concerts   ZONNEKLOPPER BRUSSEL
AVENUE DE LA VERRERIE 23A
DECEMBER 5, 17H
John Dikeman / Peter Jacquemyn +
Talibam! & Alan Wilkinson

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19H: John Dikeman / Peter Jacquemyn

John Dikeman (Nebraska, 1983) is an American musician in jazz and improvised music. He plays tenor saxophone and is a composer. Expert Guy Peters articulates Dikemans art of play like this: “The saxophonist… puts fire to the fuse with the Old Testament fury that Charles Gayle displays on his best trio records. More than improvisation or free jazz you hear übergospel: reeling with religious conviction and tortuous dynamism, with roaring pounding in the low register, split tones and a timbre that is almost torn to pieces.” . Peter Jacquemyn, on the other hand, is an improviser established far and beyond Flanders, just think of his ensemble FUNDAMENT, the duo with Evan Parker or the trio with guzeng player Xu Fengxia and the German violinist Gunda Gottschalk.

John Dikeman saxophones
Peter Jacquemyn double bass

20H: Talibam! (US) + Alan Wilkinson (UK)

As Taliban! (US) with drummer Kevin O'Shea and keyboard player Matt Mottel, it is always energetic and very audible. In this trio, this is reinforced by the help of the equally eager British saxophone player Alan Wilkinson (Ilford, East London, 22 August 1955), who is part of the British Improvised Music Community, resulting in music without any handbrakes. Expect mutual contrasts when the musicians play together, possibly long spans of tension without always having to be crushingly loud, but always compact and intense.

Or as they like to sell themselves jokingly:
"Talibam! is a 15 year working unit featuring Kevin Shea (a drummer who perpetually inspires clones to reevaluate that which they take for granted) and Matt Mottel (a keyboardist who stacks his synth tone through expert speedy hand manipulation). They are a rhythm section that is at the cross hair of agility, speed, punctuation and intention — a perfect pairing for Alan Wilkinson’s vigilant overthrow of normative music. Wilkinson is the strongest possessor of fire tone, blue notes and saxophone gallantry — his napalm sonics wake up all the sleepy horn blowers. A longtime veteran of UK’s legendary jazz cabal, Wilkinson breathes menacing commitment to the ghoulish moment of now. Talibam! & Alan Wilkinson play music bound by curiosity — brutalizing cliche without bolstering any dominant dogmatic idiom — ready to till the local agricultural dynamics for all organic food munch."

Alan Wilkinson: saxophone
Matt Mottel: keys
Kevin Shea: drums

21H: Talibam! (US) + Alan Wilkinson (UK) + Farida Amadou + Peter Jacquemyno

all together now

Alan Wilkinson: saxophone
Matt Mottel: keys
Kevin Shea: drums
John Dikeman saxophones
Peter Jacquemyn double bass