bands etc

 
 


om viloma

balkan songs, south indian rag-isms, a rhythm section like a bombay taxi driver. unexpected turns, swerves, and almost-collisions; always on the edge and always getting to a destination, albeit possibly not the one originally intended

played a dutch tour for the music: world series in the autumn of 2009 and recorded various tracks with indian, greek, and west-european musicians

om viloma has until now consisted of
martha mavroidi (voice, lafta, percussion)
chandru (violin)
marcello windolph (double bass)
ned mcgowan(flute, contrabassflute)
bc manjunath (mridangam & kanjeera)
robbert van hulzen (drums etc)

oto.3

gallery jazz

oto.3 is bringing together the music Maarten Visser has been composing for Padmini Chettur, and the music he has made for the improvised trios he has been working with, into a performance project.

maarten visser (saxophones, composition)
holger jetter (electric bass violin)
robbert van hulzen (drums etc)

the phillip project

phillip’s explorations of freedom, feeling like a superhero, and an eternal discotheque trapped in perpetual spring time

episodes 14 and 15 were played in amsterdam, boston, and den haag in 2008-10, episode 16 was played at various venues and festivals including ongepolijst in july 2010

michael jahoda (dance)
giulia mureddu (dance)
alfredo genovesi (guitar)
robbert van hulzen (drums etc)

ensemble gending

new music for javanese gamelan

many projects in europe, four tours to indonesia, albums on bvhaast and cnm classics, commissioned compositions by dutch, indonesian, and other composers

beautiful brown eyes

gutterjazz

jazz by musicians who never play jazz. concerts at amsterdam venues like zaal 100, maarten luther kerk, buurtboerderij

john dikeman (saxophones)
peter huber (trumpet)
marcello windolph (contrabass)
robbert van hulzen (drums etc)

rara avis

abstract folk music inspired by south indian rhythms, melodies from the renaissance, free improv and homebuilt electronics

a number of dutch and north-american (edmonton through san francisco) tours and residencies (banff, atlantic center for the arts), album one fell swoop on karnatic lab records in 2008

terri hron (recorders, electronics)
robbert van hulzen (drums etc, electronics)