We have only one copy left of our Bell Time cd, so be quick!

You can win this CD by sending a mail to win@incubate.org. Put ‘Bell Time’ in the subjectline and tell us in which venue Stadhouders, Black and Endresen performed at Incubate 2010.
And if you’re really quick, we’ll add one ticket to their concert in the Bimhuis in Amsterdam this Thursday!

Good luck!

This is something we really love. Tilburgs very own Bram Stadhouders just released a new CD: ‘Bell Time’ featuring Sidsel Endresen and Jim Black. We already blogged about this some days ago.

During the 2010 edition of Incubate Festival, Stadhouders performed with the Norwegian vocal artist Sidsel Endresen (a.o. Jon Eberson group) and the American drummer Jim Black (a.o. AlasNoAxis, Human Feel). This went so well, that they decided to make an album. So we’re extremely proud about this. And thanks to Muzieklab, we can give away 3 CD’s!

Bram Stadhouders started out as a guitarist and composter. After he won many prizes, he started focussing on jazz, rock, electronic and contemporary music. He played with Staplerfahrer, Spinvis, Laïs and Noel Redding. Next to that, he also did projects with Onno Govaert, Eric van der Westen’s XTD and Terje Isunget IceMusic.
And now he presents his latest project with Sidsel Endresen and Jim Black. It’s jazzy, electronic and even a bit ambient at the same time, with the haunting vocals of Endresen on top of that. It’s wonderful! Take a listen below if you’re still not convinced!

You can win this CD by sending a mail to win@incubate.org. Put ‘Bell Time’ in the subjectline and tell us in which venue Stadhouders, Black and Endresen performed at Incubate 2010.
And if you’re really quick, we’ll add one ticket to their concert in the Bimhuis in Amsterdam this Thursday!

Good luck!

Dutch composer and guitarist Bram Stadhouders, Norwegian vocal artist Sidsel Endresen and  Brooklyn-based virtuoso drummer Jim Black played two awesome shows at Incubate 2010.

Both shows were recorded and shaped into the album “Bell Time” which will be released on November 15th by Muzieklab Brabant. BUT.. you can already stream the album on our Soundcloud page, or below!

ps.  The trio is doing two live performances in November:
Nov 10: Bimhuis, Amsterdam, NL
Nov 11: November Music, Den Bosch, NL

Bram Stadhouders & Koenraad Ecker will perform at Cul de Sac next Sunday (June 5th)! Support comes from Herbert Eckardt. Entrance is free so no excuses! Show starts at 20:30. Below you can find the description of this special show in Dutch!

“Dit is tripmuziek. Het publiek van het eerste optreden rapporteerde al dat ze zichzelf door het heelal zagen slingeren en ontvoerd werden door buitenaardse wezens. Uren laten zat iedereen nog in de roes. Dit is ambient freejazz-gitaar met IDM beats die je op je grondvesten zal laten schudden. Vrije improvisatie door 2 impro-maestros, elk concert is uniek.”

Bram Stadhouders wordt gezien als een van de meest verfrissende Nederlandse improvisatiemuzikanten. Nadat hij verschillende prijzen als klassiek, rock en jazz gitarist in de wacht sleepte, begon hij zich te focussen op de improvisatie en electronica. Hij werd in 2008 uitverkoren tot “Young VIP” met een tour langs alle grote Nederlandse improvisatiepodia en een optreden op Vrije Geluiden met drummer Onno Govaert. Als sologitarist, sideman, en met zijn 6-koppige band “Korps”, heeft hij in bijna elk land van Europa, en de USA getourd. Zijn stijl meandert tussen jazz, ambient en electronisch, en hij krijgt uitstekende recensies. Zijn trio met de gerenommeerde stemkunstenares Sidsel Endresen (ECM) en drummer Jim Black, gaf de Volkskrant 4/5 sterren. Hij wordt ook regelmatig uitgenodigd door internationale grootheden, zoals Terje Isungset, en Grzech Piotrowski. Zijn muziek wordt tevens gebruikt voor documentaires.
www.bramstadhouders.nl

