vrijdag 24 april 2015

VROOOM #26 @ DE PLAYER

















SATURDAY, MAY 2, 2015:

VROOOM #26
w/
– CHRIS CORSANO & METTE RASMUSSEN (dk/us)
– PETER JACQUEMYN & GONÇALO ALMEIDA (be/nl)
– IEKE TRINKS (nl)

– DJ SAJJRA (pe)


DE PLAYER will be spooning us this evening while we're regaining our balance after our exit from our main location, Klooster. Business will center around the ultra detailed, pleasantly derailed interplay between bass, drums, sax and peformance art. Corsano and Rasmussen will be pushing the limits of the classic sax/drums set-up, Jacquemyn and Almeida will be doing the same with their bottom ends. Visual artist Ieke Trinks will add that extra pinch of variety.

location: DE PLAYER - Hillelaan 49d, Rotterdam
doors: 20:30 / curfew: 01:00 / entrance: €6
https://www.facebook.com/events/793066867440048/

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■ CHRIS CORSANO & METTE RASMUSSEN (us/dk)
You're in for a premier league live set from these two! If you haven't witnessed Chris Corsano's playing by now, you have been sorely missing out. The extremely multifaceted drummer has been operating at the vanguards of free improvisation, avant-rock, and noise since the late '90s. He has worked with one-of-a-kind artists such Evan Parker, Sir Richard Bishop, Nels Cline, Björk, and Jandek, and showcased his high energy, textural playing in the Rotterdam live circuit on several occasions before, performing with Paul Flaherty, and others. Mette Rasmussen is a Danish saxophone player with an impressive track record. She operates from Trondheim, Norway. Drawing from the energy of free jazz, her playing has been described as a head full of ideas, that she executes to the maximum.
http://cor-sano.com/

■ PETER JACQUEMYN & GONÇALO ALMEIDA (be/nl)
Rotterdam's most productive double bassman Gonçalo Almeida teams up with Belgium's Peter Jacquemyn for an exploration of the bottom ends. Peter moves beautifully between visual arts and music. As a sculptor he assaults tree trunks with axe and chainsaw, and his concerts are a sonic match: with unbridled energy he wrestles his double bass using bows, soda cans, plastic bags, crumpled paper, mutes, horns, retuned strings... All of this ranges Peter Jacquemyn among Belgium's most interesting improvisers.
http://www.jacquemyn.com/
http://gonzobass.wix.com/gonzoalmeida

■ IEKE TRINKS (nl)
Rotterdam based visual artist whose live art is made manifest in different ways. As a solo performer, she has run through a large stack of copy paper, tossing it into the air, or used her breath to blow dry a piece of tissue paper. For Trinks performance art sometimes shares characteristics with the musical score. In other live actions she has solicited audience involvement. She once emptied the bag of an audience member by placing the items carefully onto the floor of a gallery space in Brazil. Trinks organizes Performance Art Event (PAE) in Rotterdam and works in collaboration with the improvisation troupe, TRICKSTER.
http://ieketrinks.nl/

■ DJ SAJJRA (pe)
DJ Sajjra, Co-founder of the Aloardi collective from Lima / Peru, will play a crossbreed of roughed up, processed Andean folk, Peruvian chicha cumbia, bits of new/no wave, post-apocalyptic pop, basically all kinds of obscure but very very tasteful South American stuff from the sixties til now. This stuff will surely get you going one way or another!
Check out some of Sajjra's picks here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3jyhq8-1EA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_orjzzFzas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yqLOvy2kUk


Review VROOOM #25 - 18.04.2015 - Incendiary Mag

"And the atmosphere. The room loved him, clapped along, went as silent as a mouse when he dropped the tone. What a gig. Frankly this could have gone on all night. Vrooom! should have kidnapped him and forced him to stay for the week." Review by Incendiary Mag.

http://incendiarymag.com/livereviews/richarddawson/frisk_frugt_richard_dawson_blaast_vrooom_rottterdam_1842015













vrijdag 3 april 2015

VROOOM #25 @ POST OFFICE !!!

































SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 2015

VROOOM #25 w/
– FRISK FRUGT (dk)
– RICHARD DAWSON (uk)
– BLAAST (Lali Barrière & Alfredo Costa Monteiro)
+ DJ Multifunctionelis (nl)

FB event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1582988291938315/
 

Our 25th! The coolest artist to come out of Denmark in years and an experimental folk artist from Newcastle? The live sets of Frisk Frugt and Richard Dawson should floor everyone, but if that's not enough, there's the musical itchings of mathematician Lali Barrière and veteran soundartist Alfredo Costa Monteiro (aka Blaast), and let's not forget the 'Muito Bam Bam' tunage of DJ Multifunctionelis!

We've relocated our 25th event to a new place in Rotterdam:
!!! location: POST OFFICE (P-O) !!!
address: Vijverhofstraat 100, Rotterdam
http://www.post--office.eu/
https://www.facebook.com/postofficerotterdam
doors: 20:30 / curfew: 01:00 / entrance: €6 / Subbacultcha! members: free
 


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FRISK FRUGT (dk)
Frisk Frugt is Anders Lauge Meldgaard, a Danish multi-instrumentalist / composer with a kaleidoscope of musical inspiration at his command. Frisk Frugt emerged out of Copenhagen's influential experimental music collective yoyooyoy, where he was involved in numerous projects. On the back of these achievements, Anders delved deep into folkloric Denmark and went on to absorb the thrilling musical happenings in Mali and Burkina Faso. His most recent album "Den Europæriske Spejlbue", documents this; we can vividly imagine captain Anders, best of the class, setting sail for music’s uncharted universe with boundless curiosity: Danish folksong, European baroque, psych, avant-garde and pop music get beautifully collaged together. A one man post-digital fantasy orchestra, and one of our personal highlights of the year!
https://soundcloud.com/frisk-frugt
http://www.yoyooyoy.dk/friskfrugt.htm

RICHARD DAWSON (uk)
Songs. Bloody good songs with a twist, that's what mister Dawson is about. Richard is a guitar player / songwriter from Newcastle upon Tyne, England. His repertoire is a far cry from the plague of whiny singer-songwriters infesting the planet. Only a few people outside Newcastle had a clue who Richard was some three years ago, but after a couple of great albums and many highly acclaimed live performances, he's being embraced by press and fans alike. Listen to his intense, discordant and captivating reconfiguration of English folk and guitar traditions. Chances are you'll be a fan in an instant.
http://www.richarddawson.net/

BLAAST (Lali Barrière & Alfredo Costa Monteiro | es/pt)
The music of the duo sound/visual art veterans Lali Barrière and Alfredo Costa Monteiro promises to be a delicate electro-acoustic affair. It is roughly based on continuous, overlapping sounds that slowly evolve, eventually forming an intense, time stretching sonic mass that is rich in harmonics... the music of the duo resembling a journey out of time.
http://www.costamonteiro.net/
http://www.lalibarriere.net/

■ DJ MULTIFUNCTIONELIS (nl)
Low Point Drains bandmember who is mostly away from R'dam, business tripping in Southeast Asia. He will do some super fun “Muito Bam Bam" DJ'ing; rough but dancable Afro-via-India-via-Sri Lanka tunage mixed up with bits of jarring avant stuff.

 
With kind support by Popunie