The Impro Train: Hupata! and Wilbert de Joode

Bimhuis and Doek Present:
The Impro Train
June 11, 2021
3 Sets at 19.00, 20.30 and 22.00
Tickets
Passepartout

The Impro Train is back, baby!
Three sets by two ensembles. Go to one, go to them all, either way it’ll be a fabulous evening.
Fabulous!

Saxophone, piano and percussion form the sound of Hupata!, alongside 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. The three band members Ada Rava, Marta Warelis and Yung-Tuan Ku obviously have a shared sense of humor and imagination. In their improvisations, strong melodies and noise can be interchanged with quiet passages, reflecting breathing cycles and the tides of the sea.

Argentinean saxophonist Ada Rave, Polish pianist Marta Warelis and Taiwanese percussionist Yung-Tuan Ku met each other in the playground of vibrant Amsterdam improvised scene, and have been working together since October 2016. Last summer their album Microclimates appeared on the American label Astral Spirits. The music evokes images, much like the titles on the album: Dragon Tiger Buffalo, Urban Heat Island, and House in the Tall Grass, for example.

Each show kicks off with a solo from another true improviser, Wilbert de Joode. He’s widely known as a powerful free spirit who dares to take risks, always looking further, digging deeper. In 2016 he won the prestigious Buma Boy Edgar Prize.