David Mitchell's Natural Light - album release
2026-05-07 20:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
Grond member David Mitchell presents his new solo album Natural Light. The album is an exploration of the interaction of light and memory, looking at how qualities of light evoke memories both specific and universal. Recorded in single takes, without edits and overdubs, the six pieces on the album were created using the Soma Cosmos, a complex delay system that allows Mitchell to build shifting soundscapes that metamorphose over the course of performance. Over this sonic tapestry, Mitchell builds improvised lines that recall the work of John McLaughlin on the seminal Miles Davis release In a Silent Way. For this performance, Mitchell will be accompanied by the renowned saxophone and flute player Finn Peters, who has played with Bill Frisell, Sam Rivers, Evan Parker, Marlena Shaw and many others, and award winning dancer and film maker Andrea Hackl. Expect wide ranging, psychedelic improvisations. Entry by donation, free download of the album for donations over 15 euros.

Lokhipster Album Launch
2026-05-10 14:30 - 17:00
Lokhipster presents its debut album Protect, experimental songcraft, krautrock, free jazz and illbient

Rooted in five continents, the musical alchemists of Amsterdam based band Lokhipster come from all corners of the music world. An adventurer who picks up sounds like pearls from the street and who turns the world as we know it upside down. A spoken word performer who tells emotions with a special sound of her own – between speaking, chant singing and sound language. A virtuoso pianist who, with his compositions between jazz, rock and pop, throws striking musical punches into the spotlight. A horn player who masters the entire palette of reeds – from saxophone to bass clarinet – and blows his sound into the world full of light-footed lyricism and soul.

https://lokhipster.bandcamp.com/album/protect
Jeannine Valeriano – voice, spoken word
Michiel van Dijk – reeds
Tom Aldrich – keyboards
Ivo Bol – synthesizers, samplers

EMBER #2
2026-05-14 19:00 - 21:00 | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Thursday, 14 May, 19:00–21:00
Tickets Online: regular €10 / discount: 7 – At the door: €12,50
This time we invite ceramic artist Su Melo and sound artist iulia aionesi to our ambient space at GROND. You can expect moving clay sculptures and a music set featuring field recordings—alongside a crafting station to experiment with air dry clay!
EMBER is a space to listen, create, and linger. With a music set and a creative workshop station that are thematically centered around one visual artwork, each session invites the audience to sink in to observing visual art pieces, let their minds flow with the music and play with art materials to process it all.
Come early, sink in the space and stay for soup!

Orb Weaver with Maarten Visser
2026-05-18 20:00 - 22:30 | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Grond’s resident ambient jazz transgressors Orb Weaver welcome Chennai-based saxophonist and composer Maarten Visser. With David Mitchell (guitar, electronics), Robbert van Hulzen (drums) and Lorenzo Servali (bass, electronics), expect long form improvisations with absolutely no respect for tradition. 8pm sliding scale for entry.
