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TRIO STADHOUDERS VATCHER PETRUCCELLI
Bursting forth from Amsterdam’s vibrant improvised music scene in 2019, the classic “power trio” instrumentation is put to full use by guitarist Jasper Stadhouders, bassist Miguel Petruccelli, and drummer Michael Vatcher. Never shying away from pummeling grooves, noisy outbursts, sudden silences, abstract reflections, and unexpected shifts, this non-hierarchal trio is always in fiery forward motion.

MICHAEL MOORE’S DICE CUP TRIO
A new project from veteran Amsterdam-based reeds player Michael Moore, Dice Cup Trio takes Max Jacob’s 1923 collection of tightly constructed, absurdly humorous prose poems Le Cornet a Dés as its jumping-off point. Combining rigor with a streak of mischief is not a new lark for Moore, though. Since relocating from California in 1982, the Boy Edgar Award-winner has been a lynchpin of the Dutch scene, and a member of the iconic and iconoclastic Instant Composers Pool Orchestra alongside collaborators like Han Bennink and Misha Mengelberg.

Moore is joined by bassist Omer Govreen (Billy Cobham, Anat Fort) and Nino Baleyte, a dynamic French drummer who also plays in Govreen’s trio Garden Crack.

OMAWI
From Amsterdam’s flourishing improvised music circuit, OMAWI unites rising stars Onno Govaert (Cactus Truck) drums and Marta Warelis (Michael Moore, Ab Baars) piano with ‘old dog’ bassist Wilbert de Joode, one of European improv’s most recognized and active players and the 2016 winner of the Netherlands’ most prestigious jazz award, the Boy Edgar. Together, they create music that is urgent, elastic, and “free of all the clichés of the modern jazz piano trio” (Salt Peanuts).

(Omawi is pictured)

This project is supported by Dutch Performing Arts, a programme of the Performing Arts Fund NL.
Additional thanks to the BIMHUIS for their partnership and collaboration.