Author: dirkserries

These 3 superb musicians are playing as a trio tonight in London. Go to see them and support.

Check out this lovely interview with legendary electro-acoustic composer ASMUS TIETCHENS. He talks about his early recordings in the sixties, his life-long collaboration with Okko Bekker and about ‘AIR’, his album with Dirk Serries on A New Wave Of Jazz. Read it here.

TEUN VERBRUGGEN & DIRK SERRIES Live In Concert (De Loods, Stramproy/Netherlands) Saturday July 10th, 8pm.

About 7 years ago, drummer Teun Verbruggen and guitarist Dirk Serries released a much-appreciated duo debut album under the title ‘Art Of Cosmic Musings’. This album, together with the creation of YODOK III (with Tomas Järmy and Kristoffer Lo), was the foundation for Dirk Serries’ adventure in free improvisation. Now 7 years later, Teun and Dirk are once again joining forces for an exclusive open air concert, organized by Jazzblazzt in collaboration with A New Wave Of Jazz. A new studio album will be recorded later this year.  The event is a private one but you can reserve your seat by emailing : jazzblazzt@gmail.com Due to the covid19 the ‘tickets’ are limited so get in touch to make your reservation. All info about the address you’ll get when reservering your seat.

RUBICON QUARTET’s CROSSCURRENTS album keeps on getting attention and this time two radioshows, from Belgium to over the Atlantic. Enjoy. CROSSCURRENTS you can still buy from our website and bandcamp.

Gene Bulmer’s AMBIENT LANDSCAPES just uploaded a new episode, ‘Elements_Painted’ features ‘Rubicon’ from their album.

Belgium’s BEMUSE focuses on Belgian music. This episode features coincidentally the same song from ‘Crosscurrents’.

For our US followers the excellent mail-order company Squidco carries some of our titles from now on and hopefully more to come. This will help you to avoid the outrageous postage while still supporting the DIY community. Thanks.

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Slowly, safely but surely the free improvisation scene is getting back on its feet with exciting events. In our favorite free impro city LONDON our colleagues at RAW TONK RECORDS is organizing a label event at the fantastic HUNDRED YEARS GALLERY featuring affiliated artists COLIN WEBSTER, ANDREW LISLE and CHARLOTTE KEEFFE.
For our followers out there in the PECK AND FLEET city, join them and support.

UK’s MUSIQUE MACHINE wrote a fantastic 5 stars review of RICCARDO MAROGNA & ARVIND GANGA ‘Ballads From The Wrecked Ship’, we released this year. Read it here below and you can still purchase the album from our website and bandcamp. Support DIY and these lovely musicians.

“5 out of 5 stars ! Ballads From The Wrecked Ship is a decidedly varied and rather wonderful improv release,  which sits somewhere between sonic creativity and atmospheric moodiness. The seven-track album slides in at a concise and focused forty minutes, and I must say it certainly stand as one of more distinctive/ original improv release I have heard in some time.

The album appears on the always worthy/ interesting New Wave Of Jazz- coming in the labels house style mini grey gatefold packaging, which as always features a write-up about the release/ artists inside from Guy Peters. 

The line-up we have here is Den Haag based Arvind Ganga on Electric guitar and objects. And Verona born Riccardo Marogna on Tenor Sax, bass clarinet, and electronics. And boy do the pair cover a lot of different types of sound/ composition- with it all (just about) staying in the improv bracket.

We move from hovering ‘n’ swarming “Oed’ Und Lees Das Meer” which blends billowing ‘n’ honking eastern atmospherics with simmering and impassioned blues scaping. Onto the off-colour/ dragged-out slide guitar harmonics meets grating horn warble of the lengthy named “The Limp Leaves Waited For Rain, While The Black Clouds Gathered Far Distant, Over Himavant”. We even go textured noise bound on “Phantoon” which finds constantly rolling waves of static splutter been scared ‘n’ slowly bayed by dragged out pop and blips of textured. We have the sour and shrill manic-ness of “Kzans” which it is a blend of constantly picking ‘n’ ringing guitar harmonics, and tight compressed and looping horn wails. With the album playing out with the wonderful awkward “These Fragments I have Shored Against My Ruins” with its grainy tinkling music box-like tone battering, souring whistling horn work, and scraping texturing.

Pretty much everything that New Wave Of Jazz puts out is worth a play/ listen if you enjoy any of the more abstract/ daring side of the improv/ modern composition. But Ballads From The Wrecked Ship is a real high watermark release- as it’s so creative, distinct and wholly rewarding.”