Friso van Wijck

Harry Merry

Afleiding is a series of events and releases curated by Stichting Holland.

For fans of: Frank Zappa, Daniel Johnston, Ian Hawgood, Ulla Straus, Tim Hecker, Beach Boys.

Tonight graphic designers Auke Triesschijn and Niels Vrijdag will launch their first joint riso magazine at Roodkapje. Their art will be shown, and musicians they worked with as art work designers will perform.

Friso van Wijck’s Candy Container is the jazz ensemble of composer/drummer Friso van Wijck.
Friso composed a.o. For Asko/Schoenberg Ensemble, Nieuw Ensemble, Doelen Ensemble, Mondriaan String Quartet, Doelen String Quartet and the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra. Tonight Candy Container will release their debut album.

Art Bit is the artist project of Ard Janssen. A composer, sound designer and field recordist who creates audio sculptures which are subtle, layered and characterized with great detail. His musical forms come about through free improvisation and systematic composition with a focus on minimalism.

Harry Merry is Harry Merry. The guy with the keyboard who created his own kind of pop music. He will turn a huge smile on your face, or annoy you to death. Whatever happens, you won’t forget him. Tonight he will release his new ep, which will be the first in a series he’s working on.

www.stichtingholland.nl
https://studio.auketriesschijn.nl/
https://nielsvrijdag.nl/
https://www.ardbit.com/
https://frisovanwijck.nl/

🪩 Party

🎨 Cultural

Roodkapje

AFLEIDING

Presale ticket

Skapiche?!

P.O. BOX

Baroeg On Tour @ Roodkapje presents:  
P.O.BOX (FR ska/punk) [@pobox_band](https://www.instagram.com/pobox_band/)  

  
Skapiche?! (NL ska/punk) [@skapiche](https://www.instagram.com/skapiche/)  

  
  
for fans of: Mad Caddies, Big D And The Kids Table, NOFX  
  
NOFX regularly plays with ska, but what if Fat Mike & co. were actually a ska punk band? Then you would end up with P.O. Box. With a tight pair of horns, the air brass gets free rein in the uplifting songs of this French sextet. They have been touring the world since 2001, from Japan to Canada, so it is high time for their first show in Rotterdam. Expect one-third skank and two-thirds pogo; go wild as you please.  
  
Be on time for Skapiche anyway?! This multi-headed, hyper-energetic group has been turning the city and country upside down for years with uptempo party ska. In Baroeg and at Baroeg Open Air they have previously got everyone and everything moving, so this will be pure hot skanking with a soaking wet T.  
  
Tickets presale € 16,50  
Doorsale € 17,50  
Doors 19:30

Baroeg On Tour presents P.O. BOX & Skapiche?!

Plus Instruments

Stakattak

Stakattak, Plus Instruments, Dorpstraat 3 [Pretty//Ugly]

ffo: De Witte Kunst, Grauzone, Truus de Groot, KLAKMATRAK, The Space Lady on steroids

Stakattak
Stakattak is the wild Belgian family trash pop trio and self-proclaimed precursor of Raout Rock. They co-released three albums - No Exit (2020), Decoy (2021), This Real (2023) - with multiple independent labels from Belgium, the Netherlands and France (Rockerill Records, Love Mazout, Stadskanker, Bagdaddy Records, Do It Youssef, Les Clampins d'Abord, Hyperjungle). Expect songs boiled down to the essence and explosive liveshows unleashed from a stripped down set-up. With drums, vocals and guitar they contort reality into an infectious trip. W , Stakattak is the wild Belgian family trash pop trio and self-proclaimed precursor of Raout Rock. They co-released three albums - No Exit (2020), Decoy (2021), This Real (2023) - with multiple independent labels from Belgium, the Netherlands and France (Rockerill Records, Love Mazout, Stadskanker, Bagdaddy Records, Do It Youssef, Les Clampins d'Abord, Hyperjungle). Expect songs boiled down to the essence and explosive liveshows unleashed from a stripped down set-up. With drums, vocals and guitar they contort reality into an infectious trip.

