Live Bands Only Dance Party
12 Tribes of Mars BIO
Is planet Earth weighing you down? 12 Tribes are ready to take you away. Mars is the destination and their music is the spaceship. Drop your past to join them in a future where humans from all walks of life build new traditions, and music is the language we all speak.
12 Tribes of Mars takes the basic elements of the Reggae, Ska, and Dub traditions and blasts them into outer space. A closer listen reveals that what might seem familiar at first has a truly unique and eclectic sound. Heavily influenced by the spirit of free improv, the music is as sexy and danceable as it is uncompromisingly gritty. On stage 12 Tribes really cast their spell: time and time again trance inducing acoustic grooves are torn apart by wild improvisations and electronics, before the musicians return to the rhythm as if nothing had ever happened. Concerts are both an intense, trippy listening experience as well as a high energy dance party, ultimately leaving the audience sweaty and wanting for more.
In 2022, tenor saxophone player Andrius Deraviancenko was asked to take part in a SITProductions residency. He invited four other musicians to form 12 Tribes of Mars, and together they recorded the first tracks. All members of 12 Tribes are trained jazz musicians that are most comfortable in the borderland between musical genres. In the past years, the band toured the festival circuit and alternative venues of Amsterdam. Now they are celebrating the release of their first full album, Hidden Sun, on a beautiful 12 inch vinyl.
Video:
Push On – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDQpjmn6XtA
In Hi – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muRdV4Gd-XI
Personnel:
Andrius Dereviancenko – saxophone/fx James McClure – trumpet/fx
Azubike Onwuka – bass guitar
Robin Engelhard – guitar
Onno Govaert – drums
COW Shift Z
COW Shift Z is a composer and performer of electronic music. Her practice as a composer
focuses on integrating different music genres in her artistic language. The electronic dance
music gives her the common ground to express her inner worlds and tell the stories with a
free and experimental mindset.
As a performer, she is interested in rhythm and groove puzzled with aggressive, industrial
sounds. She is a creative coder exploring new instruments that let her improvise with her
own sound design and music intuition.
Over the past years COW Shift Z created diverse projects in distinct areas of music.
Mentioning her EP “Funeral for the Selves”, multiple live-sets played in clubs mainly in The
Netherlands and Portugal. She also created the “Biljimeiri Anthem” for the Utopa Organ and electronics and other multimedia projects, such as “buffer manelzinho 1204.8” a
multimedia opera.
video: https://youtu.be/2wto1Dyd8Iw?si=5Czqjooj6aqbhZKr
Mangruv
Mangruv is an Amsterdam-based sound artist and engineer who focuses his work on the relationship between sound source and interpretation.
Driven by a process of “organized chaos,” his creative process is both technical and intuitive, often rooted in basic sound elements that are sculpted into immersive or emotive compositions. as a way to make a multi sensory listening experience
video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=bJ7g4rGztks&t=1143s&ab_channel=FutureIntel
TECA
If life’s been dull lately, just take an intercity direct between rotterdam en amsterdam where in the fun wagon you can put 3 whole euros as one coin in a whimsical jukebox which will transport you in a blink of an eye to a state of temperature rising well above 25 degrees celsius with ouzo oozing through your veins and your feet approximately grooving while your friend is synchronizing there hips to yours. HOT!
TECA isn’t just a band. It’s a vibe. It’s a minibar! insta:
https://www.instagram.com/teca_soundsystem
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