Run Into The Apocalyps (R.I.T.A.)
Run into the Apocalypse moves through the shifting territory between acoustic and electronic sound, where live processing, samples, and digital textures intertwine with improvisation to create a constantly transforming sonic world. It embraces instability and transformation, turning noise and interference into compositional material. “Running into the apocalypse” becomes a metaphor for venturing into the unknown —an act of creative surrender where the boundaries between instruments, machines, and players dissolve in search of new timbres and new forms of listening. Long departed from the lands of a heteronormative musical cosmos and in perpetual search of an authentic voice, Rita Brancato inquires about emancipation of drums between jazz and electronic, with an open ear to natural timbres.
With her new project “Run Into The Apocalypse” she aims at putting together what she has been researching for two years at Codarts University’s Master: how to expand the possibilities of a drum set with live electronics. What if a drum could express harmonic content? What if its sharp, fast-decayed timbric palette consisted of long sounds too? What if it could trigger words, chords, or a melodic sequence? What if it could reproduce pitched sounds and modulate them along a scale like a melodic instrument would do? What if it could sound like a hundred drums are being played at the same time? To do so, she and her hybrid drums pair up with two great horn players long established in the Netherlands, Andrea Leone on tenor sax and Massimiliano Dosoli on bass clarinet, in a collective exploration of the possibilities of processed sounds.
A trio made of drums, saxophone and bass clarinet takes up the challenge of manipulating their acoustic textures with digital and analog sound processors, losing themselves along an ever ending path, until they find each other again merging into one single entity of grooves, melodies and unexpected sounds.The common ground which sets the starting point of such journey is based on Rita’s original compositions, malleable outlines inspired by jazz, african, balkan and techno musical styles.
Rita Brancato – drums and electronics
Andrea Leone – tenor saxophone
Massimiliano Dosoli – bass clarinet
Aanvang 15.00, two sets!
The Preacher Men
‘Scheurende saxofoonkreten, gruizig diep-groovend Hammond orgel, back beats waarbij
stilzitten praktisch onmogelijk is.’
‘Of ze nu een stemmige late night-ballade spelen of een opzwepend groovestuk, dit
supertrio bestaande uit saxofonist Efraïm Trujillo, organist Rob Mostert en drummer Chris
Strik, klinkt altijd soulvol.’
In 2026 vieren The Preacher Men het 12 jarig jubileum. Om dat te vieren brengen ze 12
singles uit die op 12 concerten gepresenteerd worden.
‘Trujillo blaast de stilte aan gort, Mostert vindt moeiteloos de blues uit de titel en Strik
bakent met gerichte slagen het ritme af. Dit is de muziek waar dit trio in excelleert: jazz, blues en gospel, met
volledige overgave gespeeld
(Ben Taffijn, nieuwenoten.nl)
‘Kippenvel!’ ‘Het blijft genieten van dit geweldige trio.
(Jan van Leersum, rootstime.be)
‘The Preacher Men is en blijft het ongenadig swingende en onvermoeibare trio’
(Hans Invernizzi, Jazzflits)
WINNAARS EDISON PUBLIEKSPRIJS 2019 MET HET ALBUM ‘BLUE’
GENOMINNEERD EDISON PUBLIEKSPRIJS 2024 VOOR HET ALBUM ‘ROYAL FLUSH’
Efraïm Trujillo | Saxofoons
Rob Mostert | Hammond B3
Chris Strik | Drums
Aanvang 20.00, twee sets!
Check het hele programma, met naast R.I.T.A. en The Preacher Men ook Geertje van Woerden, het Jadi Peperzak Quartet, het Guy Clairbois Quintet, Celebrity Hot Tub Party, Dubbel Espresso, Toon Roos, Taste of Ruby, Toine, Travel Syndicate, Oostenwind, Tim Nevelsteen en BR3 ft. Maripepa Contreras, verdeeld over acht verschillende locaties. Check programma-info, time table en info op Easter Jazz 2026
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