Pfaff reads, sings, speaks, plays and shouts in a mostly comical manner. For this Pfaff utilizes a voice, a guitar, something to hit and his head. This usually happens quite loud, but intimate and cosy is also an option. Most of the planned living room tour this fall is cancelled, due to lack of time (because he opened his own shop for art and culture in September). Some intimate performances remain. This is one of them! Oh… and entrance is free!
Hallo Hans,
We hebben elkaar een keer gesproken na je optreden in het Havenkwartier in Deventer. Ik was blij te horen dat je weer een keer in de buurt komt optreden!
Ik ben gevraagd door Kunstenlab om ze te adviseren in het boeken van artiesten voor de optredens in en rond Okkenbroek. Dat heb ik gedaan. Paul de Jong, Bram van den Oever en MiaMia komen uit mij koker.
Nu het gelukt is deze prachtige line-up bij elkaar te krijgen en jullie ook nog allen speciaal voor deze gelegenheid gecomponeerde stukken ten gehore brengen, leek het me erg zonde als dat niet op de één of andere manier vastgelegd zou worden. Ik heb dan ook geopperd om (zo goed en zo kwaad asl mijn middelen me dat toestaan) opnamen te maken van de concerten. En – als de opnamen goed gelukt zijn – ze zelfs uit te geven via mijn (kleine) label esc.rec. (zie www.escrec.com). Dat lijkt Kunstenlab een fantastisch plan!
Mijn vraag aan jou is dan ook of je toestemming zou willen geven voor opnamen van je optreden(s) in Okkenbroek op 15 november. En voor een eventuele uitgave van deze opnames via mijn label. Ik zou de opnamen dan uitgeven als cd-r in een goed vormgegeven digipak-hoesje. Tevens zou ik de opnamen uit willen brengen onder een Creative Commons licentie. Dit met name om mijn label uit het vaarwater van Buma/Stemra te houden, een auteursrechten organisatie die ik (en vele anderen met mij) niet heel hoog heb zitten… Kijk voor meer informatie over Creative Commons licenties op www.creativecommons.nl
Esc.rec. heeft als label geen winstoogmerk, maar wil wel graag uit de (materiaal)kosten komen. Tot nu toe lukt dat me goed. Mocht er onverhoopt wel winst gemaakt worden, dan wordt die uiteraard gelijkwaardig verdeeld onder de artiesten en esc.rec.
Ik hoop snel van je te horen, zodat ik mijn voorbereidingen voor de opnames kan treffen.
Friday, September 18: The 8th edition of ass-crack stage-hack is comprised of solo and duo performances by Jozef van Wissem and James Blackshaw, preceded by another exclusive three course diner by Jean Klare. This time the ass-crack stage-hack quite literally hacks a stage, because at the same time the video manifestation ‘Prognosis for the Future‘ takes place in Havenkwartier Deventer.
Jozef van Wissem (US)
Jozef van Wissem is a Dutch minimalist composer and lute player. He is renowned for his unusual approach of the Renaissance and Baroque lute, probably the most unlikely instruments in the world of contemporary music. Van Wissem wrote out mirror images of hundreds of classical lute tablature pieces, copying them out from the bottom right to the top left corner. To these inversions he added new themes, accents and rhythms. He then applied the ‘cut up’ technique of writer William Burroughs and cut, shifted, mixed and pasted the parts together to create new works. One critic has compared this work to that of German painter Georg Baselitz, who paints upside down.
Van Wissem has accomplished the strange feat of bridging the idiom of seventeenth century lute literature and twenty-first century contemporary music Although he uses subtle electronic sound manipulation, he has largely stayed faithful to the particular timbre, resonance and playing technique of the lute.
James Blackshaw (UK)
Initially inspired by the guitarists of the 60’s Takoma label to teach himself fingerpicking, James Blackshaw writes long-form pieces primarily for solo 12-string guitar and piano that are heavily influenced by minimalist composers and European classical music and which use drones, overtones and repeating patterns alongside a strong inclination for melody to create instrumental music that is both intelligent, hypnotic and emotionally charged.
His fingerpicking mantras are as melodic as a music box, gliding through dizzying tempos like clockwork… Such is the silky control he exherts over his instrument, Blackshaw often sounds more like a court harpist than a backwoods strummer. Whereas kindred spirits like John Fahey and Robbie Basho looked East for their Raga-inspired guitar diversions, Blackshaw instead sounds more East-Coast: his long-distance guitar tunes recalling NY minimalism, or Sonic Youth, as arranged for chamber orchestra. Mesmerising stuff, and proof that less is often more.
Goesting-Jockey Jean Klare
If you do not only want to treat your ears to a feast, but also want to have your culinairy senses stroked, please join us for a meal! Amateur-caterer and ‘goesting-jockey’ Jean Klare prepares extatic pleasure for the taste buds this evening; a three course diner, including an excellent wine selection, for only 25 euro. You do however need to make a reservation for this culinairy treat. Just send an email to harco@escrec.com.
Entrance: 5 euro (30 euro including diner)
Date: vrijdag 18 september
Start diner: 19:00 hrs
Start concerts: 21:00 hrs
Location: Havenkwartier Deventer
Check the complete (and very, very nice!!) programme and all other info at www.slowlandsfestival.nl. I’m personally also very much looking forward to seeing Loney Dear, Michael Fakesch & Tapprik Sweeze, Radion and Fata.
The sixth edition of ass-crack stage-hack holds a cd presentation by Apricot My Lady, preceded by an exclusive three course diner, prepared by Jean Klare. Robert Witt utilizes the dining sounds as source material for a table concert.
You do however need to make a reservation for the culinairy treat. Just send an email to harco@escrec.com.
Entrance: 5 euro (30 euro including diner)
Start diner and concert Robert Witt: 19:00 hrs.
Start concert Apricot My Lady: 21:00 hrs.
Location: vm Davo building in Havenkwartier Deventer
On Friday, the 28th of November, the fifth edition of ass-crack stage-hack brings you dance performance/theater play Binnensuis, preceded by an exclusive three-course diner in Havenkwartier Deventer.
Binnensuis is a short theater play/dance performance, made by dancer Janneke Lenzen, composer/musician Bram van den Oever and writer Jehudi van Dijk.
Binnensuis wants to show the disturbing world inside the head of an alienated, lonely woman, who rarely leaves her house and is plagued by a multitude of different phobia and severe neurotic behaviour.
But Binnensuis is also an experiment. The monologues Jehudi van Dijk wrote for this performance, were recorded by Bram van den Oever with the voice of Janneke Lenzen. He then modified and remixed these recordings into a stunning piece of music. Dancer Janneke Lenzen worked with this material to come up with a fitting choreography. For a long time the three individual creators of Binnensuis worked seperately on this project. Only in the final stage of the process all the parts were fused together to form Binnensuis.
Esc.rec. felt that Bram van den Oever’s soundtrack (if you can still call it that) for this performance is so powerful that it was decided to make a release out of it. Check the limited (sold out) version overhere and the unlimited version overhere.
If you do not only want to treat your eyes and ears to a feast, but also want to have your culinairy senses stroked, please join us for a meal! Amateur-caterer and ‘goesting-jockey’ Jean Klare prepares extatic pleasure for the taste buds again this evening; a three course diner, including an excellent wine selection, for only 25 euro.
You do however need to make a reservation for this culinairy treat. Just send an email to harco@escrec.com.
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