Plus Instruments
Born in Eindhoven but based in the States, Truus de Groot, has been an unsung hero of experimental and underground music culture for decades. Since 1978, she has been involved in the curation of the Plus Instruments project: a project which has inspired innovation across the world of Electronic music alongside a range of collaborators. At the time, the sheer free will for a group such as Plus Instruments was almost unheard of: their performances were largely improvised and their sound captivating. Her profile is low key and Plus Instruments is ever changing. She explains the rotation and progressive nature of the group. "It always comes from my own initiative; I decide who to play with. I believe that gives it new life each time. I was always more into improvisation with a minimal approach, less structured, more groove." After a successful few years as a band member of cult classic Nasmak and as reigning Queen of the “Ultra” movement, Truus left The Netherlands in 1981 at the young age of 21. She travelled to New York and began to immerse herself in the nightlife and clubs of the city that never sleeps. Within weeks she established a new Plus Instruments line up with David Linton (Rhys Chatham) and Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), this yielded the timeless classic Plus Instruments “Februari-April ’81” which has been reissued numerous times over the years. Through the years Plus Instruments released a number of albums with a host of different collaborators from around the globe. Plus Instruments has been active on the stage and studio throughout these last (almost) 5 decades with no sign of stopping! In 2024 Truus will be joined by multi instrumentalists Kathy Ziegler (US) and Peter Sijbenga van Dockumer Lokaeltsje (NL) for a promising set of old, new and unheard Plus Instruments!

Former & Current Collaborators include: Brecht Camphuijzen (NL), Rik van Iersel (NL), Toon Bressers (NL), Theo Van Rock (NL), David Linton (US), Lee Ranaldo (US), Craig Kafton (US), Jonathan Schneider (US), James Sclavunos (US), Jim Duckworth (US), Annene Kaye (US), Marula Verbeek (NL), Younes Raid (NL), Solex (NL), Jimmy Virani (FR), Paulo Beto (BR), Miguel Barella (BR), Intige Taluure (BEL) – Cosmo Vitelli (FR) and many more!

Dorpstraat 3
On a slow day, some friends were walking past the vacant building at Dorpsstraat 3, where the old home of the village Priest, where they had grown up, was located. After wandering through the dusty house for a while, they ended up in the basement where, unlike the rest of the house, they did not just find what they had expected. The basement was filled with analog synthesizers, rhythm boxes, and a large record collection. Among this record collection, they found artists such as Grauzone, ZZ & de Maskers, Kraftwerk, and Erkin Koray.

Inspired by the record collection and the amount of empty wine bottles in the basement, they wrote a song about the priest in question and named themselves after the building where it all began, Dorpsstraat 3.
The music of Dorpsstraat 3 balances between post-punk and synthwave, drawing inspiration from various types of music that come from very different places geographically and temporally and blending it all together. Sometimes it seems as if these influences were always meant to be together, and sometimes you get confused by them. In this way, Dorpsstraat 3 tells stories that you haven't heard before.

Tickets
Presale 10,-
Doorsale 12,-

Stakattak, Plus Instruments, Dorpsstraat 3 [Pretty Ugly]

BLUAI

Roodkapje x Rotown present:  
BLUAI  
  
For fans of: Big Thief, Pinegrove, HAIM  
  
Sale starts August the 16th at 10:00 through Rotown.  
  
BLUAI  
The Belgian trio BLUAI is like a polaroid photo full of distant nostalgia and memorabilia. Songwriter Catherine Smet captures memories of her youth in her lyrics, playing them back in a musical film soaked in Americana, countrypop, and indie folk. While the stories unfold in her homeland of Belgium, closing your eyes transports you to a ranch in Mississippi, with galloping horses providing the backdrop to their music—it’s the soundtrack of a nostalgic coming-of-age film painted in autumnal hues.  
  
On March 1, 2024, the group released their debut album, 'Save It For Later,' a sepia-tinged collection that holds one core message close to the heart: nostalgic emotions are to be cherished. BLUAI embarks on a road trip through musical landscapes where Big Thief, Pinegrove, Haim, and Alabama Shakes belong. With their captivating sound, they have recently won the three most prestigious Belgian music awards (Humo's Rock Rally, De Nieuwe Lichting, and SoundTrack).

Rotown

Bluai

Laetitia Sadier

Pink Shabab

Laetitia Sadier + Pink Shabab
ffo: Stereolab, Antena, Cate le Bon  

Laetitia Sadier
@sadierlaetitia

Laetitia issues a call to the traumatized civilizations of Earth: we’re urged to finally evolve past our countless millennia of suffering and alienation. Her songs score the complexities and harmonies within this directive: organ, guitar, bass, synth, trombone, vibraphone, live and programmed drums, and a vocal assembly of men and women billed as The Choir, working intricate chord/tempo/and dynamic changes, as Laetitia’s empathic presence leads the way.  

