Gnaw Their Tongues

Coma Cluster

6 Years of Charnel Ground: PSYWARFARE (US) + Gnaw Their Tongues + Coma Cluster + Snake Oil Merchants

PSYWARFARE (US) – Relapse Records:
Extreme sonic terrorism by Dwid Hellion (INTEGRITY). Founded in Cleveland, Ohio and currently based in Ghent, Belgium, Psywarfare has been on a campaign for sonic destruction for the last 3 decades. Apocalyptic harsh noise at it’s finest!

Gnaw Their Tongues (NL):
Maurice de Jong (Mories) has released music under numerous monikers (Aderlating, Cloak of Altering, Dodenbezweerder, De Magia Veterum..) but GTT might be the vilest sounding one of them all. While combining elements of black metal, industrial, drone and noise Mories has been delivering a horrendous brew of blackened industrial cacophony for over 20 years.

Coma Cluster (DE/NL):
The Hague based power electronics project by Kevin Jansen (Svartvit/Secret(e)) and Natalia. With their live debut at Crude Transmissions I and a handful of shows in the UK under their belt Coma Cluster is quickly proving to be one of the acts to look out for in the European industrial landscape.

Snake Oil Merchants (BE/US/NL):
Currently based in Kortrijk (BE), Hamburg (DE) and Leiden (NL), S.O.M. is a harsh noise collective featuring Vincent Dallas, Geseling and Sisto Rossi.

🪩 Party

OCCII

6 Years of Charnel Ground: PSYWARFARE (US) + Gnaw Their Tongues + Coma Cluster + Snake Oil Merchants

Hessel Veldman

Lucy Valentine

Doors open: 20:00
Showtime: 20:30
Damage: €10

Lucy Valentine (uk)
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Experimental musician and guitarist based in the United Kingdom. Lucy‘s experimental and collaborative work focuses mainly on long form drones and cassette recordings. Latest album ‘Vault of Heaven’ works exclusively with the historic Mellotron’s sound banks. Bridging its unearthly celestial tones into the Heavenly, Vault of Heaven is a multimedia project focusing on analogue collage and creating surreal soundscapes to the accompany the artwork.
https://thecrystalcabinet.bandcamp.com/album/vault-of-heaven


SALT
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The debut album by Marianna Maruyama and Hessel Veldman will be released January 2025 by the Belgium label Stroom.


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> “It took us a lot to get here. I’m not only talking about the time it took to make Salt, but the lifetimes we lived to arrive here. After all, when you combine the two of us, you’ve got a centenarian, and then some. Hessel and I like to comb the archives. We pick up sounds and words like small stones, and carry them home in our pockets. After looking at those stones on a shelf in my studio for years, I decided to return them to the beaches and canyons I’d inadvertently stolen them from, and I realised that a longer journey was in order. It involved a sailing trip where I found out I didn’t know anything about life on the water, much less how to pronounce ‘bow’, but where I received a gift of clarity on a cold, early spring day. A return to my childhood home, one that is real and imagined, likewise brought me there. And it conjured up distant memories of Tokyo, a lover’s silence, and extremely sensitive nerves in the mouth. Whatever brings you back, and however you manage to get there, a sense of levity arrives after leaving those stones in their rightful place. Salt is that way home, a ritual cleansing of the years.”
> Marianna Maruyama,

IT’S NOT POETRY’S JOB TO GIVE WORDS TO FEELINGS
ANYWAY FEELINGS RESIST THE VERBAL
ALL SLIPPERY BY TONGUE AND CHEEK
TURNING THESE MOUNTAIN FEELINGS INTO MOUTH-SHAPED WORDS

Gorgonzola Legs on Tour
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It was freezing cold, there was a power failure and a sudden ending, but everyone could return home safely. These were the circumstances of Gorgonzola Legs’ resurrection after some thirty years, with a ‘sound bombardment’ during a Ukraine-themed photo exhibition at the IJmuiden Visserhallen. A try-out like a battle, on Sunday 18 December 2022, leaving the audience behind in a state of confusion, as usual. They were witness to the unique character of Gorgonzola Legs: it was overwhelming.

