In recent years Paradox Tilburg has been the spot to experience experimental and avant-garde music in an intimate setting on the Friday and Saturday of Roadburn. For the fourth year running, we’ve teamed up with this special, world-renowned jazz club to bring you: 40 Watt Sun (solo), Angles 9 – Death of Kalypso, Early Life Forms, Heavy Jazz Jam – hosted by Theo Holsheimer, ILL Considered & Under the Reefs Orchestra.
VITJA PAUWELS EARLY LIFE FORMS (BE)
Guitarist Vitja Pauwels is one of Belgium’s most vital and incessantly curious musicians. Early Life Forms is just one of Pauwels’ many endeavors, but surely one of his most defining. Pauwels and his cohorts conjure a miscellany of influences in their larvae state to create something utterly cutting edge and free form: a purgatory where latin-jazz, experimental rock and sweeping cinematic melodies magically blend.
Vitja is a compulsive risk taker who pulls out all the stops: he can be a showstopper who releases some of most unheard-of sounds from a guitar, but also return to the background as a guiding force for his fellow players. Besides, when you get the legendary Marc Ribot giddy to play alongside you, you must be doing something right.
ILL CONSIDERED (UK)
The beginnings of great bands are often illustrated in some lofty tall tale just waiting to be adopted into a biopic. Not neo-jazz thrill seekers Ill Considered, however. Idris Rahman (saxophone), Liran Donin (bass), Emre Ramazanoglu (drums) basically said: “Hey man, let’s go jam’ because why the f not?” And suddenly there it was: one of the most exciting UK ensembles opening the floodgates of their combined creativity, continuously devising confounding ways to establish an addicting groove – more than 10 records deep since the year 2017, when their alliance was first conceived. On stage it all unfolds into even higher spiritual spheres – and since Ill Considered hang their head on improvising on the fly, every gig by these cats is a unique occasion, never to be repeated again.
HEAVY JAZZ JAM - hosted by Theo Holsheimer
The central figure of Roadburn’s annual Heavy Jazz Jam this year is Dutch composer and guitarist Theo Holsheimer – a man with a penchant for maximum madness on stage. His band Cilice is notorious for stretching the boundaries of heavy music like silly putty – a hard-hitting juggernaut that’s somehow also crazy nimble in its dazzling virtousity. Having someone like Holsheimer cast the first stone at a Heavy Jazz Jam will a hundred procent trigger some spectacular fireworks at Paradox. The personnel he employs will make sure of that: we have fellow Cilice member Philipp Moser on drums, Gijs Levelt of Amsterdam Klezmer Band on trumpet, Joao Driessen of Benoit Martiny Band on sax and ewi, Elvis Sergo on keys/hammond and finally, multi prize winning musician Oene van Geel from Estafest, Zapp4, and many other bands, on viola and percussion.
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