Over the course of her career, spanning three-plus decades, Laetitia Sadier has never shied away from the hard topics, or stopped advocating for the possibility of self determination and emancipation in the face of the powers that be, conscious or unconscious. This is an essential part of the foundation she co-built with Stereolab, showcasing her spiritual, scientific and sociopolitical inquiries. She’s continued this process with Monade and under her own name and as a writer/singer/and musician whose every album acts as a report on her journey of the self through time, space and the collective.  

On Rooting For Love, the report is set alight by the heat of a turbulent world, collapsing institutions and Laetitia’s fully engaged process of expression as well as orchestration. The opening number, “Who + What” elucidates the central issue of the album: a call for a collective striving for Gnosis – an inquisitive outlook that will lend clues to the traumatized civilizations of Earth, allowing us to evolve away from millennia of alienation and suffering and towards the achievability of healing. The musical arrangements help to embody the layers of the issue, as with “Who + What”’s combination of organ, synths, guitar, bass, trombone, drum programming, vibraphone and zither, all working along intricate paths of chord and tempo changes. Leading from the inside is the implacable presence of Laetitia Sadier, herself interacting with a vocal assembly of men and women billed as The Choir. The regular reappearance of The Choir throughout Rooting For Love is a reminder of this music being one of a people in critical mass, in addition to an evolution that continues to deepen the rich harmonic fields in which Laetitia plays.  
Past wounds are addressed again and again in the libretto, as the music provides a transformational balm to aid the healing process. The melodic funk of bassist Xavi Muñoz leads a Chic-adjacent slink to the occasional dance floor vibes and no-wave rockouts, while Hannes Plattemier and Emma Mario take turns in mixing the tracks and informing the far reaches of the material, with vibes, additional drum programming and synths alongside a talented cast of players and singers from Laetita’s Source Ensemble and beyond.  

Whether drawing inspiration from Zen Shiastu training, or the lyrics of Véronique Vincent, (lyricist and singer for Aksak Maboul, and once upon a time, lead singer of the Honeymoon Killers), Laetitia faces the truth without flinching. The shadows, whatever stuff they are made of - individual and collective, present and ancestral - need to be recognized and acknowledged, because the more we heal within ourselves, the more undivided we become in the face of looming Neo-fascist/Neoliberal narratives polluting the inner and outer landscapes. As with the cover image of the winter tree mirrored by the word patterns of Rooting For Love, Laetitia maintains that how we heal the world that’s coming, and what we make of it, will be a co-creation. The quality of our imagination, the orientation we give our thoughts and the capacity to bring love to ourselves and the world are a first step.  
Alongside of her collaboration with Modern Cosmology, last year’s incredible What Will You Grow Now?, as well as her continued tours with a reformed Stereolab, Rooting For Love finds Laetitia back in the world, once again urging all our grounded inner alignment and heart power to make us better equipped for creating what’s to come.  

Pink Shabab
@pinkshabab

Pink Shabab is the heartbreak disco-pop project of London based musician Joseph Carvell. After years as a trusted bass player for the likes of Batsch, Laetitia Sadier, Marker Starling, Baby Dee, Malphino and many more bands, Pink Shabab was created as an outlet for Carvell's solo music. A few demos and concerts later, an invitation came from Emma 'Astrobal' Mario to the South of France to record a debut album. 2019's 'Ema by the Sea' released on Berlin label Karaoke Kalk.  

'Groovy and laid-back, danceable and intimate, the minimalist structures of Carvell’s songwriting open up a lot of space and make room for plenty of surprises along the way. ' - Forced Exposure  

Since then Pink Shabab has performed in UK, France, Switzerland, Belgium, toured in Taiwan and Japan and recorded three more albums with the same producer. 'Never Stopped Loving You' released in February 2022,  

'It's a feel-good album in the tradition of the best sad disco songs, balancing upbeat rhythms with matters of burden and loss.' - The Letter  

'Do You Remember?' was released in Spring 2023 and a fourth album is due for release in Winter 2024.

Laetitia Sadier + Pink Shabab

Lifeless Past

Designer Violence

Brorlab

doors open 20:30

Borlab, Lifeless Past, Designer Violence  
[Pretty//Ugly]  
  
ffo: Devo, Cocaine Piss, the Screamers, NIN, Christian Death, punx with synths  
  
Brorlab  
In 2023 BRORLAB popped up with their second release "Working Out In Heaven", a totally out of control 12” of modern fuckwave.  
  
The A side is seven new songs of their trademark dadaist electronic punk, full of fuzz guitars and sharp nasty beats, with a female vocalist that fits perfectly the Honey Bane – Chitose vocal range and smart attitude.  
  