The IJmuiden-based experimental music collective Gorgonzola Legs started its life in the heyday of the self-taping culture and industrial noise, back in 1984. Core members Hessel Veldman, Jos van Duijne, Herman te Loo and Gert-Jan Prins recorded a number of cassettes that were released on the Exart label.

Live, the quartet, sometimes expanded with guest artists, was to be found in the squatters’ circuit of the time. But they were also featured at renowned venues like Het Patronaat (Haarlem) and the Stedelijk Museum and the Bimhuis in Amsterdam. In 1988 the CD Piscatorial Debris, featuring Japanese guest vocalist Masaki Oishi, was released. The album was well received in the international press. From the early 1990s there was a long radio silence for the band. A meeting in the summer of 2022 gave rise to an inspired restart, a new phase in the history of Gorgonzola Legs: industrial-noise-punk-psychedelics; grimy soundscapes with alienating lyricism; free improvisation; the heritage of the threatening machine and performance art of the 1980s reinvented in the present day.

This year, the collective is planning a series of exclusive concerts. Exclusive, because no two shows will be the same. And also because all Gorgonzola Legs members are involved in their own (solo) projects as well. The venue, location or organization will also add its own unique elements to the brew. That’s why we are approaching you. We’d love to hear from you, should you be interested in a Gorgonzola Legs performance.

Hessel Veldman (guitar, electronics), Jos van Duijne (guitar, effects), Herman te Loo (saxophones, bass clarinet, vocals), Gert-Jan Prins (percussion, electronics)

🎨 Cultural

Marianna Maruyama & Hessel Veldman presents New Album: SALT (Stroom) + Lucy Valentine (UK) + GORGONZOLA LEGS

World’s Appreciated Kitsch celebrates 2 years of shows in Amsterdam with a stacked line-up on Saturday 25th January

PLASTICS (UK)
BRIGHTON F**KING PUNK
Four muckers on a rampage for fun and chaos. “With a sound that is as incessantly catchy as it is pissed and snotty, the Brighton-based quartet’s Plastic World EP is a motherf**ker of a record.” – No Echo
https://plasticsrockers.bandcamp.com

PARASITE (BE)
Risen from the ashes of Dead Stop, Rise & Fall and Justice, Parasite brings you up-tempo D-beat punk hardcore from Belgium with some melodic guitars. Think Discharge, Tragedy with a pinch of punk rock.
https://parasitearmy.bandcamp.com

DESIRE LINE (DE)
Münster/Bielefeld based Desire Line (members of Tides Denied, Suspect & Sunveil) are back with their new 12” EP ‘Life’s between us’ casting their dreamy, melancholic sound introduced on their 2022 demo in a much gloomier light.
FFO: HC kids playing alt rock/emo. Think Texas Is The Reason, Sunny Day Real Estate and the likes.
https://collectivememoryrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lifes-between-us

SNAKE EATER (NL)
Snake Eater is here to kick colonial ass. With their brand of in-your-face grindy hardcore punk, they’re a fresh face in the scene. Consisting in part of ex-members of melodic hardcore act To Live Among Wolves, they’re here and ready to fight. Their first demo is coming soon!
https://www.instagram.com/snakeeater.zindabad/

32ELEPHANTS (NL)
Amsterdam based emo-outfit 32elephants seduces you with their raw energy and sincerity. Their music packs an undeniable punch, bearing uncompromising sun-kissed riffs carefully drawn on a rainy backdrop. Taking you to a place you vaguely remember, but never were able to let go of.
A mishmash of influences and a lot of complaining; You know, just a really good emo band.
https://32elephants.bandcamp.com

PLASTICS (UK) + PARASITE (BE) + DESIRE LINE (DE) + SNAKE EATER + 32ELEPHANTS

eat-girls

Thelma Cappello

A bunch of girls from France providing a bunch of cold and gloomy French new sounds at OCCII on January 26th. Prepare for the other side of yourself, this winter with eat-girls’ synthy waves and Thelma Cappello’s experimental sound-proze.

