Saturday, March 30, door opens at 21:00, music starts 21:30, € 5
Veldwerk is a group of artists from Amsterdam that gives a stage to alternative electronic dance music. Veldwerk mainly organizes parties outside, where they invite artists for a group sessions. Open to everyone that feels invited by the music we play and make.
After an amazing new year’s session at De Schietbaan its time for a new experiment! On March 30 we create an evening where interplay between musicians take place.
Veldwerk curates three sessions of live-improvisation with machines, by three or four musicians/producers for each play.
Sunday, April 14, music starts 21:00, €9 / students €6
BLACK SEA SONGS The creative Belgian clarinetist Joachim Badenhorst joins the Amsterdam based duo Sanem Kalfa & George Dumitriu for an intense exploration of traditional Black Sea songs from Turkey geographic region. The flavours of old Ottoman melodies are presented with an original contemporary language and fresh nuances of electronics and open improvisations.
The project presents the unique aspect of the musical cultural region of Dobrogea and the Romanian side of the Black Sea, where a rich variety of cultures interchange.
Winner of Montreux Jazz Competition, Sanem Kalfa sings in dialog portrayed with Romanian poly instrumentalist and composer George Dumitriu, active in the jazz, contemporary classical and improvised music scenes of Europe. The duo is known for building intimate and intense performances on unique sonics, fusing jazz and improvisation mastery with influences of art-pop, electronics, and the most fragile expression of musicality.
Guest musician Joachim Badenhorst, “…one of the most important European jazz musicians at the moment” (Jazzflits), has been active in the experimental and improvised music scene in Europe and abroad for the past 15 years, and is artistically interested in integrating ideas from various different art media into musical compositions. Badenhorst contemplates the evanescent site specificity of sound as well as the relation between space and sound. He delves into a re¬imagination of the boundaries between improvisation and composition, of abstract sound explorations and harmonic passage, and continues to attempt at a personal aesthetic language that interact with spaces and engage with different audiences. In Black Sea Songs, the trio will reveal the inherent relation between contemporary and traditional musics.
Sunday, April 21, 20:30, suggested donation €5*
*all proceeds go directly to the artists.
A night filled with culture, music and good conversation by refugees and status holders, for everyone. The bands and artists all come from different cultures and will be sure to amaze you. Build connections and meet your new neighbours.
Een innige verstrengeling van diner, dans, muziek, poëzie en theater. Een avond waarin een kakelvers seizoensgebonden diner en performances één worden. Slechts € 16,50 voor drie gangen en 12,50 voor alle optredens. Laat de kok op tijd weten als je komt!
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A tight embrace of food, dance, music, (Dutch) poetry and theatre. € 16,50 for three courses and 12,50 for all the performances. An evening where a great, season based dinner and performances become one. Please contact the chef on time!
19:00: deuren open / eerste gang
19:30: aanvang eerste performance
DINER: Tim Sprangers / John Pastinaak
Zoals altijd kookt tim met groenten, kruiden en fruit van het seizoen en het liefst uit moestuinen in Amsterdam-Noord. Het menu wordt binnenkort bekend gemaakt!
MUZIEK: Ferry Heijne (de Kift) & Luc Ex
Een primeur! Voor het eerst treden zanger/gitarist Ferry Heijne en bassist Luc Ex op als duo. Deze onafhankelijke muzikanten hebben een volstrekt eigen stem ontwikkeld in de afgelopen decennia van de muziekgeschiedenis in onder andere de beste twee bands van Nederland: The Ex en de Kift. Speciaal voor ditdit-dada-ditdit spelen ze verschillende liedjes, vooral van de Kift.
MUZIEK: Yannis Kyriakides solo
Deze Cypriotische componist en geluidskunstenaar is wereldwijd gewaardeerd door zijn vernieuwende ideeën en intrigerende composities. Hij is op dit moment druk bezig met ‘Manual for the Forgetting of Language’: een semi-geïmproviseerd/gecomponeerd stuk met geprojecteerde tekst en elektronica. Tijdens deze ditdit-dada-ditdit editie zal hij het laten horen.
After three years of living mostly in horizontal positions caused by Pfeiffer (a.k.a. Mono/Kissing Disease), Daniël Eskens is back to normal life and takes over de Ruimte for an avant garde party night full of music.
JORN TEN HOOPEN SOLO Jorn ten Hoopen is a musician, composer and producer from Rotterdam. He recently recorded a solo guitar album in an abundant house. The natural acoustics of the different rooms were used to create the right atmosphere for each track on this somewhat melancholic album that has a raw and very intimate feel to it. One guitar and the reflections of the room, that was the concept.
VEVW – WVEV One 30-minute set of improvised music by three musicians. Wietse Voermans and Daniël played a lot as a duo, but only for their own 4 ears. For this evening they invited Friso van Wijck to join them to play for more than 4 ears.
DANIËL ESKENS TRIO This trio is a crying try to mix the worlds of alternative pop, jazz, club music and improv. Instrumental pop songs played on synths and electronic drums, alter with West African rhythms, alter with singable melodies, ending with a challenging dance part.
DJ
FAUT HAUT Soundsystem will bring avantgarde pop songs to the dancefloor. Stowing rhythms, to keep you on a tight leash. In other words, we’ll have some fun ;).
Zondag 10 maart, deuren open 14:00, eerste optreden 15:00, entree: €5
De tweede opnames voor het YouTube-kanaal Het Naakte Geluid!
Elke tweede zondag van de maand organiseert Het Naakte Geluid intieme huiskameroptredens in De Ruimte. Deze knusse concerten worden opgenomen voor op YouTube en kan je live bijwonen!
Inloop vanaf 14:00
15:00 – Pelle Kuipers
16:00 – Äktaro
Om de sessies te bekostigen, vragen we een entree van €5.
SPACE IS THE PLACE ft. Doek: Stadhouders/Sakata/Field + Percussion trio
Friday, April 12, 21:00 – 23:00, € 8
The second Friday of every month at De Ruimte is a two-stage rocket: from 21:00 to 23:00 dOeK and Space Is The Place present live music from the dOeK network. After that, the party-party starts with the wildest live music in town!
21:00 – 23:00 Space is the Place ft. Doek – € 8
23:00 – 03:00 Second Stop is Jupiter – € 6
€ 10 combined ticket
STADHOUDERS/SAKATA/FIELD
Akira Sakata (1945) has been a frontrunner in Japanese free jazz. The collaboration with Nicolas Field started in 2008 with a concert at Cave12 in Geneva (CH). The music of the duo Field & Sakata is strongly rooted in the free-jazz tradition. Sakata plays his saxophone with an assertive lyrical intensity and at times even with rugged power. The drums respond and talk back to Sakata’s flow, trying to meet all the expressive needs of the music. Thus using and extended sound palette added to the drums. Wood as well as metal is struck, rubbed and scraped to interact with the intensity of the horn, so that the two instruments complement each other to form a sensual, energizing and delightful sound mass. As a part of their European tour, they asked Amsterdam prominent, and dOeK member Jasper Stadhouders to join them for a trio performance.
Jasper Stadhouders – guitar | Aklra Sakata – saxophone | Nicolas Field – drums
PERCUSSION TRIO (the name says it all) Onno Govaert – drums | Fabio Galeazzi – drums | Frank Rosaly – drums
The second Friday of every month at De Ruimte is a two-stage rocket: from 21:00 to 23:00 dOeK and Space Is The Place present two live acts. After that, the party-party starts with the wildest live music in town!
21:00 – 23:00 Space is the Place ft. Doek – € 8
23:00 – 03:00 Second Stop is Jupiter – € 6
€ 10 combined ticket
Line-up: THE AMBUSH PARTY (broken cuuumbia)
Harald Austbø – cello | Oscar Jan Hoogland – piano | Natalio Sued- tenor saxophone | Marcos Baggiani – drums
THE ZEBRA STREET BAND (infectiously danceable brass music)
Salvoandrea Lucifora – Trombone | Alistair Payne – Trumpet | Andrius Dereviancenko – Tenor Saxophone | John Dikeman – Baritone Saxophone | Onno Govaert – Snare drum and percussions | Fabio Galeazzi – Bass drum and percussions
After your first stop of friday evening concerts, theater shows, birthday parties or movie visits come to De Ruimte for your second stop: After midnight dancing to the wildest live music in town! One thing is for sure every second friday: The Second Stop is Jupiter!
The second Friday of every month at De Ruimte is a two-stage rocket: from 21:00 to 23:00 dOeK and Space Is The Place present two live acts. After that, the party-party starts with the wildest live music in town!
21:00 – 23:00 Space is the Place ft. Doek – € 8
23:00 – 03:00 Second Stop is Jupiter – € 6
€ 10 combined ticket
Line-up: SUPERINCA & THE GALACTIC GREEN (cuuumbiaaaa!1!)
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti – voice | Oscar Jan Hoogland – analogue synth | Thijs Elzinga – electric guitar | Joep Bollinger – bass | Frank Rosaly – drums
THE AMBUSH PARTY (broken cuuumbia)
Harald Austbø – cello | Oscar Jan Hoogland – piano | Natalio Sued- tenor saxophone | Marcos Baggiani – drums
THE ZEBRA STREET BAND (infectiously danceable brass music)
Salvoandrea Lucifora – Trombone | Alistair Payne – Trumpet | Andrius Dereviancenko – Tenor Saxophone | John Dikeman – Baritone Saxophone | Onno Govaert – Snare drum and percussions | Fabio Galeazzi – Bass drum and percussions
After your first stop of friday evening concerts, theater shows, birthday parties or movie visits come to De Ruimte for your second stop: After midnight dancing to the wildest live music in town! One thing is for sure every second friday: The Second Stop is Jupiter!
Space is the Place Late Night: Raphael Vanoli/Yann Joussein + Juha & DJ Snufkin
Friday, March 15, 23:00, entrance €6
Before the event, we have a All you can eat Japanese Gyoza and beer night. You’re welcome to join us for both, but the number of seats for the dinner are limited, and for sale online: https://www.ticketview.nl/shop/deruimte
RAPHAEL VANOLI/YANN JOUSSEIN
Raphael Vanoli invites French musician, drummer, electronic improviser, composer, and co-founder of Coax Collectif, based in Paris, Yann Joussein. Expect a performance that blurs the lines between improvisation and electronics. Will you be able to dance to it? We don’t know.
This will be the first time these two musicians meet on stage as a duo
Guitarist Henk Zwerver, bass player Raoul van der Weide and violinist Jacob Plooij present: New Handicaps All Strings Pool. A night of free acoustic string improvisation by top musicians from the Amsterdam improv scene and beyond. Improvising in trios, sextets and tutti – all free, all acoustic.
Players
Michiel Scheen
Nora Mulder
Gediminas Stepanavičius
Esat Ekincioğlu
Uldis Vītols
Raoul van der Weide
Pau Sola Masafrets
Ig Henneman
George Dumitriu
Ivan Babinchak Renqvist
Miriam Den Boer Salmón
Henk Zwerver
Guillaume Heurtebize
Mark Morse
Marta Arpini
Björk Níelsdóttir
Felicity Provan
Space is the Place: Jaap Blonk’s Retirement Overdue + tba
Thursday, May 23, music starts 21:00, €9 / students €6
JAAP BLONK’S RETIREMENT OVERDUE Turning 65 in 2018, Jaap Blonk thought it was time to start a new group, sporting the wonderful name “Jaap Blonk’s Retirement Overdue”. He is joined on stage by three younger Amsterdam-based musicians, who need no further introduction
Keywords: raw energy, unpredictable, dada punk.
Jaap Blonk – voice and electronica | Jasper Stadhouders – guitar, bass guitar | Miguel Petruccelli – guitar, bass guitar | Frank Rosaly – drums
Thursday, May 16, music starts 21:00, €9 / students €6
GUY SALAMON GROUP
The Amsterdam based Guy Salamon Music Group presents a highly energetic and eclectic program of all original compositions written by drummer Guy Salamon. With musical influences mixed from Charles Mingus, Goran Bregović, ethnic folklore and contemporary music, this group’s repertoire expresses love, fun and happiness while still portraying the many interesting contrasts of modern society.
With an almost theatrical approach to composing and improvising, the group focuses on it’s own unique sound, mixing all the different personalities together, merging energetic rhythms with melancholic melodies, laughter with noise and chaos with silence.Facebook:
Alistair Payne – trumpet | Ian Cleaver – trumpet | Lucas Martínez Membrilla – tenor sax | José Soares – alto sax | Teis Semey – guitar | Youngwoo Lee – piano | Brodie Jarvie – bass | Guy Tristan Salamon – drums and compositions
Space is the Place: Kruidkoek/Joost Oomen + Earswideopen
Thursday, May 9, music starts 21:00, €9 / students €6.
KRUIDKOEK + JOOST OOMEN
Kruidkoek plays GarageJazz, an obscure mix of jazz, rock, and Tarantino movie sounds, with an unhealthy dose of improvisation and humour.
After two EP’s ‘Luchtig Beslag’, and ‘Kruidkoek II: Snode Plannen’, their debute album was released in the spring of 2018.
Poet Joost Oomen is not usually part of the mix, but we liked their video ‘Vruchtjes Eten’ so much, we had to ask them for a live version of the collaboration.
EARSWIDEOPEN PRESENTS: EWOTV Earswideopen is a trio (around since 2003), and it’s also their motto. It’s a ‘piano trio plus’, the plus being all sorts of electronics (hi and lo fi), found objects and incidental vocals added to the classic piano trio format.
They love free improvisation but are not afraid to sound groovy or delicate either. Influenced by both free jazz, pop, and contemporary composed music, they developed their hallmark sound on their first self-titled cd. In February 2019, they’ve released their second: EwoTV. A collection of their favorite TV theme songs. Lovingly deconstructed and improved beyond repair.
SITP: Greene/Prins/Pandi + Leeuw/Purves + Van de Graaf/Janssen
Thursday, March 21, music starts 21:00, €9 / students €6.
