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Frederic Rzewski – ‘The People United Will Never Be Defeated!’ – Vredenburg Leeuwenbergh
Daan Vandewalle (born in Ghent, 1968) will perform the politically involved piano piece ‘The People United Will Never Be Defeated!’ by the American composer Frederic Rzewski (1938). This work is one of the greatest variation works for piano ever written. It is a set of 36 variations. The technical demands of this work are severe. Number of notes? Millions. Rzewski composed the variations as a tribute to the Chilean people struggling against the Pinochet regime. The music describes a struggle. Up and down, undulating from variation to variation, from victory to defeat, from joy to sorrow. Performed at the Rumor festival by Vandewalle, one of the most talented pianists of our time.
Daan Vandewalle – piano
Caspar Brötzmann Massaker – EKKO
To many Caspar Brötzmann from Kreuzberg, West-Berlin, (son of Peter Brötzmann, the well-known free-jazz saxophonist) is Jimi Hendrix’ only worthy successor. Bands like Sonic Youth speak highly of the furious feedback storms Caspar elicits from his howling Fender Stratocaster. Just like his father he explores the musical limits in an extremely clever fashion with rock as the initial standard. Screaming guitar noise, implicit psychedelics and feedbacking frequencies are accompanied by steady and defiant bass play and slow, all-lacerating drum rhythms. You do not just listen to Caspar Brötzmann Massaker; the music is to be experienced.
Eduardo Delgado-Lopez – bass guitar, Danny Lommen – drums, Caspar Brötzmann – guitar, vocals
Das Kapital – SJU Jazzpodium
Danish guitarist Hasse Poulsen, French drummer Edward Perraud and German tenor saxophonist Daniel Erdmann make experimental universal music, drawing from the history of jazz unslavishly. At the Rumor festival the trio will perform music composed by Hanns Eisler, “The Karl Marx of Music” (1898-1962). The thirties of the last century mark the beginning of Eisler’s long cooperation and friendship with the marxist poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht. He composed the music for Brecht’s plays. Brecht about Eisler: “when entering his work, submit yourself to the challenge and the image of a new world in the process of formation.” Das Kapital takes you along on a hyper energetic journey through a new (sound)world where anything is possible.
Hasse Poulsen – guitar, Daniel Erdmann – tenor saxophone, Edward Perraud – drums |
