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EAR's UP
R'dam.Charlois.Edition
With live music- and performances by:
David Watson_NYC “..Few bagpipers have made so convincing a case for the instrument’s potential for subtlety and revelation in new music as Watson, who conjures teeming worlds of microtonal event, free of folklorish cliché..”
Lukas Simonis_Rotterdam “..He uses of all kinds of attributes, ranging from any kind of digital aids to archaic phone amplifiers and hairdryers. It crunches, squelches, squeeks, throbs, peeps, sucks, drills and drowns like no guitar ever sounded.."
Doktor Schnitt_Rotterdam "...Aphex Twin meets Charles Mingus..."
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Where? WOLFART, Wolphaertstraat 25, Rotterdam Charlois*
When? 14 maart 2008, van 21:00 - 02:00 hours
Entance? Euro 5,- (NAC members Euro 3,-)
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*Link: http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&hl=nl&geocode=&q=Wolphaertstraat+25,+3082+Rotterdam,+Rotterdam+(Zuid-Holland &sll=51.893282,4.467757&sspn=0.008475,0.023518&ie=UTF8&z=16&iwloc=addr
David Watson / NYC
Highland bagpipes
David Watson arrived in New York in the mid 1980’s and established himself as a staple on the avant scene.
Since the early 1990’s he has worked to redefine the Highland bagpipe, an instrument we thought we knew.
His groundbreaking work on Highland bagpipes has been featured in Matthew Barney’s “Cremaster 3” and
he is part of the trio“Glacial” with Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth). Critics have described his work as “psychedelic bagpipe minimalism” and “brain-rearranging massive walls of constantly shifting drone” … “different lines pile up like an old Terry Riley piece, hypnotically repeating.”
He has performed in virtually every venue for new music, recording and performing with NY downtown’s best : Ikue Mori, Kato Hideki, Andrea Parkins, Shelley Hirsch, Chris Mann, Christian Marclay, Tony Buck, William Hooker, Alex Waterman, Zeena Parkins, Eugene Chadbourne and John Zorn, amongst many others.
His current interests include using parades and marching bands as a reference point for a variety of group projects, and creating outdoor contexts for the performance of experimental music. In 2007 he released two well received projects, “Throats” (on Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace) and Fingering an Idea (on Phill Niblock’s XI ).
[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wzjYHD86eis&feature=related[/youtube]
Lukas Simonis / R'dam
Guitar & electronics
Lukas Simonis has his roots as an instrumentalist and musical 'activist' in the industrial music and noise rock of the Eighties (Throbbing Gristle, The Residents, Pere Ubu, Sonic Youth and beyond).Being a part of the Rotterdam jazzbunker scene (a collective that consisted of heavy drug induced punk rockers, freejazzers, early electronic musicians and pre-postrock combo's) he discovered the delimited world of improvisation. In the meantime he played in bands like Dull Schicksal, Trespassers W and Morzelpronk. At the same time he was writing for underground magazines like Trespassers W, Opscene, Mondain Den Haag and the Koekrandt as well as organizing concerts, events and films, first at the Jazzbunker in Rotterdam later on the Dissonanten festival, the Dissidenten festival, Popifilm, Dodorama and finally WORM, a multimedia centre for experimental art.
Nowadays he is still doing a mixture of all these influences/periods, he collaborates with lots of people from different backgrounds. For instance;
Apricot My Lady (with Ann La Berge and the Bohman Brothers), Vril (with Bob Drake and Chris Cutler), Goh Lee Kwang (Kuala Lumpur), Jim Whelton (London). Pierre Bastien (Paris/Rotterdam), Coolhaven (with Peter Fengler and Hajo Doorn), The static Tics (with Henk Bakker) and Liana Flu Winks (with Wilf Plum and Nina Hitz). He also makes programs and productions for WORM (www.wormweb.nl).
http://www.xs4all.nl/~lukas/
http://www.xs4all.nl/~lukas/english/mp3.html
http://www.z6records.nl/related.html
Doktor Schnitt / R'dam Bruno Ferro Xavier da Silva/ bass, Nique Quentin/percussion, Phillip Ernsting/ drums
Don't ask a music lover what he thinks of the new Bruno FX Da Silva band because he'll answer back, "Which one of the ten?". The top bassist from Rotterdam doesn't like to sit still, and his status is now such that everyone wants to play with him. But Doktor Schnitt deserves some extra attention, not only because the trio's debut is released by the strong Laterax label, but also because the Rotterdammers offer a splendid analogue
interpretation of dance. The music of Doktor Schnitt has been described as live drum & bass, but you can just as well cite the influence of later
King Crimson. The instrument control of the gentlemen is flawless: not only Bruno's basswork, but also Philipp Ernsting's drumming and Nique Quentin's percussion. Luckily they can't keep from twisting the odd knob, because colouring outside the lines can be loads of fun and Doktor Schnitt
proves it.(critique from OOr)
http://www.myspace.com/doktorschnitt
http://www.laterax.com/doktorschnitt.htm
http://www.doktorschnitt.com/Home.html
EAR's UP
R'dam.Charlois.Edition
With live music- and performances by:
David Watson_NYC “..Few bagpipers have made so convincing a case for the instrument’s potential for subtlety and revelation in new music as Watson, who conjures teeming worlds of microtonal event, free of folklorish cliché..”
