VROOOM FEST (#20)

The 20th VROOOM event is a jam-packed mini-festival presenting a group of extremely diverse artists that defy genre in music, performance & video. Apocalypse Lauw is a wild and wanton tour de force of Icelandic, American and German artists and musicians staging an amalgam of improvised poetry, noise music and video. Junko & Michel Henritzi will either totally transfix people or have them stagger to the emergency exit; a once-in-a-lifetime experience regardless. The trio Yassin / Sehnaoui / Prins will play unruly live improv filtering through their Lebanese and Dutch practices.

location: WORM - Boomgaardsstraat 71, Rotterdam
doors: 20:00 / start: 20:30 / entrance: €7 (presale: €6)
https://www.facebook.com/events/794366250621252/
http://www.worm.org/home/view/event/19530

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APOCALYPSE LAUW featuring:
• REBEKKA ERIN MORAN (us/is)
• KOLBEINN HUGI HÖSKOLDSSON (is)
• ÁDIS SIF GUNNARSDÓTTIR (is)
• ANNA McCARTHY (de)
• SONYTAGARTONY (de)
An experimental collaborative wild and wanton tour de force of Icelandic, US and German artists and musicians putting on stage an amalgam of improvised poetry, noise music, video and which is witch kind of shows abiding to the laws of what might be an apocalypse, snakes included.
http://www.rebekkamoran.com/
http://kolbeinnhugi.net/
http://www.annamccarthy.de/
https://soundcloud.com/tagar
http://icelandicartcenter.is/people/artists/asdis-sif-gunnarsdottir/

JUNKO (jp / HIJOKAIDAN) & MICHEL HENRITZI (fr)
We're thrilled to announce the exclusive NL performance of Junko & Michel Henritzi. Junko – 'La Grande Dame du Shriek' – is the vocalist of the Japanese performance art-based cult noise group that has been active since the late seventies. Hijokaidan is as essential to the global noise scene as its other Japanese progenitors (Merzbow, Hanatarash, Incapacitants, Masonna, etc.). Henritzi wanders between noise and abstract 'blues' on guitars and lapsteel. The duo is likely to divide the crowd between total lovers and haters and that's how we like it!
http://michelhenritzi1.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/michel-henritzi

RAED YASSIN / SHARIF SEHNAOUI / GERT-JAN PRINS (lb/nl)
The Yassin / Sehnaoui / Prins trio will do an intense live set combining Lebanese and Dutch practices within improv and electronics. Both Sharif and Raed contributed considerably to the emergence of an unprecedented experimental music scene in Lebanon, which influence is ongoing. They founded the Annihaya and Al Maslakh labels, and together with Mazen Kerbaj they are the organisers of the annual IRTIJAL Festival. Autodidact sound artist Gert-Jan Prins is one of the most challenging knob twiddlers in NL.
• Raed Yassin – double bass and objects
• Sharif Sehnaoui – acoustic guitar and objects
• Gert-jan Prins – electronics
http://www.raedyassin.com/
http://www.sharifsehnaoui.net/
http://www.gjp.info/

VROOOM #19

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2014

VROOOM #19

• LE CHEVALIER DE RINCHY (fr)• TILDE (it)• SPACE ADVENTURE FROM THE PULP VISION MACHINE (nl)• DJ BOSHOER (nl)

location: Klooster

Hammerstraat 63, Rotterdam

doors / start: 20:30 curfew 01:00 / entrance: €6
https://www.facebook.com/events/794140780636719/

■ LE CHEVALIER DE RINCHY (fr)
Le Chevalier De Rinchy: former positively failed TV talkshow host, one half of Le Club Des Chats (remember that crazy band?), jingle composer and Francophone pop savant. For this Vrooom, Le Chevalier will team up with SCARLATTI GOES ELECTRO's Antoine Souchav and INTERNET2's Carlos Carbonell. What to expect? A great live set of absurdist pop miniatures, adding Souchav's 'baroque' keyboard playing and Carbonell's 'theremin plants'; oddball fun guaranteed!
http://www.lechevalierderinchy.com/
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Le_Chevalier_De_Rinchy

■ TILDE (it)
Intriguing electro acoustic project from Italy featuring Attila Faravelli, Nicola Ratti and Enrico Malatesta, who are active in the field of contemporary music and sound art. Tilde utilizes 'spare' objects, a snare drum, a cymbal and a few analog synthesizer modules to create / provoke a relationship between artificially produced sounds and sites that happen to grab their musical interest. Tilde's performances are much like interventions (in the open air or in the controlled environment of a stage). Far from being an empty container to their actions, the sites they pick provide some of their unlimited aural possibilities, both imagined and real.
http://tildehome.tumblr.com/

■ SPACE ADVENTURE FROM THE PULP VISION MACHINE (nl)
Total mystery slide show by this looongtime Rotterdammer.

