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Aldrich/Bol/van Dijk/Valeriano, & Ties Mellema and Robin Koek
March 9 @ 20:00 – 22:00
Electronic music, saxophones, keyboards, and spoken word
By Ties Mellema & the new band Aldrich/Bol/van Dijk/Valeriano. Special guest Robin Koek. Our Canteen is open, serving delicious food from 18:00 hrs onwards!
GROND Bijdorpstraat 1, 1096AP, Amsterdam
Music starts at 20:00 – dinner will be served from 18:30
Tickets: regular €10 (or more) / discount €7 – available at the door or online here.
Dinner: + €12,5 (RSVP required – Reserve by purchasing online)
Ivo Bol and Ties Mellema have played together for many years. Now they join forces with keyboardist and composer Tom Aldrich, saxophonist Michiel van Dijk and spoken word artist Jeannine Valeriano.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Jeannine Valeriano is a writer, singer, spoken word performer and actress, exploring the boundaries between language and music.
Michiel van Dijk studied classical saxophone with Leo van Oostrom and jazz saxophone with John Ruocco at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Den Haag. Michiel has played with almost all the renowned orchestras and ensembles in the Netherlands. Additionally, he has collaborated with various theater productions and ensembles as a composer and arranger.
Tom Aldrich is the leader of the group Zolder Ellipsis and was a co-founder of the Four Bags. He has worked with artists such as a.o. Kurt Rosenwinkel, Bang on a Can, Jackie Cain.
Taking on and then overcoming challenges and telling a story are always at the heart of Ties Mellema’s work. Whether it’s the false-polyphonic cello suites by Johann Sebastian Bach on baritone saxophone, the monomaniac Gradus by Philip Glass or the extreme free jazz by his hero John Coltrane: Ties Mellema always goes in search of the boundaries of disciplines and the possibilities on his instrument.
Robin Koek is an enterprising sound artist who aspires to nurture a new cognitive understanding of the world surrounding us mediated through art and education. These realities can be experienced as dynamic environments in which sensory feedback to the interactor is an essential component.