BURTON GREENE/GERT-JAN PRINS/BALÁSZ PANDI a new collaboration from three generations of improvisers,
Balász and Gert-Jan first met each other during the Irtijal festival in Beirut in 2013, and are playing shows in several line-ups now and then.
This setting will be an electro-acoustic one, combining piano, keyboards, drums and more electronics.
HANS LEEUW/ALAN PURVES
One of Hans Leeuw’s favorite performances in the past, has been a duo with Alan Purves at a Brokken Festival years ago. We’re honoured to host a reprisal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-IOGCF93A0 (music starts at 2:10)
Hans Leeuw – electrumpet | Alan Purves – various percussion
BO VAN DE GRAAF/GUUS JANSSEN A first-time duo performance. The idea for a collaboration developed when the two played together in I COMPANI.
Guus Janssen – piano | Bo Van de Graaf – saxophone
SOLD OUT: All you can eat Japanese Gyoza and beer night
March 15 & 16, start event 19:00, starter, gyozas plus dessert €25, tickets here.
About the Artist Asli is an Amsterdam based culinary tactile artist who works around the subjects of social impact of food on different societies based upon cultural/traditional values, histories, and the psychology interrelated to how we eat and behave. She organizes concept based food events to bring up a topic of discussion through participatory engagement in collective making.
Asli graduated from Rietveld Academy, has lived in Berlin over a year as a chef resident in Agora Collective in Neukoln, as well as taking part in Nowhere kitchen collective with Pepe Dayaw, having worked with brazilian chef Caique Tizzi, and worked as a sous chef in Kantine, Markthalle Neun. She has organized various events in co-working cafe Agora Collective. Upon returning back to Amsterdam, she participated in the concept dinner “Blind-eten” at Museum night as a chef in Mediamatic in Amsterdam. Currently Asli runs the kitchen at De Ruimte as a head-chef (which she resists the label), cooking all what she has gathered over her past experiences dealing with food, collectively made with people of various cultural backgrounds. She is interested in culinary anthropology and intertwining different subjects through food.
“All you can eat Gyoza” pop-up
The event is organized to bring back attention in tactility in food as a form of textile that enters our body and feeds our thoughts, before what covers our body. The “all you can eat” brings a moment of discussing what our hunger means and what our body needs. Through a collective participatory dining- one thinks how we make things, how we share things, and what we collectively discuss or simply learn and share the knowledge we have with the other strangers.
The conceptual dinner starts with miso soup as a starter to heal you before you can put your hands on work, to become tactile with your food before it enters your body. The fillings for the gyozas will be ready (vegan, vegetarian) and biological meat upon request.
There will be articles on the tables to understand a bit of the history of Japanese food culture, as a point of reference for discussions of how our cultural understandings change.
There is only 1 rule of the dinner. The board that will be shared between the group sitting around can only be filled with gyozas once, then cooked by Asli in the kitchen, bringing back to the table for consumption, then can be filled again. The idea is to “listen to our hunger”. Other than this, you eat as much as you make and like.
Gyozas will be served with 2 different homemade sauces and fresh spring onions and smoked black sesame.
There will be a small heart-warmingending desert as the group decides to stop eating collectively 🙂
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“In this work, the artist engages in an exploration of how to use food as a tool, or means of cultural relativism in a world of constant change, motion, and migration. This, in addition to the ways in which we can more collectively address issues of sustainability in our modern communities. Through a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the intersections between both rituals of eating and clothing ourselves, Asli’s practice is also an attempt to preserve ancestral techniques as a means by which we may be able to regain a sense of value and purpose in both what we eat and what we wear.”
“There is always a deeper poetic line behind dealing with food, as a form of energy and thought that is put in the process of making or producing something that enters somebody’s body, ultimately feeding his thoughts and emotions. I weave at the same time to meditate on and cultivate my own thoughts, in an attempt to construct a fabric of meaning. A journal of what is left over…
SPACE IS THE PLACE ft. Doek: Eric Boeren 4tet + Oscar Jan Hoogland solo
Friday, May 10, 21:00 – 23:00, € 8
The second Friday of every month at De Ruimte is a two-stage rocket: from 21:00 to 23:00 dOeK and Space Is The Place present live music from the dOeK network. After that, the party-party starts with the wildest live music in town!
21:00 – 23:00 Space is the Place ft. Doek – € 8
23:00 – 03:00 Second Stop is Jupiter – € 6
€ 10 combined ticket
ERIC BOEREN 4TET The Eric Boeren 4tet began by concentrating on the early quartet music of Ornette Coleman. That repertoire was ‘pulled off the record’ and was interspersed with Boeren’s own compositions. Over the years more and more original compositions have been added to the band’s repertoire.
The line-up of the Eric Boeren 4tet is comparable to that of the Ornette Coleman Quartet of the early sixties. The big difference between the two quartets is the way in which the material is handled. Whereas soloists alternated in the Coleman Quartet, in the 4tet all four musicians share the improvisational space on an equal basis. A collective vision, where musicians have the improvisational room to further develop the musical forms. The existing material suggests the personality and direction of those improvisations.
The compositions of Eric Boeren and Ornette Coleman are deeply rooted in the jazz and blues tradition. They are characterized by strong, often jumpy melodies and unusual keys, which keeps the improvisers on their toes.
The quartet has played throughout Europe and completed successful tours of Canada, New Zealand and Australia. June/July 2010 The Eric Boeren 4tet visit Canada & USA.
“Gives a new meaning to the description Hot Jazz. Thank you, Eric, Ornette would love this band.” -Downbeat
Eric Boeren – cornet | Michael Moore / Ramboy Recordings – alto saxophone, clarinet | Wilbert De Joode – double bass | Han Bennink – drums
OSCAR JAN HOOGLAND It’s only fitting to have the architect of these nights finish off this season. Oscar Jan’s performances have an energy and an incredible flair, whatever medium he uses, or group he’s in. Add to this the sounds of a detuned electric clavichord, and anything can happen.
SPACE IS THE PLACE ft. Doek: Stadhouders/Sakata/Field + Percussion Trio
Friday, April 12, 21:00 – 23:00, € 8
The second Friday of every month at De Ruimte is a two-stage rocket: from 21:00 to 23:00 dOeK and Space Is The Place present live music from the dOeK network. After that, the party-party starts with the wildest live music in town!
21:00 – 23:00 Space is the Place ft. Doek – € 8
23:00 – 03:00 Second Stop is Jupiter – € 6
€ 10 combined ticket
Line-up STADHOUDERS/SAKATA/FIELD
Akira Sakata (1945) has been a frontrunner in Japanese free jazz. The collaboration with Nicolas Field started in 2008 with a concert at Cave12 in Geneva (CH). The music of the duo Field & Sakata is strongly rooted in the free-jazz tradition. Sakata plays his saxophone with an assertive lyrical intensity and at times even with rugged power. The drums respond and talk back to Sakata’s flow, trying to meet all the expressive needs of the music. Thus using and extended sound palette added to the drums. Wood as well as metal is struck, rubbed and scraped to interact with the intensity of the horn, so that the two instruments complement each other to form a sensual, energizing and delightful sound mass. As a part of their European tour, they asked Amsterdam prominent, and dOeK member Jasper Stadhouders to join them for a trio performance.
Jasper Stadhouders – guitar | Aklra Sakata – saxophone | Nicolas Field – drums
PERCUSSION TRIO (the name says it all)
Onno Govaert – drums | Fabio Galeazzi – drums | Frank Rosaly – drums
The second Friday of every month at De Ruimte is a two-stage rocket: from 21:00 to 23:00 dOeK and Space Is The Place present live music from the dOeK network. After that, the party-party starts with the wildest live music in town!
21:00 – 23:00 Space is the Place ft. Doek – € 8
23:00 – 03:00 Second Stop is Jupiter – € 6
€ 10 combined ticket
Line-up BARRE PHILLIPS/GERRY HEMINGWAY/MICHAEL MOORE
Three seasoned musicians meet up for a trio. Put together, they’ve played with almost anyone connected to free music, from Anthony Braxton, to Ornette Coleman, to Eric Dolphy. Collaborations have happened in the past, but this will be the first time they’ll be playing as a trio.
Michael Moore – clarinet, saxophone | Barre Phillips – bass | Gerry Hemingway – drums
HUPATA! HUPATA!!! It’s a constellation of three voices from three different continents. Saxophone, piano and percussion are followed by a wonky, wobbly, rickety, going hog wild wagon filled with toys, which transform and take shapes of birds, elephants, camels, taking you for a journey into places that you might have heard about, or that you’ve never even imagined. Ada Rave from Argentina, Marta Warelis from Poland and Yung-Tuan Ku from Taiwan met each other in the playground of vibrant Amsterdam improvised scene, and have been working together since October 2016. Incorporating elements of humor they explore improvisation in it’s purest form, mixing strong melodies and noise with big dose of space, silences, lyricism ethnic rhythms, sometimes going into meditative states where time dissolves into breathing cycles and tides of the sea.
Hupata currently is working on its first album release:)
Marta Warelis – piano | Ada Rave – saxophone | Yung-Tuan Ku – drums, percussion
Beweeg je achterwerk op zondag 17 maart naar De Ruimte, want het is tijd voor een CMVeestje. Aanschouw een spektakel aan acts van verschillende CMV’ers; kom borrelen, praten en dansen.
Friday, March 1, 21:30, entrance € 8 / students € 6
The Electric Motor Combo takes the rock (& roll) to De Ruimte. Every first Friday of the month they invite a different band for some proper rocking and grooving. This month Bouillon opens the night. Bring your suede shoes.
ELECTRIC MOTOR COMBO
Pre-war blues played loud! The Electric Motor Combo adds a garage rock flavor to original and traditional folk, blues and country tunes. Shake those hips and feed them brains!
Thijs Elzinga – Guitar | Fabio Galeazzi – Drums
BOUILLON
Gritty Lo-Fi Rock with sweet songs and harmonies.
Alweer zijn we trots en blij dat we ons publiek een kanjer van een verteller kunnen presenteren: Chris de Backer is ook onderwijzer/kleuterleider. Hij verliet de klas en ging een creatieve weg op: verteltheater werd zijn ding. Al vele jaren reist hij door Vlaanderen en stopt bij elk bordje “school”.
Ook vertelt Chris graag en regelmatig verhalen aan een volwassen publiek, in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Voor zijn optreden bij Gember en Citroenen koos hij het thema: ‘dat had je niet gedacht…’
De Iraans-Nederlandse auteur/dichter Sho’leh Rezazadeh zal van het open podium haar poëzie en proza met ons delen.
Muzikale intermezzo’s worden verzorgd door Henk Jagtenberg en zijn gitaar
En zoals elke maand is er poezie van Justus Kops.
Marin Millenaar zal een verhaal dat past bij het thema vertellen en Nancy Wiltink presenteert de avond.
Na de optredens (van 16:30u-18:30u) is het mogelijk te blijven voor een gezamelijke vegetarische maaltijd (à € 13,50), publiek en uitvoerenden eten samen aan een lange tafel.
Zowel voor de optredens als de maaltijd is reserveren verstandig (via email naar: info@marinmillenaar.nl )
We proberen je een unieke avond uit voor te zetten, en gaan er vanuit, dat als dat ons is gelukt, je na afloop het bedrag – dat je daar normaal gesproken aan uitgeeft – in de hoed zult stoppen als donatie.
Elke maand nodigt vertelcafé Gember & Citroen een gastverteller uit. Vanzelfsprekend zullen ook Nancy Wiltink en Marin Millenaar afwisselend hun verhalen vertellen, zal Justus Kops een gedicht voordragen en is er nog een open podiumplekje, van 10 minuten, dat je kunt claimen door een mailtje te sturen naar info@marinmillenaar.nl
De Ruimte biedt, naast het zaaltje waar wij optreden, een uitstekende bar, een prima keuken en een heerlijke sauna.
Entree is gratis, achteraf gooi je in de hoed wat het je waard was.
Elke maand nodigt vertelcafé Gember & Citroen een gastverteller uit. Vanzelfsprekend zullen ook Nancy Wiltink en Marin Millenaar afwisselend hun verhalen vertellen, zal Justus Kops een gedicht voordragen en is er nog een open podiumplekje, van 10 minuten, dat je kunt claimen door een mailtje te sturen naar info@marinmillenaar.nl
De Ruimte biedt, naast het zaaltje waar wij optreden, een uitstekende bar, een prima keuken en een heerlijke sauna.
Entree is gratis, achteraf gooi je in de hoed wat het je waard was.
Elke maand nodigt vertelcafé Gember & Citroen een gastverteller uit. Vanzelfsprekend zullen ook Nancy Wiltink en Marin Millenaar afwisselend hun verhalen vertellen, zal Justus Kops een gedicht voordragen en is er nog een open podiumplekje, van 10 minuten, dat je kunt claimen door een mailtje te sturen naar info@marinmillenaar.nl
De Ruimte biedt, naast het zaaltje waar wij optreden, een uitstekende bar, een prima keuken en een heerlijke sauna.
Entree is gratis, achteraf gooi je in de hoed wat het je waard was.
De pubquiz van De Ruimte door Jim Glerum en Daan Doesborgh is nu al tenminste legendarisch te noemen. Deelname: € 4,50 p.p. Reserveren aanbevolen (max. 4 pers. per team): reserveren@cafederuimte.nl.
De pubquiz van De Ruimte door Jim Glerum en Daan Doesborgh is nu al tenminste legendarisch te noemen. Deelname: € 4,50 p.p. Reserveren aanbevolen (max. 4 pers. per team): reserveren@cafederuimte.nl.
De pubquiz van De Ruimte door Jim Glerum en Daan Doesborgh is nu al tenminste legendarisch te noemen. Deelname: € 4,50 p.p. Reserveren aanbevolen (max. 4 pers. per team): reserveren@cafederuimte.nl.
Sunday, March 10, concert starts at 21:00, entrance € 7*
*all proceeds go to the musicians.
