We join our long standing partner The Rest is Noise to invite you to the Muziekgebouw for the Dutch premiere of artist and musician Jenny Hval’s new live performance of her upcoming album Iris Silver Mist. She will be supported by the Ukrainian duo Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko who present the spellbinding piece Гільдеґарда (Hildegarde).

Greetje Bijma & Oceanic (Live)

Greetje Bijma & Oceanic is an unlikely combination and collaboration that magically works. A virtuoso vocal artist twisting her voice into incredible shapes to touch strings you didn't know you had. Together with electronic music producer Oceanic she creates wondrous landscapes that fully come into its own in a live setting. Oceanic's mechanical rhythm structures full of minimal melodic fillings get an extra kick from the melodic as well as rhythmic vocal acrobatics that Bijma seamlessly lays over them - or with which she turns the whole thing upside down.

Greetje Bijma is a legendary figure on the Dutch jazz scene who in 1990 became the first woman to win the country’s top jazz accolade, the VPRO/Boy Edgar award. Apart from having previously worked with the likes of Anna Homler (aka Breadwoman), Jasper van ’t Hof, Han Bennink, Louis Andriessen and Willem Breuker and her own solo projects, she’s in a league of her own.

Oceanic is a producer with releases on Yeyeh, Nous’klaer Audio and Rush Hour. In 2023 he released his critically acclaimed debut album Choral Feeling, a body of work that almost exclusively is built up of the voices of 30+ friends. In 2019 he was part of the roster of SHAPE, an EU-funded network and platform for experimental artists.

Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko present Гільдеґарда (Live)

Can we rely on ancient sound as a means to contest a dominant reality? With the spellbinding performance Гільдеґарда (Hildegard), the Ukrainian musicians Oleh Shpudeiko (Heinali) and Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko create a powerful bridge between the past and present. Taking the legacy of the 12-century mystic, healer and musician Hildegard von Bingen as a starting point, they built on her visionary ideas for self-transformation.

Гільдеґарда blends Ukrainian folk vocals with modular synthesis, and reflects on spirituality and resilience in times of war. Like Hildegard challenged the oppression of the male-dominated church, Гільдеґарда serves as a contemporary mirror – reflecting, processing and transcending a current traumatic wartime experience. The traditional singing of Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko connects with historical time and radically opens up a different account of spirituality.

Timetable:

• Doors 19:30

• 20.00-20.45 Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava

• 20.45-21.15 Break

• 21.15-22.15/30 Greetje Bijma & Oceanic (Live)

This event is included within the Festival Pass. Single tickets are sold through the website of Muziekgebouw.

If you bought a ticket via Muziekgebouw please follow their instructions for a refund.

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