Monday, November 30th, 2009

ATP Nightmare Before Christmas day by day review on Inlog.org

With my mloody valentine curating the 2009 Nightmare Before Christmas ATP event you can expect a nice lineup. On the bill are artists like Sonic Youth, A Place to Bury Strangers, the hero’s from Sun Ra Arkestra (ZXZW 2008), Primal Scream and De La Soul.
Incubate Erik will visit the festival. Expect some blog updates and [...]

Monday, May 25th, 2009

Marshall Allen turned 85!

We wish Sun Ra’s Arkestra bandleaderMarshall Allen “one of the most distinctive and original saxophonists of the postwar era” a very happy 85th birthday. The bandleader of the fabulous Sun Ra Arkestra, which you have seen at ZXZW 2008 ofcourse.

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Torrent Tuesday – Sun Ra movie!

The spectacular performances of the Sun Ra Arkestra will be remembered for a long time by those happy enough to have witnessed one or more of the 6 perfomances they gave at ZXZW 2008.
On this cool blog you can find several very interesting jazz downloads, and also the most famous movie of Sun Ra: Space [...]

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Sun Ra Arkestra live at Paradox cd arrived at the office

We’re very happy with making such a timeless document possible. Frank says: “It’s a piece of quality where I like to be affiliated with.”  Joost says: “Hell yeah, a dream coming through.” Barry says. “I want one!” and Erik already made a couple of tweets about it. Get the cd right here.

Friday, March 27th, 2009

SUN RA ARKESTRA live at the Paradox cd!

In+ Out Records are an Austrian Jazz label, which released record by all the great names in contemporary jazz. They’ve just release a new cd from Sun Ra Arkestra live at Paradox. The liner notes say this: As “Artists in Residence”, the Arkestra performed on five evenings at the Paradox Music Club from September 15th [...]

Friday, February 6th, 2009

Sun Ra Accident

We had a nice project on ZXZW 2008 called Tiny Accidents by Jacqueline Steck: little accidents with toys over the whole city. Check the results here.
There also was an accident during the Sun Ra Arkestra rehearsal. Check Jacqueline’s video of it here!

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

Marshall Allen preparing

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The great Marshall Allen preparing for his performance.

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Hokaben festival

With ZXZW artists like Sun Ra Arkestra, Chops, Todd, Shitmat, Dethscalator, Hey Colossus, Zun Zun Egui, and Arabrot and favourite bands like Acid Mothers Temple, Fucked Up and Gravenhurst the London based Hokaben festival is definately worth a visit. Frank, Tijs and Joost will go there. Hope to see you there!!!

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Sun Ra Review in de Volkskrant

Check it out today. They got five stars!
Or just read it here (if you can read Dutch)
Marshall Allen viert tijdloosheid in een universum van muziek

MUZIEK Zijn ogen priemden de zaal in, hij spoorde zijn musici aan tot energiek doordenderen en hij speelde heerlijk glijdende en sputterende solo’s. Marshall Allen, de leider van het orkest [...]

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Old Sun Ra material

Aad van Nieuwkerk wrote a piece about the Sun Ra Arkestra on the Radio 6 website. You can also find old Sun Ra material (from 1971 till1990) to download. Saturday night Radio 6 will broadcast the Sun Ra Arkestra show live. Find it all here.