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Some notes about DAAU versus GEM in Gent

admin — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:31:09 +0000

Seven Brazilians and four Belgians shared the stage last Thursday at Vooruit in Gent. The world debut performance of Fernando Sardo’s GEM meeting DAAU. With apparently only little rehearsal beforehand, the musicians pulled off a great 50 minute set as part of the Europalia Brasil festival. Quite a unique performance it was. One song of GEM started the set. One long song by DAAU followed, and I did not recognize it- must be a brand-new one! Then both bands together for two songs that flowed freely from experimental soundscapes to a re-worked section of “Drieslagstelsel 5″.

thanks to Bas for the picture

It seems there will be only one concert of this project, next Friday in Antwerpen. If you’re around, go see them.

Check Cobra for a live video live song of the concert ( which spares me the description of GEM’s unique custom-built instruments – you can just see for yourself…) I can’t seem to embed it here in this page, so you’ll just have to click on the link and select “Sprookjes” !

DAAU @ Philharmonie Haarlem, this Saturday

admin — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 19:22:43 +0000

Just a friendly reminder:

DAAU will play the Stad als Podium festival in the Dutch town of Haarlem next Saturday. Stage time is 22.45 and the venue will be the beautiful Philharmonie of Haarlem. Be there. And when it’s done, you can hop over to Patronaat to see Battles. Should be a good night out!

DAAU in Genk & Tournai, this week

admin — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 12:47:29 +0000

Nice poster for this weekend’s d’Hiverrock festival in Tournai, which includes a set by DAAU on Saturday.

From an Istanbul shipyard to the Roppongi Hills

admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:08:26 +0000

The list of countries covered by the Shepherd’s Dream tour is already quite impressive:

Belgium
The Netherlands
Germany
France
Luxembourg
Turkey
Germany
Switzerland
Austria
Hungary
Slovenia

Big announcement from the DAAU headquarters: Now the tour is really going to come to some far-away places, as we can add Japan and China to the list ! The quartet will be hitting Asia for a string of gigs in Tianjin, China and Tokyo, Japan on September 10 through 12.

Congratulations to the band & their management for pulling this off !

(For fans in Groningen, this unfortunately means that the concert initially planned for Sep. 9 at VERA has had to be cancelled.)

There are still some surprisingly blank spots on the map though. It’s been ages since the last gig in England, the US. Maybe some of the more knowledgable concert promoters in those countries are reading this…?

Istanbul show added, June 30

admin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:36:55 +0000

As posted on Facebook, the Abendunterhaltung will travel to Istanbul on June 30 for a free show at Haliç Tersanesi. This will mark the first ever visit of DAAU in Turkey! And it looks like it’s not some dark cellar hole that they’re playing in, but actually pretty special: the concert presumably takes place in the docks at the Golden Horn.

update: according to a post on daau.com; the band will play “on a rotating stage in one of the shipyard’s pools” !

Ellen Schoenaerts concert

admin — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:09:35 +0000

Theater Zuidpool in Antwerp on June 6 (this Saturday):
Ellen Schoenaerts and Big Band.

Check the (very classy) line-up for this concert:
LIESA VAN DER AA: viool, zang – TIJS DELBEKE: gitaar, viool, drum, zang – EPHRAIM CIELEN: gitaar, drum, zang – SIMON LENSKI: cello – BUNI LENSKI: viool – HAN STUBBE: klarinet – TOM PINTENS: klarinet – ROEL VAN CAMP: accordeon – HANNES D’ HOINE: contrabas – CRAIG WARD: gitaar

I don’t know much about her so best to check her myspace for more information about her music. Here are a couple of nice pictures from a 2009 concert of a similar line-up. And yes, that is the original four-piece DAAU in there!

Maybe it’s going to sound like this.

DAAU in Bern

admin — Thu, 06 May 2010 03:50:53 +0000

DAAU return to the Swiss town of Bern next Wednesday, and they have a pretty neat poster to mark the occasion:

Two dates added for May

admin — Sun, 02 May 2010 20:31:21 +0000

Two additions to the schedule for May:

* May 9 at the Muziekinstrumentenmuseum in Brussels – free set at 2 PM. “Tickets are only available in person from the ticket office. As the number of places is limited, you are advised to telephone first: 02 545 01 53.” This one should be classy!

* May 22 at the Urban Explorers Festival in Dordrecht.

Filature videos

admin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:17:42 +0000

Three songs from the Brussels gig last October for your enjoyment. These clips look and sounds really nice, alhough the colour does look a bit strange… Anyways, thanks to the uploader.

Visions of Arcadia:

A matter of time:

Into the wild: