Manafonistas

 

 

 

The classical piece of Albatross Music by extraordinary musical spirit Peter Green

 

 

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North Sea Round Town festival Rotterdam: photos of release concert of guitarero Teis Semey’s „Midnite Mess“ -performed at Oude Kerk in the Rotterdam borough Charlois

 
 

 
 

w/Liva Dumpe, Vera Morais, Sanem Kalfa, Marta Arpini (vocals), Kit Downes (church organ).

 
 

 
 

Participating Amsterdam musicians originate from all four wind directions, East, West, North, South.

 
 

 
 

Striking: the high number of excellent female vocalists in the present Amsterdam-Rotterdam scene.

 
 

 
 

It resulted in establishing the 9-piece vocal ensemble AUGUST 38th that will soon come up with its debut album

 
 

 
 

Also striking: these young(er) generation musicians are NOT bound to a fixed direction or style of music. They are able and eager poly- and multivalent musicians

 

 

The Rotterdam INVISIBLE COLUMNS concert revealed as a dedicated affair of kindred spirits in immediate communion

 
 

 
 

as an element of it there was the vocal duetting of Sanem Kalfa with Jan Bang 

 
 

 
 

it took place in the deep blue industrial dome of the Van Nelle Factory

 
 

 
 

with its magnificent space

 
 

 
 

and reverb

 
 

 

 

vielleicht zu weit ab vom Wurzelwerk hier derzeit 

 
 

 
 

in action in der Deltamündung

 
 

 
 

auch ein musikalisches Delta

 
 

 
 

im verzweigenden Fließen

 
 

 

 

La Kalfa

 
 

 
 

 

 
 
 

As artist in Focus 10 days long every night a different group or duo to rehearse and play with at different locations and venues – it’s a massive challenge, a hyper revitalising affair and high flight too. There is so much to prepare, to organise and to move through the city, to wait, to chat, to laugh, to drink, to rest, to nap, to wait, to run … Stuck in the traffic, cancelled flights and rehearsals etc.. I gave up to immediately post pictures and videos, write comments, to freshly document things happening here. Things happening are digested, processed and commented in social talk around the concerts. It’s a part that influences the music making and the intensity an comfort of listening to the music making … So pictures and descriptions have to wait a little while.

 

LINE-UP of TELEVIZYON  

Sanem Kalfa, voc, electr – Marta Warelis – Keyboard, iPhone – Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, bass –

Sun-Mi Hong, drums 

 

LINE-UP of MIRACULOUS LAYERS 

Sanem Kalfa, cello, voc, electr – Marta Warelis, p – Tinke Postma, sax – Sun-Mi Hong, drums 

 

LINE-UP of INVISIBLE COLUMNS 

Sanem Kalfa, voc, electr – Alice de Maio, dance – Jan Bang, voc, samples, electr –

Ambrose Akinmusire, tr – Kit Downes, organ 

 

 

Rotterdam’s North Sea Round Town Festival, spread over the whole city, is on now for 8 days

and will last another week with its 300 concerts 

many at special sites 

 

a truly wild thing every day and night 

 

 

with its highest light SANEM KALFA’s INVISIBLE COLUMNS 

at industrial monument Van Nelle Factory 

w/

 

Sanem Kalfa – voice, electronics

Alice de Maio – dance 

Jan Bang, voice, sampling, electronics 

Ambrose Akinmusire, trumpet

Kit Downes, organ 

 

something was in the air that gave leeway to this wonder of confluence of kindred spirits 

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it turned out a launch for furthermore 

We all know the experience of futile attempts to catch something touching, moving and beautiful: it’s moving with each attempt to catch it or is gone at the same moment that we caught it. It’s a bit like catching your own shadow. This phenomenon plays a crucial role in art and music. To deal with it is a central challenge for the artist/musician AND the beholder, the audience too. It’s just the way of dealing with this tension, which is constitutive of great creation and intense experience of it …

 

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Jede(r) dürfte die Originalfassung – bewusst oder unbewusst – kennen!

 

 

Wasser allgegenwärtig hier bei mir und Sommer auch 

 
 

 
 
 

Früher habe ich die Berge vermisst, mit denen ich aufgewachsen bin. Jetzt fühl ich vollkommen eins mit dem allgegenwärtigen Wasser