Wednesday 1 April 2015, 8pm
Stara Rzeka (Old River) is a one-man band of Kuba Ziołek (Alameda Trio, Ed Wood, Innercity Ensemble, Hokei, T'ien Lai, Kapital). Fascinated by union of nature and technology on one hand, on the other - caring for pure, deanthropomorphisized, raw natural reality. Stara Rzeka (Old River) is a small village in the heart of Poland's beautiful Bory Tucholskie.
Stara Rzeka is the one man musical project of Jakub 'Kuba' Zio?ek and means "old river" (which is also the name of a small village in the Bory Tucholskie region of Poland) in his native tongue. Zio?ek is a key player in the groups Alameda 3, Ed Wood, Innercity Ensemble, Hokei, T'ien Lai and Kapital, but it is here that his vision really shines. The reason all these strands of music fit together so well is that he relies solely on sounds, instruments and styles that have been used successfully to represent the sublimity of nature in the most deanthropomorphised and raw of ways, from drone metal, neofolk, cold wave and cosmic synths to space rock, weird folk, krautrock and black metal. It also deterritorialises the spaces round current forward-looking rock, metal, noise and ambient acts, and searches out new ground past their outer perimeters, from Swans, to Sunn O))), to Pinkunoizu, to Ben Frost, to Holden, to Guardian Alien.
The connection with American sax player extraordinair came after inviting John as guestmusician to The Void of Expansion (Tomas Järmyr & Dirk Serries) show at Kunstencentrum De Compagnie in Veghel (The Netherlands) early 2014.
Now John Dikeman and Dirk Serries are inviting British keyplayers Colin Webster (sax) and Andrew Lisle (drums) to form a new quartet. A first chance encounter that will balance between minimalisme, repetition, noise and freejazz.
“A secret rendezvous of witches and sorcerers, characterized by orgiastic rites, dances, feasting, etc.”
Solo project of London Violinist Kristina Florinda.
