Last night I caught a remarkable, mostly improvised performance by reedists Tobias Delius and Ab Baars here in Berlin within the cozy confines of KM28 . The musicians are probably best known as long-time members of the ICP Orchestra, where they have built an astonishing rapport over decades of work together and the set revealed an almost telepathic degree of communication. Their performance ended with a gorgeous reading of ‘De Sprong, O Romantiek der Hazen’, a ballad by ICP co-founder Misha Mengelberg, that
The second Friday of every month: 2nd Stop is Jupiter! Dancing to the wildest live music in town. Tonight the 2nd edition of Mishakosmos – exploring the world of Misha Mengelberg in its diverse forms.
Ensemble Klang’s The Big Loud Thing In honor of the 50th anniversary of the iconic Orkest De Volharding, the street orchestra of Louis Andriessen and Willem Breuker, Ensemble Klang presents a series of free pop-up concerts in which the music of De Volharding is central. Free-thinking, colorful and cooperative, De Volharding’s saxophones, brass instruments and rhythm section effortlessly combine contemporary music with jazz, pop and avant-garde. De Volharding is an icon in Dutch ensemble culture, it stood at