Lukas Simonis_Rotterdam “..He uses of all kinds of attributes, ranging from any kind of digital aids to archaic phone amplifiers and hairdryers. It crunches, squelches, squeeks, throbs, peeps, sucks, drills and drowns like no guitar ever sounded.."
Doktor Schnitt_Rotterdam "...Aphex Twin meets Charles Mingus..."
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Where? WOLFART, Wolphaertstraat 25, Rotterdam Charlois*
When? 14 maart 2008, van 21:00 - 02:00 hours
Entance? Euro 5,- (NAC members Euro 3,-)
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*Link: http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&hl=nl&geocode=&q=Wolphaertstraat+25,+3082+Rotterdam,+Rotterdam+(Zuid-Holland &sll=51.893282,4.467757&sspn=0.008475,0.023518&ie=UTF8&z=16&iwloc=addr
David Watson / NYC
Highland bagpipes
David Watson arrived in New York in the mid 1980’s and established himself as a staple on the avant scene.
Since the early 1990’s he has worked to redefine the Highland bagpipe, an instrument we thought we knew.
His groundbreaking work on Highland bagpipes has been featured in Matthew Barney’s “Cremaster 3” and
he is part of the trio“Glacial” with Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth). Critics have described his work as “psychedelic bagpipe minimalism” and “brain-rearranging massive walls of constantly shifting drone” … “different lines pile up like an old Terry Riley piece, hypnotically repeating.”
He has performed in virtually every venue for new music, recording and performing with NY downtown’s best : Ikue Mori, Kato Hideki, Andrea Parkins, Shelley Hirsch, Chris Mann, Christian Marclay, Tony Buck, William Hooker, Alex Waterman, Zeena Parkins, Eugene Chadbourne and John Zorn, amongst many others.
His current interests include using parades and marching bands as a reference point for a variety of group projects, and creating outdoor contexts for the performance of experimental music. In 2007 he released two well received projects, “Throats” (on Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace) and Fingering an Idea (on Phill Niblock’s XI ).
[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wzjYHD86eis&feature=related[/youtube]
Lukas Simonis / R'dam
Guitar & electronics
Lukas Simonis has his roots as an instrumentalist and musical 'activist' in the industrial music and noise rock of the Eighties (Throbbing Gristle, The Residents, Pere Ubu, Sonic Youth and beyond).Being a part of the Rotterdam jazzbunker scene (a collective that consisted of heavy drug induced punk rockers, freejazzers, early electronic musicians and pre-postrock combo's) he discovered the delimited world of improvisation. In the meantime he played in bands like Dull Schicksal, Trespassers W and Morzelpronk. At the same time he was writing for underground magazines like Trespassers W, Opscene, Mondain Den Haag and the Koekrandt as well as organizing concerts, events and films, first at the Jazzbunker in Rotterdam later on the Dissonanten festival, the Dissidenten festival, Popifilm, Dodorama and finally WORM, a multimedia centre for experimental art.
Nowadays he is still doing a mixture of all these influences/periods, he collaborates with lots of people from different backgrounds. For instance;
Apricot My Lady (with Ann La Berge and the Bohman Brothers), Vril (with Bob Drake and Chris Cutler), Goh Lee Kwang (Kuala Lumpur), Jim Whelton (London). Pierre Bastien (Paris/Rotterdam), Coolhaven (with Peter Fengler and Hajo Doorn), The static Tics (with Henk Bakker) and Liana Flu Winks (with Wilf Plum and Nina Hitz). He also makes programs and productions for WORM (www.wormweb.nl).
http://www.xs4all.nl/~lukas/
http://www.xs4all.nl/~lukas/english/mp3.html
http://www.z6records.nl/related.html
Doktor Schnitt / R'dam Bruno Ferro Xavier da Silva/ bass, Nique Quentin/percussion, Phillip Ernsting/ drums
Don't ask a music lover what he thinks of the new Bruno FX Da Silva band because he'll answer back, "Which one of the ten?". The top bassist from Rotterdam doesn't like to sit still, and his status is now such that everyone wants to play with him. But Doktor Schnitt deserves some extra attention, not only because the trio's debut is released by the strong Laterax label, but also because the Rotterdammers offer a splendid analogue
interpretation of dance. The music of Doktor Schnitt has been described as live drum & bass, but you can just as well cite the influence of later
King Crimson. The instrument control of the gentlemen is flawless: not only Bruno's basswork, but also Philipp Ernsting's drumming and Nique Quentin's percussion. Luckily they can't keep from twisting the odd knob, because colouring outside the lines can be loads of fun and Doktor Schnitt
proves it.(critique from OOr)
http://www.myspace.com/doktorschnitt
http://www.laterax.com/doktorschnitt.htm
http://www.doktorschnitt.com/Home.html
