Space Impro @ Sexyland World

NOTE: LOCATION SEXYLAND WORLD Noordwal 1, Amsterdam A diverse Space Impro night with mostly new work: two soloists and a recently formed 9-piece ensemble performing their mix of jazz, improvisation & music based on folk traditions. SATURNO SANTOS SOMETHING Saturno Santos is composer Gabriel de Oliveiras heteronym, and an imagined presence sprouting from the Great Archive of Dreams, Memories and Intuitions within each of us. Its first material incarnation, Something, takes form as a 9-piece rotating ensemble of young talents versed in multifaceted languages of jazz, improvisation, folk traditions and cultures of several territories and diasporas. Saturno Santos explosive grooves and fluidly improvisational songwriting paint a ritual of transformation: collectively naming the ineffable through song. Chen Har-Even – drums | Niels Luteijn – drums | Zenzele Mthembu-Salter – bass | Chaerin Im – piano, keys | Alkistis Misouli – viola; Lezaam Beets – trombone | Helena Casella – vocals | Beatrice Sberna – vocals | Gabrielde Oliveira – guitar, vocals AMALIE DAHL SOLO Amalie Dahl is a Danish saxophone player, composer and bandleader, currently based in Oslo (Norway). She is known for having a distinct sound and strong integrity both as an improviser and a composer. She ended her education at the Jazz department at NTNU in Trondheim in 2021. The year after she released her first album as a bandleader, Dafnie, on Sonic Transmissions Records, which has received excellent reviews. Since then the band has been touring in Scandinavia, Poland and Germany. She is also playing with several other projects like SUPERSPREDER, Dahl/Dalen/Svik, Trondheim Jazz Orchestra and Hedvig Mollestads Tempest Revisited. On September 1st 2023 her first solo record, Memories, was released on Sonic Transmissions Records. Amalie Dahl – Saxophone IG HENNEMAN SOLO Ig Henneman is a renowned viola/violin player and composer, based in Amsterdam. She started her career as a classical musician in various orchestras and the ASKO ensemble. Her interest in improvisation increased as she joined trumpeter-pianist-composer Nedly Elstak’s groups. Subsequently she started leading groups under her own name, like a quintet, a tentet, a string quartet and a sextet. With these groups she tours extensively in the Netherlands and abroad. She runs the record label Wig with reed player Ab Baars, with whom she also has a long running duo. In addition to her work as a band leader-improviser Henneman has an international career as a composer of contemporary music. Tonight she will present a new solo! Line-up: Saturno Santos Something | Amalie Dahl solo | Ig Henneman solo -- Event source: https://amsterdamalternative.nl/agenda/14834/space-impro-sexyland-world