KATE CARR (Australia / UK) Kate Carr has been investigating the intersections between sound, place, and emotionality both as an artist and a curator since 2010. During this time she has ventured to tiny fishing villages in northern Iceland, explored the flooded banks of the Seine in a nuclear power plant town, recorded wildlife in South Africa, and in the wetlands of southern Mexico.
Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wire, Pitchfork, Fact Magazine, The Quietus, and The Guardian. It has also been played on the radio on stations ranging from various channels of the BBC, to independent stations in Estonia. Her music can be found on the labels Helen Scarsdale (US), Rivertones (UK), Soft (France) 3Leaves (Hungary) Galaverna (Italy) as well as on her own label Flaming Pines.
ROEL MEELKOP (NL) Roel Meelkop (1963) studied visual arts and art theory at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. During a post-graduate course at the same academy he decided to dedicate his work to sound and music. His musical activities date back to the early eighties when he started THU20, together with Jac van Bussel, Peter Duimelinks, Jos Smolders and Guido Doesborg. THU20 have released several tapes and CD’s and performed regularly in Europe. The working method of THU20 included many discussions about how to compose and why. This period was crucial in forming Meelkop’s ideas and concepts about sound and how to organize it, but it was not until the mid-nineties that he was able to fully realize these ideas. The purchase of a sampler and later a computer radically changed his possibilities working with sound, offering infinitely more control and freedom. Since then, he has steadily created a body of work, most of which was received enthusiastically in the small but dedicated world of sound art. His other activities include working with Kapotte Muziek, Wieman (both with Frans de Waard) and Pierdrie (with Machinefabriek and video artist Marco Douma). Recently he has completed the sound mastering for the film ‘Langs de Kapellekensbaan’ by filmmaker André Schreuders. He has performed live with numerous artists, either solo, or in a collaborative setting.
Thursday, March 7, music starts 21:00, € 9 / students € 6
MANCUSO VIRZI
MancusoVirzí created a sort of contemporary music songbook called “frenzy u’ mmicidiale” which is a collection of different size sketches and pieces including very different influences from new music to jazz, to african polyrhythms, mixing notation and improvisation. It is a 50 minutes “suite“ and has been premiered in December 2018 in Kulturnhalle Leipzig, followed by a tour of Italy in January 2019.
Giovanni Mancuso – piano, composition | Flavio Virzì – electric guitar, composition
CHIENTAROLI/GOVAERT/HADOW Although having never played as a trio, the three musicians have shared the stage on numerous occasions in many different configurations. A multitude of gongs, bells, cymbals and drums converge with Chientaroli’s percussive piano playing in an improvised setting.
Nicolas Chientaroli – piano | Onno Govaert – drums | George Hadow – drums
BRAM STADHOUDERS Bram Stadhouders’ guitar has a wireless MIDI connection to his laptop, which adds beats, samples, synthesizers, and church organ to his improvisations. His performance resembles a journey through either a desert landscape, or across mountains.
Space is the Place: Nordai trio + Sherman’s Neckties + El Zin/Hollinger/Renfrow
Thursday, March 14, music starts 21:00, € 8 / students € 5
NORDAI TRIO
Hailing all the way from Amsterdam-Noord, Noord Jordaan, North America, Northern Hemisphere… the Three Lovers from Different Mothers a.k.a. Dereviancenko/Lumley/Renfrow a.k.a. Nordai Trio join hands for an epic evening of satanic rituals. Nobody can say exactly what will come out of their union but such is the nature of improvisation. Ages 18+
SHERMAN’S NECKTIES A fairly abstract examination of some of the littlest details from the U.S. Civil War. The artists premiered the work at the Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival back in September:
“In Mullis’ ongoing investigation of Appalachia and the South, he employs “Sherman’s Neckties” as fodder for dancing, a “scorched-earth” Union Army tactic of tangling railroad ties, which left only one Confederate line intact during the Civil War. Saxophonist Brent Bagwell pans the back of the house, playing as though his instrument is equally bent and blocked. He blows air through the horn and smacks the reed, contrasting the quiet with dissonant squawks and screeches. Mullis spends much of his time on the perimeter of a center spotlight on stage, bending and folding his long and lanky body every which way, alluding to the same sense of stuck-ness. This goes on for a while — maybe longer than it needs to — but Mullis’ keen balance between chaos and control, and his gorgeous long lines and finite articulations of the hands and arms tempering all that entanglement, are captivating.” – Chicago Tribune
Brent Bagwell – saxophone | Eric Mullis – dance
EL ZIN/HOLLINGER/RENFROW Seb el Zin, leader of the cult ANARCHIST REPUBLIC OF Bzzz Records , proposes with his new instrumental trio, a travel in sound, influenced by jazz, rockabilly, middle-eastern music and soundtracks.
Seb El Zin – guitar | Bernhard Hollinger – bass | Tristan Renfrow – drums
Een innige verstrengeling van diner, dans, muziek, poëzie en theater. Een avond waarin een kakelvers seizoensgebonden diner en performances één worden. Slechts € 16,50 voor drie gangen en 12,50 voor alle optredens. Laat de kok op tijd weten als je komt!
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A tight embrace of food, dance, music, (Dutch) poetry and theatre. € 16,50 for three courses and 12,50 for all the performances. An evening where a great, season based dinner and performances become one. Please contact the chef on time!
WIL JE MEE-ETEN? RESERVEER DAN SPOEDIG VIA DITDITDADADITDIT@CAFEDERUIMTE.NL
19:00: deuren open / eerste gang
19:30: aanvang eerste performance
DINER: Tim Sprangers / John Pastinaak
Zoals altijd kookt Tim met groenten, kruiden en fruit van het seizoen en het liefst uit moestuinen in Amsterdam-Noord. Het menu:
VOOR Creme van gerookte prei met geroosterde spruitjes en bietjes
HOOFD Geroosterde bataat in tijm en citroen met linzen en in rode wijn gestoofde paddenstoelen
NA Pompoencake met slagroom en amandelen
MUZIEK: Giuseppe Doronzo
Onlangs bracht de Italiaanse baritonsaxofonist Giuseppe Doronzo zijn solo album ‘GOYA’ uit. Als graag geziene muzikant in uiteenlopende muziekwerelden blinkt Giuseppe ook op zijn plaat uit door een knappe samensmelting van klassieke muziek, improvisatie en ook niet-westerse muziektradities. Met zijn fascinatie voor elektronische klankvelden en extended techniques maken solo-concerten van deze vriendelijke Italiaan boeiende, intense trips.
POËZIE: Roelof Ten Napel
Roelof ten Napel (Joure, 1993) is dichter, schrijver en essayist. Hij debuteerde met Constellaties (2014) en was laureaat van het C.C.S. Crone-stipendium. Daarna verscheen zijn roman Het leven zelf (2017). Hij publiceerde verhalen, gedichten en essays in bijvoorbeeld Tirade, Revisor en Het Liegend Konijn. Op 1 november verscheen zijn poëziedebuut, Het woedeboek.
MUZIEK: Jochem le Cointre en Anne de Blok
Pianist Jochem le Cointre laten een fragment horen van de theatershow Niet Zonder Ons van theatergezelschap Shaffy85. Vorig jaar op de planken gebracht ter ere van de 85ste geboortedag van Ramses Shaffy. Verwacht een jong eerbetoon aan deze oude meester van de Nederlandse kleinkunst, vol met humor, drama, muziek, dans en vooral heel veel Shaffy
PERFORMANCE: Julie Kurris (performer) and Lucas Wiegerink (composer)
We vieren de complexiteit van het lichaam. Ons lichaam is een bewegend landschap. Een wereld van geluid komt aan de oppervlakte. Muziek gezien door de rug en de rug heeft zijn eigen compositie. De rug als landschap creëert een uniek geluid en zingt een lied. Wat ligt erachter verborgen?
Zondag 24 februari, 15:30, entree € 4,50 per persoon
De pubquiz van De Ruimte door Jim Glerum en Daan Doesborgh is nu al tenminste legendarisch te noemen. Deelname: € 4,50 p.p. Reserveren aanbevolen (max. 4 pers. per team): reserveren@cafederuimte.nl.
Zondag 10 februari, deuren open 14:00, eerste optreden 15:00, entree: donatie
De try-out voor het YouTube kanaal Het Naakte Geluid!
Elke tweede zondag van de maand organiseert Het Naakte Geluid intieme huiskameroptredens in De Ruimte. Deze knusse concerten worden opgenomen op YouTube en kan je live bijwonen!
Nederlands pracht Moon Moon Moon en earswideopen bijten zondag de spits af, kleden zich als eerste uit voor onze camera’s en zullen hun naakte geluid laten horen.
zacht|HARD: vegan 3 course dinner + live music by FLOWERS & R. De Selby
Sunday, February 24, 18:00
Please send an e-mail to reserveren@cafederuimte.nl if you’d like to join for dinner.
18:00 Dinner
21:30 Concerts
Food for your belly and your soul. Zacht|HARD prepares a full vegetal menu and presents two Amsterdam based acts. Because food and music are humanity’s greatest inventions!
FLOWERS
Fluorescent, doomy stoner rock that’ll make you melt.
R. DE SELBY
R. De Selby uses sublime guitar drones and loops to create a portal to another dimension.
Following Ruisburo: Distorted Nude + Calineczka, musician / composer / curator Bernhard Hollinger takes over De Ruimte for an avant garde party night.
BERNHARD HOLLINGER
The bass player and composer is constantly looking to expand his creative output. With the ‘octatrack’ he found a powerful addition in his attempt to break out of a traditionally trained mindset and bring together his musical background with technologically forward-thinking gear. At De Ruimte he will present a newly made set that combines his music with his homemade controller, with which he is creating his own light show.
LOWKOLOS
A composer and sound designer, that is highly inspired by the ‘electro-acoustic’ genre. He attempts to break the mould of conventional approaches in composition. This results in unique stories, that are constructed by a fusion of sound-design and music. His recently released debut album “vis inertia” is just the beginning of this journey.
DJ_BEING aka. KONSTANTIN GUZ
This audiovisual artist is showing carefully selected tracks that show his interest in a meditative atmosphere, that stimulate the inner self, perfect either for dancing or contemplating in a cozy corner.
After having played around the city at Mono Cafe, Butcher’s Tears and de Peper, he will finally show his secret tracks at De Ruimte.
Saturday, March 9, 21:00-3:00, presale €5, tickets here, €7,50 at the door, cash only
Sign up for the Open Decks (by sending email to balearicboogieclub@gmail.com) & get in for free!
Balearic Boogie Club. The party where you can get into that beachy sunset mood we all love so much. Expect disco, african, italo, synth and everything in between. Get ready for a sultry night filled with neon lights, quality music and a lot of dancing.
Before our DJ’s take care of the vibe, you can take matters into you own hands. That’s right: at the beginning of every event, we host an Open Decks where anyone that feels the need to share great music has the opportunity to do so, without having to worry about mixing and dramaturgy. Anything goes, as long as it’s danceable. Playing with vinyl is the only restriction.
Join us at De Ruimte. Have a record you wanna share? Bring it. Feel the need to dance? Move it. Hungover the day after? Blame it on the boogie.
Singer/songwriter Tobias Bader presents his new EP Rise And Fall. Concert starts at 21:00. He will be accompanied by Ute Apfelstedt and Diederik Nomden. Free entrance, but there is a special deal at the door: one EP plus one drink = only € 10!
Friday, February 1, 21:30, entrance € 8 / students € 6
The Electric Motor Combo takes the rock (& roll) to De Ruimte. Every first Friday of the month they invite a different band for some proper rocking and grooving. This month REX opens the night. Bring your suede shoes.
ELECTRIC MOTOR COMBO
Pre-war blues played loud! The Electric Motor Combo adds a garage rock flavor to original and traditional folk, blues and country tunes. Shake those hips and feed them brains!
Thijs Elzinga – Guitar | Fabio Galeazzi – Drums
REX
Amsterdam based post-punk-blues-rock band. Languorous and dark with lyrics that bring you back to wild nights with lost loves.
Space is the Place: Lencastre/vd Weide/Govaert + Aviv Noam 4tet
Thursday, April 4, music starts 21:00, € 9 / students € 6
JOSE LENCASTRE/RAOUL VAN DER WEIDE/ONNO GOVAERT
This band played together for the first time in the Fall of 2017 and has an album recorded live at Zaal 100 coming out later this year. Prior to that, the musicians have played together but not as a trio. The music is totally improvised.
José Lencastre – alto sax | Raoul van der Weide – double bass, percussion, objects | Onno Govaert – drums
AVIV NOAM 4TET
A group of young Amsterdam based musicians that play their own original music alongside arrangements to compositions of artists such as Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane, Albert Ayler (but of course, played in their own way…) The quartet includes a lot of different kinds of improvisation in their music, with different approaches and styles of Improvisation.
Aviv Noam – alto, bari sax | Federico Calcagno – bass clarinet, clarinet Louis J. Bourhis – double bass | Guy Salomon – drums, percussion
Friday, February 15, concert starts at 21:00, entrance € 7*
*all proceeds go to the musicians.
DISTORTED NUDE (BE) Distorted Nude is the new project of Ghent-based Glenn Dick. His name is borrowed from David Lynch’s photo series by the same name in which a dark violent atmosphere plays a big role. Improvising on guitar and electronics dreamy silent passages are exchanged with harsh noise eruptions. Live, this is combined with visuals.
Glenn Dick has released music as Distorted Nude and Fine Hope In Darkness on Moving Furniture Records, and with his duo Klankdal (together with Sebastien Crusener) on Consouling Sounds and Wool-E Tapes / Discs.
CALINECZKA (PL/ES) Calineczka is Michał Jędrzej Stańczyk (born 1984 in Gdańsk, Poland). He has been exploring boundary cases of music with analog synthesizers since 2014, and has been active as drone/noise act Aleph from 2002 to 2007. Runs a cassette label, important drone records.
SPACE IS THE PLACE ft. Doek: Wierbos/Bronnikova + Eric Boeren solo
Friday, February 8, 21:00 – 23:00, € 8
The second Friday of every month at De Ruimte is a two-stage rocket: from 21:00 to 23:00 dOeK and Space Is The Place present live music from the dOeK network. After that, the party-party starts with the wildest live music in town!
