. Through a long-lasting close collaborative process, they are consequently pushing the limits of the intimate duo setting, exploring sound by embracing the spontaneous, pre-determined and arbitrary. https://on.soundcloud.com/i5BJ5xdXtSMkjH8v9
Marcus Wärnheim is a Swedish alto saxophonist and improviser, currently based in Amsterdam. His artistic output is primarily based in a genuine curiosity of sound, which he works with through intense listening and a thorough research of the physical possibilities of his instrument. In recent years he has been preoccupied with acoustic solo performances, improvisational meetings, interpretation of other’s compositions as a sideman, as well as trans-disciplinary collaborations with dancers and circus artists.
Jonathan Bäckström is a Finnish double bassist and composer. He works within the broader spectrum of jazz, free improvisation and contemporary music. He is currently pursuing the master’s program at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. In 2024 he debuted as a leader on the Finnish record label We Jazz Records with a critically acclaimed quartet album. During the span of ten years, he has worked extensively as a side musician and freelancer both in Finland and internationally. With his compositional work, he is blending written material with free improvisation, aiming to create a microcosm that explores the relationship between performer and composer, fostering an environment of innovation and reflection.
The duo has a three-day residency at POM.
Friday March 28 - The Handover - 8:30 PM ----------- entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
Jonas Cambien - keyboards
Andrew Nasser Ishak Kamel - violindoepher 1A100
Aly Eissa - oud
The Handover are a critically acclaimed trio that plays hypnotic, trance-inducing music, inspired by the ritual rhythms of the Egyptian countryside. The trio masterfully combines the delicacy of classical Arabic music with the raw expressiveness of Egypt's rural and shaabi music, peppered with a good dose of psychedelic improvisation, kraut riffs and experimental sounds. Their eponymous record put out by the American cult label Sublime Frequencies has been dubbed one of the bes releases on the label.
Video: https://youtu.be/nNBeRJn_yag?feature=shared
Audio: https://sublime-frequencies.bandcamp.com/album/the-handover
Site: https://the-handover.com
https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/the-handover-tickets-1258678775099?aff=oddtdtcreator
Modulab - Liberating Electronic Music - 8:30 PM entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/liberating-electronic-music-tickets-1267694742099?aff=oddtdtcreator
Thursday April 3 - Autarkh Collective ft Nuno Silva - 8:30 PM entrance (minimal) € 8/4 student
Saxophone player Nuno Silva and Autarkh Collective both reside in the music studios of Paradox, where their first collaboration came to fruition during the Autarkh III set at Roadburn festival 2022. With backgrounds ranging from ambient to metal and jazz/fusion, the combination with a musician like Nuno – rooted in classical and contemporary music – brings different worlds and approaches together in an exciting and fully improvised musical journey. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RPcWnY0neJyGaMTG_g8vzTOmdYCwrDxh/view?usp=sharing
AUTARKH COLLECTIVE is a group of music adventurers from Tilburg (NL) that explore artistic universes in various stylistic contexts. They’ve been operating as experimental metal quartet AUTARKH since 2019 and have released the albums Form In Motion (2021) and Emergent (2023) on French record label Season Of Mist.
The opportunity arose in 2023 to collaborate in a completely free improvisation setting together with the experimental synth-improv of Drone Assembly and electronic music wizard Kypski during the ‘secret artists in residence’ program at Best Kept Secret festival. The group decided to dive into free improvisation in their characteristic atmospheric context, which resulted in the birth of AUTARKH COLLECTIVE. www.autarkh.com - www.youtube.com/c/autarkh
David Luiten guitars - Michel Nienhuis guitars - Tijn Verbruggen live electronics - Desmond Kuijk bass, gu-qin - Jasper Barendregt percussion
Nuno Silva is a saxophonist, pedagogue and sound designer of Portuguese roots specially aiming for new interdisciplinary creations and sound design. He obtained his Master in Performance - Saxophone at Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Tilburg and Master of Music Education at Aveiro University in Aveiro, Portugal.
Since the beginning of his musical activity often collaborates with composers, dancers and actors in order to create new repertoire for the instrument and exploring new paths of expression performing it all around Europe.
https://nunosilva-sax.com/homepage
Friday April 4 - Residence presentation Tamar Blom and Thomas Jaspers - 8:30 PM -- entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
Theatre maker Tamar Blom and drummer Thomas Jaspers are going into residence at POM to create together. They lock themselves up for a few days with 40 drums and are inspired by space, the physical experience of sound and overconsumption. The result of this residency will be shown this Friday.
Tamar makes performances and installations in which the spectator is addressed in a physical way and actually set in motion. This is done by means of intense spaces and actions. His artistry develops more beyond the boundaries of the theatre, with a focus on building. This requires a space where workshop and theatre hall merge. https://tamarblom.com/
Thomas is an improviser and sound maker. He plays in various groups in experimental and improvised music. As a drummer he searches for the boundaries of the possibilities on his instruments. His ongoing search for the sound interaction of materials leads to surprising timbres.
Wednesday April 9 - GIRAFFE - 8:30 PM entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
Matteo Paggi, trombone player alongside the international jazz icon Enrico Rava in the group "Fearless Five", and winner of the Top Jazz 2024 (IT) presents his project GIRAFFE.
The giraffe, in the world of symbolism, symbolizes “foresight.” Having the head away from the heart, it is able to make decisions with detachment and coolness. In the band's music, therefore, the mind is free to fly, to express itself with all the airiness that is its own; but at the same time, the fire of passion burns strong in the chest and finds no obstacle, it burns unceasingly. It is precisely with this concept that Matteo Paggi wrote the (original) compositions for the band. https://youtu.be/tssulvXi8no?si=xUa6TA4oU-wO1EL3
GIRAFFE's style manages to bind rationality and passion, creating an original aesthetic that draws a strong influence from pop, rock and melodic music, all within a jazz framework.
