Author: dirkserries

To promote their debut duo album ‘PUNCTURE CYCLE’ viola player BENEDICT TAYLOR & guitarist DIRK SERRIES did a small 2019 tour in the Lowlands. On the tone-setting CONFRONT RECORDINGS label, curated by Mark Wastell, ‘LIVE OFFERINGS 2019′ features 3 performances from this tour, finding them in concert at Koffie & Ambacht in Rotterdam (NL), artgallery De Werkplaats in Amersfoort and at Guy Peters’ living room (Geraardbergen, Belgium). Beautifully mastered at the Sunny Side Inc. studio. Artist photo by Jan Kees Helms at De Werkplaats. Go here to buy this digital live document.

KODIAN TRIO in full fury at the BRAK festival (Hundred Years Gallery, London) last year, right before we all went into a lockdown. The trio’s only performance. This album is out on OEM Records, go here to order your copy.

Tonight on PORTAMENTO we highlight a fantastic and epic work of Rutger Zuydervelt. ‘Stay Tuned’ is a composition he created out of contributions from more than 150 musicians. A very impressive work, Stay Tuned’ is presented as a multiple-speaker installation, as a live performance piece, here you can hear the stereo version. And he’s creating another one, this time with drummers and percussionists (featuring some of our favorite ones like Kris Vanderstraeten, Tom Malmendier and Andrew Lisle). ‘With Drums’ you can pre-order here. Rutger is also known for our lovely designs and bringing the label’s vision to life !

Listen to PORTAMENTO tonight at 11pm (UTC) or stream it afterwards at your own convenience.

‘Twelve Tone’ one of the tracks from TOM MALMENDIER & DIRK SERRIES’ well-received ‘VANGUARD’ duo album is featured on Ambient Landscape’s IONIC mixcloud. Listen to it here. The album is still available here and here.

Listen back to this lovely interview with COLIN WEBSTER on Pattern Dissection. Here he talks about his recent and excellent solo LP (out now on RAW TONK RECORDS), Brexit, touring and the forthcoming KODIAN TRIO live album on OEM Records.

Venlo’s MAJJEM radioshow played a piece from each of our new vinyl releases : DIRK SERRIES – SOLO ACOUSTIC GUITAR IMPROVISATIONS I and GONCALO ALMEIDA – MONOLOGOS A DOIS. Listen to the show here.

Constantin Sieg’s JAZZ ZEIT German radio show focused on Belgium and played a piece from our SERRIES/VANDERSTRAETEN/VERHOEVEN album ‘IMPETUS’ we released in 2019. Still available here and here.

Listen to the radioshow here.

Privileged to have a piece from DIRK SERRIES’ Solo Acoustic Guitar Improvisations I aired on BBC 3’s FREENESS, an excellent radioshow produced by Rebecca Gaskell and hosted by Corey Mwamba. Listen back here.

Phillip B. Klingler’s excellent MUTATION THEORY radioshow plays a piece from BENEDICT TAYLOR & ANTON MOBIN’s Close Quarters album. Available here and here.

Listen to the radioshow here.