eat-girls is a three-piece band, carefully crafting songs in their apartment. Through many genres, pop, post-punk, minimal synth, kraut, dub, these songs work through their train of thought and, akin to a dream, paint obsessing and intriguing shapes. On stage, Amélie, Elisa and Maxence use their three voices, bass, guitar, synths, computer and various objects to revamp their produced material. Their album Area Silenzio has just been released, listen below…

Thelma Cappello is a Paris based artist and composer whose work spans performance, installation, collages and sound. In her musical productions she narrates the city through poetry, singing, movement, field recordings and a collection of computer altered vocals. Her inspirations range from urban spaces to ancient music, crafting odes and laments for buildings and passions.

🍿 Chill

eat-girls + Thelma Cappello

Thor Kissing

Huub Prins

DOMTUIG

Buurtbeheer

Drroomgordijnen

Kwartet Niek Hilkmann

De Nieuwe Nederlandse Naïviteit komt naar OCCII voor een bonte avond vol eigenzinnige muziek. Eerder dit jaar verscheen van deze verenigde groep outsiders, dissidenten, tegenstrevers en andere non-conformisten een compilatiealbum met daarop zestien Nederlandstalige nummers die samen de strijd aangaan met een dagelijks dreigender wordende wereld. Kom kijken hoe deze ridders van de eeuwige jeugd hun plastieken zwaarden en waterpistolen oppakken, en een frisse, ongewisse toekomst tegemoet gaan!

Verwacht een ongebonden totaalprogramma vol poëzie, muziek en performance. De optredens volgen elkaar in rap tempo op, niet gehinderd door podiumconventies of de klok. Tijdens deze avond zijn onder meer de volgende artiesten te zien:

De kraters (analog synth wave uit Amsterdam) heeft genoeg aan een tafel vol toetsen, schuifregelaars en draaiknoppen genoeg om eenieder mee te nemen naar tijden die minder vergankelijk blijken dan gedacht. Ontdek hoe de analoge beats en minimale melodieën die ooit een veelbelovende toekomst voorspelden achteraf gezien de actualiteit moeiteloos hebben ingehaald.

Piet Leegwater (outsider indie uit Amsterdam) beschrijft een veelomvattende planeet in eigenzinnige bewoordingen en ontregelende melodieën. Luister naar harmonische gedachtekronkels waarmee hij de opbouw van een plastic binnenwereld kunstig begeleidt.

Huub Prins (synth wave uit Groningen) laat intimiderend de luisteraar dichterbij komen, maar de binnenwereld blijft een mysterie in zijn duistere dansmuziek. Laat je overweldigen door een show vol intense 80s-beats en een etalage vol schier-onnavolgbare emoties.

DOMTUIG (outsider indie uit Den Haag) bekijkt een verfomfaaide wereld door een bril die orde zou moeten scheppen in een onkenbaar universum. Met ontregelende beats en een diversiteit van stemmen geeft het drietal krachtig inhoud aan de strijd tegen de voorspelbaarheid.

Buurtbeheer (punk uit Rotterdam) ontstond als punkdrietal uit woest ongenoegen tegen misstanden in volkshuisvesting en andere nare kapitalistische uitwassen. Voel hoe de rauwe emotie zware drums en bassen dirigeert en de luisteraar overdondert.

Thor Kissing (indie pop uit Den Haag) is niet alleen dé indieweirdo; hij is ook een platenbaas die produceert sinds hij boterhammen smeert en het nieuwe muzikale normaal dicteert. Maak je op voor absurde humor en eclectische beats die zijn muzikale meesterschap omlijsten.

Drroomgordijnen (indie pop uit Amsterdam) drroomt zijn liedjes voor ze hem ten dele vallen als wereldvreemde werkelijkheid die voortsluimeren in het onderbewuste. Laat je meevoeren in de nachtelijke beeldtaal van zijn aanstekelijke liedjes.

