The Todays Art festival in Den Haag is a 2 day event that brings together sound installations, performances, art, cinema and music.
There’s so much going on at this well curated festival that it took me hours to go through the program in detail. These are my top picks from the music but there will be [...]
Some beautiful ambient music to chill you out after the recent sub tropical Amsterdam weather.
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On Thursday night we were treated to an evening of exquisite music. During the performance of Jóhann Jóhannsson and his band/ensemble you could literally hear a pin drop in the packed out Kleine Zaal of the Melkweg. At times the music is very quiet, so quiet in fact that I could not take many pictures [...]
Jóhann Jóhannsson is a composer and producer from Reykjavík in Iceland and makes neo-classical ambient music that is evocative of icy Scandinavian landscapes. His 2006 album ‘IBM 1401 - A Users Manual’ featured heavily on my playlist and is one of the most interesting ambient albums that I have heard in some time. [...]
Its the start of 2009 and a good time to look back at the gigs that we liked last year. Here’s a list of some of the gigs that we liked in no particular order.
The Chap @ The Nieuwe Anita
This art rock pop act from the UK played a very nice set in the basement [...]
On Wednesday night while looking at our map trying to orientate ourselves we wondered what kind of insane planning results in a train station exiting through a shopping center. Yes we were outside on a rainy Utrecht night trying to work out our up from our down. After several false starts followed by some decidedly [...]
Unfortunately this gig has been canceled. Hopefully he will come back again soon.
Flying Lotus produced one of my favorite albums of 2008 (Los Angeles) and has been vibrating my speakers for most of the summer. His music skips across many boundaries but if I was to try and classify it I would describe it as [...]