Finally two live shows with Josué Amador and Dirar Kalash, the trio that recorded the Fading Ground cd. Thursday at Helicopter, together with Sweat Tongue and Zad Kokar, and saturday at City Art in Den Haag, with Sho Shin duo. Can’t wait to finally play live with these guys!

This sunday a duo set with Leo Svirsky at the 2018 edition of the mighty SOTU Festival, at OCCII! Always fantastic to play with Leo, and the SOTU festival is always great, so this will be a special night, hope to see you!

Saturday at SUP Impro in Amsterdam, another improvisation with Maria Mavridou! Also playing is Qualm! trio. All info here, drop by if you’re around.

Thursday is MYRIADS #19 in Helicopter. With Qualm!, Haddow, and Tony. Groovey free jazz noise, improvised explorations with accidental acoustics & electronics, and a percussive performance with found objects and electricity.

QUAM! is a new Belgian/French trio operating on the border of free jazz, noise, and groovey things. Bass, drums, and an electronically enhanced trumpet by Farida Amadou, Tom Malmendier, and Timothée Quost. They just recorded a record for Colin Webster’s Raw Tonk Records so there you go.

HADDOW is a persona for improvised exploration of home made instruments, hardware processing and accidental acoustics. Jagged rhythm and instinctive voice build and crumble forming a primal sound between beat and drone.

TONY Guarino is a percussionist from NYC who is currently living in The Hague. He is interested in exploring the instrumental potentials of found objects and materials through improvisation.

(h)ear turns 10 this saturday! Big respect to Mike Kramer who has been running this amazing organization for so long. Very happy to play with Riccardo Marogna at the birthday party in the deep south of the Netherlands. Amazing line up, drop by if you’re around!

Tomorrow the most intense dancer in the world, Maria Mavridou, and I have another duo performance at OCCII in Amsterdam, together with BromP TreB, Eindkr∀k & Spacecorgi, and Rebcca D. Line-up is very promising, hope to see you! See facebook event for more details.

This afternoon I’m improvising in Rotterdam with Jacco Weener on voice, Piu Piu Maya, Christian Rønn and Jos van Beek on electronics. Part of the Readymade series, this time at Wolfart. Starts at 15:00, free entrance!

Great review in Polish from Andrzej Nowak at Spontaneous Music Tribune. My Polish is not so good, use Google translate to read it. They end with “Wyśmienite” which means “delicious”. So wonderful to hear our music made it to Poland and it’s enjoyed there!

This saturday, november 25, El Otro plays at Vrooom #54, at the Pink Pank in Rotterdam. With the great Georgian saz player Asiq Nargile. This will be a very special evening, looking forward.

Tomorrow El Otro is playing at Munganga theater in Amsterdam. Other sets by Gabor Hartyani with Robbert van Hulzen, two spoken word performances and a capoeira event. Crazy combination, can’t wait to see it!