SITProductions

To mature bands with good ideas, SITP has developed an infrastructure that helps starting bands take their first steps. Often plans rarely or hardly get off the ground due to a lack of resources. That is why SITProductions was created (in 2023): such a supporting organisation for free music is in Amsterdam simply absent.
SITProductions is an objective organization; it supports bands / musicians every year for a concrete project; after that it is up to the bands / musicians themselves to take it further into the world. Check out the projects below.

GABRIEL DE OLIVEIRA (2026)

In the crossroads of 21st century dance music production and “folk” percussive and poetic forms, composer-improviser Gabriel de Oliveira seeks the sound of a global generation. mundu lawaai (the world’s noise / noise world). It is a push for new musical dialects that reflect our position in histories of immigration, post-coloniality and mass media consumption.

In a dual nod to Dutch instant composers and dub studio techniques, the group’s sound is grounded by live-sampled improvisers laying the foundation of cyclical beat-song forms guided by poetry and rapping. Four decades after Arthur Russel’s genre-defying World of Echo, mundu lawaai threads a path set by the approximation of club-oriented urban music and chamber composition, updated to a reality where not even baile funk and Balinese gamelan can escape a virtual dialogue.

Through this project, Oliveira has developed a research between the Netherlands and their native Brazil, immersing themselves auto-ethnographically in traditional processions and soundsystems, performing with maracatu group Leão Misterioso, studying gamelan, tambú, kawina, and engaging in critical readings of the Jaap Kunst Archive and other musicological sources.

Gabriel De Oliveira: guitar, vocals
Chaerin Im: keyboard, synthesizer
Niels Luteijn: drums
Alek Kurniawan: live electronics
Jelle Huizinga: vocals
Marc Alberto: poetry, saxophone, electronics

IBELISSE GUARDIA FERRAGUTTI (2025)

AWICHAS is a music project initiated by Bolivian/Brazilian multi-medium artist and performer Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti, inspired on Andean ritual and microtonal music. Translated to trance-inducing electronic tonalities in collaboration with sound artist Jochem van Tol. The band’s music is a testament of appreciation to the undermined and neglected voices of the Andes, who do not forget or abandon their sonic heritage. Where subversive memories of the mountain’s overground and repetitive rhythms from Frank Rosaly and Jacob Maskell-Key meet, melt, and converse with the underground echoes of the city’s nightly club music. Accompanied by singer Julia Werner and pianist Lida Brouskari.

AWICHAS means ‘ancestral territories’ in Aymara and Quechua, original languages in the Andes – Bolivia. Where sound is experienced as a continuum of all that lives and plays a central role in cultural, spiritual and ecological activation.

PRESS:
“The blend of what you might call “folklore” and “hi-tech” elements is exciting and thrilling. It borders on ritual, but ultimately, it’s a true “concert”.”
About live performance Cinetol – 6 September 2025 | Peter Bruyn – GONZOcircus Magazine

CONCERTS AWICHAS 2025
July 4 SITP X NSRT X WORM
Sept 6 SITP Summer Fest at Cinetol
Sept 19 Rataplan (smaller version)
Sept 21 RE-NATURE Festival Ruigoord
Sept 25 GRASnacht (smaller version)
Nov 7 Le Guess Who
Nov 12 November Music

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PROJECTS 2023

SANEM KALFA: TELEVIZYON

Singer and cellist from Turkey, recognized for her distinctive vocals. Since ten years she is an active member in the Amsterdam music scene. With the support of SITProductions she founded a new band, called Televizyon, which music was inspired by what she listened to when she grew up. That’s Turkish pop/rock, traditional music, music with European influences from Turkish films and maybe also the Sunday rituals on TV with Turkish classical music. The music is mainly improvised with the elements and the richness of the flavors mentioned above.

JAMES MCCLURE: SOFAYA

Trumpeter James McClure is a breath of fresh air in Amsterdam improvisation with contemporary jazz and a successful afro/balkan groove trio MUNGO BUNGO. He is also an active organizer of fascinating evenings full of new experimental talent.

His newly formed band Sofaya is a project that delves into the rich and diverse culture of South African music. From early popular music styles that emerged from the townships such as mbaqanga, kwela and marabi to goema music in the Cape, xhosa traditionals and the more recent electronic dance music styles, kwaito and gqom. The aim is to emphasize these features in different styles by playing existing and original compositions by South African composers of different generations.

James McClure trumpet | Joäo Guerra drums | Zenzele Mthembu-Salter bass | Marta Warelis piano | John Dikeman tenor sax | Diana Dzhabbar alto sax | Lezaam Beets trombone | Christian Chandler trombone

Contact: james91mcclure@gmail.com

ANDRIUS DEREVIANCENKO: 12 TRIBES OF MARS

Lithuanian tenor saxophonist Andrius Dereviancenko is a progressive force in Amsterdam music with ideas that operate far outside the box. Pop rock and electronics are themes in his music and with his latest band he explores reggae and dub.

His band 12 Tribes of Mars is a six-piece band that plays reggae, ska and rocksteady under the influences of free improvisation. The group is strongly inspired by various producers using reggae tracks and making their own remakes called dub. It combines reggae with free improvisation, finding ways to present experimental music to a wider audience.

Andrius Dereviancenko sax | James McCLure trumpet | Azubike Onwuka bass guitar | Robin Engelhard guitar | Onno Govaert drums

Contact: adereviancenko@gmail.com