21:00 – 23:00 Space is the Place ft. Doek – € 8
23:00 – 03:00 Second Stop is Jupiter – € 6
€ 10 combined ticket
WIERBOS/BRONNIKOVA
Wolter Wierbos joins his former student Masha Bronnikova on ‘stage’ for a duo performance.
ERIC BOEREN SOLO
Eric Boeren has amassed many playing styles as he developed his sound through the years. Whether it’s free funk, the writings of Ornette Coleman, Caribbean tunes, or anything else he picked up on the way. Boeren describes himself as a team player, so what does a solo performance sound like by a someone who has so many ideas to choose from. You never know.
Music is expression. Or in the case of this album, expression is music.
“Flight Of A Drunken Butterfly” is a collaboration between Luka Schuurman and Benedict (Teun Putker), in which every musical rule is being defied and the interplay of guitars plays the first fiddle. And the second. And the rest of the orchestra. A full hour of highly focused free improvisation between two guitar players, sometimes seamlessly melting together and other times forming sharp contrasts. We are very proud of this project and are thrilled to give it a place in the universe through this release event, so be welcome on the 27th of January to come drink beers and have your ears massaged at De Ruimte!
Zondag, 27 januari, 16:30, entree €4,50 per persoon.
De pubquiz van De Ruimte door Jim Glerum en Daan Doesborgh is nu al tenminste legendarisch te noemen. Deelname: € 4,50 p.p. Reserveren aanbevolen (max. 4 pers. per team): info@cafederuimte.nl.
Een innige verstrengeling van diner, dans, muziek, poëzie en theater. Een avond waarin een kakelvers seizoensgebonden diner en performances één worden. Slechts € 16,50 voor drie gangen en 12,50 voor alle optredens. Laat de kok op tijd weten als je komt!
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A tight embrace of food, dance, music, (Dutch) poetry and theatre. € 16,50 for three courses and 12,50 for all the performances. An evening where a great, season based dinner and performances become one. Please contact the chef on time!
WIL JE MEE-ETEN? RESERVEER DAN SPOEDIG VIA DITDITDADADITDIT@CAFEDERUIMTE.NL
19:00: deuren open / eerste gang
19:30: aanvang eerste performance
DINER: Tim Sprangers / John Pastinaak
Zoals altijd kookt Tim met groenten, kruiden en fruit van het seizoen en het liefst uit moestuinen in Amsterdam-Noord. Het menu wordt binnenkort bekend gemaakt, maar denk in ieder geval aan topinamboer, knolselderij en boerenkool.
MUZIEK: Ernst Glerum solo (contrabas)
Er is geen Nederlandse bassist zo bedreven in en gedreven door zoveel muziekvormen als Ernst Glerum. Naast zijn eigen speelse bandje Glerum Omnibus, is Ernst al decennia de stabiele factor in het roemruchte Instant Composers Pool Orchestra en hij speelt hij regelmatig in bands van Benjamin Herman en Paul van Kemenade. De laatste keer dat hij solo in de Ruimte speelde, kwamen onder andere stukken van Michael Jackson voorbij. Dat belooft wat.
MUZIEK: Leo Svirsky solo (piano)
Met een achtergrond in klassiek piano, richt de Amerikaanse pianist, accordeonist en componist Leo Svirsky zich nu vooral op hedendaagse muziek vanuit zijn woonplaats Den Haag. In Amsterdam kennen we hem ook van zijn inspirerende bijdragen in concerten met improvisatoren als Jasper Stadhouders, John Dikeman en Ab Baars.
POËZIE: Helena Hoogenkamp
Helena Hoogenkamp (1986) is schrijfster en theatermaakster. Haar werk verscheen onder meer in de VPRO Gids, op VPRO Dorst, Eye Exposed, De Optimist en Volkskrant.nl. Ze las voor op Lowlands en de Zwarte Cross en won in 2012 de El Hizjra Literatuurprijs. In 2015 verscheen haar chapbook “Kleine zeemeermin, per ongeluk dood” bij Uitgeverij Wintertuin. In 2017 schreef ze en speelde ze in de dansvoorstelling Bliss van Jasper van Luijk en tourde als onderdeel van Het Wilde Oosten met haar performance Van wie is dit verhaal? Momenteel werkt ze aan een roman die zal verschijnen bij De Bezige Bij.
DANS: Maxime Abbenhues
Het stuk ‘Dwarrelen’ is in samenwerking met de dansers gemaakt door Maxime Abbenhues, derdejaars student aan de Urban Contemporary Dance opleiding van de Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten. Elk jaar worden de studenten in December in een open opdracht uitgedaagd om een stuk te creëren op locatie in en rondom de Theaterschool. ‘Dwarrelen’ is ontstaan vanuit een zoektocht naar het begrip overgave: hoe kan je je overgeven aan een proces, aan beweging en aan iemand anders? Een stuk over durven te vertrouwen.
SPACE IS THE PLACE ft. Doek: Dikeman/Hazan/Skoric + the music of Sean Bergin
Friday, January 11, 21:00 – 23:00, € 8
The second Friday of every month at De Ruimte is a two-stage rocket: from 21:00 to 23:00 dOeK and Space Is The Place present live music from the dOeK network. After that, the party-party starts with the wildest live music in town!
DIKEMAN/HAZAN/SKORIÇ
A meeting of intense proportions. We’ve seen John Dikeman and Aleksandar Škorić play blistering sets as a duo. No doubt, Shay Hazan (who played at De Ruimte before as a member of Bones Trio), will add an extra depth to the ensemble. They will present their album ‘New Sadness’.
John Dikeman – saxophone | Shay Hazan – double bass | Aleksandar Škorić – drums
SCHOONDERWOERD/DE BOO/BOUWMEESTER/WIERBOS/MOORE/BOEREN play the music of Sean Bergin
Some of our favorite musicians playing the music of one of our favorite composers.
Leo Bouwmeester – piano | Wolter Wierbos – trombone | Michael Moore / Ramboy Recordings – clarinet/saxophone | Eric Boeren – cornet | Jacko Schoonderwoerd – double bass | Victor de Boo – drums
Space is the Place: Mercury + Martin van Duynhoven solo + Anders Abelseth solo
Thursday, April 11, music starts 21:00, € 9 / students € 6
MERCURY Mercury is a Montreal-based improvising duo, a product of a long-time collaboration between Lori Freedman and Nicolas Caloia. After some 15 years of playing, recording, writing and talking together Mercury decided to develop a concert repertoire that reflects the ideas of “open form” composition specific to the current approach in Montreal. With seamless welding of both written and improvised parts this singular sound comes from music that is dynamic and conversational in structure, rich with polyphonic and gestural elements. Each piece has its own particular playful quality and is animated by these two veteran musicians.
Lori Freedman is one of the most important Canadian avant-garde musicians of her generation and her bass clarinet playing is unprecedented. Highlighted among her performances she has played wth Steve Lacy, Roscoe Mitchell, Misha Mengelberg, Joe McPhee, Toshimaru Nakamura, Rohan de Saram, John Butcher, Joëlle Léandre, George Lewis, Axel Dörner, Phil Minton, Frances-Marie Uitti and Richard Barrett.
Nicolas Caloia, with his surprising and unique musical voice is an unparalleled force in the Canadian creative music scene. As bass player, composer, and bandleader Caloia’s music can be heard in ongoing collaborations with Tristan Honsinger, Joe McPhee, Matana Roberts, Malcolm Goldstein, Sam Shalabi, Jean Derome, Joshua Zubot, and Yves Charuest, and in past projects with Roscoe Mitchell, Marshall Allen, Steve Lacy, Hassan Hakmoun, William Parker, and Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia. Check it out.
Lori Freedman – clarinets | Nicolas Caloia – double bass
MARTIN VAN DUYNHOVEN
Martin van Duynhoven is one of the most renowned jazz drummers of the Netherlands, and has been since he graduated the conservatory of Tilburg in 1962. He composed for television, worked as a graphic designer, and was one of the first drummers to experiment with time signatures, a.o. in his own Percussion Ensemble. He won the Buma Boy Edgar Prijs in 1984.
Martin van Duynhoven – drums
ANDERS ABELSETH
With a background in classical music and often feeling constrained, the Norwegian saxophone player Anders Abelseth has found his own way of playing music. Working with inspiration from different genres, art forms and other things, he creates music in his own image. The music is playful and experimental while exploring the possibilities of solo saxophone and how to develop a varied solo
performance. Anders has a master’s degree in music performance from the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, Norway. Throughout the years he has also studied in Denmark and Spain. He performs regularly with different ensembles and bands as well as doing his own solo material. He is a versatile musician with roots in contemporary music but is also to be found in other music scenes such as jazz, folk and classical.
With his solo project Anders wishes to explore his own musical voice through improvisation and the performance of his own tunes.
Electric Motor Combo presents: Teddy’s Hit + Ceramists
Friday, January 4, 21:30, entrance € 8 / students € 6
The Electric Motor Combo takes the rock (& roll) to De Ruimte. Every first Friday of the month they invite different bands for some proper rocking and grooving. This month: Teddy’s Hit and Ceramists.
TEDDY’S HIT
Finally there is a band that takes you on musical adventures. Songs you can get lost in, but also high voltage pieces with ripping guitar and bass, and catchy vocals. You’ll find them in the back of the garage of White Denim, tinkering with arrangements, sound, melodies and songs somewhere between Ultimate Painting, Happyness and Weezer, with music coming from the radio from dreamy corners of London and Brooklyn. In the meantime the band van is warming up, because Teddy’s Hit wants to play, play, play!
The second Friday of every month at De Ruimte is a two-stage rocket: from 21:00 to 23:00 dOeK and Space Is The Place present two live acts. After that, the party-party starts with the wildest live music in town!
21:00 – 23:00 Space is the Place ft. Doek – € 8
23:00 – 03:00 Second Stop is Jupiter – € 6
€ 10 combined ticket
Line-up:
THE AMBUSH PARTY (broken cuuumbia)
Harald Austbø – Cello | Oscar Jan Hoogland – Piano | Natalio Sued – Tenor saxophone | Marcos Baggiani – Drums
THE ZEBRA STREET BAND (infectiously danceable brass music)
Salvoandrea Lucifora – Trombone | Alistair Payne – Trumpet | Andrius Dereviancenko – Tenor Saxophone | John Dikeman – Baritone Saxophone | Onno Govaert – Snare drum and percussions | Fabio Galeazzi – Bass drum and percussions
After your first stop of friday evening concerts, theater shows, birthday parties or movie visits come to De Ruimte for your second stop: After midnight dancing to the wildest live music in town! One thing is for sure every second friday: The Second Stop is Jupiter!
The second Friday of every month at De Ruimte is a two-stage rocket: from 21:00 to 23:00 dOeK and Space Is The Place present two live acts. After that, the party-party starts with the wildest live music in town!
21:00 – 23:00 Space is the Place ft. Doek – € 8
23:00 – 03:00 Second Stop is Jupiter – € 6
€ 10 combined ticket
Line-up:
SUPERINCA & THE GALACTIC GREEN (cuuumbiaaaa!1!)
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti – voice | Oscar Jan Hoogland – analogue synth | Thijs Elzinga – electric guitar | Joep Bollinger – bass | Frank Rosaly – drums
THE ZEBRA STREET BAND (infectiously danceable brass music)
Salvoandrea Lucifora – Trombone | Alistair Payne – Trumpet | Andrius Dereviancenko – Tenor Saxophone | John Dikeman – Baritone Saxophone | Onno Govaert – Snare drum and percussions | Fabio Galeazzi – Bass drum and percussions
After your first stop of friday evening concerts, theater shows, birthday parties or movie visits come to De Ruimte for your second stop: After midnight dancing to the wildest live music in town! One thing is for sure every second friday: The Second Stop is Jupiter!
The second Friday of every month at De Ruimte is a two-stage rocket: from 21:00 to 23:00 dOeK and Space Is The Place present two live acts. After that, the party-party starts with the wildest live music in town!
21:00 – 23:00 Space is the Place ft. Doek – € 8
23:00 – 03:00 Second Stop is Jupiter – € 6
€ 10 combined ticket
Line-up:
69 AY (Turkish psych funk)
Eva Hoogland – Voice | Giray Gürkal – Guitar | Fabio Galeazzi – Drums | John Dikeman – Saxophone | Thijs Elzinga – Guitar | Oscar Jan Hoogland – Synth
THE ZEBRA STREET BAND (infectiously danceable brass music)
Salvoandrea Lucifora – Trombone | Alistair Payne – Trumpet | Andrius Dereviancenko – Tenor Saxophone | John Dikeman – Baritone Saxophone | Onno Govaert – Snare drum and percussions | Fabio Galeazzi – Bass drum and percussions
After your first stop of friday evening concerts, theater shows, birthday parties or movie visits come to De Ruimte for your second stop: After midnight dancing to the wildest live music in town! One thing is for sure every second friday: The Second Stop is Jupiter!
Maandag, 31 december, vanaf 18:00, toegang gratis (aanmelding) / donatie voor het eten
2018 – het jaar dat Europa leek te gaan splijten, de Woezels een EP uitbrachten en post-millennials voor het eerst legaal alcohol mochten bestellen – is bijna ten einde. Niet gevreesd: 2019 belooft wat te worden. Ze is misschien niet zo sexy als ‘2020’, maar júist daar zit haar kracht. In haar numerieke bescheidenheid (niet eens een priemgetal!) omarmt ze ons in onze onvolmaaktheid en bereidt ons voor op een lange reis. Waarheen? Waarom stel je die vraag in 2018? Beter bereid je je voor om eerst afscheid van hém te nemen, in De Ruimte, met je oude/nieuwe vrienden. En om dan samen al dansend het onbekende te omhelzen.
//HUH? Kom 31 december 2018-2019 met ons vieren, inclusief zelfgeknutseld feestmaal, zelfgebrouwen acts en improvisatie, DJ’s en heel veel voetjes van de vloer.