■ dj BOSHOER (fr/nl)
Who else to ask to counteract our other Francophone guests tonight? This bitch from la forêt has a great eclectic taste in music and is keen to deejay 'Boshoer style'. Our faith in the boshoer is strong.

VROOOM #18 - STUBNITZ BENEFIT

VROOOM #18
We're kicking off our fall / winter offensive with a benefit for STUBNITZ, featuring:

▨ PIERRE BASTIEN (fr)
▨ TORTURE CORPSE (nl)
▨ MARGRIET KICKS-ASS (nl)
▨ XAVIER VAN WERSCH (nl)
▨ BASSUKA (pt - Bruno Xavier Ferro Da Silva & Gonçalo Almeida)

This event will mark the end of a Dutch crowdfunding project to save the STUBNITZ from its demise. In other words: we're trying to help the MS STUBNITZ organisation in the prevention of not being able to keep their ship afloat:

On the 1th of September, 2014 the MS STUBNITZ had to be docked for class renewal in the Norderwerft - a very costly affair, which the non-profit association cannot manage to generate on its own.

The Stubnitz is an 80 meters long ex- East German fishing vessel, transformed in 1992 into a moving platform for cultural research and exchange; in the Netherlands it moored in Rotterdam and Amsterdam on a regular basis, providing space & opportunities for a lot of cultural events to take place. A diverse range of disciplines including performance, theatre, dance, spoken word, lots of music and parties. An incredible number of artists were able to perform on the STUBNITZ.

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We (Margriet Kicks-Ass & Lukas Simonis, one of the Vrooom initiators) have decided to put together a compilation album called „SOS STUBNITZ“.

Representatives of the Dutch experimental music scene support the MS STUBNITZ in support of the crowdfunding project, not only financially, but also in spirit.

The „SOS STUBNITZ“ compilation of dutch experimental artists was initiated & produced in less than a week's time. We hope it will generate a lot of money for the Stubnitz crew but it is also meant as a way of giving moral support to a great ship, it's activities and it's great crew...

Track contributions: Xavier van Wersch, Anne Wellmer, Vilborg Broch, Truus de Groot, Staplerfahrer, Staalplaat soundsystem, Robert Pravda, Radboud Mens, POW Ensemble, Peter Fengler, Michel Banabila, Paralodia, Nico Parlevliet, Martin Hoogeboom en Theo Calis, Marije Baalman, Machinefabriek, Jos Smolders, Huib Emmer, Henk Bakker, Harry Hummer, Vincent Koreman, Bertin, AU, Alberto Novello, Zesde Kolonne, Jaap Blonk, Lukas Simonis en Margriet Kicks-Ass.

https://dutch-experimental-musicscene-supports-ms-stubnitz.bandcamp.com/album/sos-float-that-boat

All money collected through the sale of this album + doorincome of this VROOOM event will go directly to MS Stubnitz.

More info:
http://ms.stubnitz.com/
https://www.facebook.com/SOSstubnitz

The crowdfunding project:
https://www.nordstarter.org/stubnitz-voll-voraus

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For information regarding the performances of the artists of this event, please see the FB event page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/550450668421206/

ZS in Rotterdam - 11.10.2014

New York luminaries ZS will be stopping in Rotterdam at Worm for their only performance in Holland during their upcoming European tour. We wholeheartedly recommend this show, and not just because one of us is behind this. This IS going to be one of the best shows you'll be able to witness in the next few months!

"It’s ZS playing this music that sounds like outerspace, it’s ZS playing intense live shows you’ll never forget, it’s ZS always having a great line-up, it’s ZS what you call Jazz but it’s not, it’s ZS touring europe for a few days..."

https://www.facebook.com/events/680205928726050/