KODIAN TRIO (Colin Webster/Andrew Lisle/Dirk Serries) toured Germany last year and it’s from this tour that SUCH MUSIC, a radio show on the excellent RESONANCE FM station in London, played an unreleased excerpt from their performance at SUBSOL RAUM in Düssel on March 20th, 2021. Listen to the show on mixcloud or here below. Visit the KODIAN TRIO website for everything else.

A NEW WAVE OF JAZZ is releasing on November 25th two new albums.

We’re offering the albums of course separate but also in a duo package for only 20 EUR (incl. worldwide shipping).  The pre-order is valid thru November 15th, 2022. To pre-order, click here.

HUGO COSTA & PHILIPP ERNSTING – THE ART OF CRASHING
(cd, A New Wave Of Jazz)

“Costa and Ernsting are assertive and confident players who 

don’t hesitate to claim their positions, but most of all, they are keeping up with each other, using their dialogue to explore and expand. And that is what it is about, a quest for ideas and a way for them to co-exist, make sense, keep the story moving forward on all levels. And as far as the greater story is concerned: this album is another fine addition to an endlessly fascinating mosaic of sounds.” Guy Peters 

Pre-Order/listen to the album on bandcamp.

JACKSON SERRIES VANDERSTRAETEN – DANDELION
(cd, A New Wave Of Jazz)

“If the measure of freedom is measured by the resilience of an elastic band, they get close to the point where the rubber is about to snap, but it is exactly at that spot, where they recognise something and react to that with a refreshing lack of explicitness, that you can feel the result, and unfolded potential, of a shared intimacy.” Guy Peters 

Pre-Order/listen to the album on bandcamp.

This Friday, November 4th, Portugese musicians ERNESTO RODRIGUES (viola), GUILHERME RODRIGUES (cello) and NUNO TORRES (sax) team up with Belgian guitarist DIRK SERRIES for an all-acoustic free impro concert at this beautiful chapel in Brecht (Belgium). Don’t miss out.

Tomorrow saxophone giant ALAN WILKINSON teams up with DIRK SERRIES, both of course strongly associated with our label, for a duo concert at Alan’s own FLIM FLAM concert series at Ryan’s Bar in London (UK). Come on down.

JAZZWORD‘s Ken Waxman wrote a lovely review on ONNO GOVAERT + VERHOEVEN/SERRIES’ Twofold album. This double cd is still available from our store at bandcamp.

“Frequently called upon to power larger groups like Cactus Truck and Kaja Draksler’s Octet, Dutch drummer Onno Govaert brings his mature approach to duets with two adventurous Belgian improvisers: pianist Martina Verhoeven and guitarist Dirk Serries. Going one-on-one with each on one CD of the is two CD set, the result is an extension of for instance Han Bennink’s duos with Derek Bailey or Baby Sommer’s with Cecil Taylor. A much less percussive pianist than Taylor. Over the course of these three parts of her program with Govaert, Verhoeven’s dynamic range moves from delicate clips and almost literal key tickles from the piano’s highest range to pedal point emphasis which is immersed in the bass clef. Energetic and swaying her linear motions include speedy glissandi and metronomic pacing as she pours notes into the narrative. To link up with the multiple textures or single note patterns from the pianist, Govaert too takes on diverse identities. Drum smacks and cymbal clashes meet her pressurized runs while bell-ringing plinks and wood block pings contrast with dark soundboard rumbles. The tightened interaction usually includes repeated expressions from each side. Most tracks start quietly and intensely with Verhoeven projecting a straight-ahead theme. As variants flow from each, the piece gradually becomes louder and chunkier with drum variations encompassing descriptive ruffs and extended press rolls. The concluding section moves down to stop-start chording and spaced drum taps that meld matured expression with references to the improvisation’s head.
Serries’ amplified acoustic guitar adds a metallic tinge to his single-track meeting with Govaert. Spaced with silent interludes and sequences of pressure and ease, the piece evolves with as many strong strokes from the guitarist as the drummer. Throughout with swishing cymbals, drags and reverberations, Govaert meets National steel-sounding twangs and slurred fingering buzzes with restraint. Serries sometimes pivot to string strums as well as brief passages that involve the highest timbres of the guitar up near the tuning pegs. Moving from anvil-hard crunches to pinpointed rim cranks the drummer eventually joins the guitarist in a reflective story-telling mode. As the track action is resolved with drum top rubs and smoothly paced frails, a final drum thump signals the finale.
Without overstepping the boundaries of taste and focus, each disc projects a mature mixture of idiophone and chordal instrument timbre. Each can be listened to for appreciation of the close-knit evolution of cohesive ideas.” Jazzword – Canada