Deconstructed Melodies concert @ Studio LOOS

An all-star band of four Dutch musical personalities who, between them, have done everything imaginable in the field of music.

Organising and improvising inside of every layer of the music business, curating concerts, series and venues, leading bands and ensembles, playing with the greats, travelling the world. Coming from different generations and directions of noisemaking, here, in this quartet setting, they share their love of melodic improvisation in a floaty memory game of pieces played and pieces heard. Deftly moving around each other, leaving space to create, each on their own, layers of tempo, punctuation, melody, and lyricism. Playing their own compositions alongside classic pieces from Dutch colleagues (Mengelberg, Altena) and American originators such as Sun Ra, Carla Bley, Anthony Braxton, Ornette Coleman, and more to blend in. Trying to find a tone, an expression, playing contemplative noise-jazz melodies in an airy space of contemplation, together alone, alone together, creating balance between space, time, and culture, with a logic of the post-modern and a sensitivity of the cultural here and now.

“We carry our instruments to the stage, and do our best to make sense, to each other and to the audience, referring to culture past and celebrating the originators, while creating something new. A new sensibility both cultural and musical, mostly audible but also beyond sound into the realm of listening, reference, and the practices of everyday life.”

Line up:

Peter van Bergen - tenor sax
Jeroen Kimman - electric guitar
Koen Nutters - electro-acoustic bass guitar
Gert-Jan Prins - percussion, electronics

Petra Dolleman - live images