Saturday 4 July 2020
Koffie & Ambacht X Vrooom Goes To Church III
┆MÁRI MÁKO
┆ALAN PURVES / MARK ALBAN LOTZ
┆SUZANA LAŞCU / JORRIT WESTERHOF
┆MARIA SARTZETAKI / ROBIN BECKER
location: Oude Kerk Rotterdam Charlois – Charloisse Kerksingel 35, Rotterdam
doors: 20:30 / start: 21:00 end: 23:30
max capacity: 70 / entrance: 10 euro – PIN only!
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3rd instalment of the 'Koffie & Ambacht x Vrooom goes to church' series. We're joining hands in an endeavour to lift the spirits with fine experimental live music, and a dance-performance. Place of action: the beautiful Oude kerk in Charlois where we will congregate with the latest Covid-19 regulations in place.
This is a 'reservation only' show... Please send an e-mail for confirmation, check the facebook event page.
There will be no alcoholic drinks for sale, since this would require a permit for the type of event which are still prohibited from taking place.
┆MÁRI MÁKO┆hu
Mári Mákó is a composer and electronica/sound artist whose music strives to create the experience of an unhindered and natural musical flow with which she challenges the rigid ‘recital form’ of concerts. She will be performing a solo set using live electronics combined with voice, specially adapted zithers and other acoustic sound sources, often in conjunction with several performative tools and electronic devices of her own creation.
https://marimako.com
┆ALAN PURVES / MARK ALBAN LOTZ┆de/uk/nl
Purves & Lotz make music that's free of conventions, continuously balancing on the edge of discovery. The pairing of flutes and drums might be one of the oldest musical combinations ever, but it is revived in an exciting new form by this duo. Multi-flautist Mark and self-proclaimed “squeekologist” and percussionist Alan are true individualists on top of their game. Both expatriates (Germany and Scotland respectively) live and work in the Netherlands, refining their skills in the Amsterdam music scene, creating unique sound palettes of their own.
https://lotzofmusic.com/portfolio-item/alan-purves-mark-lotz
┆SUZANA LAŞCU / JORRIT WESTERHOF┆ro/nl
Jorrit Westerhof (guitar) and Suzana Lașcu (voice) began collaborating back in 2013 and their eclectic styles of playing and writing fused across a number of projects over the years since. The duo currently dwell in the realm of (acoustic) experimental music. Live, you can expect a wild mélange of influences, from Zorn to Hagen and back.
┆MARIA SARTZETAKI / ROBIN BECKER┆gr/nl
Choreographer and performer Maria Sartzetaki and musician / sound artist Robin Becker will present an iteration of their dance/music collaboration "Second Sphere", a project which is adapted to the church. In this piece they explore aspects of transformation in a realm between sound and movement, the Moon and the Earth, lunacy and clarity, wandering within the decomposing core of a lost planet.
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This event is made possible with kind support of Popunie Rotterdam.
Friday 5 June 2020
Koffie & Ambacht X Vrooom Goes To Church
┆PIERRE BASTIEN & GONÇALO ALMEIDA
┆GIOVANNI DI DOMENICO
┆PETER ZEGVELD
location: Oude Kerk Rotterdam Charlois – Charloisse Kerksingel 35, Rotterdam
doors: 20:30 / start: 21:00 end: 23:30 /
max capacity: 30 / entrance: 15 euro – PIN only!
for reservations contact: gilberty@xs4all.nl / attending this facebook event does not suffice.
FB event
Koffie & Ambacht and Vrooom are joining hands (figuratively, so don't summon the boa's) in an earnest endeavour to lift some spirits with fine live music. Place of action: the beautiful Oude kerk in Charlois, which will enable us to congregate with the latest Corona regulations in place.
This is a 'reservation only' show, limited capacity: max 30 visitors. Please send an e-mail to the address above for confirmation.
There will be no alcoholic drinks for sale, since this would require a permit for the type of event which are still prohibited from taking place.
┆PIERRE BASTIEN & GONÇALO ALMEIDA┆fr/pt/r'dam – "Dois Deux"
Revered French musician, composer, and instrument builder Pierre Bastien began building his unique mechanical-based musical instruments at an early age, using metronomes, cymbals, and pulleys. In 1977, he composed music with Pascal Comelade for dance companies and in 1986 he created his own Mecanium orchestra comprised of Meccano machines. The mecanium plays various instruments such as the Chinese lute, Moroccan bendir, Javanese saron, koto, and violin. By the 1990s it consisted of up to 80 machine 'musicians'. Bastien has collaborated with e.g. Robert Wyatt, Jac Berrocal, Jaki Liebezeit, and released records on Lowlands, Rephlex, Tigersushi, and Alga Marghen.
Bassist / composer Gonçalo Almeida, originally from Portugal, has been making his mark as one of The Netherlands' most interesting bass players in the last decade. His projects involve collaborations with the cream of the crop of the Dutch and Portuguese jazz scenes, bridging modern jazz, free jazz, jazzcore, and free improvisation.
This night, Pierre and Gonçalo will present their first live collab as a duo, preceding their upcoming "Room Sessions" release on Almeida's Cylinder recordings.
https://www.pierrebastien.com | https://gonzobass.wixsite.com/gonzoalmeida
┆GIOVANNI DI DOMENICO┆it/be
Giovanni Di Domenico is a pianist from Rome. His music practise builts on an comprehensive understanding of techniques; rhythm, harmony and tone – a generational distinction he shares with many of the musicians he has crossed paths with: Nate Wooley, Chris Corsano, Arve Henriksen, Jim O’Rourke, Alexandra Grimal, Tetuzi Akiyama, to name but a few. Di Domenico also founded his own label, Silent Water, home of the eclectic and occasionally unclassifiable. At this event, Giovanni will freely improvise on the historic Hess church organ from 1784.
https://giovannididomenico.com
┆PETER ZEGVELD┆nl
Peter Zegveld is a Dutch visual artist and sound performer. He built a theater for cars moving on the highway, performed a concert on a beach which included explosives, designed a container in which the visitor could 'blow himself up', and made many perfomances for children, including one where babies were shot into an audience with a cannon. He also presented Villa Achterwerk, a famous Dutch children's television program. Tonight's show will involve his so-called "Plofkist", "stokkenbas", "bliksnaar", "ratelrad", and the "mechanische bliksnaar"... Rhythmic, romantic, symphonic, suspenseful music with visual garnish that can derail and cause a stir.
https://www.peterzegveld.nl
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This event is made possible with kind support of Popunie Rotterdam.
