Jasper Stadhouders

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Doek Composes – Passage by Kaja Draksler

Doek Composes for solo improvisers, a new and ongoing series on Doek RAW featuring original artwork by Lena Czerniawska

The second publication in this series on Doek RAW is composed by pianist Kaja Draksler. She wrote a piece called Passage. When we asked her to write a short text to accompany her composition, she created a poem by combining definitions from the Cambridge dictionary.

Passage

A way of escape.

The passage of time- the process of time going past.…

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Doek Composes – Enkhuizen by Eric Boeren

Doek Composes for solo improvisers, a new and ongoing series on Doek RAW featuring original artwork by Lena Czerniawska

The first publication in this series on our Bandcamp label Doek RAW is composed by cornettist Eric Boeren. He wrote a piece called Enkhuizen, which is a small town on the coast of the Ijsselmeer in the province of Noord-Holland in The Netherlands. Eric is, amongst many other things, an avid cyclist, and this is Eric’s explanation of how this composition came about:

“With my composition Enkhuizen I have tried to bring one of my theories into practice.…

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New Wolter Wierbos and Jasper Stadhouders recordings

Bandcamp is offering to waive their fees on the first Friday of the month to help artists during the corona pandemic. We’re taking advantage of this offer to present to you two excellent recordings, available for the first time.

The VERY FIRST RADIO RECORDING OF WOLTER WIERBOS!!! is available for the first time since it aired in 1978. Duo Klei featuring Joep Maessan also features the only radio recording of Wolter on the baritone horn. A must have for collectors!

Solo.

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The Market, redux at Space is the Place

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!)…

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PolyBand at Gaudeamus Muziekweek

Jasper Stadhouders’ PolyBand
Gaudeamus Muziekweek
Saturday 7 September
TivoliVredenburg – Cloud Nine
22:30 – 00:00

“For years guitarist Jasper Stadhouders has been a sensation on the Amsterdam and international free improvisation scene, but his ambitions extend further. Gaudeamus is glad to help him realize his dreams by commissioning a work to be performed by his PolyBand. With PolyBand he brings together a large group of musician friends of his for a dizzying, unstoppable cocktail of krautrock, mathcore, cumbia and more. The gigantic band keeps switching between tight control and total surrender, in a 90-minute-long hypnotizing composition which could just as easily last 6 hours.…