The B side brings bang back to life the 8 tracks from their criminally obscure debut EP, which will make any lover of ear-damaging noise smile with pleasure.  
  
All in all an aberrant slice of psychedelic gabber infused punk for the end of time.  
  
Lifeless Past  
Lifeless Past from The Netherlands plays darkwave and postpunk music which is heavily inspired by the goth movement from the late 80's.  
Lifeless Past consist of Satori (guitars, drumbeats and vocals) together with Brandon om percussions. Both members are currently living in the Netherlands but they are born and raised on the island of Curaçao. Their cultural background can also be heard in their compositions and in some of their songs which are sung in Spanish.  
Their music is characterized by its cold and groovy drums, cascading melodic guitars and wintery vocals.  
  
Designer Violence  
Wild synthesizers, pumping beats and emotional vocals delivered by women screaming in your face. Formed out of a shared passion for everything gritty, danceable and underground, queer art punk band Designer Violence manages to transform every venue they play into a sweaty underground nightclub, where the sun never rises and the subs slightly too loud.  
  
VJ Elena Chadaeva  
Elena is a Rotterdam-based transdisciplinary artist and designer. Her interest and inspiration lie in the intersection of math and spirit, and she explores that threshold by translating sensory input into generated visuals. In her artistic practice more broadly, she works with seemingly unconnectable themes and methods and weaves them into a poetic whole that questions the nature of perception.  
  
Presale €10  
Door €12

Brorlab, Lifeless Past, Designer Violence [Pretty//Ugly]

Water Damage

Renée presents: Water Damage & More
Free entrance  

Renée
The first name of the second edition of Renée was announced a while ago, but where is the information for the first edition? Here. On Monday November 4th we present you Water Damage from Austin. Maybe the Rotterdam of Texas? But let's not bother the members of Water Damage with that question. They are busy enough playing one note as loud as possible and as hard as possible and as intense as possible and as relentless as possible and as firm as possible and as powerful as possible and as penetrating as possible and as merciless as possible. Water Damage's motto can be translated as "maximum repetition, minimum deviation". In other words, the band's music is based on what they would call drones in their own country. A welcome counterbalance to contemporary... Yes... Maybe to contemporary everything.  
[@renee.rotterdam](https://www.instagram.com/renee.rotterdam/)



Frequently Asked Questions  

Q: What can we expect from Water Damage on Monday evening November 4th in Roodkapje?  
A: Powerful minimalism from a group of about eight. Drummers, bassists, guitarists and a violinist who will reset our brains with their repetitive rock. An E chord. Multiple E chords perhaps. It is not for nothing that their new album ‘In E’ was given an E,E by Pitchfork.  

Q: What can we expect besides Water Damage on Monday evening November 4th in Roodkapje?  
A: We are keeping that a secret for now. But count on more music, even more music and maybe even some spoken word. Keep an eye on our Instagram page to stay informed!  

Q: Does the fact that admission to this concert on Monday evening November 4th in Roodkapje is free mean that the evening will be worthless?  
A: No, on the contrary. And we at Renée are convinced that a good evening can cost a little money. But the first week of November is the Rotterdam Pop Week, and for that reason the Popunie has offered to cover all costs. For which we are of course very grateful to the Popunie.

Renée

Renée #1 – Water Damage & meer

Kumo 99

ENIGE NL CLUBSHOW

Voor fans van: The Prodigy, Crystal Castles, Grimes, PVA, Machine Girl

Het unieke geluid van het duo Kumo 99 is een mix van elektronische dansmuziek doordrenkt met een onmiskenbare punk mentaliteit. De samensmelting van jungle en drum-‘n-bass, gecombineerd met een hoog moshpit-gehalte, resulteert in iets wat zowel rauw als explosief is – een strakke wisselwerking tussen energieke breakbeats en pompende hardcorebeats. Vocaliste Ami Komai speelt het meestal koeltjes; haar zwoele, panterachtige stem past perfect bij de dreunende baslijnen en rusteloze beatwisselingen die dit project voortstuwen als een onregelmatige hartslag. Maar ze laat ook zien dat ze niet vies is van pure, onvervalste agressie; dit zijn de momenten waar de opgebouwde spanning in hun tracks tot een explosieve ontlading komt.

Met Ami Komai’s achtergrond in LA hardcore bands en Nate Donmoyer’s indrukwekkende cv (voorheen getekend bij Ninja Tune als Shuttle en producent/schrijver voor artiesten als Gesaffelstein, The Weeknd en Pharrell) hebben ze hun invloeden samengevoegd in drie albums. Met Komai die in het Japans zingt over hardcore ravebeats, is het moeilijk om niet meegesleept te worden door de enthousiaste energie van Kumo 99.

