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Cactus Truck

http://www.cactustruck.com/

John Dikeman – saxes

Jasper Stadhouders – guitar, bass

Onno Govaert – drums

Cactus Truck creates startlingly intense music, not merely in terms of volume or velocity but through complete

physical/psychological surrender. One can find hints of delta blues, early free jazz, Japanese noise, and no wave in the music.

Dikeman, van der Weide, Kugel

John Dikeman - saxes

Raoul van der Weide - bass

Klaus Kugel - drums

Blast 5tet

http://www.blast5tet.nl

Dirk Bruinsma - saxes

Frank Crijns - guitar

John Dikeman - saxes

Andrea Taeggi - keyboards

Onno Govaert - drums

Pumporgan

Dirk Bruinsma - saxes

Jasper Stadhouders - guitar

John Dikeman - saxes

Andrea Taeggi - keyboards

Onno Govaert - drums

Universal Indians

John Dikeman - saxes

Jon Rune Strom - bass

Tollef Ostvang - drums

Missing Dog Head

John Dikeman - sax
Jasper Stadhouders - guitar
Xavier Lopez - laptop
Onno Govaert – drums

Their music is made out of noisy bitcrushed skylines, subversive feedbacks, distorted sax tornados and indefinable metallic sounds. The general chaos and disorder resulting from the collapsing above-mentioned languages creates the aesthetics of the music itself...

::: Could be punctuated by moments of peace ::: music is non-contractual ::: improvisations may vary in length and style :::

Missing Dog Head on myspace.

Transatlantic

John Dikeman - sax
Jeb Bishop - trombone
Oscar Jan Hoogland - piano, clavichord
Raoul van der Weide - bass
Frank Rosaly - drums

John Dikeman, Jon Barrios, Toshi Makihara Trio

Royal Improvisers Orchestra

The Royal Improvisers Orchestra involves approximately 26 musicians from all over the world and from all kind of backgrounds, there are musicians from the classical training, jazz, baroque, composers, and graphic artists. The Orchestra works with a conductingtechnique that Yedo Gibson has been developing together with the orchestra after his contact with the London Improvisers Orchestra.