LOOT, the new quartet formed by Oscar Jan Hoogland and featuring Ab Baars, Uldis Vitols and Onno Govaert, performed two sets at the Bimhuis for Doek Festival LIVE!
The second set was filmed beautifully by Bimhuis TV. Note in the description, they have included a link where you can donate directly to the artists. Not a bad idea…!
Day 1 of Doek LIVE! at the Peepshow Palace, created by De Warme Winkel, in De Brakke Grond. That’s right, the stage is spinning! And the audience is comfortably seated in their beautiful, individual cabins.
Wollo’s Brass Blast, the quintet trombonist Wolter Wierbos especially put together for the Peepshow Palace, featuring Eric Boeren (cornet), Salvoandrea Lucifora (trombone, sousaphone), Joost Buis (trombone) and Partick Votrian (trombone, tuba, sousaphone).
Excerpt from Train Ride, by the late, great Sean Bergin.…
Kaja Draksler Octet – Out for Stars
Clean Feed Records CF534CD
Kaja Draksler has produced another magisterial work for her Octet, based on the poetry of Robert Frost.
From Clean Feed:
…With the previous “Gledalec”, Slovenian pianist and composer Kaja Draksler found a gem to work on, and here is the continuation of that labour, now having the poetry of Robert Frost as both inspiration and feedstock, in the voices of Laura Polence and Björk Níelsdóttir. The ambiances of the music are pastoral, respecting the poems taken from “West Running Brook”, “A Witness Tree” and “In the Clearing”.
The ongoing Space is the Place featuring Doek and Second Stop is Jupiter series has included some of the most successful evenings Doek has helped produce in Amsterdam, in collaboration with De Ruimte. In case you haven’t made it to one of these fantastic nights, here’s an excellent new video featuring a slew of Doek groups. Filmed by Seeltje van Boeckel & Elsie Vermeer, sound by Ron Ruiten and editing by Oscar Jan Hoogland and Elsie Vermeer.
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