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AN INTERPLANETARY NIGHT

De Kift & Other music

JOHN DIKEMAN & ERNST GLERUM
ZEBRA STREET BAND
HOWIE REEVE

Poetic punk fanfare band De Kift is the headliner of this special pilot edition of a new cooperation between BIMHUIS & Space is the Place, the improv concert series that originated at De Ruimte (North Amsterdam).

The energetic, sizeable band De Kift was ‘born in the brass band tradition, baptized in punk and raised in a love for music and poetry’ (de Volskrant). For 30 years the colorful West-Frisian ensemble has toured in The Netherlands and abroad. Aside from their concerts they continue tos eek collaboration in theatre and film projects. Their Dutch lyrics are compiled from world literature.

Bassist Howie Reeve opens the evening with a solo performance. Howie Reeve played in important bands in the Glasgow music scene and formed a duo with bassist Mike Watt (Minutemen, The Stooges). ‘A breathtaking bass player’ (The Herald).

The strict religious background of saxophonist John Dikeman and the affinity for gospel of double bassist/pianist Ernst Glerum come together in their project Spirituals, loosely inspired by Albert Ayler’s Swing Low Sweet Spiritual.

The brass and percussion players of Zebra Street Band melt together into a repertoire that echoes Africa and the Caribbeans as well as jazz and breakbeat. Every member of the band is a strong soloist and improviser, which allows the music to come out fresh and new with each performance.

After the concerts: DJ Bavavla at the café.

DE KIFT
Ferry Heijne vocals /trumpet/guitar/bass tuba/bariton/trombone, Han Hulscher trumpet, Roos Janssens bariton saxophone, Lot Vandekeybus bass tuba/trombone/vocals, Patrick Votrian bass tuba/trombone/bariton, Frank van den Bos keyboard/accordion/vocals /autoharp, Saskia Meijs viola, Eilidh Martin cello, Pim Heijne guitar, Mathijs Houwink bass guitar, Marco Heijne vocals /steeldrum/drums, Wim ter Weele vocals /drums (exact line up t.b.c.)

JOHN DIKEMAN & ERNST GLERUM
John Dikeman saxophone & Ernst Glerum piano

ZEBRA STREET BAND
Salvoandrea Lucifora trombone/sousaphone, Alistair Payne trumpet, Andrius Dereviancenko tenor saxophone/clarinet/flute, John Dikeman bariton saxophone, Onno Govaert snare drum/percussion, Fabio Galeazzi bass drum/percussion

HOWIE REEVE
Howie Reeve bass/vocals

DJ BAVLAVA

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Extra information

Since early 2015 Space is the Place has been organizing intimate and spectacular evenings focus on jazz, improvised music and beyond, at De Ruimte, a venue in North Amsterdam. After almost five hundred concerts and more than a thousand musicians, the circus occasionally moves across the IJ river. Space is the Place will now take over the BIMHUIS with bands and musicians who have or have not played at De Ruimte, with De Kift as the headline act.