//HOE LAAT? 14:00 -18:00 – helpen opbouwen en koken, bordspelletjes spelen, kletsen en genieten
18:00 – 21:00 – feestmaal
21:00 – 23:45 – quiz/improvisatie/muziek
23:45 – 24:00 – spanningsopbouw en lichte existentiële angstbeleving
24:00 //einde 2018
2019: voetjes van de vloer!
//WA’KOSDA? Eten is op donatiebasis, drank is gewoon van De Ruimte (reguliere prijzen)
SIGURD HOLE Sigurd Hole has established himself as one of Norways most wanted bass players, being part of Tord Gustavsen trio, Karl Seglem acoustic quartet, Eple Trio and Jon Eberson Group as well as collaborations with folk singer Eli Storbekken, pianist Helge Lien, and saxophonist Trygve Seim and pianist Bugge Wesseltoft. He has been nominated to Norwegian Grammys twice in recent years.
As a bass player he represents an innovative and creative approach to his instrument strongly influenced by a mixture of elements from Norwegian folk music and different Eastern musical traditions.
+ master students from Conservatorium van Amsterdam
Michele Mazzini (bass clarinet solo) presents a short program with two pieces, one in the low and one in the high register:
Magnongan – Giacinto Scelsi
Quetzalcoatl – own composition
Sunday, January 13, concert starts at 21:00, entrance € 7*
*all proceeds go to the musicians.
Ruisburo (De Ruimte, Moving Furniture Records) and New Emergences present: Glow In The Dark #2. In De Ruimte, a lovely and characteristic venue in Amsterdam-Noord with a great affinity for experimental sounds, you can meet three wonderful sound artists/composers. Each one of them has a different approach ranging from spatial sonic design to the natural sounds of everyday household items.
In between the live sets there will be individual short talks with them about their work.
New Emergences is a platform advocating diversity and gender equality in electronic music and sound art. Glow In The Dark is NE’s performance series traveling through the Netherlands.
****About the Artists****
1. DONIA JOURABCHI
Donia Jourabchi (Donia Exitdrieentwintig), Iranian, born in Brussels (1986), is a sound explorer. She studied sound engineering at the SAE Institute of Brussels, developed skills in interactive sound techniques, real-time processing and interface design at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Digital and Sound Cultures in Belgium, and electroacoustic composition at ArtZoyd in France. Her focus moved towards a research-based practice during her Master’s degree at the Institute of Sonology in The Netherlands. In her work, Donia sculpts textures of sound as a physical matter, designing spatial and sonic strategies that activate potential mechanisms of engaging the social within the acoustic awareness of space. An approach towards a spatial practice of sound and situated knowledges through experimentation and exploration of the contexture between sound, bodies and space.
2. KATARINA GLOWICKA
Alselo (aka Katarzyna Glowicka‘s) music explores the stylistic points of possible junctions between classical, ambient, folk and minimalism. Dubbed “the next star from the East” (“Junge Welt”), she came into the international spotlight with her album “Red Sun” (Bolt Records, 2014). After pursuing a successful career in orchestral classical music, her artistic interests concentrate in multimedia works for theatre, opera and film.
3. INGE HOONTE Inge Hoonte (1979, NL) works across writing, sound and public projects to orchestrate and document moments of connection, both in harmony and dissonance. For today’s performance, the natural sounds of everyday household items will be amplified to compose a rhythmic soundscape.
Space is the Place: Wild Man Conspiracy/Michael Moore/Joost Buis -Radio Days + Ryosuke Kiyasu + Team Orkesterra
Thursday, March 28, music starts 21:00, €8 / students € 5
WILD MAN CONSPIRACY – RADIO DAYS FEAT MICHAEL MOORE & JOOST BUIS
Wild Man Conspiracy treks through the jungle of free music – wild untraceable free improvisations reach out to superhuman efforts. Tempi that break out, individual rambles, unruly treatment for instruments; these elements are keystones to a musical undertaking that can scarcely be compared with anything already done in this field. Jazznu.com (NL) / Rinus van der Heijden (April 2015 )
Their newest project presents music from the RADIO DAYS, and features Michael Moore and Joost Buis, two of the most influential improvisers in the Dutch and international jazz scenes. Their surprising repertoire comes from the beginning of the history of jazz, and was inspired by 19th century spirituals, and early New Orleans jazz and swing, made famous by musicians such as Kid Ory, Louis Armstrong, and Fats Waller. Blues-injected solos, and adventurous collective improvisation come into their own, and shine a new light on the New Orleans tradition. Dixieland in a way you’ve never heard before. RADIO DAYS will have you singing along, bouncing out of your chair and dancing in the street!
Michael Moore – reeds | Joost Buis – trombone | Guillermo Celano – guitar/effects | Gerard Kleijn – trumpet, flugelhorn | Joost Kesselaar – drums
RYOSUKE KIYASU
In 1995, Ryosuke Kiyasu started his career as a drummer and experienced live performances in various bands. In 2003 he moved to Toronto, Canada in order to gain experience as a drummer and began to play solo snare drum.
From 2004 after returning to Japan, he started own punk band SETE STAR SEPT and free jazz band KIYASU ORCHESTRA, and has released numerous works and has performed various tours to countries around the world. As a solo snare drummer, the countries that have performed in the past span the United States, Europe, Canada, SE Asia, Australia, Korea, China, Mongolia and Russia.
TEAM ORKESTERRA
Team Orkesterra is many different things. Actually they’re still not exactly sure what they are themselves. Is it a band or an orchestra? A collective, maybe? Are they a team or just a bunch of individualists? Generation X or Millenials? Team Orkesterra is new, that’s for sure. It’s fresh and exciting, or using more colloquial terms suitable to 2019: woke and lit a.f.
It started with a vague idea by Jarno van Es in 2003. The band officially got together for the first time in December 2011. Only three rehearsals in a timeframe of 8 years later, they finally decided it’s time to face the outside world. This performance will be an experiment. A try-out. A random occasion. An immersive experience. But most of all: a lot of people having fun together. It will be like a little kid, trying to walk for the very first time. Endeering, cute, funny, hilarious at moments and awkward at others, breathtaking and dangerous while making you wonder about the circle of life and the unending beauty of it all.
They play different styles of music, taking inspiration from all over the world. Carribean dancehall, baile funk from Brasil, Dutch EDM and free jazz at the same time (both drug induced), a touch of Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia, Scandinavian minimalists, influencers like Marie Kondo, Huda Kattan, Yotam Ottolenghi and of course Hulk Hogan.
Space is the Place -New Year Party- Scheen solo/Windisch 4tet/Heurtebize solo
Thursday, January 3, music starts 21:00, €8 / students € 5
MICHIEL SCHEEN SOLO
The post-lyrical improvisations and compositions by Michiel Scheen (1963, Amsterdam) are fortunately characterized by for instance crispy harmonies, phonic fantasies, vibrating melodies and interim
scores. The international press described his work as ‘post-Monk, post-Mengelberg even’..
Michiel Scheen – piano
GUILLAUME HEURTEBIZE
By means of an acoustic guitar and small percussions, often aggregated like breeding snails, Amsterdam based Guillaume Heurtebize [ɡijom œʁtəbiz], constructs solo improvisations which
he understands as a journey. Sometimes with stopovers, sometimes
like a heap of images. May contain traces of fairness and dirt, movement and stillness, noise and un-noise.
Guillaume Heurtebize – guitar, percussion
LIEVESTRO/SUED/WINDISCH/RENFROW
Stefan Lievestro, Natalio Sued and Julius Windisch met for the first time in Amsterdam, the past October. Tonight they are joined by Tristan Renfrow to play original music by Julius and other tunes. This will be the group’s first concert ever in this constellation. Julius Windisch is enrolled in the European Jazz masters programme that he is going to graduate from in spring 2019 in Copenhagen. He is sometimes finding his way through the black & white keys.
Natalio, having studied classical music in Argentina and after having been a vibrant part of the Buenos Aires scene, has, since he moved to Amsterdam, been an active part of the European scene and beyond. He has been playing with Der Rote Bereich, Michael Moore, Matt Adomeit, Lars Dietrich and the Concertgebouw Jazz Orchestra. He really knows how to handle the saxophone.
Stefan Lievestro has been playing with Deedee Bridgewater, Chick Corea and was awarded the Deloitte Jazz Award in 2005. He teaches Bass at the conservatory of Rotterdam. He plays the bass very well. Tristan moved to Amsterdam from Milwaukee a few years back and has been playing with Harmen Fraanje, Matt Adomeit, Clemens van der Feen and other great players since then. He tours Europe regularly; no one ever knows what he is up to. He usually is able to play the drums in a good way.
Natalio Sued – saxophone | Julius Windisch – piano | Stefan Lievestro – bass | Tristan Renfrow – drums
Space is the Place: Jozef Dumoulin solo + duo Rave/Provan
Thursday, February 21, music starts 21:00, €9 / students €6
JOZEF DUMOULIN SOLO
Strengthened by experience in a multitude of groups, Jozef Dumoulin enters the stage alone, armed with a Fender Rhodes, a vintage electric piano, amplified and distorted by a number of extensions. He conjures a unique world of free electro, with traces of jazz, ambient, noise, contemporary music, among others. But most of all, he tries to enter the unknown.
The CD ‘A Fender Rhodes Solo’, a world premiere for the instrument, was released in 2014 on French Bee Jazz Label and was lauded by the international press (**** Downbeat, Top CD in Jazznews Magazine, Disque Élu in Citizen Jazz, …). Jozef is currently preparing a follow-up.
Jozef Dumoulin – Fender Rhodes
DUO ADA RAVE/FELICITY PROVAN
Felicity Provan is an improvising musician living in Amsterdam, and has been part of the Amsterdam for quite some time now. She’s part of several groups, including the Felicity Provan 5tet, The River, David Kweksilber Big Band, and Naked Wolf.
Ada Rave Is an Argentinian saxophonist, improviser and composer. Her work is focused into the development of the sounds of her instrument and her personal narrative point of view into the real time composition. She is based in Amsterdam to continue expanding her personal work and passion for free Improvisation.
Ada Rave – saxophone | Felicity Provan – cornet, voice
Space is the Place: Duo Michiel Braam/Annelie Koning + Ab Baars/Joost Buis
Thursday, February 28, music starts 21:00, €8 / students € 5
DUO ANNELIE KONING/MICHIEL BRAAM
For the Grachtenfestival 2018, Annelie Koning (voice) composed the programme ‘Hemelval’, comprising poetry of Gerbrand Bredero (1585-1618). In a duo with Michiel Braam (piano), the compositions merge with improvisations into a musical world that brings the old work of Bredero into a fresh light of contemporary music. Dutch pianist Michiel Braam combines exceptional virtuosity with a playful unpredictability. His infectious dynamic and percussive style is strictly his own. His unexpected, sometimes comic meanderings are never abstract or obtuse, but always rooted in the material. Braam takes you on a wild and surprising journey, but makes sure that you don’t get lost. Annelie Koning is a Dutch experimental vocalist and composer. In June 2017 she graduated from the ArtEZ conservatory in Arnhem (direction Jazz & Pop). In her work, she combines composed parts with improvisation in which she continuously explores the possibilities of her voice.
Annelie Koning – voice | Michiel Braam – piano
AB BAARS/JOOST BUIS
Two heavyweights meet up for a duo performance
Thursday, January 17, music starts 21:00, €8 / students €5
THE RIVER
What would happen when folk and poetry form the breeding ground for very good jazz musicians? One of the most beautiful (Amsterdam-based) jazz bands of the past years arises, that’s what. The River creates a scene where folk songs, improvised music, and poetry flow together. Near the end of 2015, The River released their first album, THE SWIM SESSIONS, recorded live at the Bimhuis
Lily Kiara – guitar, voice | Felicity Provan – trumpet, voice | Joost Buis – lap steel guitar, trombone | Julyen Hamilton – poetry | Paul Pallesen – guitar, banjo | Alan Purves – drums, percussion
Guitarist Henk Zwerver, bass player Raoul van der Weide and violinist Jacob Plooij present: New Handicaps All Strings Pool. A night of free acoustic string improvisation by top musicians from the Amsterdam improv scene and beyond. Improvising in trios, sextets and tutti – all free, all acoustic.
Players
Kristján Martinsson
Nicolas Chientaroli
Annick Odom
Wilbert De Joode
Aaron Lumley
Mara Tieles Cutié
Lauge Dideriksen
Mona Creisson
Jacob Plooij
Raoul van der Weide
Wen Chin Fu
Niels Brouwer
Hansko Visser
Henk Zwerver
Sean Bell
Sanem Kalfa
Han Buhrs
SPACE IS THE PLACE ft. Doek: Wolter Wierbos solo + Sylla/Hoogland/Rosaly
Friday, December 14, 21:00 – 23:00, € 8
The second Friday of every month at De Ruimte at De Verkeerstoren is a two-stage rocket: from 21:00 to 23:00 dOeK and Space Is The Place present live music from the dOeK network. After that, the party-party starts with the wildest live music in town!
WOLTER WIERBOS solo
For trombonist Wolter Wierbos, it’s all about fluidity: of tone, and time, of line and strategy and setting. It’s been said he can sound like a whole Ellington trombone section, from plunger-muted ya-yas to gorgeous melody statements, to dark shadings in the corners. He improvises free-associative solo concerts that suggest still more avenues to investigate.
SYLLA/HOOGLAND/ROSALY
A trio by three musicians from all over the literal and not so literal map: singer, percussionist and musical explorer Mola Sylla from Dakar, Senegal; improviser, composer and eclectic musician Oscar Jan Hoogland on keys; and drummer Frank Rosaly, a key figure of Chicago’s improvisation and experimental music community.
Een innige verstrengeling van diner, dans, muziek, poëzie en theater. Een avond waarin een kakelvers seizoensgebonden diner en performances één worden. Slechts € 16,50 voor drie gangen en € 12,50 voor alle optredens. Laat de kok op tijd weten als je komt!