Kwartet Niek Hilkmann (indie rock uit Rotterdam) maakt aanstekelijke liedjes over geneugten als zwierige kermisattracties, Tino Martin en tobben over topsport. Laat je vervoeren in het prettige tempo van de stadstram van waaruit Niek en de zijnen de schijnbare alledaagsheid verheffen tot het exceptionele.

Voor meer info over deze nieuwe beweging, ga naar:  https://www.nieuwenederlandsenaiviteit.nl/

Volg ze via:  https://www.instagram.com/nieuwenederlandsenaiviteit/

De plaat is hier te beluisteren en te bestellen: https://petrolcandy.bandcamp.com/album/nieuwe-nederlandse-na-viteit

Beelden van het Nieuwe Nederlandse Naïviteit Live 2024 zijn gemaakt door Saenyo:
Nieuwe Nederlandse Naïviteit Festival in de Bovenkruier 19 oktober 2024

Nieuwe Nederlandse Naïviteit: avond vol poëzie, muziek en performances

FACS

Geregeld Ontregeld is proud to present a night of experimental noise punk with Chicago band FACS on tour to present their new album ”Wish Defense” engineered by Steve Albini and out on ”trouble in mind.. records” in February 2025!
more T.B.A.
FFO: Bo Ningen & Hella & Deliluh

FACS
The duality of “man” is a subject that has been explored in art for centuries, from writings of the Bible to Descartes,
all the way up to filmmakers like Lynch, Cronenberg, & Carpenter. Who is your “true self” & what do they want? With
their sixth studio album “Wish Defense” (again for longtime home Trouble In Mind Records), Chicago trio FACS take
a good, long look in the mirror to face themselves.
The return of original member Jonathan Van Herik – who stepped away from the group just before their debut album
“Negative Houses” was released in 2018 – replacing longtime bassist Alianna Kalaba brings renewed vigor & a
marked angularity from the band’s more recent output. The songs still hit hard, but the approach is sideways – the
roles have changed since Van Herik’s original tenure & his previous time with Case & powerhouse drummer Noah
Leger in Disappears; now on bass, Van Herik was originally the group’s guitar player and features on the debut,
while current guitarist Brian Case played bass. This role reversal has helped the band’s dynamic, offering up a
different musical perspective than before, now revisiting the trio’s long-going collaboration with some distance and
time.

Case notes that the lyrics on “Wish Defense” revolve around doppelgängers or “doubles”, tackling the idea of
facing yourself and observing your ideas and motivations. Look no further than the album’s title track; “Enter the
mirror / Double walker / An intimate / Wish defense / Is it real? / You beside me / The detail / Terrifying / Abject self /
Your grief / A public / Performance”. Case lays out the entire album’s theme in one stanza; Are your actions &
emotions your true self? Or are they a performative aspect of that “other” person you put forward? Case says that
ultimately the sentiment is “…don’t let the bastards get you down, there’s something beyond this moment, like hope
– but not in the naive belief that ultimately people are good”. “Wish Defense”s artwork is also a subtle reference to
“Negative Houses”’ art, returning to that album’s black & white starkness & minimalism. The album’s checkerboards
everywhere are offset reflections of themselves, mirrored with the album’s lyrics printed front & center on the cover.
Everything is out in the open.
A final note; “Wish Defense” is the last album engineered by Steve Albini. Two days were recorded at Electrical
Audio in early May of 2024 before Steve’s untimely passing, with renowned engineer & friend Sanford Parker
stepping in to finish the session 24 hours later, tracking the last bits of vocals and overdubs. Longtime collaborator
John Congleton mixed the album as Albini would have; in Electrical Audio’s A room, off the tape, using Albini’s notes
about the session.

Geregeld Ontregeld Presents: FACS (US) & more T.B.A.

