The most important festival for contemporary music in The Netherlands is the Gaudeamus Muziekweek. I’m really happy to be invited again to participate and offer some decent context in the form of books, magazines, records and sound objects. Also the participating composers and musicians are offering their publications via Underbelly! Find me in the Festival […]
Closely related to modular synth engineer Bastl Instruments, Nona releases a great variety of experimental music, not even all by modular synth fanatics, but mainly electronic anyway. Their cover design is also quite remarkable. Four of their releases can be found here.
Finally Underbelly will travel overseas: on June 23 and 24 I’m joining WORM from Rotterdam while they’re setting up camp in Hull, UK. The wonderful Humber Street Gallery in the city’s docklands invited WORM in the framework of the Hull UK Cultural Capital 2017 programme. Read all about it here.
A well-kept secret (to me) until now.. I saw AWOTT play recently and they were amazing. So I bought all their albums. The LPs are already gone but the tapes sound great too! Here they are for those who missed them.
An unexpected treat in a newly discovered little venue in Rotterdam-Zuid. Awott sounds great, and probably will look just as good. Plus: Sajjra from Peru, VAT from France. plus me popping up in some corner. view the facebook event here. So it’s in a place called MIR, Hillevliet 98, Rotterdam, on Tuesday 30 May at […]
Underbelly proudly presents 3 beautiful new titles from the fields of artists film and critical politics. The Baffler (US), Soundings (UK) and Millennium Film Journal. Here!
.. Last week I saw Mary Ocher play. A courageous, unconventional and sweet-voiced musician. Here‘s her new record!
A.k.a. SOTU in Amsterdam. A whole weekend of experiment, extremes and eccentricity! Tonight you can find me with a nice Underbelly pop-up AND on stage around 10 PM, as dzum. All info here. Click LINE UP if you want to avoid the KILL KILL KILL 666 madness!
..happens in ‘s-Hertogenbosch this weekend. Electronic music & no frills! Meet me in the bar of the Toonzaal (aka Willem II Concertzaal) this Friday and Saturday. More info here. No tickets needed if you only want to have a look at my records and books!
Two more days of STRP for me and then it’s time for 3 days of Rewire in The Hague. Find me at Paard foyer (timetable here) ! Some highlights: This Is Not This Heat, AGF, Kubra Khademi, Moor Mother, The Swans, Zs, Jace Clayton, Peter Zinovieff, guests from the Wire magazine.
