'12 Points Festival - Europe's New Jazz' starts Wednesday! (1 Viewer)

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Improvised Music Company​

Supported by ​

The Goethe Institut & Culture Ireland​

Present​

12 Points!​

Europe’s New Jazz​

Wednesday 11th – Saturday 14th February 2009​

Doors open at 7pm each night | Performances from 7.30pm​

Tickets: €20/ €18 ​

Special Festival passes €60 for all four nights (limited availability and not available online) ​

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Project Arts Centre, East Essex Street, Temple Bar D2
Tel: 01 8819613/4 11am to 7pm Monday to Saturday
www.project.ie | www.12points.ie ​

"A four day event hot wired into the changing dynamic of the contemporary European jazz scene.”The Observer​

“12 points has placed Dublin at the centre of European jazz. It is now the place to check out the very best emerging young talent from across the continent. “Jazzwise​

Four nights, twelve young bands, the best that Europe has to offer. ​

12 Points! The little festival with the big idea is back for its third edition to ask the only European question that really matters. Just who are the dozen bands from across the union that will light up 2009?

From Wed 11th to Sat 14th February, young musicians from Holland, Norway, Denmark, France, Sweden, Italy, Finland, Germany and The UK will be here to provide the answers along with their Irish hosts, and Poland and Spain will also make their welcome accession to the 12 Points! zone.

It’s our most stylistically diverse line up so far and makes clear that, like knobbly carrots, jazz around Europe is anything but homogenous. Europe’s young musicians are clearly listening voraciously, embracing technology, collaborating in other artistic spheres, going deep into the tradition and on it goes in a virtuous cycle that’s keeping the creative flame alight.

Different preoccupations are abundant. There’s lyricism at the piano with London’s Curios and Helsinki’s Aki Rissanen, while Dublin’s Morla and Rome’s Luca Aquino are investigating the electronic domain from different perspectives. Poland’s Audiofeeling and the bands of Spanish bassist Giulia Valle and French saxophonist Emile Parisien are all rhythmic traditionalists with a modern twist, but a looser modus is favoured by Albatrosh from Oslo and Hyperactive Kid from Berlin. Amsterdam’s Zapp and Stockholm’s Paavo owe a little something to the contemporary classical world, while Copenhagen’s Magnus Fra Gaarden are none of the above, and might be just as happy playing a rock festival.

Yes to Europe . Yes to knobbly carrots. Yes to 12 Points!

Listings Information
The highlighted links provide further information on each group.

Date: Wednesday 11th February, 2009
Festival: 12 Points! Europe’s New Jazz
Time: Doors: 7pm, Performances
Bands: 19:30 Audiofeeling (Cracow)
21:00 Morla (Dublin)
22:30 Paavo (Stockholm)

Date: Thursday 12th February, 2009
Festival: 12 Points! Europe’s New Jazz
Time: Doors: 7pm, Performances
Bands: 19:30 Hyperactive Kid (Berlin)
21:00 Aki Rissanen (Helsinki)
22:30 Luca Aquino Quartet (Rome)

Date: Friday 13th February, 2009
Festival: 12 Points! Europe’s New Jazz
Time: Doors: 7pm, Performances
Bands: 19:30 Albatrosh (Oslo)
21:00 Curios (London)
22:30 Emile Parisien (Paris)

Date: Saturday 14th February, 2009
Festival: 12 Points! Europe’s New Jazz
Time: Doors: 7pm, Performances
Bands: 19:30 Giulia Valle Group (Barcelona)
21:00 Zapp String Quartet (Amsterdam)
22:30 Magnus Fra Gaarden (Copenhagen)
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