Winners of I-Jazz's "Next Jazz Generation 2025," they will release their first album for Jam/UnJam in early 2025.
Some of the stages the band graced are: GrachtenFestval, JazzMi, Controtempo Jazz&Wine, Laren Jazz, Casa del Jazz, Macerata Jazz, Flux and others.
Matteo Paggi - trombone, Lorenzo Simoni - sax, Masako Sakai - piano, Jonathan Ho Chin Kiat - double bass, Andrea Carta - drums
Sunday 13 April - Arpyies trio ft Nuno Silva (sax) & Gonçalo Almeida (double bass) entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
The Portuguese trio consists of Ana Gonçalves Albino (guitar, effects), Catarina Custódio Silva (French horn) and Maria Do Mar (violin, effects). At the request of the trio, two Portuguese musicians living in the Netherlands have been invited to play with them. Both regularly play in POM; Nuno Silva (sax) & Gonçalo Almeida (double bass). In short, it will be a unique evening.
The three Arpyies with long vulture wings: these winged women arrive to challenge sounds and people, and to contradict the status quo. Coming from a place of restlessness, they instigate change in the unaltered succession of real life. Turning everything upside down, as in mythology, in the here and now. Exploring the higher and lower limits of the audible, descending into the dense bass of the horn, or rising into the gritty crystallinity of a guitar. Establishing a balance in the air, a violin suddenly arrives in downward flight. At other times, the three get carried away by invisible winds, blending with them.
Ana Gonçalves Albino - guitar, effects
A guitarist with a unique background steeped in classical music and jazz. She seeks to make music in an open, broad and above all personal universe. Composition and improvisation are an integral part of her work in diversified artistic contexts. She regularly works with theatre, contemporary dance and multimedia.
After studying at the Hot Club school and ESML, she began to develop her own musical language through composition, improvisation (either free or with specific guidelines) and the exploration of electronics. Throughout her journey she has performed on stages such as Festival Paredes de Coura or the Roman Theatre in Verona. She currently collaborates with musicians from various creative universes, working in the fields of folk, indie, classical, jazz and free improvisation.
Catarina Custódio Silva - French horn
With a higher-education training in so-called classical music, currently the horn player combines performance in her area of training with the creation of improvised music and teaching.She has performed internationally at lyrical and symphonic music festivals (Mediterranean Opera Studio and Festival, Esker Festival Orchestra, Aurora Music Festival). Her recent activities include collaborations with Artis XXI ensembles and the Profound Whatever collective, as well as taking part in the MIA – Encontro de Música Improvisada de Atouguia da Baleia (Atouguia da Baleia Improvised Music Meeting) and Humanifest 2023.
Maria Do Mar - Violin, effects
Eclectic violinist with a transdisciplinary background. Her creative approach explores convergences and divergences between so-called classical music, teaching, experimental and improvised music, cinema, theatre, dance, and political activism - nurturing a unique intuitive sensibility to create a language of her own.
Co-founder and member of the sextet Lantana (national television channel RTP Prize as Best Group of 2022, Revelation Group 2022 by El Intruso pole of critics) and of several other ensembles, she also played with top musicians such as Joelle Léandre, Carlos "Zíngaro", Ernesto Rodrigues, João Paulo Esteves da Silva, Carlos Bica, Joana Guerra, Rodrigo Amado, Gonçalo Almeida, Susana Santos Silva, Nuno Rebelo, Mia Zabelka and Sofia Borges, among many others. Her transdisciplinary projects include "Grão" (music, performance, installation, video), musical theatre with Opera Lab Berlin and collaborations with poets like Nuno Moura, Raquel Lima, Gisela Casimiro, Jan and Romke Kleefstra. She was nominated by the magazine Jazz.pt as Best Portuguese Musician of The Year in 2019.
Tuesday April 29 PONGA - 8:30 PM entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
Ponga is a music group that thrives on the possibilities of free improvisation, which is at the core of everything they play. Their performances blend compositional forms, infectious grooves, and unconventional melodies, often originating from experimentation and free play. In Ponga, every member of the trio—violist Yanna Pelser, guitarist Timon Koomen, and drummer/percussionist Remco Menting—switches between percussive, melodic, and harmonic roles, resulting in eclectic performances that encompass a variety of musical styles, including soundscapes, rock, jazz, classical and global music.
Formed in 2023, with Yanna joining two former members of the acclaimed trio Kapok, Ponga is a relatively new group consisting of seasoned performers; With over 15 years of performance experience in the Dutch and international jazz and classical scenes, the members bring a wealth of expertise to the group.
Remco, rooted in improvised jazz and African drumming, is always on the lookout for new sounds and instruments in his already unusual percussion setup. Jazz guitarist
Timon would bring 10 guitars on stage if it was possible; if only it were to be able to subtly choose the right feeling for the music.
Yanna, mainly rooted in classical music, is challenged by the formation to find new creative ways on her viola.
The members also share a background in theatre, which contributes to their distinctive stage presence often marked by the change of multiple outfits. This visual diversity complements their contrasting musical pieces, promoting progressive change and critiquing conservatism.
PONGA – Waar Dans Ik Op?
PONGA – Nowhere Land
PONGA – Heksenjacht
PONGA – Live at BIMHUIS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aX2WBflwow&pp=ygUVcG9uZ2EgbGl2ZSBhdCBiaW1odWlz