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    New Releases on Doek RAW

    ByJohn Dikeman Audio, Image, Media, News

    Doek RAW has just released 3 new digital albums all featuring photography of Sara Anke Morris.

    Ada Rave Trio
    Live at Zaal 100
    Ada Rave – saxophone, clarinet, objects
    Nicola Hein – prepared guitar
    Wilbert de Joode – bass

    John Dikeman, Hamid Drake
    Live in Chicago
    John Dikeman – saxophone
    Hamid Drake – drums

    Sylla | Hoogland | Rosaly
    Tea Spoon Suite
    Mola Sylla – voice, m’bira, xalam, percussion
    Oscar Jan Hoogland – electric clavichord
    Frank Rosaly – drums, percussion…

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    Space is the Place – Valentine edition

    ByJohn Dikeman Concerts, Image, News

    Friday 14 February
    Space is the Place featuring Doek / The 2nd Stop is Jupiter
    Valentine’s edition
    curated by Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti
    21:00 – 03:00 @ De Ruimte
    € 6 – 18 sliding scale entrance

    This edition is all about the DUO universe, that expands and contracts. Those one-on-one meetings which relentlessly shake our hearts. Lovers, ex lovers, wanna be lovers and 5th dimensional lovers, will be playing all night long. Welcome to this wondrous serenade!

    Line-up:
    DE COWBOY EN DE KLUIZENAAR
    Arthur van Beek & Ank Daamen Kunstenaar – Visual arts

    DUO – Songs
    Eef Van Breen (compositie, trumpet, voice)
    Eva Tebbe (Harp, voice)…

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    Ada Rave featured in JazzNU

    ByJohn Dikeman Image, Media, News


    Ada Rave in JazzNu
    JazzNu has declared January 2020 to be tenor month. Along with Ab Baars, Mete Erker, Yuri Honing and Ties Mellema, Ada Rave is featured for her undeniable contribution to the Dutch sax scene, specifically for her solo playing. In this in-depth interview she talks about growing up in a small town in Patagonia, Argentina, riding horses and connecting with nature. We then follow her development, discovering jazz and picking up the saxophone, and everything that transpired to bring her and her music to Amsterdam.…

  • PolyBand as part of Festival WhyNot!

    ByJohn Dikeman News

    Jasper Stadhouders’ PolyBand
    Festival WhyNot!
    Bimhuis
    Wednesday 22 January
    20:30 – 00:00

    Festival WhyNot! is presenting the truly massive PolyBand at the Bimhuis in collaboration with The Rest is Noise.

    “…a swirling maelstrom of rhythmic passages. South American and African rhythms, Kraut rock, funk and free improvisation alternate at a rapid pace. A show of an hour and a half, without a break, flies by at lightning speed.”

    from a review of the Gaudeamus Muziekweek in Nieuwe Noten.

    PolyBand
    Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti: voice/percussion/performance; Marjolein Vogels: dance/performance; Suzanne de Bekker: dance/performance; Björk Níelsdóttir: vocals; Genevieve Clare Georgina Florence Murphy: bagpipes; Leo Svirsky: accordeon/Fender Rhodes; Nora Mulder: cymbalom; Marta Warelis: piano/keyboards/synth; Joost Buis: trombone; Salvoandrea Lucifora: trombone/sousaphone; Jeroen Kimman: guitar; Jasper Stadhouders: guitar; Miguel Petruccelli: bass; Tristan Renfrow: drums; Onno Govaert: drums; Philipp Moser: drums; Paul Koek: percussion; Mei-yi Lee: percussion/glockenspiel; Sandor Caron: sound engineer…

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    Michael Moore Fragile Quartet tour, new releases

    ByJohn Dikeman Concerts, Image, News

    January 16 Bimhuis, Amsterdam
    January 17 Toonzaal, Den Bosch, NL
    January 18 TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht
    January 19 Pletterij, Haarlem
    January 25 AMR, Geneva, Switzerland

    Michael Moore – clarinet, alto saxophone
    Harmen Fraanje – piano
    Clemens van der Feen – bass
    Gerry Hemingway – drums

    Michael Moore’s Fragile Quartet has existed since 2007 and, as could be expected by the name, presents his music in the most intimate of settings. With every tour for the quartet, Michael composes new material and these concerts will explore compositions from the latest quartet album, “Cretan Dialogues“.…

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    The Market, redux at Space is the Place

    ByJohn Dikeman Concerts, Media, News, Video

    Friday, January 10, 21:00
    21:00 – 03:00 pay what you can/want on a sliding scale from €6 – €18
    De Ruimte

    Doek Festival’s The Market Returns!

    A recap of last Doek festival’s The Market: Bazaar, with compositions by Cor Fuhler, Michael Moore, Eric Boeren, Harald Austbø, Kaja Draksler, Jasper Stadhouders, John Dikeman and Oscar Jan Hoogland.
    Line-up: Ada Rave, Eric Boeren, Harald Austbø, Jasper Stadhouders, Michael Moore, Michael Vatcher, Oscar Jan Hoogland, Wilbert de Joode, Wolter Wierbos.

    This special Bazaar edition of Space is The Place ft Doek /2nd Stop is Jupiter features a stellar line-up, tons of live music (and live stallholders!)…