Dit concert wordt georganiseerd door Rotown en Roodkapje en heeft uitsluitend staanplaatsen.

Ticket

Aili

Roodkapje x Rotown present:  
Aili  
  
Voor fans van: Charlotte Adigéry, Confidence Man, Soulwax  
  
De muziek van het Belgische duo Aili bevat dezelfde ingrediënten als een Studio Ghibli-animefilm: een beetje vreemd en soms op een goede manier schokkend, maar gevuld tot de rand met prachtige kleuren en geluiden. De volstrekt unieke, bijna surrealistische elektronische mix varieert van electro-pop tot vrolijke electronica, housemuziek, techno en meer. Hun repertoire is een briljante verzameling aanstekelijke nummers die bubbelen en pulseren met een speelse geest. Met gigantische, torenhoge hooks leveren ze zalige new wave en synthpop die flitsend, eigenzinnig en groovy is—allemaal gezongen in het Japans!  
  
Hun in 2021 uitgekomen Dansu EP was meteen een hit en leverde hen nominaties en lof op. De band had een sterke aanwezigheid met talloze liveoptredens door heel Europa, een uitnodiging voor het Inspire Tokyo Festival in Japan en uitgebreide zendtijd op gerenommeerde Amerikaanse radiostations KEXP en KCRW. Eind februari 2024 brachten ze hun debuutalbum Nandakke? uit, en het lijkt erop dat het releasefeest nog lang niet voorbij is! Ben je klaar om heel Roodkapje door te stuiteren?

Going beyond factual documentation and celebrating the fleetingness of the moment.

Roodkapje’s permanent expo of a growing anarchive
with the Hamburger Community, Hogus Bogus Publishing, Alice Strete, Iris Velzen and more tba

opening hours:
Thur 16:00 - 20:00
Sat - Sun 14:00 - 20:00

free entrance

In 2024, Roodkapje begins building (their) anarchief (or anarchive in English), which is open for visitors from May onwards. Roodkapje’s anarchief consists of anarchival pieces that grow from the Happenings organized by the residents of the Hamburger Community. To start anarchiving is to break free from the archive as we know it, to refuse traditional forms of archiving and a proposition to explore the ways in which the full sensorial experience of lived life can be included. We want to pay attention to the silences left in conventional archiving practices and make space for reciprocity in collective memory and meaning making. Our anarchive will be subjective, polyvocal and unevenly shaped.

Roodkapje’s Anarchief aims to collect moments, processes and affective forces in the Happenings to craft stories about what has passed in ways that may inspire possible action in the future. Artists are invited to transform the spirit of the Happenings into anarchival pieces; artworks that suggest new beginnings, relations and ways of being. You can check out the anarchival traces from PASTE, the first Happening this year, organized by Hogus Bogus Publishing and the Hamburger Community residents Tisa World, M.C. Julie Yu, Julia Wilhelm, Repelsteeltje and Irene Cassarini. From 10 October onwards, you can listen to and see the first anarchival piece by artist Alice Strete, inspired by the second Happening A.S.M.R. [Advanced Social Manner Refusual] that took place in the end of June.
To develop this anarchive’s visual language and house style, we are working with artist and designer Iris Velzen.

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Roodkapje was founded in Rotterdam in 2000 by Eric den Hartigh. Over the years, Roodkapje has grown into a multidisciplinary platform for presentation and talent support for young artists, musicians, performers and programmers in the heart of Rotterdam. Roodkapje is multi-voiced, energetic and supportive and offers a space to explore, experiment and execute.

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136

AFLEIDING

Baroeg On Tour presents P.O. BOX & Skapiche?!

Stakattak, Plus Instruments, Dorpsstraat 3 [Pretty Ugly]

Bluai

Laetitia Sadier + Pink Shabab

Brorlab, Lifeless Past, Designer Violence [Pretty//Ugly]

Renée #1 – Water Damage & meer

Kumo 99

Aili

anarchief

December

Roodkapje

760

136

AFLEIDING

Baroeg On Tour presents P.O. BOX & Skapiche?!

Stakattak, Plus Instruments, Dorpsstraat 3 [Pretty Ugly]

Bluai

Laetitia Sadier + Pink Shabab

Brorlab, Lifeless Past, Designer Violence [Pretty//Ugly]

Renée #1 – Water Damage & meer

Kumo 99

Aili

anarchief

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December