Wed June 8, 2016
21:00

Feecho (SLO/NL) / How Town (BE/LV)

Feecho
Kaja Draksler: piano
Onno Govaert: drums

How Town
Lennart Heyndels: bass, compositions
Sarah Klenes, Elina Silova, Laura Polence: voices
Matiss Cudars: guitar

Feecho
(…) Govaert’s rumbling press rolls and sideways vibrations are forceful enough for rhythmic momentum, but eschew industrial strength crashing and other bravado. (…) Dipping into the piano’s innards for string plucks that simulate subterrestial textures, Draksler also aggressively stokes cadenzas with such ferocity that were they a bundle of firewood they would speedily burst into flames. (…) (Ken Waxman)

How Town
How Town is a Belgian/Latvian ensemble led by composer/bassist Lennart Heyndels. They combine contemporary popular music with improvisation and influences from experimental music. Point of departure is ‘the voice’ and all its different possibilities. How Town came into existence in 2012 when Lennart wrote a suite based on the poem Anyone lived in a pretty how town by E.E. Cummings. In the meantime the group has released two albums and was awarded the Young Music prize at the Theater Aan Zee festival in Oostende (BE). Their goal is to bring accessible music without relinquishing complexity. How Town operates ‘outside of the box’, giving their music the self-invented name contemporary multi-style post-pop music. (Pressetext)