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Article: Album Review

Spinifex: Hipsters Gone Ballistic

Read "Hipsters Gone Ballistic" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Basso elettrico e chitarra elettrica acchiappano da subito con spietata inesorabilità, con la violenza del rock più aggressivo e la capacità di infiltrarsi e stravolgere le trame musicali attraverso la sensibilità e la prontezza del jazz. Poi i fiati, magmatici e cristallini, imprevedibili e sarcastici, laceranti come un urlo nella notte, inquietanti come una ninna nanna ...

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Article: Album Review

Spinifex: Hipsters Gone Ballistic

Read "Hipsters Gone Ballistic" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


The Amsterdam-based group Spinifex--named after a tough Australian species of grass--is a modular collective of Dutch musicians. The Spinifex quintet that released its debut, the aptly titled Hipsters Gone Ballistic, is a part of a collective that includes the Spinifex Orchestra (that released its debut Triodia back in 2008 on Karnatic Lab Records), Spinifex Tuba Band ...

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Article: Album Review

Ab Baars - Ig Henneman: Autumn Songs

Read "Autumn Songs" reviewed by Libero Farnè


Come precisano le note di copertina del CD, inciso al Bimhuis di Amsterdam, “questa suite di brani liberamente improvvisati e in minima parte composti è stata concepita da Ab Baars e da Ig Henneman in occasione del tour statunitense dell'autunno 2012." Ognuno dei dieci brani s'ispira ad una poesia o a una composizione di tema autunnale ...

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Article: Album Review

The Two Al's: And the cowgirls kept on dancing

Read "And the cowgirls kept on dancing" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


The Two Al's are Dutch explorers of the prepared piano Albert van Veenendaal and Scottish, Amsterdam-based percussionist Alan Purves. Both offer a wild ride of inventive, bizarre, cheerful, squeaky, absurd and freaky spontaneous improvised songs on their first recorded collaboration. Both musician are experienced in solo and intimate, chamber formats with adventurous ...

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Article: Profile

Herb Geller: A Musician's Musician

Read "Herb Geller: A Musician's Musician" reviewed by Joan Gannij


I first met Herb Geller in 2002 at a concert in Amsterdam at the original Bimhuis jazz club. The band was gathering their equipment from the stage and we started chatting about being raised in Los Angeles. When I was a teenager, the tall and lanky genial gent was playing at the local clubs that my ...

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News: Music Industry

New Concept In Music Is Born - STEM

New Concept In Music Is Born - STEM

STEM is born. New concept in Musicland. Singer Themed Evocative Music STEM means different things in different languages: the stem of a flower, the stem of a note, the voice and more. These keywords are the corner stone to the musical arch that comprises STEM’s repertoire and singers. Our Mission: STEM aspires to be a universal ...

Album

Amsterdam

Label: Enja Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Casa Do Tom; Arearea: Evet; Sounds in My Garden; Hammer Baby Hammer; Why? Because; 746; The Dark Sea; Down; Adria; The Man-Machine; No goodbye.

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Article: Album Review

Giulia Barba: The Angry St.Bernard

Read "The Angry St.Bernard" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Italian reed player Giulia Barba uses her debut album to weave highly personal compositions that reflect her interests in visual arts, the European school of jazz, contemporary and world music and most importantly, her great passion for genre-defying music. The Bologna born musician decided to pursue musical studies after she majored in philosophy in the university ...

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News: Festival

Another Great New Year's Eve at Bimhuis

Another Great New Year's Eve at Bimhuis

In Amsterdam, the party is often the city itself, and that holds especially true on New Year’s Eve. For jazz fans, the local institution Bimhuis is consistently the finest fiesta in town. A mix of excellent entertainment, followed by early morning DJs, dancing and dining has established Bimhuis as one of Amsterdam’s premiere holiday destinations. This ...

News: Recording

Pianist Nihad Hrustanbegović Releases Two Solo Albums -- "Sevdah For Petronella" and "Black Orpheus"

Pianist Nihad Hrustanbegović Releases Two Solo Albums -- "Sevdah For Petronella" and "Black Orpheus"

On the 10th of September 2013, the Dutch/Bosnian composer and concert artist Nihad Hrustanbegović from Amsterdam released on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, CDBaby.com and Facebook two new albums: “Sevdah for Petronella” piano solo and “Black Orpheus” accordion solo. “Sevdah for Petronella” and “Black Orpheus” are recorded in “Pavarotti Music Centre” in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina. For the first ...


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