ZAÄAR

Nàresh Ran

Gabriele Gasparotti

On Sunday 23rd February, Thurifer Promotions presents a night of occult experimental music

ZAÄAR
ZAÄAR play a form of psychedelic free jazz that is deeply hypnotising. Their ritualistic energy reawakens feelings long forgotten. Imagine being taken back to a time when everything still had to be discovered and humans wandered through a world filled with excitement and danger! The twin project of Neptunian Maximalism is finally coming to Amsterdam, soon after the release of their new album Ovules. Be prepared to enter the world of magic!
https://zaaar.bandcamp.com/

Nàresh Ran
Nàresh Ran, who also runs the label Dio Drone, is bringing his intense and tormenting ambient music to Amsterdam. While his previous works made extensive use of field recordings, his new album Praesens relies on a more intimate and darker formula of synths and vocals. His music deals with fragility and regret, with the memories that haunt us and keep us captive. But for Nàresh “Praesens is the way I found to deal with my demons and finally let them go”
https://nareshran.bandcamp.com/

Gabriele Gasparotti
Gabriele Gasparotti has just released Tropismi, a collection of compositions that make use of string instruments, synths and field recordings (to name but a few) to create highly dynamic and captivating harmonies. At the heart of this work is the idea that music interacts with the space around it, and is led by it into unexpected territories. So, like a living organism, music is driven by the very “engine of existence and of expansion of the Universe”.
https://gasparotti.bandcamp.com/

schoco mune
schoco mune delivers explosive noise music with a strong focus on physicality and action. Frequently collaborating with artists from other disciplines (poetry, butoh, …), schoco mune makes music that carries a sense of urgency. It is a powerful sound with extreme textures.
https://schocomune.nl/

ZAÄAR + Nàresh Ran + Gabriele Gasparotti + schoco mune

Open call to share your ideas or inform yourself on how to contribute to our program & volunteer based collective

If you’ve ever thought of volunteering with us, now is the time to come over and have a chat, a drink and get to know the other volunteers. We always welcome more help serving drinks at the bar, selling tickets at the door or cooking vegan dinner for the bands that come play at OCCII.

You can also come and pitch your ideas for OCCII, if you’ve ever wanted to organize an event or have ideas for us, we can discuss the possibilities

We will be open from 20.30 til 23.00
At 21.00 there will be an tour/talk on volunteering at OCCII for everyone that is curious

(no worries if you can not make it this time, we will do this every 6-8 weeks!)

Community Drinks (incl tour/talk for new volunteers)

Psyché

Laura Agnusdei

Marco Parente

First edition of Frastuono: a festival bringing Italy’s underground and experimental music to Amsterdam, shattering clichés about Italian music with bold, boundary-pushing sounds.

Psyché:
This project blends minimal, groove-driven music with psychedelic elements, improvisation, and ancient musical traditions. Key figures in the Neapolitan music scene for over two decades, the members of Psyché played a significant role in the early wave of the Nuova Napoli movement, known as Neapolitan Power. Notably, they also form the rhythm section for Nu Genea, a Naples-based band that has recently gained international acclaim, performing globally at major festivals such as Down the Rabbit Hole in the Netherlands.
https://fourfliesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/psych

Laura Agnusdei:
A saxophonist and electroacoustic composer from Bologna, Laura Agnusdei studied at the Institute of Sonology in the Netherlands. She will present her upcoming album, Flowers Are Blooming in Antarctica, set for release by Maple Death Records in January 2025. Her new trio features Edoardo Grisogani, a psychedelic drummer from the band Tetuan, and Jacopo Buda, a prominent figure in the underground ambient scene, performing on trumpet and percussion.. Together, they explore deeply evocative electroacoustic compositions, merging acoustic, digital, and analog sources to craft immersive soundscapes. Laura has previously performed at renowned events such as Rewire and the EYE Museum in the Netherlands.
https://lauraagnusdei.bandcamp.com

Marco Parente:
Widely recognised as one of the most distinctive voices in Italian indie music. With an extensive discography and numerous collaborations, Parente continuously pushes artistic boundaries, blending poetic lyricism with experimental sounds. In 2024, his work was featured in a playlist curated by David Byrne highlighting Italian music. For this event, Parente will perform an intimate acoustic set with Lorenzo Maffucci.
https://www.instagram.com/marc0parente/?hl=it

Frastuono Festival: Psyché + Laura Agnusdei + Marco Parente

RÊVERIE

Sono

MYNRGY

Doors open: 20:00
Showtime: 20.30
Damage: 8 euro

RÊVERIE is a powerful 3-piece all-girl band creating alt-pop that pulses with hip-hop rhythms, electropop beats, and rock’s raw edge. Known for their captivating live shows and bold visual style, RÊVERIE delivers an immersive experience full of authenticity. Their music explores themes of LGBTQ+ identity, mental health, and global issues.

