Ton Mijs has created a beautiful photo book to document the performance of I Hear a Smell from Doek Festival #12. This performance, created by Tobias Delius and Ciska Jansen, mixed sight, smell, sound and taste. This unique book, which is available as a limited edition print-on-demand, is available on Ton’s website here.…
Wouter Kooij, graduate student at Hogeschool van Amsterdam, has created a survey to try to understand the relationship between different experimental music organizations and their audiences and how this relationship is impacted by the various types of media and marketing used by said organizations. If you have a minute, please take the time to fill out this quick survey and help Wouter, as well as Doek as a whole, get a better idea of how we can reach our audience.…
Bakfietsband – A musical mini portrait from Carambolas Films on Vimeo.
This summer has featured a wonderful series of Saturday afternoon performances at Westerpark as part of Herbert Nouwens’ sculpture exhibition, Angels’ Share. Sadly, this Sunday, it comes to a close. For the final installment we are happy to have the totally unique Bakfietsband performing as well as cornet master Eric Boeren.
This week the performance will take place Sunday afternoon, August 31, starting at 17:00. The meeting point will be in front of the twin sculpture just west of Pacific Parc.…
The Zomer Jazz Fiets Tour is one of the highlights of the Dutch musical year. The programming is always excellent and diverse and the novel idea to bike from stage to stage across the northern Netherlands’ charming landscape is so appealing we borrowed the idea for the last two editions of the Doek Festival.
This year a number of Doek, or Doek related groups, will be performing:
Duo Delius / Scheen
Marie Guilleray / Eric Boeren 5tet
1000 & Eugene Chadbourne
Goudsmit / Bakker / Jäger
The complete programme is online at: Zomer Jazz Fiets Tour – Programme…
THE JOB from Jochem van Tol on Vimeo.
This excellent video shows The Job on their tour through Japan which took place in March and April of 2014. Filmed and edited by Job member Jochem van Tol, this video offers a glimpse of life on the road with the quartet as well as some exclusive performance footage.…
September 4, 20:30
Occii, Amstelveenseweg 134, Amsterdam €7
CASPAR BRÖTZMANN (DE), MASSIMO PUPILLO (IT, ZU), ALEXANDRE BABEL (CH) TRIO + CATHY HEYDEN (FR) / ROGIER SMAL DUO + CACTUS TRUCK
IN O.K./OUT K.O.
This will be a great night featuring the world premiere of Casper Brötzmann’s new power trio with Massimo Pupillo (Zu, OffonOff) and Alexandre Babel (worked with Keiji Heino, Sudden Infant). Cactus Truck will be on the bill as well as Rogier Smal, a mainstay of Occii and one of the busiest performers around, duo with the French saxophonist Cathy Heyden.…