Geen categorie

Currently recovering with lots of rooibos and verveine tea after this year’s North Sea Jazz Festival. It started with Joris Roelofs (a Dutch reed player, specialised in bassclarinet – do check him out!), who received the North Sea Jazz composition grant this year. Some time ago I saw Roelofs play a duo with Han Bennink…

I’ve joined the international panel for the monthly Transglobal World Music Chart, have a look at the July 2016 list.

“Things were turned upside down. There were terrifying things in the air… they found their way into Black Angels.” – George Crumb “The light, the textures, the colors of Africa and the African landscape and the sounds of the birds and the insects are totally different from Europe. And the music draws on those elements.…

Last sunday at Haarlem Hout Festival I saw Pixvae from Lyon. What a surprise: think Steve Albini’s Shellac in a head-on collision with my alltime favourite Afro-Colombian avantpunkcurrulao outfit Peregoyo y su Combo Vacana (do check out Peregoyo’s brilliant, out of this world and the next 1972 Discos Fuentes release Tropicalisimo, lovingly reissued by World…

Theatergroep Landgenoten, Club Paradis – ‘de waarheid is een beest’ Gezien: RO Theater, Rotterdam, 17 juni. Tekst: Nisrine Mbarki, regie: Yahya Gaier, spel: Mohammed Azaay, Esma Abouzahra. Speellijst: landgenoten.nu Wat drijft de zelfmoordenaar die zichzelf voor een politiek doel opblaast? In een onderkoeld schitterende tekst neemt Nisrine Mbarki deze helaas steeds actuelere vraag onder de…

  Yesterday was a day of miracle and wonder. At noon I went to the Rijksmuseumtunneltje for the Holland Festival programme Brass music of the spheres, contemporary music by students of the Royal Conservatory. At night I went to the Crypt, the wonderful nightclub for indie classical. During both concerts I suddenly was struck by…

Momenteel baan ik mijzelf een weg door de volgende titels: Yannis Kyriakides, The ear of the voice of the eye Johan Idema, Present! Rethinking live classical music David McCleery, Discover classical music of the 20th century David Hopkins, Dada and surrealism – a very short introduction Auteur onbekend, The new sins – translated out of…

Money Monster (director: Jodie Foster; main roles: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O’Connell) Quote of the film: “We take care of eachother, it’s embedded in our DNA.” Kindred films: Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976), Good Night And Good Luck (George Clooney, 2006) If you dig the bigger picture, and want to truly understand what really happened…

So I’m dedicated to culture. This is a more gentle way to say that I can’t live without a steady stream of new releases, books, films, concerts, discussion nights and plays. If you take away my Cineville pass, the center cannot hold, I fall apart. People have said I use culture as a way not…

So it’s a movement alright! Indie classical network meeting, the final conference session I attended during this year’s Classical Next in Rotterdam was actually the most exciting session – and this without alcohol. Led by Brendan Jan Walsh, a classy, curly moustached, friendly guy from Belgium, who travels the world to organize raves with purely…