An Interplanetary Night: This is the Amsterdam Underground
Saturday 18 June 2022 20:30
BIMHUIS
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Amsterdam’s adventurous underground scene blossoms and kept doing so during the pandemic, despite the lack of gigs. All this pent-up energy can be released in this evening full of bands, duos and solo performances.
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BAZOOKA
MARTA WARELIS / INGEBRIGT HÅKER FLATEN
BENJAMIN HERMAN TRIO & OSCAR JAN HOOGLAND
RAW FISH
SUN-MI HONG & TRISTAN RENFROW
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LENA HESSELS
PAROAH
DJ ANDY EX
BAZOOKA
Waywardly swinging interpretations of Angolan popular guitar music from the sixties and seventies. Because of their limited number of gigs, Bazooka has become cult band.
Andy Moor guitar, Jasper Stadhouders guitar, Miguel Petruccelli bass, Onno Govaert drums, Marta Warelis percussion
SUN-MI HONG & TRISTAN RENFROW
Two rising stars of the drums will start a conversation on stage. Will there be fierce discussions or intimate embraces? Will they make you laugh or weep?
Sun-Mi Hong, Tristan Renfrow drums
SOON
Duo with roots in Amsterdam and Berlin featuring alternative pop guitarist Liú Mottes and multi-instrumentalist Jochem van Tol, who plays drums and keys, often simultaneously. Their eponymous debut album touches on avant-garde, experimental rock and film music.
Liú Mottes guitar, Jochem van Tol modular synthesizer
RAW FISH
Exciting rebirth of a Danish-Italian duo. Idiosyncratic guitar lines, imposing drumming: sparks fly from left to right and straight through the middle.
Teis Semey guitar, Giovanni Iacovella drums
BENJAMIN HERMAN TRIO & OSCAR JAN HOOGLAND
Dutch jazz icon Benjamin Herman and his trio join forces with pianist Oscar Jan Hoogland. Together they elaborate on the Amsterdams school of jazz improvisation, with Misha Mengelberg as a key figure.
Benjamin Herman sax, Oscar Jan Hoogland piano, Thomas Pol bass, Joost Patocka drums
MARTA WARELIS / INGEBRIGT HÅKER FLATEN
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, the man with the bass, merges his free jazz explorations and experimentation with skillful use of attributes and styles from other idioms, just as the young pianist Marta Warelis does in her playing. They play together as a duo for the first time.
Marta Warelis piano, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten bass
LENA HESSELS
From a very young age, Lena Hessels experienced life on the road, as the daughter of Terrie Hessels, guitarist of The Ex. She forged her own path, with seductive electro pop that can sound either playful or dark and hypnotic.
DJ ANDY EX
DJ Andy Ex is Andy Moor, guitarist of The Ex. Andy spins Ethiopian, Algerian, Moroccan, Angolan, Ugandan, Jamaican dancehall, South-African Gqom, dub reggae, UK Rap, hip-hop, free jazz, Rebetika, and more.
PAROAH
Paroah alias Vicky de Visser has effortlessly found her way in the European rave underground. She is the co-founder of the label Free Shit for improvised music, and she promotes electronic music for Ruisburo in De Ruimte, Amsterdam.