This late-night concert kicks off with the world premiere of mundu lawaai by Gabriel de Oliveira. It’s a piece for a six-piece ensemble that blends club culture, poetry, percussion, and electronics. Next up is Bimini, an intense solo drum performance by Frank Rosaly, where rhythm and meditation come together in Noortje van den Eijnde’s lighting design. Far beyond the standard concert format, Bimini is a nocturnal, collective experience in which themes such as freedom, escape, and letting go resonate.

Oliveira, originally from Brazil and now one of the driving forces behind Amsterdam’s improvisation scene, has developed his own musical language with his group, combining live-sampled improvisations, cyclical beat songs, and layered spoken word. The music references both Dutch instant composing and minimalist dub studio experiments. In the spirit of Arthur Russell’s World of Echo, mundu lawaai seeks new connections between club, ritual, and chamber music.

Frank Rosaly trained as a drummer and improviser in Chicago and has lived in Amsterdam since 2016. For Bimini, Rosaly researched ritual and ceremonial traditions that date back to the indigenous Taíno culture of the Caribbean.

From April 16 – 19, the ninth edition of Minimal Music Festival will take place in Muziekgebouw and BIMHUIS. The festival explores music as a physical, transcendental experience. What inspired pioneers like La Monte Young, Terry Riley and Steve Reich resonates in the wealth of sounds and styles of adventurous makers.

mundu lawaai is a production by Space is the Place.

mundu lawaai
Gabriel de Oliveira guitar/vocals, Chaerin Im keyboard/synthesizer, Niels Luteijn drums, Alek Kurniawan live electronics, Jelle Huizinga vocals, M. Alberto poetry/saxophone/electronics

Bimini
Frank Rosaly drums, Noortje van den Eijnde visuals