NOTA BENE! Dit is een speciale Kersteditie waarin John Pastinaak een klassiek kerstdiner kookt, maar natuurlijk met een twist en groenten in de hoofdrol, zonder al dat vlees (zie onder het menu)
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A tight embrace of food, dance, music, (Dutch) poetry and theatre. € 16,50 for three courses and 12,50 for all the performances. An evening where a great, season based dinner and performances become one. Please contact the chef on time!
NOTE this is a special Christmas edition: chef John Pastinaak cooks a traditional christmas dinner, but with a twist and ofcourse without the meat… (see below for the menu)
WIL JE MEE-ETEN? RESERVEER SPOEDIG VIA DITDITDADADITDIT@CAFEDERUIMTE.NL
19:00: deuren open / eerste gang
19:30: aanvang eerste performance
DINER: Tim Sprangers / John Pastinaak
Zoals altijd kookt tim met groenten, kruiden en fruit van het seizoen en het liefst uit moestuinen in Amsterdam-Noord. Verwacht dit keer een klassiek kerstdiner, maar dan net wat eigenzinniger.
VOOR Carpaccio van gerookte choggiabiet met limoenazijn, geroosterde pitjes en knapperige wintersla
HOOFD ‘Bourguignon de légumes’ van wintergroenten en paddenstoelen, met een smeuïge knolselderpuree en prei-chips
NA Tiramisu met rozenwater en papagaaiensoep
MUZIEK/PERFORMANCE: Alan Purves (percussie) solo
Niemand in Nederland die beschikt over zo’n ongebruikelijk samenstelling aan percussie en niemand die deze instrumenten en instrumentjes zo dwars, humoristisch en mooi laat klinken als de Schotse klanktovenaar Alan Purves. Zijn (solo-) performances zijn altijd een fantastische ervaring.
MUZIEK: Gersom Raams (gitaar) solo
Al jaren componeert en speelt Gersom de meest lyrische, melancholische en knap geconstrueerde muziek en geluiden in zijn huiskamer. Zelden of nooit speelt hij een openbaar solo-concert. Vanavond gebeurt het wel.
POËZIE: Yentl van Stokkum
Yentl studeerde af aan de opleiding Writing for Performance van de HKU. Ze schrijft toneel, hoorspel, poёzie en proza. Daarnaast zit ze in de redactie van online platform Hard//hoofd en regisseerde ze voor het radioprogramma Fluiten in het Donker het hoorspel Lichtblauw. Ze droeg o.a. voor bij Mooie Woorden, Dit zijn de schrijvers, Betweter Festival en de Orde van de Dag.
Space is the Place: Chris Corstens Quartet EP-release + Jesse van Ruller solo
Thursday, January 10, music starts 21:00, €9 / students €6
CHRIS CORSTENS QUARTET
As their debut album ‘Treiffel’ came out five years ago already, so we’d say it’s about time for a follow up. Luckily, this concert is dedicated to the release of their new EP ‘Junglebumps’, so we can’t wait. In the meantime, they have not been sitting idly, both as a group, and individually. So we’re confident that their catchy blend of jazz, improvisation, humour, and anything that happens to wander into the mix, has remained intact.
‘…just enough quirky Dutch elements to leave a smile on your face, but the musicians never overdo it’ Dave Lynch (Allmusic).
Chris Corstens – tenor, soprano sax | Oscar Jan Hoogland – piano | Harald Austbø – cello | Martin van Leusden – drums
JESSE VAN RULLER SOLO
Guitarist Jesse van Ruller belongs to the European upper class of modern jazz musicians and is known for his fabulous technique and refined playing. Tonight Jesse plays solo with own pieces, music of others and mainly improvisations, something he seldom does.
Jesse van Ruller – guitar
Space is the Place: John Schröder/Uldis Vitols/Clemens Lotz + Luca Sguera AKA
Thursday, January 31, music starts 21:00, €9 / students €6.
JOHN SCHRÖDER/CLEMENS LOTZ
After having played and recorded Chet Baker’s last great concert in 1988, John Schröder soon became part of Germany’s jazz elite. Rudi Mahall, Achim Kaufmann, Christopher Dell, Oliver Steidle, Frank Möbius, Wolfgang Haffner and Dieter Ilg are just a few names John is/was regularly working with.
John Schröder – guitar | Uldis Vitols – double bass | Clemens Lotz Music – drums
LUCA SGUERA AKA
AKA carries on a personal research through repetitions, polyphony and the exploration of timbric and rhythmic balances within the quartet. Such an idea, merged with a particular focus on the sound
of the band and filtered by suggestions of Aka Pygmies music, leads to compositions in which free improvisation is shaped by the written material.
This project, born in September 2017 in Siena Jazz academy, made its first public appearence within A Jazz Supreme festival in Florence, and has been playing around Italy and Europe. Journalist Neri Pollastri wrote about their first performance: “The band proposed three excellent tunes with dark, suspended and tormented atmospheres, weel interpreted by young musicians we’ll certainly hear about in the next future.”
AKA’s first record, produced, recorded and mixed by Dan Kinzelman, will be released by Auand label on 11st January 2019.
Album teasers: https://youtu.be/I7-6SJItmaQ
Zondag, 30 december, 15:30, entree €4,50 per persoon.
De pubquiz van De Ruimte door Jim Glerum en Daan Doesborgh is nu al tenminste legendarisch te noemen. Deelname: € 4,50 p.p. Reserveren aanbevolen (max. 4 pers. per team): info@cafederuimte.nl.
Tiny Room x Meduse Magiq: Astral Swans + Memory Fish + Howart + DJ Wtch Cntrl
Sunday, December 23, 14:00, entrance €5
ASTRAL SWANS Astral Swans is het soloproject van de Canadese songwriter en multi-instrumentalist Matthew Swann. Zijn laatste album ‘Strange Prison’ Tiny Room Records, mei 2018) bevat psychedelische, ongepolijste indie/folk van de bovenste plank. Swann vertelt zijn abstracte verhalen over eenzaamheid, menselijke zwakheid en angst met een sarcastische en humoristische blik. Op deze 9-daagse tour door Nederland neemt hij een celliste mee, voor een extra dimensie aan de donkere liedjes. Verwacht eigenaardige indiesongs á la Smog, Syd Barrett of Chad VanGaalen, die onder je huid kruipen en je wellicht met een nieuwe kijk op de menselijke psyche naar huis laten gaan.
The Fire Note: “Matthew Swann’s quirky blend of lo-fi melancholic folk rock stays with you long after the album finishes playing”
HOWART Howart is het project van multidisciplinair artiest Anneke Nieuwdorp, waar ze experimentele en spannende ambient soundscapes combineert met poppy melodieën. Het bijzondere debuutalbum kwam eerder dit jaar uit op Tiny Room Records. Op het podium wordt Anneke geassisteerd door Dave Mollen (drums), Gino Miniutti (bas) en Stefan Breuer (gitaar, zang) en komt er een mix van psychedelica, krautrock en noisepop tot leven.
MEMORY FISH
Memory Fish is een soloproject van de Amsterdammer Larva Peruzzotti, gestart in januari 2018. Het eerste album The Horses Are Still Running kwam uit in november. Alle muziek is opgebouwd rond één vintage synthesizer, met kalme en simpele thema’s en een hoofdrol voor de stem. Kom luisteren naar de tien dromerige liedjes over het fictieve personage Charlie.
DJ WTCH CNTRL
Alexandra Duvekot is muzikant, schrijver en beeldend kunstenaar. Ze is de oprichter van het kunst- en geluidscollectief Meduse Magiq en lid van experimentele/psychedelische band BLUE CRIME.
An evening of disturbance, unsettled sounds, warped club tunes and ambience. All of the acts and DJs on this line up exist in-between genres, interested in the overlaps and gaps between club environments and sound art.
AMEK collective recently celebrated ten years of experimentation in their home city, Sofia. Two of the label’s most prominent producers, Mytrip and Evitceles, play Amsterdam for the first time as part of MusicMap’s debut Showcase event. Alongside them will be three Amsterdam based acts who will be bringing their own brands of play/experimentation/selection.
This evening of cross-border exchange is brought to you by MusicMap, a platform dedicated to let you discover the world one track at a time. We’ve been tracking the Bulgarian ambient and drone scene, interviewing AMEK collective in the process, and also highlighting key labels and artists based in the Netherlands, since our inception in 2016. Discover the world one track at a time yourself via our interactive map. Check out our New Finds, Insight, Soundscape and Featured Artist posts for in depth information on everything from Peruvian footwork to Iranian sound design: https://musicmap.global/
MYTRIP
The alias of AMEK co-founder Angel Simitchiev, Mytrip’s work ranges from the introspective to deconstructed euphoria and back again.
EVITCELES
With releases on Opal Tapes, Noorden, and Seagrave, Evitceles has been busy bringing the Sofia sound to an international audience over the past years.
FIEN
The founder of Amsterdam leftfield club night Différence et Répétition, Fien has released original material via DEVORM, and is a regular host at Red Light Radio.
COLLAPSE
A DJ duo as equally obsessed with cutting edge sounds as they are with re-contexualising the Netherlands’ heritage of hardcore, trance and gabba.
DAVID GAUTHIER
A practicing artist and media studies scholar, David Gauthier also investigates time and technology as part of Vsionhairies, a collective that build and experiment with electronic music equipment.
RYSKINDER
Jerusalem’s Underground Pioneer Ryskinder creates a loopy and sample heavy version of rock ’n roll by unleashing beats and guitar riffs from his sampler and singing / rapping in Hebrew. Ryskinder shows are a wild fusion of Live electronics, Punk Attitude, Hip-Hop rythmes and Warm Psych rock riffs.
THOSE FOREIGN KIDS
Those Foreign Kids’ daredevil stage antics and smoldering, cataclysmic garage punk anthems notwithstanding, the duo manages to elude their odds-on spectacular collapse. Westerlaken still wields a myriad of (custom) guitar effects like some punch drunk orchestra conductor, while Heijmans seems inclined to inflict havoc on his skins for the sole purpose of quelling the inner voices in his head.
Any other band might’ve been at each others throats, but TFK seems to take it all in stride with demented bemusement. As their spur-of-the-moment ‘let’s start a band’ pact a decade ago betokens, Heijmans and Westerlaken entrust their creative instincts to chaos and randomness instead of letting those things to impede on their delightfully knee-jerk stage dynamic.
Before the imagination can run rampant, you have to start with an empty canvas.. a void of sheer nothingness. And luckily, TFK embrace sheer randomness and escapism for the sake of just THAT.
Space is the Place: RKET + Max Johnson solo + Andrius Dereviancenko solo
Thursday, February 14, 20:30, €9 / students €6
RKET
In 2012, Jan Klare started a powerful trio with Luc Ex und Michael Vatcher, that stirred a mix of jazz, punk and improv. Luc Ex´s bass playing is unique in sound and approach – he was a longtime member of “The Ex” and has traveled all relevant European festivals with “Four Walls”, and “Assemblee”. Vatcher left Amsterdam in 2017, and luckily “Cactus Truck” drummer Onno Govaert, also from Amsterdam, took over in his own style. Jan Klare has created ensembles such as “The Dorf”, and “1000” and was in an impressive number of collaborations, including Caspar Brötzmann, and Eugene Chadbourne.
Jan Klare – alt and bass saxophone | Luc Ex – bass guitar | Onno Govaert – drums
ANDRIUS DEREVIANCENKO SOLO (premiere) Well known for his various contributions and initiatives in the Amsterdam jazz/improv scene the last couple of years, saxophone player Andrius Dereviancenko (Lithuania) now presents his solo act. Expect some modest and intense explorations of the tenor saxophone
MAX JOHNSON
Harvesting the wild energy and joy of free jazz, bassist and composer Max Johnson approaches his music with love and authenticity. “Johnson is an intrepid composer, architect of sound and beast of the bass…” (Brad Cohan, New York City Jazz Record). Creating complex worlds of sound, Johnson challenges his listeners to engage deeply and be rewarded with a complete musical experience that is always jubilantly crafted with care and clarity.
“New York bassist Max Johnson has established himself as one of the more versatile figures in jazz and improvised music, a leader with a strong, woody tone who shows himself capable whether playing tunes with a swinging drive or exploring abstract terrain with a texture-oriented approach.” (Peter Margasak, The Chicago Reader) As an improvising bassist, Max Johnson has worked with legendary figures of the music such as John Zorn, Anthony Braxton, Muhal Richard Abrams, Mary Halvorson, Nels Cline, among others. In 2012 and 2014 was voted No.2 Bassist of the Year and No. 5 Musician of the Year in El Intruso’s International Critics Poll.
Space is the Place: Liquid Identities, Kreis, Laura Polence solo
Thursday, February 7, 20:30, €9 / students €6 / We Are Public free
LIQUID IDENTITIES
“Liquid Identities” was born in the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in 2018, with the goal to explore fresh original compositions that reflect a research of the combination of different styles between contemporary jazz, Carnatic music, avant-garde jazz, free improv and chamber music. The adjective “liquid” also refers to the vision of the modernity analyzed by the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman in the book “Liquid Modernity”. The elements of this quintet act as liquid identities: what unites them all is their fragility, temporariness, vulnerability and inclination to constant change. Every role is changeable. The compositions reveal the permanence of various possibilities , and the ability to connect and develop different themes through open improvisations.
Federico Calcagno – Bass Clarinet, Clarinet) | José Soares – Alto Saxophone | Adrian Moncada – Piano | Pau Sola Masafrets – Cello | Nick Thessalonikefs – Drums
KREIS
Kreis plays original compositions, going from soundscapes to through-composed music. New combinations of sounds and instruments, creating an intimate mood.
Benjamin Hermans – saxophones & clarinet | Stan Maris – accordion & composition | Kobe Boon – double bass
LAURA POLENCE
Laura Polence is a singer, pianist, composer, and mime from Latvia. Since 2007 she lives in the Netherlands, and has since worked with diverse musical ensembles. After a few years of intensive touring and traveling to places near and far, with bands SnowApple, How Town, Kaja Draksler Octet, and Latvian Voices, it’s now time for a solo project.
