An Interplanetary Night w/ Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones

Friday 9 October 2026 | 20.30
BIMHUIS, Amsterdam

Since 2018, Space is the Place and BIMHUIS organise progressive programs of adventurous jazz and improvised music under the guises of Interplanetary & Intergalactic Nights. Expect genre-hopping and boundary-crossing acts, with creative minds from our vibrant local scene as well as international tastemakers.

LINE-UP:
Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones | Ludvig Søndergaard Sekstet | Czajka & Puchacz | Gerri Jäger

Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones

Rooted in a deep commitment to social practice, Amirtha Kidambi’s music channels resistance through sound. With her ensemble Elder Ones, the composer creates expansive, exploratory suites that reject conventional song structures in favor of sonic activism confronting systems of oppression. Drums drive an unrelenting march while saxophones erupt in vocal-like cries of defiance, evoking the energy of a mass demonstration. Beneath it all, the harmonium lays a rich droning foundation for Kidambi’s expressive voice to navigate, as the double bass provides a steady anchor amid the turbulence. Drawing from free jazz, post-rock, and radical electroacoustic improvisation, she transforms syncopation and dissonance into bold avant-garde anthems for collective struggle and social movements.

Czajka & Puchacz

Pianist Kaja Draksler has found her musical match in drummer Szymon Gasiorek: both explore the outer limits of their instruments through improvisations. The duo debuted with predominantly acoustic album Bivališča, and followed up shortly after with the retro-avant-pop single Entschuldigung under the name Kiebitz & Uhu. This tension is also present on their recent album Flapping, which moves between free improvisation and experimental songwriting.

Ludvig Søndergaard Sekstet

As the winner of the Keep an Eye The Records competition, drummer Ludvig Søndergaard was given the opportunity to create his dream band. With these major talents from Amsterdam, he combines and fuses opposite types of composition: intimate piano songs that immediately captivate the listener, and intricate sonic constructions full of irregular rhythms, twelve tone series and electronic experiments. This reflects the division between the Danish countryside, where Ludvig grew up, and the big cities he lived in: Paris, Berlin and Amsterdam. 

Gerri Jäger

With Argument with Reality, drummer Gerri Jäger ventures into a new direction. His solo project for drums and electronics is now expanded with live visuals created in collaboration with filmmaker Alek Riquelme. It combines self-made and collected video material, and explores themes such as addiction, (non)politics, parenthood and nature. Here Gerri remains grounded in his own expressive language: mixing genres to create a dynamic and unpredictable experience that shifts between power/fragility, minimalism/chaos and boredom/rapture.