• Antwerp Ambient 2012

    Tickets for Antwerp Ambient '12 festival are now available

    Good news! Tickets for the Antwerp Ambient '12 festival are now available at the venue CC Luchtbal. Confirmed line-up: Jasper TX (SE), DarkEnsemble (NL), Machinefabriek (NL), Stratosphere (BE), Helms | Slutzky (NL) and Premonition Factory (BE). We hope to see you on Saturday April 28 2012!  
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    Helms | Slutzky added to line-up of Antwerp Ambient '12

    The line-up for the 2012 festival has been completed with the addition of Jan Kees Helms and Alejandra Slutzky. One of the pieces they will play is "Amores Desaparecidos", an impressive composition referring back to the black days of the military regime in Argentina (1976-1983) and the disappearance of many loved ones. The complete line-up: Jasper TX (SE) DarkEnsemble (NL) Machinefabriek (...
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  • Antwerp Ambient 2012

    Kwadratuur - Ambient bloeit open in zijn meest moderne vertakkingen

    Het succesverhaal voor Antwerp Ambient blijft groeien. Inmiddels heeft initiatiefnemer Sjaak Overgaauw alles in de startblokken gezet voor een vierde jaar op rij van dit experimenteel, sfeervol en bovenal unieke evenement (dat vroeger de naam “Live Looping Festival” meekreeg). Net als vorige editie, heeft Overgaauw zomaar eventjes zes internationaal uitstralende artiesten op het programma geplaatst - zijn eigen Pre...
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    First names for Antwerp Ambient '12: DarkEnsemble, Machinefabriek,...

    Hi there! As promised, the first names of the Antwerp Ambient '12 festival: DarkEnsemble (NL), Machinefabriek (NL) and Stratosphere  (BE). Bio's and links will follow later!    
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  • Jasper TX

    Jasper TX added to line-up Antwerp Ambient ’12

    Here's no.4 for Antwerp Ambient'12: Jasper TX! Jasper TX is the musical moniker of Sweden’s Dag Rosenqvist. Using electric and acoustic guitar, piano, pump organ, melodica, glockenspiel, voice and various other instruments as a foundation for his compositions, Dag has managed to create his own musical universe. Elements of post rock, drone, improvisation, noise and lo-fi aesthetics are all filtered through a s...
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DarkEnsemble

As a conceptual art teacher at the Conservatorium of Amsterdam, Blanka Pesja is researching the relationship of language and music. She is especially intrigued by balancing the human voice with  machine man made music. For this she started a collaboration called DarkEnsemble with a cum laude finished bachelor and later master student of the Art of Sound department of the Conservatorium of The Hague: Gal Aner. (www.jujujordash.com). They just finished recordings of their debut album containing two different methods of applying text into electronic soundscapes based on the acoustic improvisations of the Christian Pabst Trio. The album Body With Drawing will be out in January 2012.

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