Listen: Jaap Blonk music
May 2013
Jaap Blonk in North London, April 2013. Photo by Benjamin McMahon
Five tracks by the Dutch composer and poet, the subject of this month's Invisible Jukebox article, tested by Philip Clark.
| Jaap Blonk - Hibercanon | 0:03:44 |
| Jaap Blonk - HüBeBlo Basel | 0:05:09 |
| Jaap Blonk - Krak Piekaporr | 0:05:34 |
| Jaap Blonk - Thirteen Neighbours | 0:03:47 |
| Jaap Blonk - Track 10 | 0:02:15 |
Jaap Blonk is a vocal improvisor, self-taught composer and poet. Inspired by Kurt Schwitter's sound poem, Ursonate and American free jazz, Blonk has been performing since the early 70s and has worked with The Ex, Mats Gustafsson, Joan La Barbara, Michael Zerang, John Tchicai, Tristan Honsinger and many others.
"Hibercanon"
from Keynote Dialogues
(Monotype)
"HüBeBlo_Basel"
excerpt from a concert in Basel, Switzerland with Carl Ludwig
Hübsch (tuba) and Claus van Bebber (turntables), 4 October, 2012.
"Kråk Piekapørr"
from Mixed From Heaven
(forthcoming on Plant Migration)
"Thirteen Neighbours"
from Songs Of Little Sleep
(forthcoming TBA)
"Track 10"
from a forthcoming album (as yet untitled). With Juan Pablo Villa
(voice), Fernando Vigueras (guitar) and Chris Cogburn (percussion),
Mexico City, 26 October 2012.