F.I.M. triff DOEK (Amsterdam)

Nach FIM Basel, ARTist Wiesbaden und Impact Köln treffen hier 5 Musikerinnen der Initiative DOEK aus Amsterdam auf 5 Musiker des F.I.M. Frankfurt.

• Marta Warelis -piano
• Ada Rave - sax/clarinet
• Oscar Jan Hoogland - piano/electric clavichord
• Wilbert de Joode - double bass
• Jasper Stadhouders - guitar
• Katrin Zurborg - guitar,
  statt John Schroeder bzw.
  Christoph Aupperle)
• Jürgen Werner - bansuri, flute
• Daniel Guggenheim - sax
• Uli Schiffelholz - dr

DOEK (Amsterdam) ist ein Kollektiv improvisierender Musikerinnen und Musiker, die Möglichkeiten für Experimente, Forschung und Performance schaffen. Sie teilen Haltungen bezüglich Taktik, Referenzen, Vor- und Nachfahren bezüglich Improvisation und treiben die musikalische Praxis in vielen Gruppen und ad hoc Kombinationen weiter.
Durch das Initiieren, Organisieren, Finanzieren von Konzerten, Projekten, Tourneen und ein jährliches Festival wurde Doek zu einer zentralen Plattform für Improvisation. Als Partner etablierter sowie neu entstehender Veranstaltungen und Organisationen öffnet Doek einem breiten Publikum die vibrierende Welt der Improvisation.
(www.doek.org/about-doek/)

Die eingeladenen Musikerinnen und Musiker:

Wilbert de Joode (1955) is a veritable research scientist of bass pizzicato and bowing techniques. A self-taught musician, he has been playing the double-bass since 1982. He began working in groups that improvised within a jazz framework. Other musicians were soon drawn to his idiosyncratic style, and in the mid 80s he played in groups led by Vera Vingerhoeds, Armando Cairo and Ig Henneman where he further developed his improvisation skills. He came into contact with such musicians as J.C.Tans, Rinus Groeneveld, Michiel Braam, Han Bennink, Han Buhrs (Schismatics) and Ab Baars.
De Joode is currently one of the most active bass players on the European improvised music circuit. His individual style and musicality transforms the double bass into an equal partner in the most varied ensembles. A personal tone colour, exploration of the outer registers, quirky improvisations and the use of gut strings contribute to an instantly recognizable and intriguing sound.
The seventeen improvised pieces on his first solo cd Olo (distributed by ToonDist) show how rich and complex his sound on the double bass is.

“Jasper Stadhouders (Tilburg, NL, 1989) is one of the newest members of DOEK and belongs to the youngest generation of Dutch improvisers. He is a guitarist, bassist, improviser, composer, bandleader and concert organiser. Since arriving in Amsterdam, Jasper has exploded onto the international improvised music scene. His playing showcases a completely natural musicality. One has the sense that he is so connected with his instrument he can play whatever he imagines. His ability to perform difficult compositions, with an assured sense of rhythm and harmony, combined with his extremely physical and dynamic approach to improvising, has led him being one of the most sought after guitarists and electric bassists around.”

Jasper leads the PolyBand which he founded in 2015. The PolyBand consists of an ever expanding pool of musicians and performers in varying line-ups and sizes which focuses on polyrhythmic cycles, polytonality and trance-like long forms. In 2019, Jasper received a commission from the prestigious festival Gaudeamus Muziekweek (Utrecht, NL) to compose an entirely new work for a 16-piece version of the PolyBand which will premier in September 2019.

