Saturday 30 November - Koffie & Ambacht x Vrooom goes to church

Saturday 30 November 2019

KOFFIE & AMBACHT X VROOOM GOES TO CHURCH

┆PICATRIX (Greetje Bijma, Mary Oliver, Nora Mulder)
┆JOACHIM BADENHORST
┆FATHER (Nanao Kobayashi)

location: Oude Kerk Rotterdam Charlois – Charloisse Kerksingel 35
doors: 20:00 end: 23:00 / entrance: 10 euro
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Anderhalf jaar geleden startte Koffie & Ambacht de reeks ‘Koffie & Ambacht Goes To Church’ in de Oude Kerk van Charlois. Een prachtige ruimte met een bijzondere akoestiek: geen bombastische gotiek waarin ieder geluid verzuipt in clichés van goddelijkheid, maar een aantrekkelijke galm die het gevoel van ruimtelijkheid voedt. Deze kerk is een actieve kerk met een vitaal en open karakter. Voor deze 9e editie slaat Koffie & Ambacht de handen ineen met Vrooom voor een gezamelijke aflevering. We creëren in dit programma een situatie waarin de muziek en de muzikanten het best tot hun recht komen. We besteden speciaal aandacht aan de thematiek, akoestiek en enscenering.

Eighteen months ago, Koffie & Ambacht started the ‘Koffie & Ambacht Goes To Church’ series in De Oude Kerk of Charlois; a beautiful space with special acoustics: no gothic bombast in which every sound drowns in cliches of divinity, but an attractive reverb that feeds the sensation of spaciousness. This old church is an active place with a vital and open character. In this collaborative program between Koffie & Ambacht and Vrooom the focus is on theme, accoustics and staging. With: Greetje Bijma, Mary Oliver, Nora Mulder, Joachim Badenhorst, and Nanao Kobayashi.
┆PICATRIX (Greetje Bijma, Mary Oliver, Nora Mulder)┆int'l
The concerts of Picatrix aka Greetje Bijma, Mary Oliver, and Nora Mulder are marvelous adventures. We hear light classical sounds coming from a piano, grating against the screeching eruptions of the viola, and jazz ballads shifting into dark throat singing. Piano and viola strings growl and snarl, vocal chords vibrate in the highest or the lowest register; all of this with an added sense of drama. This original trio, which made its debut at the Le Guess Who? festival in 2017, feels at home at many different stages. Nora Mulder is known for her performances of contemporary classical music, improvised music and absurdist sound installations. Mary Oliver has a repertoire in both composed and improvised music, and is a member of the Instant Composer Pool Orchestra. Greetje Bijma is one of the best-known vocalists in The Netherlands, and was the first woman to be awarded the major Dutch jazz award, the Boy Edgar Prize.
Mary Oliver – violin, viola, hardanger fiddle
Nora Mulder – piano
Greetje Bijma – vocal

┆JOACHIM BADENHORST┆be

 Joachim Badenhorst is a reed player from Antwerp who is active in many different groups and projects (including Carate Urio Orchestra, Mógil, Han Bennink trio, etc). Recently he has been working on an electronica project called Zero Years Kid with which he released the album 'Ongerijmde rijmen'. Next to that, Joachim also worked with Rutger Zuydervelt for one of the tracks of the Machinefabriek album 'With voices'.

┆FATHER┆jp

Father is the elusive solo project of Nanao Kobayashi from Tokyo. More info soon.
https://soundcloud.com/father-tokyo 

http://www.nanaokobayashi.com

Tuesday 5 November - Los Siquicos Litoraleños (live & film) + La Bruja de Texcoco

Tuesday 5 November 2019

Vrooom x Pantropical x WORM Rotterdam presents:

┆LOS SIQUICOS LITORALEÑOS ­– live
┆LA BRUJA DE TEXCOCO – live
┆+ docufilm 'DAZZLE LIGHTS: 'A Psychotropic journey with Los Síquicos Litoraleños'

location: WORM - Boomgaardsstraat 71, Rotterdam
doors: 20:30 end: 00:00 / entrance: 7,50
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Extraordinary double bill featuring the gaucho psychics los siquicos litoraleños from Argentina, and the witch of Texcoco - La Bruja De Texcoco from Mexico. La Bruja De Texcoco is a music performance born out of a rejection of masculinity in Mexican music, taking traditional Mexican music down a feminine path, into a fabulous world of baroque extravagance. We'll start of the night with the docufilm "Encandilan Luces, viaje psicotrópico con Los Síquicos Litoraleños" about Los Siquicos.

┆LOS SIQUICOS LITORALEÑOS┆AR
Los Siquicos Litoraleños (The psychics of el Litoral) is a unique band formed in 2004 who are originally from the outland countryside around the small city Curuzú Cuatiá in the province of Corrientes, northeast of Argentina. It's an area known as 'el Litoral', where the locals are called Litoraleños. The band plays a highly original style using acoustic / electric guitars and drums, adding toy keyboards, shortwave radios and all sorts of domestic machinery (i.e. washing machines and freezers). Stuffed with a vast array of sound effects, they craft otherworldly tunes which cover tropicalia genres such as cumbia, chamamé (popular folk music of Corrientes and other regions), chicha, and a variety of non-rock rhythms. Los Siquicos' first European tour in 2009 was organised by the then still unnamed Pantropical, and Worm.
youtu.be/bPktkg4KPWQ | annihayarecords.bandcamp.com/album/sonido-chipadelico

┆LA BRUJA DE TEXCOCO┆MX 
La Bruja de Texcoco (The Witch of Texcoco) from Mexico City, has been dedicated to music for twenty years. A lover of transfeminity and Mexican tradition, La Bruja was born in Texcoco, into a world of rituals, armadillo shells and the depth of the night. “I did not find La Bruja, she found me ...”I stand firm and proud, wearing my huipil (traditional Mexican indigenous garment) that has a thousand colors and speaks to the wind." La Bruja De Texcoco is a music performance project born out of a rejection of masculinity in Mexican music. La Bruja takes traditional Mexican music down a feminine path, into a fabulous world full of extravagance, sequins, masks and huipiles.
youtu.be/p3Fa7DqwJbE | labrujadetexcoco.bandcamp.com

┆DAZZLE LIGHTS: A Psychotropic Journey with Los Síquicos Litoraleños
"𝘌𝘯𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘯 𝘓𝘶𝘤𝘦𝘴, 𝘝𝘪𝘢𝘫𝘦 𝘗𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘳𝘰́𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘰 𝘊𝘰𝘯 𝘓𝘰𝘴 𝘚𝘪́𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘴 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯̃𝘰𝘴" | 80 𝘮𝘪𝘯, 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘚𝘶𝘣𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘴]
From the Curuzú Cuatiá in the rural heart of the Argentine Northeast and, a group of quirky musicians invent a new sound: psychedelic chamamé folk. They are Los Siquicos Litoraleños, also lovingly dubbed as "The Pink Floyd of the Poor". "Dazzle Lights" is a docufilm that follows the band and their surroundings. They are inadvertently the instigators of a fresh take on things in the music scene before deciding to step out of it, showing more interest in cultural debates about chamamé, UFOs and mushrooms instead.
facebook.com/encandilanluces | teaser: https://vimeo.com/300580206