AN INTERPLANETARY NIGHT

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, presenting an extraordinary international line-up:

Natural Information Society | Dovetail | Sofia Borges & Ada Rave | Lida Brouskari | Paroah b2b Spooky-J

Natural Information Society

Natural Information Society sounds intangible, simultaneously relaxing and energetic. The band from Chicago combines traditional and electric instruments, drawing from minimalism, jazz, krautrock and more. Band leader Joshua Abrams incorporates the hypnotic tones of the gimbri, the three-stringed instrument from West-African gnawa music.

Joshua Abrams gimbri/bass, Jason Stein bass clarinet, Lisa Alvarado harmonium/gong, Mikel Avery drums

“It feels startlingly new, in terms of how the music is extrapolated, how the players relate, even as it feels like an ur-music, primal, body-centered, essential.” – David Keenan, The Wire

Dovetail

To create a cohesive fastening that is stronger than the sum of its parts—that is the goal of Dovetail, a three-piece formation named after a carpentry technique. Dovetail’s music feels familiar, yet shifts beneath your feet; patterns that make sense only through surrendering to them. Grooves inspired by West African folk traditions, minimal classical music, and avant-garde techno are connected much like a fluent DJ set.

Chaerin Im piano, Alessandro Fongaro bass, Chen Har-Even drums

Ada Rave & Sofia Borges

© Salvoandrea Lucifora

As a sound creator, Sofia Borges expands the drum kit by adding objects, some of them of her own invention, music boxes, toys, orchestral percussion instruments and field recordings, creating her own sonic world. Now she will improvise with saxophonist Ada Rave, whose bold tenor sound is based on research into a wide variety of techniques, conventional and unorthodox, which allow her to create a highly personal narrative in real time composition. For their first-ever duo concert, Borges and Rave bring to life the spirit of their debut album The Unseen Pact—an electrifying dialogue built on spontaneity, intuition, and the thrill of uncharted sound.

Ada Rave sax, Sofia Borges drums / objects / percussion

Lida Brouskari

Lida Brouskari is a Greek artist working with piano, synths, toys, voice, and text. She is an active part of the Amsterdam improvisation scene, leading her own band Nufaro. In this solo performance, Lida explores the connections between the mental and the physical, the acoustic and the electronic, presence and absence.

Lida Brouskari keys

Paroah B2B Spooky-J

Two sonic explorers join forces behind the decks for a genre-defying B2B DJ-set. Spooky-J (of Nihiloxica) brings UK bass and footwork while Paroah weaves in trap, heavy percussions, and hybrid club textures.