Koenraad Ecker is waarschijnlijk een van de meest vooruitstrevende electronische musici van Belgie. Voortkomend uit een verleden van klassiek en jazz, ontwikkeld hij nu een hoogstpersoonlijke wereld van electronische muziek geinspireerd op IDM (Intelligent Dance Music), techno, post-rock, hedendaags klassiek en minimal music. Naast zijn werk met de meest interessante musici uit Belgie, heeft hij zijn werk mogen vertonen op plaatsen zoals North Sea Jazz Festival (NL), Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ (NL), Casa da Musica (PT), Oslo Jazz Festival (NO), Meta.Morf Festival(NO), De Singel (BE), De Beursschouwburg (BE), Vooruit (BE), Festival Internacional de Puerto Montt (Chile), Moers Festival (D), Mapping Festival (CH),…
http://www.myspace.com/koenraadecker

During last years Incubate festival Bram Stadhouders did a fenomenal collabortation with Jim Black and Sidsel Endresen (check  out their artistpage here). Today Dutch newspaper Volkskrant printed this cool article about Bram. You can click on the picture for a bigger version. Below are some upcoming shows from Bram, if you’ve got the chance, go and check him out!

Upcoming shows:

Saturday May 14th: Grounds/WMDC Rotterdam w/ Gulli Gudmundsson en Onno Govaert (link).
Friday July 8th: playing a guitar made of ice @ North Sea Jazz w/Ice percussionist Terje Isungset and singer Mari Kvien Brunvoll (link).

Bram is also playing this summer with the Grzech Piotrowski World Orchestra (with Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer, Sinikka Langeland and Terje Isungset) in Berlin and Poland. And somewhere in the future a collaboration with Terje Isungset is in the works.

Last year Jonny Mugwump (DJ @ Resonance.FM) did a guestmix for Exotic Pylon live from the Incubate festival. The mix was never featured on our blog before so here it is! The mix includes tracks from Incubate 2010 artists Vindicatrix, Headhunter, Hank Shocklee, Bram Stadhouders, Sidel Endresen & Jim Black Trio and DJ Rupture.

The mix can be streamed (and downloaded) via this website.

Incubate is the annual celebration of independent culture in Tilburg, the Netherlands. It is a festival exhibiting a diverse view on indie culture as a whole, including music, contemporary dance, film and visual arts. It brings more than 200 cutting edge artists in an intimate context to an international audience. Black metal next to free jazz. Refreshing art next to inspiring debate.
Incubate 2011 is from September 11 – 18.

Video recorded and edited by dieperbeeld.nl.

Frank Fairfield live @ Incubate 2010, 17-09-2010 from Martijn ter Haar on Vimeo.

News Flash

• The pirated version of Incubate, Intrubate, started yesterday. Today they will continue
• Fileunder published a photo of Bad Guys at Incubate
• Fileunder published a photo of the Black Mountain gig at the Natuurtheater
• Of Nie wrote about the fifth day of Incubate
• Lost-Painters wrote about the fifht day of Incubate as well
• Many new photos have been added to our Flickr
• Some more reviews at 3Voor12/Tilburg
• Brabants Dagblad wrote about the Black Mountain gig
• NRC Handelsblad wrote about the Incubate Pirate Conference:

• De Volkskrant published an interview with Dan Deacon and Jimmy Joe Roche and a review of the Jim Black/Bram Stadhouders/Sidsel Endresen gig:

Tweets about Incubate: (if you want to read more try #incu10, #incubate or #ipc10)

Today we have more for you in store! For more information on today’s program, check here.

If you’re tweeting about Incubate, or sending photos (from your cellphone) of Incubate 2010 stuff, you can tag them with this special Incubate hashtag: #incu10

If you do so, your tweets and Mobypicture photos will end up in our official backchannel, which you can visit via http://incu10.incubate.org. Keep your friends informed about the festival, even if they’re not able to visit it. They’ll love it!