Recent compositions and Latvian folksongs, voice, piano and synthesizer sounds create a special, colourful blend of musical and theatrical elements. It’s a way to talk about the complex simplicity and naive irony that the moments of our lives consist of.
Laura won the Best Composition Prize of the “Dutch Jazz Competition 2012”.
TryTone celebrates 20 years of existence with a festival full of adventurous jazz. TryTone core members meet Amsterdam’s finest at De Ruimte for the festival closing ceremony. At this night of borrel, improvisation and creativity, the Trytone extended family get together in unique combinations and musical blind-dates. A one-
of-a-kind party, not to be missed.
TryTone is a musicians’ collective, an organization for innovative music. TryTone
produces adventurous music that is accessible to the public through CD releases, concerts, multimedia performances and festivals. Characteristic of TryTone is the wide variety of styles, contrasts and genres. Jazz, improvisation to which non-Western elements and contemporary composed music are sometimes added. The
label released over 70 CDs in the twenty years that TryTone exists. LINE-UP
Oguz Büyükberber – clarinet/electronics | Tobias Klein – alt sax/ bass clarinet | John Dikeman – tenor sax | Monica Akihary, Kristina Fuchs – voice | Jasper Stadhouders, Niels Brouwer – guitar | Esat Ekincioglu – bass | Philipp Moser, Marcos Baggiani – drums
Friday, December 7, 21:30, entrance € 8 / students € 6
Electric Motor Combo takes the rock (& roll) to De Ruimte. Every first Friday of the month they invite a different band for some proper rocking and grooving. This month: Dynamo Irie opens the night. Bring your suede shoes.
ELECTRIC MOTOR COMBO
Pre-war blues played loud! The Electric Motor Combo adds a garage rock flavor to original and traditional folk, blues and country tunes. Shake those hips and feed them brains!
Thijs Elzinga – Guitar | Fabio Galeazzi – Drums
GLOBAL CHARMING
Global Charming is a freshly birthed Amsterdam based project. Utilizing the ancient combination of electric guitars, bass and drums the four-piece tries to fence off boredom, frustration and environmental doom by creating their own brand of sloppy punk and rock songs.
HOWRAH
Amsterdam four-piece HOWRAH embodies a potent standoff between focussed rhythmic patterns, cosmic melodies and unchecked tidal waves of searing noise rock. The band is comprised of members from various stalwarts from the late 90s and 00s Amsterdam underground. Aico Turba (bass), Cees van Appeldoorn (words/guitar), Gijs Loots (guitar, bass) and Ineke Duivenvoorde
(drums). HOWRAH plays edgy, melodic song-based music.
THE SWEET RELEASE OF DEATH
A slow-burning catharsis of screeching guitars and seething vocals, delivered with equal parts fiery rage and cold despondence. Noise-pop from Rotterdam.
Unearth
A multi-disciplined solo piece. Incorporating percussion, machines, video and movement, Unearth explores the sound and space of the performance venue in an organic and meditative way, while at the same time developing dense and dynamic sound worlds. Tony Buck is regarded as one of Australia’s most creative and adventurous exports, with vast experience across the globe. As a drummer, percussionist, improviser, guitarist, video maker and producer, he has been involved in a highly diverse array of projects but is probably best known around the world as a member of the trio “The Necks”.
Current projects include a LIVE solo adaption of the UNEARTH music, incorporating installations, video, drums and guitar; “Spill” with Magda Mayas; “Transmit” (a guitar driven post-rock project); New York based trio “Glacial” (with David Watson and Lee Ranaldo); “Circadia” (with Kim Myhr, David Stackenas and Joe Williamson); a long standing duo with Axel Doerner as well as a continuing in ad hoc and improvised performance settings.
Duke S. Duke S.‘ sound is a quirky mix of synthetic exotica, Sun Ra-esque electro jazz and ambient, laced with “faux field recordings”. The feeling is both futuristic and outdated, evoking ancient Egypt as well as adventures in outer space. At times the sound has something of Finnish composer Pekka Airaksinen. Live shows are accompanied by 8-bit visuals and of course cactuses.
He has performed in the Benelux, Portugal and Lithuania, using various vintage instruments including percussion pads and a theremin.
PLEKS
pleks 0. is a new audio-visual performance series showcasing the works of innovative and exciting artists from around the globe, with a regular program of concerts and events at De Ruimte in Amsterdam-Noord.
Schrijvers Simone Atangana Bekono, Lotte Lentes en Joost Oomen slaan de handen ineen voor een nieuwe literaire avond onder de titel Normaal Land. Alledrie traden ze velen malen op in binnen- en buitenland en overal waar ze kwamen voelden ze de vraag naar normale literatuur. Aan die vraag kan voldaan worden! Verwacht dus een volstrekt normale avond, met normale dichters, normale schrijvers en normale drankjes. Na afloop is er de mogelijkheid normaal te dansen op normale muziek van dj De Brandende Ananas. Normale literatuur door normale mensen in een heel normaal café.
Names You Can Trust presents: Viaje al Centro del Ritmo
Saturday, December 15, 21:00 – 3:00, €5
Names You Can Trust presents the debut release from Lola’s Dice: Viaje al Centro del Ritmo. An ensemble born and battle-tested by years of punk and hard rock before fusing into its current form, a consolidated tropical-rock rhythm machine. Fueled in equal parts by the group’s South American roots in Venezuela and Chile, and the creative freedom of their long-time home in Amsterdam, the band’s evolution has resulted in music that is a pure body-moving delight — a fuzzy blend of guitars, synths and musical sabor that is very much rooted in the percussive sounds of Latin America, yet still comfortable in its punk-ethos vandalization of tradition and status quo. Helping to guide the band in this first studio recording is the talented touch of percussion maestro and engineering wiz Alex Figueira (Fumaça Preta, Conjunto Papa Upa) at his Barracão Sound studio in Amsterdam. The resulting 4-track EP is a perfect match of genre-defying psychedelic madness and Caribbean cool.
DJ’s
The night will seasoned with heavy sabrosura tunes to destroy the dance floor, with the help of hypnotic grooves coming from DJ Rengo Estar and Duo Penossi
SPACE IS THE PLACE ft. Doek: Wolter Wierbos solo + Sylla/Hoogland/Rosaly
Friday, December 14, 21:00 – 23:00, € 8
The second Friday of every month at De Ruimte at De Verkeerstoren is a two-stage rocket: from 21:00 to 23:00 dOeK and Space Is The Place present live music from the dOeK network. After that, the party-party starts with the wildest live music in town!
WOLTER WIERBOS solo
For trombonist Wolter Wierbos, it’s all about fluidity: of tone, and time, of line and strategy and setting. It’s been said he can sound like a whole Ellington trombone section, from plunger-muted ya-yas to gorgeous melody statements, to dark shadings in the corners. He improvises free-associative solo concerts that suggest still more avenues to investigate.
SYLLA/HOOGLAND/ROSALY
A trio by three musicians from all over the literal and not so literal map: singer, percussionist and musical explorer Mola Sylla from Dakar, Senegal; improviser, composer and eclectic musician Oscar Jan Hoogland on keys; and drummer Frank Rosaly, a key figure of Chicago’s improvisation and experimental music community.
The second Friday of every month at De Ruimte is a two-stage rocket: from 21:00 to 23:00 dOeK and Space Is The Place present two live acts. After that, the party-party starts with the wildest live music in town!
21:00 – 23:00 Space is the Place ft. Doek – € 8
23:00 – 03:00 Second Stop is Jupiter – € 6
€ 10 combined ticket
Line-up:
SUPERINCA & THE GALACTIC GREEN (cuuumbiaaaa!1!)
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti – voice | Oscar Jan Hoogland – analogue synth | Thijs Elzinga – electric guitar | Joep Bollinger – bass | Frank Rosaly – drums
THE ZEBRA STREET BAND (infectiously danceable brass music)
Salvoandrea Lucifora – Trombone | Alistair Payne – Trumpet | Andrius Dereviancenko – Tenor Saxophone | John Dikeman – Baritone Saxophone | Onno Govaert – Snare drum and percussions | Fabio Galeazzi – Bass drum and percussions
After your first stop of friday evening concerts, theater shows, birthday parties or movie visits come to De Ruimte for your second stop: After midnight dancing to the wildest live music in town! One thing is for sure every second friday: The Second Stop is Jupiter!
Space is the Place: Michael Vatcher solo + Sean Hamilton solo + Podgornik/DKummer duo
Thursday, November 8, music starts 21:00, € 8 / students € 5
MICHAEL VATCHER SOLO
California native Michael Vatcher, quickly progressed from hitting household furniture to taking vibraphone and snare drum lessons as a child. In California, he played with reedist Michael Moore, with whom Vatcher has had a long musical relationship, John Handy, and Terry Gibbs. After spending a year in New York City, Vatcher moved to Holland in 1981.
Since arriving in Holland, Vatcher has played with such groups as the Tristan Honsinger Sextet, the Martin Altena Ensemble, John Zorn, The Ex, Roof (with Phil Minton, Tom Cora, and Luc Ex), and Van Dyke Parks. Vatcher is also a regular accompanist with the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam, and has an ongoing musical relationship with dancers Katie Duck and Eileen Standley.
Since he moved to New York in 2017, we haven’t seen enough of his inventive, unpredictable style of playing, so it’s an honour to have him back on our stage, even if it is just for a little while.
SEAN HAMILTON SOLO
Sean Hamilton is a percussionist, composer, and improviser whose interests primarily lie in the conjunctions of new music, electroacoustic music, free improvisation, experimental music, and interdisciplinary projects.
Sean presents his solo drum set and electronics project, which features improvised compositions written to explore the symbiotic possibilities between acoustic and electronic sounds. The works utilize electronics programmed in Pure Data that primarily create content by “listening to” or processing the sounds of the acoustic drums through microphones on the kit, or by creating their own “improvised” material generated through the use of random numbers. Because the acoustic and the electronic are improvised, each performance of the work is inherently different and will never again be recreated verbatim.
D.KUMMER/PODGORNIK
The duo revolves around a through-composed, length-evolving piece aiming to distort one’s notion of time and space.
Utilizing a large panel of extended techniques, by means of repetitive melodic items and relentless ostinati, the music merges raw expressivity and stasis.
Een innige verstrengeling van eten, dans, muziek, poëzie en theater. Een avond waarin een kakelvers, seizoensgebonden diner en performances één worden. Slechts € 16,50 voor drie gangen en 12,50 voor alle optredens. Laat de kok op tijd weten als je komt!
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A tight embrace of food, dance, music, (Dutch) poetry and theatre. € 16,50 for three courses and 12,50 for all the performances. An evening where a great, season based dinner and performances become one. Please contact the chef on time!
WIL JE MEE-ETEN? KOOP HIER DAN ALVAST EEN KAARTJE.
19:00: deuren open / eerste gang
19:30: aanvang eerste performance
DINER: Tim Sprangers / John Pastinaak
Zoals altijd kookt tim met groenten, kruiden en fruit geplukt en gegraven in moestuinen uit Amsterdam-Noord. Het menu is afhankelijk van het aanbod en zal binnenkort worden bekend gemaakt op facebook en de website. Denk in ieder geval aan pastinaken, pompoenen, knolselderij en palmkool…
MUZIEK/PERFORMANCE: Zeg Maar Fornuis
Het trio Zeg Maar Fornuis improviseert muzikaal en verbaal en grijpt elke mogelijkheid van het moment aan om nieuwe wegen in te slaan. Aardse beschrijvingen doen deze authentieke formatie te kort, hoewel ‘astrophysical storytelling’ het meest dichtbij komt.
Walter Breukers – verhalen | Jan Cleijne – electronica | Jarno van Es – electronica/synths.
MUZIEK: Ben van Gelder solo
Hij behoort volgens nationale en internationale media tot de meest talentvolle jonge altsaxofonisten ter wereld. Zijn sereniteit, ongelooflijke techniek en enerverende compositiekwaliteiten blijven zich ontwikkelen. Ben speelt zelden solo, een concert om naar uit te kijken.
PERFORMANCE: Julie Kurris en Liesbeth Vreeburg
Julie is afgelopen juni afgestudeerd van de Master Muziektheater (T.I.M.E.) aan het Koninklijk conservatorium van Den Haag. Haar performances zijn een poging tot het vatten wat niet bloot te leggen valt. Treed mee in haar verbeeldingswereld die alle paden kan inslaan, muzikaal, fysiek, verbaal, visueel. Overal heeft ze een handje in thuis. Maar gek genoeg kan ze niet buiten haar eigen bestaan treden. Ze wandelt over de verbindingen van de hokjes en steekt haar hoofd af en toe naar binnen. Het is een spel, maar echt, serieus en iedereen mag mee spelen. Het is wel niet gemakkelijk. Deze keer gaat ze met harpiste Liesbeth Vreeburg een land van glas bouwen waarin en waarmee kan worden gespeeld.
MUZIEK: Huib Emmer
Componist, instrumentalist en live performer Huib Emmer verzorgt twee elektronische tafelmuzieken: 1- fragment met stemmen 2- fragment met orgels. Hoe dat klinkt? Ruis, oneffenheden, loops, effecten, kraakjes, woorden en (dadaïstisch) merz collage.
DINER: Tim Sprangers / John Pastinaak
Zoals altijd kookt tim met groenten, kruiden en fruit geplukt en gegraven in moestuinen uit Amsterdam-Noord. Het menu:
VOOR Verse focaccia van rode ui en rozemarijn met in de ochtend geoogste veldsla, winterpostelein en mosterdblad
HOOFD Hartige taart van boerenkool en aardpeertjes met geroosterde pompoen en rucola
NA Tarte tatin van appel en lavendel met sinaasappelroom
Wednesday, November 21, 21:00, €10 Get your ticets here
Come and join Johan Sara jr and Lien De Coster in the direction the compass needle is pointing! We will turn a dark November evening into a magical journey across the polar circle feeding you songs and poems harvested from the Arctic land.
