Dash!

In 2024, DASH! -the electro-acoustic chamber-funk trio led by clarinetist Maarten Ornstein released their eighth album, entitled Radio Rotor. The album is named after the renowned electronics store in Amsterdam's Kinkerstraat, which closed its doors in 2022. While this is an acoustic album, the previous album - Rewired - was entirely electric, featuring a lot of (vintage) electronics. For ADE, they will play a combination set featuring both the gritty funk of one album and the refined chamber dance of the other.

A DASH! concert is like the Olympic 100-metre sprint: an exciting, almost physical experience. Time and again, the audience is impressed by how the band combines complex interplay with infectious joy in playing. DASH! creates its own musical universe with deceptively simple material, a universe in which only the notes that really matter are played, and in which there is no room for superfluous noise. This is what makes a DASH! concert an intense, almost hypnotic evening in which unabashed swing alternates with volcanic eruptions and whispering melodies.

DASH! was founded in 2004 and relaunched in its current line-up in 2012. As a trio, the band has released five CDs, the latest of which is Radio Rotor (2024). Maarten Ornstein is an acclaimed saxophonist who works with leading musicians from both the improvised and classical music worlds. His eclectic playing can be heard on more than 40 CDs by various international ensembles and musicians. Bassist Alex Oele and drummer Eric Hoeke complete the DASH! line-up. Both are among the absolute best in the Netherlands on their instruments. Together they form a unique tandem with a very distinctive sound and approach to music.

”DASH! makes world-class free funk” (Dutch press on DASH! Off)

"Maarten Ornstein has once again proven himself to be an exceptional force in the contemporary Dutch jazz scene as a performing musician and, above all, as a composer" (Dutch press)

”It's wonderfully chaotic!” (Dutch press)

Alex Oele - bassguitarEric Hoeke - drumsMaarten Ornstein - clarinet, saxophone

Album Radio Rotor on Bandcamp or Rewired on Spotify.

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