At the 2015 Incubate Festival (Tilburg, NL), during a 6-day residency he lead the Jasper Stadhouders’ International Improv Ensemble. He also formed the 5tet Oliver / Stadhouders / Vitols / Rosaly / ‘t Hart, which premiered at the 2018 DOEK Festival.
He is the co-founder of Cactus Truck, Trio Stadhouders / Govaert / De Joode + Delius, Trio Rempis / Stadhouders / Rosaly, Shelter, Bazooka, Practical Music, and plays in bands like Spinifex, Ken Vandermark’s groups Made To Break, Entr’Acte and Next International, Jaap Blonk’s Retirement Overdue, Bacchanalia, o k a p i, and Jeroen Kimman’s Orquesta del Tiempo Perdido. In 2014, The Ex invited Jasper to join them on the last tour of the late great Ethiopian saxophone legend Getatchew Mekuria in Addis Ababa. Next to this, Jasper has worked with theatre companies De Warme Winkel, Nieuw-West and Freek Vielen. He performed contemporary composed music by Steve Reich, Michael Gordon, Barbara Ellison and Genevieve Murphy.He’s played with Han Bennink, Ab Baars, Paal Nilssen-Love, Marshall Allen, Hamid Drake, C. Spencer Yeh, Akira Sakata, Noel Redding, Andrew D’Angelo, Roy Campbell (R.I.P.), Jeb Bishop, Mars Williams, Priya Purushothaman, Kaja Draksler, Johannes Bauer (R.I.P.), The Ex, Fendika, Getatchew Mekuria (R.I.P.), Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Michael Vatcher, Marc Ducret, Jozef Dumoulin, Magda Mayas, Mette Rasmussen, Nate Wooley, Valerio Tricoli, Tom Rainey, Mark Sanders, Emilio Gordoa, Dirar Kalash, Christian Lillinger, Michiyo Yagi and many others.

Jasper toured extensively all throughout Europe, North America and Russia, and also performed in Ethiopia, India, Japan, Mexico, Argentina and Palestine. He lives in Amsterdam since 2006.

Pianist Marta Warelis (1986) is a vibrant performer with a strong preference for improvisation and experimentation in all genres. She continually aims for instant composing on the basis of new sounds and influences. Her work draws inspiration from music across the globe including cumbia, Angolan dance music, as well as jazz, western classical music and the various schools of free improvisation. Born and raised in Poland where she graduated with honours from WSJiMR in Wroclaw, Marta moved to Groningen in 2010 to attend the Prins Claus Conservatory. In 2014 she found her place in Amsterdam, very quickly becoming an active member of the local improvisers’ scene. Marta has appeared frequently in the Bimhuis, where in 2017 she was given a Carte Blanche in recognition of her remarkable talents. She performs with a variety of creative musicians including Michael Moore, Ab Baars, Mike Reed, Andy Moor, Joost Buis, dancers Lily Kiara and Michael Shumacher, as well with such groups as Hupata!, Omawi, Future Neighbor, Polyband, Edge Ensemble, Strings5, Xavier Pamplona, Warelis/Rosaly/Lumley/Dikeman and Bazooka.

Ada Rave (1974, Comodoro Rivadavia), is an Argentinian saxophonist, improviser and composer. Ada’s instrumental approach 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. In addition to her ability to perform with an incredible degree of abstraction, she also boasts one of the boldest tenor sounds around.

As a young child, Ada grew up in rural Patagonia before moving to Buenos Aires where she finished her primary education and began performing as a musician. She was an active part of the local jazz scene but became interested in improvised music and composition quite early, which led her to lead ensembles of her own that performed at venues and festivals all over Argentina. In 2013, her interest in improvised music inspired her and her husband, pianist Nicolas Chientaroli, to attend the Dutch Impro Academy. Shortly thereafter they relocated to Amsterdam permanently.

Since moving to Amsterdam, Ada has become one of the most in demand saxophonists on the scene. She’s performed throughout Europe solo and with her trio, as well as in arious projects including Hearth, the Kaja Draksler Octet and The Ex. Ada is also active as a music educator and organizer of the series Impro Jam at De Ruimte.

In DOEK, Oscar Jan Hoogland represents the so-called “fourth generation” of Dutch improvisers, in the lineage of Misha Mengelberg, Guus Janssen and Cor Fuhler—smart pianist/composers with an itch to make music that cuts across genres, who don’t take themselves so seriously, but whose whimsical music has real bite and brainpower.

Hoogland plays in a plethora of groups. They include: EKE, a trio with Yedo Gibson on reeds and Gerri Jäger on drums where he plays his unique homemade electric clavichord; the smart and playfully improvising quartet The Ambush Party with Natalio Sued on tenor Marcos Baggiani on drums and his long time compagnon Harald Austbø on cello. He plays duo with drummer Han Bennink, in Gibson’s roiling Royal Improvisers Orchestra, and in the bicycle-portable, words-and-music street outfit, the Bakfietsband. He leads his own recordplayer orchestra The Phonograph Orchestra and then there is the improvising post-punk band The Job where he takes up the guitar a moog and a megaphone to be one of four one-man-bands on stage next to Jochem van Tol, Onno Govaert and Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti.