(Tilburg Ink)

(Wildbeaming)

Many more photos can be found at our Flickr

Day 5: Thursday September 16

Day 5 of Incubate already and our program keeps expanding! Check out what we have in store for you today.

For all you hardcore kids we have shows by ForgetToForgive, Haribo Macht Kinder Froh and LightsGoBlue at the V39 tonight. That’s right, time to mosh it up! But no worries if you’re not quite the mosher. Tonight at the Paradox you can enjoy the musical multimedia extravaganza of The Superusers and the dirty synth punk of The Dreams. More into jazz? Lucky you! At the NS16 we have a unique collaboration between three giants of improvised jazz, namely Bram Stadhouders, Sidsel Endresen and Jim Black. And ofcourse like every dat this week, another free show at Cul de Sac! This time by British IDM/glitch artist Frog Pocket.

At our Pirate Cinema we have a very special screening for you today: the European premiere of The Asylum’s Titanic II! As you probably know, we’ve been screening movies by Hollywood’s most hated film studio The Asylum all week long. These guys do what they’re good at, and what they’re good at is making rip offs of big hollywood blockbuster movies. In Titanic II the ship doesn’t run into an iceberg, but an iceberg threatens to run into the ship. Gotta love it. Another movie worth mentioning is definetely the hilarious Brazilian remake of Star Wars. This remake full of embarrassingly bad sets, ridiculous special effects and even dance scenes to the worst disco music you’ve ever heard, was released before the originial Star Wars and was actually a bigger hit in South America than the original. Go check it out, you’ll laugh your pants off.

Also today we’ll open a new exhibition called New Jacks 2.0, which gives an overview of five promising and emerging artists from Brabant. At the Duvelhok you can check out work by Sven Fritz, Matijs van de Kerkhof, Klaas Burger, Teun Jansen and Anita Hrnic from 16:00 to 20:00, and from tomorrow on every day from 14:00 to 20:00.

And then ofcourse we have the legendary Heavy Metal Bowling event! Drinking and bowling to heavy metal with DJ Patchman Marco spinning the tunes! Unfortunately this event has been sold out for some weeks now, so if you don’t have a ticket for this yet, you’ll have to entertain yourself elsewise. With all of the above, we’re pretty sure this won’t be a problem…

More info on all artists and the program can of course be found at our site and in the Incubate festival guide. Timetables can be found here.

Happy Incubating!

MUSIC

Paradox

• 20:00 – 21:00 The Superusers
• 22:00 – 23:00 The Dreams

NS16

• 21:30 – 22:30 Bram Stadhouders + Sidsel Endresen + Jim Black

V39

• 20:00 – 20:30 ForgetToForgive
• 21:00 – 21:45 Haribo Macht Kinder Froh
• 22:15 – 23:00 LightsGoBlue

Cul de Sac (free entrance)

• 23:00 – 00:00 Frog Pocket

FILM

Filmfoyer (free entrance)

• 20:00 – 22:00 The Asylum presents: Titanic II
• 22:00 – 23:30 Brazilian Remakes: Planet Wars

ART

Bibliotheek Tilburg Centrum (free entrance)

• 11:00 – 17:00 Ryan Trecartin
• 11:00 – 17:00 Martijn Hendriks

Argument Vertoningsruimte

• 15:00 – 18:00 Tanis / Verhoef

Duvelhok

• 16:00 – 20:00 Klaas Burger
• 16:00 – 20:00 Sven Fritz
• 16:00 – 20:00 Teun Jansen
• 16:00 – 20:00 Matijs van de Kerkhof
• 16:00 – 20:00 Anita Hrnic