Michael Ekow and May are an eclectic duo based in Amsterdam. Their sound is a kaleidoscope glued together by the heartfelt storytelling, vocals by Michael and the immensely skilled guitar playing of May.

Sono is a queer artist and performer with Indigenous roots from the Surinamese Arowak tribe. This charismatic artist, sometimes likened to an original cartoon character, thrives on pushing boundaries and playfully approaches both music and visuals. Despite the heavy, personal themes, Sono knows how to keep their English indie-pop songs lighthearted, featuring soulful vocals and catchy melodies. Sono’s authenticity makes them an artist unlike any you’ve seen or heard in the Netherlands.

MYNRGY is a DJ & music producer born in 2000; his music is an outlet of the NRGY that comes from within him. Music is a way of expression as everyone knows; for MYNRGY, it’s also an adventure game. Trying out new things and always finding a way to reach new goals. His music serves as a bridge for leaving reality and entering this glitchy and trippy world. Games, Retro design, Futuristic ideas, Vehicles, Metal shaping, Space, Blurred Vision, Energy, Movement, Electricity, and Glitches are all things you will see in this imagined world that he created with his !SNDS¡

RÊVERIE + Michael Ekow and May + Sono + MYNRGY (dj)

Adam

Maggie

Christie

Eric

Anna

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OCCII is an independent music venue. Situated in a building complex which was squatted in 1984, legalized in 1992. OCCII has since developed into a unique social centre for alternative music and other arts. 
 
OCCII provides a cultural program that is hand-picked for those drawn to a wonderful and wide range of subversive sounds and music genres: global beats, noise, punk, folk, improv, rave, avant-garde & electronic.
 
OCCII is not in it to make profit. We aim to be a home to all kinds of subcultures and non-commercial collaborations. At OCCII we want to create a space where all feel welcome and safe(r), regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, ability, sexuality or otherwise. Our venue is wheelchair accessible.
 
In addition to live music, OCCII also hosts Kinderpret: a series of Tuesday & Wednesday afternoon theatre performances and workshops for kids aged 2-12 years. OCCII is part of De Binnenpret, a social center consisting of a variety of cultural and political collectives.

COMMUNITY

We are part of a community of musicians, artists and audience from Amsterdam and beyond: an active group of volunteers to connect music, people and other venues in the city.

This community and our volunteers are the ones that continuously bring new music and new developments to OCCII. Many of them are not native Amsterdammers. OCCII has a staff of two who coordinate the program, volunteers and other tasks needed. Together we try to contribute to creating space we think is crucial to the social fabric of Amsterdam. To (re)claim a place in the ever gentrifying city center and to continue our radical, non-commercial way of hosting musicians from all over the world.

We are dedicated to support anyone who would like to organize an event or become a volunteer – please read more about that here!


THE BUILDING’S ARCHITECTURE

People often ask us: What is the story behind the eclectic facade of OCCII? The venue was once part of a larger complex (built in 1883/84) which functioned as horse stables and a depot for trams – that’s why OCCII’s main entrance has such tall doors! The architect was Abraham Salm, he based his design on the Russian National Style, inspired by a painting of a clock made by Viktor Hartman.

For many years, the facade was in disarray (very punk..!). In 2010 we were able to restore the exterior facade to its beautiful original state, with help from Monument Zorg and OCCII volunteers!

Other significant buildings in Amsterdam designed by Abraham Salm and his father G.B. Salm are (what we now know as): Paradiso and de Melkweg. It’s a wonder that all three buildings have transformed into the most important venues for live music – and the squatting movement in Amsterdam is to thank for that.

Read more about the history of the building on the website of Binnenpret, this blogpost we wrote and this article by ArchiHis.

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