NEuE, Jeroen van Vliet, Sanne Rambags and Anneke Haans

Culture Unlimited Festival

The Culture Unlimited Foundation presents the first edition of the Culture Unlimited Festival. The theme for this year edition of Culture Unlimited festival is Water, incorporating all of its history, practices and meanings for Dutch culture: Water to create collaboration to survive its ravages, and the creation of the first democratic institutions (waterschappen); Water as means of transportation and inclusion to all cultures; Water as inspiration and means of influencing communication.

The Culture Unlimited Festival will include contemporary music from the Netherlands, oriental world, as well as it will present traditional and crossover composed music. Our music program features existing bands and ensembles as well as solo artists in special collaborations with existing formations. The festival features New European Ensemble, Tony Overwater Ensemble, Khaled Alhafez, Under the Surface, JIP Kamerkoor, Consorte Vocaal Ensemble, Oene Van Geel, Sanne Rambags, Maya Fridman, Jeroen van Vliet, Choir August 38th, Rembrandt Frerichs, Trio SayeRoshan, Maryanka Golovchenko, Bowl of Honey. We also feature compositions by Guillermo Bracci, Ned McGown, Kareem Roustom, Kinan Abou-Afash, Wassim Ibrahim, Jeroen van Vliet, Kaveh Vares, Wolfert Brederode.

New European Ensemble will present a string quartet
Giuliano Bracci - Tutto chuidi negli occhi
Wassim Ibrahim - Syriac Fantasy
Jeroen van Vliet String quartet pieces

Giuliano Bracci piece is a dialogue with Josquin. His music is present, filtered and altered as a memory or a dream.
To imagine the effect of memory or oblivion on a fragment of music, to think about the acoustic (and) poetic effect of a sound submerged (for centuries). What happens to the sound? What is lost?

Musical Landscapes is a sound journey, reflection, and representation of a connection with the "Now". An improvisation in which the deeper layers of the subconscious are touched during the concert. In recent years vocalist Sanne Rambags has studied the possibilities of the voice. She will perform the sounds and colors she discovered during this research in collaboration with visual artist and ‘drawing language’ expert Anneke Haans during their new project "Musical Landscapes".
Musical Landscapes is a solo voice concert in interaction with pencils and brushes. Sanne Rambags goes back to basics, to the core. With her drawings, Anneke Haans captures the movements and energy of music with colors and shapes. With her paintings she makes visible on the spot what is going on in the subconscious, what is not visible to the senses in the music. This creates a communication between voice and visual art, a dance on paper, in which the wanderings of the voice are translated into visual, special, colorful landscapes.

Jeroen van Vliet
"Van Vliet is one of these rare talented artists who can clarify musical character."
Rinus van der Heijden, jazzenzo.nl

"Pianist Jeroen van Vliet is a master of nuance. His playing is enchanting, emotional and full of fantasy."
Armand Serpenti, Trouw

"After 60 minutes, one knows what beauty in improvised music means..."
Hans-Jürgen von Osterhausen, Jazzpodium

"His music is full of suspense, withheld resilience and the guts to use silence in a functional way."
Coen de Jonge, Jazzism

Last set all will join for a new musical adventure.