Sami artist JOHAN SARA JR was born in Alta and grew up with reindeer herders on the vast snow-covered tundra in the arctic north. He is now settled in the Sami town of Maze. He was born into a culture where nature and the natural was everywhere, a culture where the joik had a central position and had a mother who had a strong interest in maintaining this tradition. To Johan Sara joik is therefore so much more than an artistic expression; it is his history and legacy.
SPACE IS THE PLACE ft. Doek: Wilbert De Joode amplified + Cactus Truck & James Brandon Lewis
Friday, November 9, 21:00 – 23:00, € 8
The second Friday of every month at De Ruimte at De Verkeerstoren is a two-stage rocket: from 21:00 to 23:00 dOeK and Space Is The Place present live music from the dOeK network. After that, the party-party starts with the wildest live music in town!
WILBERT DE JOODE (amplified)
A solo concert by gifted and highly sensitive double bass player Wilbert de Joode is always something else. This one is even more special however, as Wilbert will not play acoustic, but with a heavily amplified bass.
CACTUS TRUCK & JAMES BRANDON LEWIS
Forces of nature collide! Amsterdam based freejazz powerhouse shares the stage with fiery American saxophone player James Brandon Lewis.
The second Friday of every month at De Ruimte is a two-stage rocket: from 21:00 to 23:00 dOeK and Space Is The Place present two live acts: SITP ft Doek: De Joode solo + Cactus Truck & James Brandon Lewis. After that, the party-party starts with the wildest live music in town!
21:00 – 23:00 Space is the Place ft. Doek – € 8
23:00 – 03:00 Second Stop is Jupiter – € 6
€ 10 combined ticket
Lineup: THE AMBUSH PARTY (broken cuuumbia)
Harald Austbø – Cello | Oscar Jan Hoogland – Piano | Natalio Sued – Tenor saxophone | Marcos Baggiani – Drums
THE ZEBRA STREET BAND (infectiously danceable brass music)
Salvoandrea Lucifora – Trombone | Alistair Payne – Trumpet | Andrius Dereviancenko – Tenor Saxophone | John Dikeman – Baritone Saxophone | Onno Goveart – Snare drum and percussions | Fabio Galeazzi – Bass drum and percussions
After your first stop of friday evening concerts, theater shows, birthday parties or movie visits come to De Ruimte for your second stop: After midnight dancing to the wildest live music in town! One thing is for sure every second friday: The Second Stop is Jupiter!
Space is the Place: Terrie Ex/Vd Weide/Hadow + Vitols/DKummer/Payne & Ab Baars
Thursday, January 24, music starts 21:00, € 9 / students € 6
TERRIE EX/RAOUL VAN DER WEIDE/GEORGE HADOW The trio, having played sporadically since Hadow moved to Amsterdam in the summer of 2012, have never failed to provide a sharp and searing experience when they join forces. With their wide array of influences, the trio offers a melting pot of noise, ‘new dutch swing’, tense ambience as well as a healthy dose of fiery rock.
Terrie Ex – guitar | Raoul van der Weide | George Hadow – drums
PAYNE/VITOLS/DKUMMER + AB BAARS Uldis Vitols continues to w/lk the fine line between insightfully composed m/teri/l /nd the deep /byss of free improvis/tion. The Trio, consisting of Trumpet, Drums /nd B/ss, lends itself to this very ment/lity. From seemingly ch/otic /nd boisterous p/ss/ges, c/n emerge meeting points of nimble melodies /nd precise fr/mes. By sw/pping roles, st/nding on toes /nd /greeing to dis/gree, the collective presents /n /ngul/r set, rem/ining poised for the next moment.
Space is the Place: Klimaforandringer + Seb El Zin “Grand Bazar”
Thursday, December 6, music starts 21:00, €9 / students €6 / We Are Public members get in free.
KLIMAFORANDRINGER
Klimaforandringer (the Danish term for climate change) is a sextet assembled around various musical concepts stemming from various corners of the world. As a result, this caravan’s pulsating compositions contain multiple layers of everything from West African polyrhythm to Western 70’s psychedelic guitars. The orchestra’s members have gathered across different latitudes of the Danish music scene and have ties to diverse acts such as SVIN, Bisse, Under Byen, and Horse Orchestra . As the unit Klimaforandringer they collect and transform far-reaching inspiration into unpredictable afro psych with elements from acid rock, kraut, and improv.
The compositions are complex, but the contemplative lyrics penned in Danish and structured as simple, haiku-like stanzas about universal topics pull the band’s global views down to earth. Greatly inspired by African attitudes towards making music and poetry, the communication of themes such as sense of belonging and the transitoriness of life is a joint affair.
SEB EL ZIN “GRAND BAZAR”
Who said globalization would bring along uniformity ?! Seb el Zin’s latest cyber-oriental album proves the opposite: for our greatest joy the differences aren’t ready yet to dissolve themselves within the outstanding seamless whole. Grand Bazar provides a sound straight from the future evoking the fantasy of the Ottoman East, sumptuous and sensual like the time-engraved Byzantium.
The cyber-punk and cold-electro accents of this tribal-futuristic creation accomplish the salutary turn of grace of offering a modern European sonic identity proudly integrating its latest oriental contributions.
For this artist, “Music is Politics”: started during the Gezi Park riots in Istanbul, Seb el Zin’s new album embodies the progressive rage of a youth holding on to its roots but without borders nor boundaries.
Grand Bazaar is a cry of revolt dancing against fear and division, a unifying shockwave inspiring the feeling of being alive, simply…
Space is the Place: Cactus Truck invites Luke Stewart, Trevor Dunn & Dirar Kalash
Monday, October 29, music starts 21:00, entrance €10
An extra special SPACE IS THE PLACE night. The musicians below will play in small groups, and playing as a sextet.
It’s not every day that three incredible musicians from different backgrounds are visiting town by chance on the same date, with a day off, and wanting to share their musical abilities with us! Cactus Truck is extremely pleased to invite multi instrumentalist Dirar Kalash (with whom they toured Palestine last June, see this link for a photo report made by Sara Anke Morris: https://www.doek.org/cactus-truck-in-palestine-with-dirar-kalash-photo-series-by-sara-anke/). The Cactus boys have run into bassist Luke Stewart (Washington D.C.) a whole bunch since a couple years at festivals and venues in both Europe and North America, and makes a whole lot of sense to finally play with him.
Trevor Dunn (New York) is actually from the same region in California as (ex-)Amsterdammers Michael Moore and Michael Vatcher, and plays bass in a tremendously varied palette of bands and projects. He probably doesn’t need further introduction.
Cactus Truck is grateful to De Ruimte and SPACE IS THE PLACE for hosting this event on such a short notice!!!
Space is the Place: Calo/Binotti/Lucifora/Govaert + Sannety
Thursday, December 20, music starts 21:00, €9 / students €6
CALO/BINOTTI/LUCIFORA/GOVAERT
“International Creative Residencies” is a program of artistic residencies for creative, experimental, improvised and avant-garde music.
Pasquale Calò and Lorenzo Binotti will be the guest artists for this programme in the Netherlands and Belgium. They will work with Salvoandrea Lucifora and Onno Govaert, two musicians based in the Netherlands. They will create a piece that will be performed at the Hot Club Gent and at De Ruimte in Amsterdam.
The group will also perform the piece created during Salvoandrea Lucifora and Onno Govaert artistic residency in Italy (Torino-Milano-Urbino-Terlizzi).
SANNETY Sannety is a Dutch-Indonesian electronic musician. Her work focuses on the exploration of rhythms. For this purpose, she created a software instrument to venture off grids and bend time, to create a panoply of polyrhythmic patterns in the shape of rhythmical exercises. By playing games with temporal gestures and specifically combined parameters, she builds a world of percussive sounds inspired by genres that approach rhythm with more adventure than a 4/4 bar has to offer, as well as by the great beat makers of our time.
TRIO HEINZ HERBERT The Trio Heinz Herbert sound comes apart in the sum of the threefold individuals and in an interplay based on blind trust, on YES they celebrate music which is always in motion, constantly building new forms, reminiscent of the shifting, morphing multiple body of a flock of birds.
Dominic Landolt – electric guitar, fx | Ramon Landolt – synth, sampling | Moritz Baumgärtner – drums
Space is the Place: Bruno Calvo Anillo/Xavi Torres + Fraanje/Blom/Vitols/Renfrow + Louloudis/Demeyer
Thursday, November 15, music starts 21:00, €9 / students €6
ALEX LOULOUDIS / DAAN DEMEYER
NY based drummer, composer en poet Alex Louloudis met pianist Daan Demeyer at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. They have been collaborating and playing together for some time in various ensembles, most notably on Reggie Workman’s Futuristic Concepts Ensemble.
BRUNO CALVO ANILLO/XAVI TORRES
A free impro style based performance in jazz and classical roots
HARMEN FRAANJE/JASPER BLOM/ULDIS VITOLS/TRISTAN RENFROW
A first meeting of musicians spanning generations, styles, and a whole lot of talent.
Space is the Place: Kaja Draksler, Marta Warelis & Julie Kurris curate
Wednesday, December 5, music starts 21:00, € 9 / students € 6
CZAJKA & PUCHACZ
Czajka & Puchacz (Lapwing & Eagle Owl) is a Copenhagen-based duo of Slovenian pianist Kaja Draksler and Polish drummer Szymon Gąsiorek. In their semi-composed pieces, they work with space,
silence, sparkling textures planted into a rhythmic gravitation, careful distribution of melodic comfort and amount of information. Their musical language is enriched by audio tape samples deriving from
Polish and Slovenian fairy tales. Acoustic musique concrète and European free improvisation meet the melodies of disco polo, rock riffs and drilling of woodpeckers.
Kaja Draksler – prepared piano and percussion | Szymon Pimpon Gąsiorek – drums, percussion and electronics
WARELIS/ARPINI
Duo Warelis/Arpini is a largely improvisational vehicle for piano, voice and electronics. Combining elements of noise, singsong-like melodies, pulsing chants, and minimalistic states, they’ve possessed
an ability to create a rich soundscape eliciting images of under-water or outer-space. Representing diversity from folkloric simplicity to wildly unpredictable experimentation, this pair takes you for a
journey where everything is possible.
Marta Warelis – piano | Marta Arpini – voice
NACHTNETGAT
Julie Kurris created a theatrical improvisation group, with elements of fixed compositions. The shape of the band is open – guest players are welcome. Time is flexible.
Nachtnetgat (eng. Nightweb-gap) is the moment of time/space suspense, when all you can do is to wait – the emptiness – which we will fill for you!
The idea is simple: we come together to play. Not doing is also playing. The reason for this come-together was the celebration of the time gap, as an invitation into multi-cultural, interdisciplinary journey. Where anything and nothing can happen.
Julie Kurris – composition | Marta Warelis – piano | Tamar Blom – movements | Szymon Pimpon Gąsiorek – percussion | Yung-Tuan Ku – percussion | Bartel Jespers – actor | Amber Rijcken – form-giver
pictures of Kaja Draksler & Marta Warelis by Sara Anke
picture of Julie Kurris by Laurien Riha
Saturnalia #1: Bacchanalia + Martha Colburn + Duo Harmani + DJ Motherbitch
Friday, October 19, music 22:00, entrance € 8 / students € 6
Our favorite bad boys host a monthly evening with bands / musicians / artists that will set you on fire.
MARTHA COLBURN
Born in rural Pennsylvania, Martha Colburn is an artist filmmaker based in Pennsylvania, USA and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her films and installations have been shown in places such as the Center for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She is well acquainted with the music scenes of Amsterdam and has worked together with a number of musicians. For this evening she will screen some of her animations.
DUO HARMANI
Thomas Huisman (bouzouki, voice) was born in Rotterdam and got hooked on rebetiko music during his Erasmus exchange in Thessaloniki, performing both in the Netherlands as well as in Greece. Manolis Fragkiadakis (guitar, voice) hails from the beautiful island of Crete, known for its strong musical tradition. A PhD student in Leiden, he also gives workshops on rebetiko music. Rebetiko is Greek urban music, with its heyday in the 1930’s. Originating from the Greek communities of Asia Minor (Turkey) it mixes Anatolian and Eastern roots with Western influences. It was the music of the poor refugees from Turkey, living in the shanty towns of Athens and Pireaus, and it was a way of reminiscing their abandoned hometowns. It was the music of the underground, telling stories about petty thieves, feuds, drugs, love and poverty. Duo Harmani plays songs spanning all of rebetiko’s history, from underground refugee music in the 1930’s to the more bohemian and socially accepted style of the 1950’s.
Thomas Huisman / Manolis Fragkiadakis
BACCHANALIA
Bacchanalia plays hypnotizing afro-caribbean music. Sounds like Cumbia, but with a powerful, raw and steaming energy that’s guaranteed to put a spell on you. Force of nature Jasper Stadhouders will not be there this time, but he will be more than aptly replaced by legendary guitar player Franky Douglas.
Miguel Petruccelli – Bass guitar | Franky Douglas – Guitar | John Dikeman – Saxophone | Tristan Renfrow – Drums | Onno Govaert – Percussion | Nicolas Chientaroli – keys
DJ MOTHERBITCH – nasty tunes until closing time.
FOOD
Burgers burgers burgers….. for this night we will give you the best burgers in town, organic beef or vegetarian.
Friday, November 2, music starts 22:00, entrance € 8 / students € 6
Electric Motor Combo takes the rock (& roll) to De Ruimte. Every first Friday of the month they invite a different band for some proper rocking and grooving. This month: Dynamo Irie opens the night. Bring your suede shoes.
DYNAMO IRIE
Psychedelic Locomotive Reggae / Sonic Selassie / Pink Doors Pissy Wall Groove Impro.
ELECTRIC MOTOR COMBO
Pre-war blues played loud! The Electric Motor Combo adds a garage rock flavor to original and traditional folk, blues and country tunes. Shake those hips and feed them brains!