Hoogland has been a devoted orgeniser over the years not only pushing his own bands forward but also initiating projects like the scene based repertoir project The Amsterdam Real Book, setting up festivals and music serries in Amsterdam as well as running his own recordlabel De Platenbakkerij. Currently he colleborates as a programmer with the EYE-filmmuseum and the OT301 for respectively the E*cinema series and the Eddie and the Eagles.

In reply to questions by Kevin Whitehead:
“Musicians basically play for two kinds of audiences, those who know you, and those who don’t. An audience that knows your music understands the language; there’s a shared understanding. Together you take off from the history of the music so far and go on from there, commenting on it, improving it, destroying it, reinventing and repeating it. If they wanted to know more about what I do—and they don’t have to—I could tell them that I am driven by an enthusiasm to explore, to try to go as far down a certain path as you need to figure out what it’s about. And then adding some different aspect to it.”

“The other great audience is the completely ignorant, innocent one. In a village in Brazil, EKE played for a young audience who’d never heard anything like it before, and they were sucked right into it.”

“EKE is about creating something new, with an abstract approach to sound and interaction.
I take it very seriously. The Ambush Party is about the game of instant composing, or instant songwriting. It’s also about being un-dogmatic, having aspects of serious sonic improvising, ironic Dutch theatrical impro, jazz and free jazz, modern contemporary music, pop songs, good taste and tastelessness. We love or hate all that music and in a free situation it all comes out. Playing duo with Han feels almost outside of time—like we’ve played together forever.”

“I like to be a chess player among tigers. But on other days I like to be the tiger myself.”

Uli Schiffelholz

Die Bandbreite der künstlerischen Arbeit von Uli Schiffelholz reicht von Rockmusik über Blasmusik und klassischer Musik bis hin zur Arbeit als Musiker und Darsteller am Theater, wobei sein Herz am meisten für den Jazz schlägt.

Neben seiner Arbeit als Komponist und Arrangeur für sein Quartett ist er Schlagzeuger der Thomas Bachmann Group, des Bob Degen Quartets, des Jürgen Wuchner Quartetts und des J-Sound Projects. Seit Sommer 2010 ist er Mitglied des Jazzensembles des Hessischen Rundfunks für das er auch komponiert und arrangiert.
2011 erhielt er das Arbeitsstipendium Jazz der Stadt Frankfurt, das ihm einen Studienaufenthalt in New York ermöglichte.

Jürgen Werner

Nach klassischer Ausbildung an der Querflöte, Erlernen verschiedenster Saxophone, der Beschäftigung mit traditionellen Spielweisen (Jazzstandards, Bossa Nova), wurde die freie Improvisation ein Schwerpunkt seines musikalischen Interesses. Als Mitglied des F.I.M. in den 90er Jahren, spielte er auch nach dessen Auflösung frei improvisierte Musik in verschiedenen Besetzungen (u.a. Katharsis Ensemble).
Reisen nach Cuba und Indien brachten weltmusikalische Einflüsse und Erweiterungen des Instrumentariums (ind. Bansuri, Kalimba).
Seine musikalische Auffassung ist, abseits von Dogmatismus, Purismus und stilistischen Konventionen, Einflüsse verschiedenster Spielweisen - von Neuer Musik, Weltmusik bis zum Free Jazz - in die freie Improvisation einfließen zu lassen.

Daniel Guggenheims

Der Weg Daniel Guggenheims führte aus der Schweiz über Paris, Rio de Janeiro und New York zum Erfolg. Dabei haben ihn von Anfang an starke Persönlichkeiten geprägt, wie z.B. Jimmy Hendrix, John Coltrane oder Sonny Rollins. Daniel Guggenheim fragt sich jedes mal aufs Neue: was sagt mir ihre Musik und wie kann sie mich weiterbringen?
1983 trifft er in Brasilien auf Hermeto Pascoal. Ein wahrer Glücksfall. Durch den Musikanarchist Pascoal lernt Guggenheim seine eigene Musik zu leben und Grenzen immer wieder neu auszuloten.
Ob Paris, New York oder Frankfurt, wo er sich mittlerweile niedergelassen hat: Daniel Guggenheims Musik lässt immer wieder neue Bilder entstehen, die für alle Beteiligten zu einem außergewöhnlichen Erlebnis werden Er spielte mit Jazzlegenden wie Elvin Jones, Cecil McBee, Richie Beriech, Billy Hart und David Liebman.