City centre

• 20:00 – 23:00 Wildbeaming – Hester Scheurwater

Freshheads

• 10:00 – 18:00 Thomas I’Anson

OTHER

Scryption

• 12:00 – 17:00 The Kiosk of Piracy

Paradox

• 20:00 – 23:00 OCCII poster expo
• 20:00 – 23:00 WORMshop

City centre

• 08:00 – 23:00 Incubate Sweatshop

Dolfijn Bowling

• 20:30 – 00:00 Heavy Metal Bowling w/ DJ Patchman Marco (sold out)

Brazilian remake of Star Wars

Less than one month until Incubate 2010. For the past few months we’ve been announcing new artists every week. But with 200 + artists coming up in September we can imagine you losing your hold. That’s why we compiled the Incubate 2010 Spotify playlist (http://incu.at/spotify). Subscribing to this playlist will get you acquainted with most of the Incubate 2010 bands.

Apart from their music, part of the getting-to-know-them-better-proces will also be us asking some of the artists a few questions in the upcoming months. The sixty-eighth edition in a series:

Sidsel Endresen

1.Can you please introduce yourself?
Sidsel Endresen, Norwegian singer/composer/bandleader. I live in Oslo.

2.Where are you at the moment?
Just back home from MoldeJazz Festival and a duo concert with Norwegian guitarist Stian Westerhus.

3.Have you played in the Netherlands before and if so, what’s your view on or experience with the scene you’re operating in in The Netherlands?
Yes, I’ve played in the Netherlands before: A couple of times in Amsterdam (Bimhuis) and at the North Sea Jazz Festival, a.o. All very good experiences. And Bimhuis has that wonderful room…!

4.What can we expect of your gig at the Incubate Festival?
I honestly don’t know! This will be my first ever concert with Bram and Jim – and we will be working completely free improvised.

5.What are your plans for the (near) future?
Festivals in Europe with Norwegian sax-player Haakon Kornstad – plus some solo-concerts. Japan in November. Also working on a new solo-record for Jazzland.

Buy festival tickets here!

1.Who are you?
Marcel Kranendonk, artictic dircetor SJU Jazzpodium & Utrecht Jazz Fest.

2.What will you be doing during Incubate 2010 (Sept. 12-19)?
Have a meeting and visit concerts.

3.Which three artists do you recommend to see at Incubate 2010?
Bram Stadhouders + Sidsel Endresen + Jim Black Trio, The Skull Defekts and Vanilla Riot.

4.Any non-muslcal things you recommend during the festival?
No: only music.

Hi there! This is Incu Thursday. Every Thursday, 2pm local time, we announce the musicians that were confirmed for the Incubate 2010 festival during the past week. Whether it’s one or twenty name, as long as we have things to confirm.. Here are the names for this week:

Wednesday 15/9

• The Hunger (NL) – Part of the program curated by Shikari

Thursday 16/9

• Bram Stadhouders + Sidsel Endresen + Jim Black Trio (NL) – Will also perform on Saturday 18/9

Friday 17/9

• DJ /Rupture (US)
• Ladyhawk (CAN)

Saturday 18/9

• Bbrave (US)

Sunday 19/9

• The Drip Dry Man and the Dirty Hellhounds (UK)

Ducktails is not longer on the Incubate 2010 line-up.

Tickets for Incubate 2010 are available now via http://incubate.org/2010/tickets. If you want Incu Thursday blog-posts directly in your mailbox every Thursday at 2pm, register for the Incu Thursday newsletter here:

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Need more info on the artists and links to their MySpace, Last.fm, Twitter, Wikipedia etcetera? Click on the links in the band-names to go to their profile on our website.
We’re now on 176 confirmed artists. All confirmations for Incubate 2010 are on the Artists page on Incubate.org. You can start listening to Incubate 2010 bands by subscribing to the Incubate 2010 Spotify playlist.

Attending Incubate 2010? Show us on social media like Last.fm, Facebook, Festivalinfo, iDiDiD or Hyves! Incubate 2010 is from September 12th until September 19th in the city of Tilburg.

