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Doek Festival #20 Art of the Outskirts

ByJohn Dikeman Concerts, Image, News

Amsterdam, Brussels, Berlin

August 28 – September 3

Balconies Jasper Stadhouders, Antonio Borghini, Steve Heather
Bioluminus Ada Rave, Aaron Lumley, Onno Govaert
The Persons Michael Moore, Jeroen Kimman, Jasper Stadhouders, Miguel Petruccelli, Michael Vatcher
The Ambush Party Oscar Jan Hoodland, Natalio Sued, Harald Austbo, Marcos Baggiani
Old Adam on Turtle Island John Dikeman, Marta Warelis, Aaron Lumley, Sun-Mi Hong
Teun Verbruggen’s kaPSalon Teun Verbruggen, Nate Wooley, Jozef Dumoulin, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten
All Ellington Plays Sun Ra
On the Road, Concerts at BUI
The Famous Fiets Tour

That’s right, the Doek Festival is coming back for our 20th edition this fall.…

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Dikeman, Vicente, Parker, Drake tour in July

ByJohn Dikeman Audio, Concerts, Image, Media

photo Vera Marmelo
John Dikeman, Luis Vicente, William Parker and Hamid Drake will be on the road again in July. The trio Dikeman, Parker, Drake has existed since 2014 when John Dikeman invited them to join him for the Doek Festival. Since then they have released a number of albums and toured throughout Europe. As part of a tour in 2019, Luis Vicente joined the group for a number of dates in Portugal creating this quartet and the album Goes Without Saying, but It’s Got to Be Said on the Portuguese JACC Records.…

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­KAJA DRAKSLER – IN OTHERNESS ONESELF

ByJohn Dikeman Image, Media, News

“It all offers further proof that Draksler is one of the most potent musical minds of our times.”

The Quietus, Peter Margasak

In Otherness Oneself is the latest solo album by Kaja Draklser released by the Amsterdam label Unsounds. Here she explores the possibility of inventing and maintaining musical languages, and how those exist in the proximity of each other. Moving from composition to improvisation, freely using voices and electronics, Draksler delivers a gorgeous album with a powerful concept.

Buy now on Unsounds!…

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Doek Impro Workshops @ Splendor

ByJohn Dikeman Concerts, Image, News

February 26 – Jasper Stadhouders
March 20 – John Dikeman
Splendor
2 sessions: 11-13.30 and 15-17.00
€20 / €15 for students
We’re finishing up our series of Doek Workshops in Splendor. Some of these have been rescheduled a few times, well hopefully these dates will stick.
The daylong workshop will comprise two sessions (11-13.30 and 15-17). Cost of the workshop is €20 and €15 for students. There is a maximum of 10 students per workshop.
We will follow all COVID-19 regulations and precautions that apply at the time of the workshop.…

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On Innovation and the Future of Music (and Art)

ByJohn Dikeman Image, Media, News

Interviews by Kaja Draksler

Available here, at Bandcamp

Peter Evans
Thanasis Deligiannis
Susana Santos Silva
Ab Baars
Gianluca Elia
Christopher Dell
Christian Lillinger

Szymon Gąsiorek: drawings
Maga Ćwieluch: graphic design and DTP

On Innovation and the Future of Music (and art) is a collection of interviews by Kaja Draksler and drawings by Szymon Gąsiorek. The seven conversations with musicians of different age, background and origin, took place between April and July 2020, mostly via email.
The artists talk about their ideas about the future of music and their relationship with the concept of innovation and legacy.…

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The Impro Train: Hupata! and Wilbert de Joode

ByJohn Dikeman Concerts, Image, News

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.…