Year: 2018

This is our music – Doek Festival 2018

ByJohn Dikeman News

June 14-17
The last few editions of the Doek Festival have been some of the most ambitious events Doek has ever undertaken. A collaboration with Present Sounds Amsterdam brought you The Present Is Present, showcasing the incredible wealth of improvised music happening in Amsterdam today. Prior to that we had the ABC Festival, connecting scenes from Amsterdam, Berlin and Chicago, and Doek Meets Tri-centric, which brought over an entire collective from the United States to work with and perform the music of Anthony Braxton among others.…

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EDDIE AND THE EAGLES: Enough is Enough

ByJohn Dikeman Concerts, News, Video

March 31 – 22:00 – 05:00
The Bimhuis
€16 Regular, €13 CJP/Stadspas/Student

“Eddie and the Eagles is back for our biggest edition so far. You’ve been there at OT301 and De Ruimte. It’s time to hit the elite stage and turn it inside out. Backwards. Bottom up. The Bimhuis is ours till 5 o’clock in the morning.”

LIFT PROGRAM WITH EXPLICIT ELEVATOR MUSIC:

ENTRANCE THROUGH-> PARKING -1

PRACTICAL MUSIC! enter our ship through the engine room.
Oscar Jan Hoogland machines/ sirens/ recordplayers/ gokautomaat/ analogue synth/ electric clavichord/ real to real/ megaphones, Jasper Stadhouders guitar, Christian Lillinger drums

GO UP -> proceed, stay focused, tune in and get out.…

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Cactus (Truck/Duo) + Ava Mendoza Tour

ByJohn Dikeman Concerts, News

Cactus Truck is teaming up once again with guitar wizard Ava Mendoza to tour Europe this March. Ava brings a unique dirty virtuosity to the band that helps flesh out different aspects of the Cactus canon. As Vice said: “It’s… Ava Mendoza’s deconstructing of blues and punk into brutal shredfests that’s causing a ruckus in NYC’s DIY hubs”.
Unfortunately, Jasper Stadhouders had some previous engagements that will not allow him to join the last few dates of the tour. However, the bass chair will be more than covered for their performance at Freejazzfestival Saarbrücken by one Barry Guy.…

space is the place ft doek – march

Bydoek News


March 9 – 21:00
De Ruimte
€8 Space is the Place ft. Doek, €6 Second Stop, €10 combined ticket

This night’s program is a very exciting one. First off a solo performance by that wonderful lyricist Michael Moore on sax and clarinet, followed by the Kaja Draksler Octet playing the music of Moondog, an influential American musician, composer, poet and inventor of several musical instruments. Listen to his music here.

At 23:00 it’s the Second Stop is Jupiter with dancing to live Turkish and cumbia music.…

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The AMS-USA Exchange

ByJohn Dikeman Audio, Concerts, News

John Dikeman – saxophone
Jasper Stadhouders – guitar
Tony Piazza – bass
Adam Shead – drums

2/22 – Ziggy’s, Ypsilanti, MI
2/23 – The Spot, Lafayette, IN
2/24 – Art Lit Lab Madison, WI
2/25 – Hungry Brain Chicago, IL
2/26 – The Bramble, South Bend, IN
2/27 – Spread Art, Detroit, MI
2/28 – TBA, Cleveland, OH
3/1 – Rhizome, DC
3/2 – Sound Hole, Philadelphia, PA
3/3 – H010, NYC, NY

In 2017 American percussionist and composer Adam Shead came to Amsterdam to immerse himself in the rich Dutch improvised music scene.…

This is Doek

ByJohn Dikeman News

February 15, 19:30
Plantage Doklaan
A portrait of Doek by Elsa van der Linden

A concert full of quotes, objects, movement, music, and most of all improvisation based on one question:
How diverse is Doek?

“The power of Doek, which can make things difficult and at the same time strong, is that we are very different.” – quote by a member of Doek.

With: Wolter Wierbos, Michael Moore, Wilbert De Joode, Kaja Draksler, Eric Boeren, Carolyn Muntz, Oscar Jan Hoogland.

John Dikeman and Jasper Stadhouders will be present artistically, but not physically……..…