3 May 2025
To celebrate 20 years of DNK we are organising some special events through the year. The first of these is at Willem de Zwijgerkerk with the support of Occii. Occii on Tour.
We have invited the inimitable Alasdair Roberts in duo with a new DNK favourite Fredrik Rasten. Alongside this DNK Ensemble will play works by Koen Nutters and Seamus Cater. All happening in this beautiful and little known church close to the Vondelpark in Amsterdam Zuid.
Alasdair Roberts & Fredrik Rasten
The Scottish/Norwegian duo of Alasdair Roberts and Fredrik Rasten fuses their respective work with traditional music, folk song and experimental minimalism. Their first encounter was in the septet ‘Alasdair Roberts og Völvur’, which released the LP «The Old Fabled River» on Drag City Records in 2021, featuring Roberts-originals and a blend of Scottish and Norwegian traditional songs. In duo, Roberts and Rasten have so far focussed on traditional Scottish narrative ballads, often with long durations, and where slowly evolving musical materials build up throughout the strophic verse-structure to emphasise the storytelling.
The duo employs both field recordings and printed sources of traditional song as the basis of their interpretations, often evolving new original compositions and always resulting in a meeting point between time-honoured and contemporary forms of musical expression. Both musicians sing and play a variety of instruments, Roberts’ clear and unadorned vocal delivery blending with Rasten’s sensibilities of just intonation tuning and timbral qualities of sound.
DNK Ensemble
André Avelas - electronics
Anne La Berge - flute
Seamus Cater - concertina and voice
Koen Nutters - double bass
Germaine Sijstermans - clarinet
Aimée Theriot - voice
The longstanding DNK Ensemble will perform two pieces especially written or arranged for the church setting by Koen Nutters and Seamus Cater.
Location: Willem de Zwijgerkerk
Olympiaweg 14
Amsterdam
Doors open 20:00, music at 20:30
Entrance €10,-
Tickets available from Occii