See you next week!

(photo by Caroline Desilets)

GOLDEN CUP is the solo project of Luca Massolin, an active figure in the
young generation of outsider musicians. Born in Italy, he is now living in
Portugal. His sound is focused on string instruments, (guitar, bass,
mandolin) voice and analog electronics. He is constantly encouraged by his
fascination for the work of the early electronic music pioneers, early 70s
guitar rock as well as cosmic improvisation, minimalism, and free jazz.
In his solo recordings and performances, as well as his involvement in
Golden Jooklo Age and Neokarma Jooklo Experience, he developed a personal
sound focusing on the power of music and creating images. His efforts as
band member and solo artist have been documented by labels such as Qbico,
Digitalis, Troglosound, Peasant Magik and his own 8mm imprint.

BRAM STADHOUDERS is considered one of The Netherlands’ best and most
refreshing improvising musicians since Han Bennink and Misha Mengelberg. His
style is filmic and dreamy, and he uses guitar and technology to create
magical worlds of aural inspiration. Raised in a musician-family, as a
little boy his father gave him his first classical guitar lessons, with
which he already won several competitions. Later he continued in the world
of rock, jazz, and electronic music, with the same success stories. His
music is praised by press and audience, and he was chosen as “Most Promising
Improviser” in The Netherlands, connected to the biggest tour for upcoming
musicians and a performance on national television.

STAPLERFAHRER is the artistic moniker for Steffan de Turck, a Dutch sound
artist from Tilburg in the Netherlands, who plays around with crunched and
broken sounds, circuit bended gadgetry and electro-magnetic waves. and some
weightlifting with powerbooks along the way.

See you there!

It’s almost November Music. So this whole weekend we can give away tickets for this festival in Den Bosch dedicated to contemporary music. Be shure to check inlog.org every day of this weekend, because we can give away a lot of tickets to November Music-shows in the W2.

The first show we can give away 2×2 tickets for, is Polar Bear and ZXZW-alumni Bram Stadhouders in the W2 on Thursday 12 November.

Just e-mail your name and the date (12 november) to win[at]incubate[dot]org.

On February 25th, ZXZW 2008 artist Bram Stadhouders will release his fifth Album ‘The Ship Comes’. We’re looking forward to it. Read an interview with Brabants Dagblad here and order a personalized cd for only 15 euro’s on Bram’s website.

Hi everyone.

I’m starting a podcast.

Every 2 weeks I will make an exclusive music piece and drop it there.

For those unfamiliar with podcasts: you can subscribe to it, and every time I post a piece, it will download automatically to your iTunes (or other podcast software). Or you can have an mp3-link sent to your email.

What will you get?

* Home-concerts played and recorded for you
* Solo guitar or other string instruments impressions
* Electronic music pieces
* Collaborations with other artists
* Free improvisation experiments
* Old unreleased tracks
* Unreleased bonus tracks from studio recording sessions
* Every 2 weeks delivered to you via email, blog, rss or podcast
* All for free!

For more info and subscribing, go here:
http://www.bramstadhouders.nl/podcast.htm

Thanks.
Bram Stadhouders

This Saturday there’s a new L’Avventura night. Bram Stadhouders will bring a new ensemble, mixing world music with jazz. Marinke Marcelis created new work based on the difference between art and labour. Autonon provides the soundtrack. Wanna know more? Check the site.

Bram will play ZXZW 2008. He decided to make a compilation of the nicest tracks of my albums, and give it to you as a free best-of-bram mp3 release. It contains music from 2003 up to the latest album Enderra from march. From shiny electronic ambient improvisations to more composed (classical) guitar stuff. You can download it and listen it on your ipod or anywhere else. You may also share the music with your friends! Download it here.

Bram Stadhouders will play at ZXZW 2008. He created this videoclip for a new Wouter Jaspers track.

We’ve booked Bram Stadhouders. Last Sunday he performed at the tv show Vrije Geluiden.