AN INTERPLANETARY NIGHT
5 April @ 20:30 – 6 April @ 01:00
Mark down in your calendar a new installment of the always pleasantly disturbing An Interplanetary Night!
On the line-up: Mestizx | Gabriel de Oliveira / Beatrice Sberna / Federico Calcagno / Alessandro Fongaro / Michael Vatcher | Aquarius Zen Garden | Keep it Moving ft Andy Ex.
Under the guise of An Interplanetary Night, Space Is the Place organizes spectacular evenings with multiple artists who are pushing boundaries and crossing borders. With its roots in jazz and improvised music, the program explores a variety of genres. This edition features sonic adventurers with a Latin American background, among others. The DJ crew Keep It Moving will set the mood with dub, grooves and experiment.
MESTIZX
They’re operating out of Amsterdam and their music is undeniably contemporary, emphasizing their Latin American backgrounds. Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti is a singer and performance artist from Bolivia. Frank Rosaly grew up in a Puerto Rican family and made name as a drummer in Chicago. Mestizx , their new album on the American labels Nonesuch & International Anthem is a propulsive, intercultural and anti-colonial mix of avant-jazz, punk, cumbia, electronics and more.
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti voice/guitar/synths/performance | Frank Rosaly drums/percussion/electronics | James McClure trumpet/synths | Ben Boye synths | Uldis Vitols bass
BEATRICE SBERNA & GABRIEL DE OLIVEIRA
From the sinister lullaby ‘Satan <3’ to the provocative punk jazz of ‘Alternative Scene’: throughout the years Italian singer Beatrice Sberna and Brazilian guitarist Gabriel de Oliviera have created a stylistically varied range of songs to be released on their debut album. Influences from Italian cantautori and Brazilian folk are cheerfully blended together with the help of improvisers from all over the world—this concert will feature, among others, Alessandro Fongaro and Michael Vatcher.
Gabriel de Oliveira guitar, voice | Beatrice Sberna voice | Federico Calcagno clarinets | Alessandro Fongaro bass | Michael Vatcher percussion
AQUARIUS ZEN GARDEN
Don’t let their calming name fool you— Aquarius Zen Garden is an explosive electronic band consisting of Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti, Jochem van Tol and Jacob Maskell-Key. Their first performance was an improvised set at C.A.L.L. Festival at Plantage Dok last June. The trio creates layered sound sculptures, most of the time highly danceable, with up-tempo beats.
Jochem van Tol – modular synth, drum computer | Jacob Maskell-Key – synths, drum computer | Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti – synths, voice, percussion
KEEP IT MOVING FT. ANDY EX
Keep it Moving is a translocal crew devoted to the finer aspects of music through a non-ego-driven approach, encompassing community radio, performance nights, club gigs, handcrafted stage designs, visual arts, fundraising, and more—at the intersection where warm grooves and ice-cold electronics meet. Born from their iconic shows on Stranded FM, they recently hosted the impro-festival Keep.Space.Fest, featuring a wide array of promising artists, as well as the stellar An Interplanetary Solstice Night at BIMHUIS, both in collaboration with SITP.
DJs from the KIM crew will be playing alongside the one and only Andy Moor, aka DJ Andy Ex. An Amsterdam-based DJ and an exquisite guitarist in his own right, he is best known as a member of The Ex. Occasionally taking to the decks at music-loving spots and offbeat parties, his free-jazz DJing attitude spans genres from hip-hop to punk, Ethio-jazz to dub and dancehall, gqom to cumbia, and beyond. He also hosts Blueprints for a Blackout every four weeks on Echobox Radio.