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Minimal Guitar
2025 stock On the first Monday after the summer holidays Arnold decided to not start the morning with a pile of emails about canceled, rescheduled or possible concerts but instead walk around Amsterdam. Following the Ring road A10, both from the inside and the outside, he walked without a map, tried to keep as close to the highway as possible but got lost several times. When home, he sat down and played what came to mind. The recordings of those sessions will be released in limited edition. Arno…
Summing
*2022 stock* Oscar Jan Hoogland is the sound of Amsterdam in person. He plays in the Muziekgebouw (Amsterdams main hall for modern composed music) as well as in the Bimhuis (Holland’s main jazz venue) that is literally attached to it, as in its parking garage. He is an instant composer, pianist and inventor of his own instrument by putting a clavichord, a keyboard instrument from the 17th century, on 220 Volt electricity.
As the last student of the late pianist, composer and improvisor Misha Men…