Informatie:
COLLAB W/ MOLK FACTORY – JEREMIAH CHIU & SOFIA MARTA HONER, MAURIZIO TAKARA & CARLA BOREGAS, T’IJU T’IJU AKA JOCHEM VAN TOL

DOORS OPEN / DINNER 18:30
START 20:30

MOLK FACTORY is an artist collective based in Amsterdam, they started by hosting small concerts in their MOLK studio located in the Broedplaats Plantage Dok, with the mind-set of organising ‘special occasions’ events, where friends passing by would get a chance to perform in an intimate setting instead of just in big concert halls. Molk Factory’s motto is to celebrate their (inter)national community, to contribute in ‘Keep(ing) Amsterdam Weird’ and to embrace multi-media sonic, visual and performative interventions to support artists from close and afar!

During 2025 they have invited LOKAAL series & community to start a new series afresh, due to the growing Amsterdam city’s gentrification, which has led to the loss of important art&music experimental spaces like De Ruimte & Sexyland.
¡Come visit!

PROGRAM
JEREMIAH CHIU & SOFIA MARTA HONER
The LA-based duo of synthesist Jeremiah Chiu and violist Marta Sofia Honer have spent years refining a masterful interplay of acoustic and electronic sounds, both in live performance and across three albums for International Anthem: 2022’s Recordings from the Åland Islands, 2023’s The Closest Thing to Silence (in collaboration with legendary French musician Ariel Kalma), and 2025’s Different Rooms.

Drawing from their roots in Chicago’s improvisational and experimental music scene, Chiu and Honer have crafted a unique sound, melding the distinctive tonal colors of viola and modular synthesizer into a cohesive and unexpected whole. It’s a singular aesthetic that can be delightfully disorienting, with arrangements being constructed and deconstructed in real time both improvisationally and via the duo’s extensive penchant for live-sampling. As Pitchfork put it: “you’re never quite sure if what you’re hearing is played ‘live’ or manipulated, and sounds keep darting over the porous border.”

The duo’s recent live activity includes a fall 2024 EU/UK tour with both headlining performances and support slots for Carl Stone and Arooj Aftab, as well as stateside appearances at the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Noon to Midnight new music festival and Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Summer 2025 sees the release of the duo’s new album Different Rooms.
“… the Los Angeles-based collaborators shape a tranquil vision of a Nordic landscape that feels just beyond the edge of reality.”
– Jayson Greene, Pitchfork

https://www.intlanthem.com/artists/jeremiah-chiu-marta-sofia-honer

MAURIZIO TAKARA & CARLA BOREGAS
Both crucial members of the Brazilian music scene, Carla Boregas and M.Takara have been playing as a duo since 2018. Together their music is the result of an interplay between drums and synths, blending Boregas’s aether and warmth electronics with Takara’s jazzy improvised percussion, somewhere between abstract improvisation and propulsive rhythm. The landscape they present is real and vibrant, sometimes brash, sometimes beautiful, rarely bland or ambivalent, an organic layering of manipulated synthesizers and acoustic sounds.

First linking minds on 2020’s “Linha D’Água” (Bokeh Versions), where they attempted to sounding the abstract and succeed in creating a mysterious and evocative soundtrack with water as a central element of inspiration. The aquatic theme is still present on the new release “Grande Massa D’Água” (Hive Mind Records). The dubbed-out, dreamlike gravity that anchored their debut was replaced by finely cracked filigree constructions that sound as if they might shatter at anymoment, slipping through the cracks just like the water that informs their compositional process,coating the past and gushing forcefully into the future. From the fringes of jazz, electroacustic and electronica, they pour that experience into the immersive.

T’IJU T’IJU AKA JOCHEM VAN TOL
Having hung his hat in the past on collaborative projects such as The Paper Ensemble, SOON and Silverbones, Jochem van Tol’s new project T’iju T’iju answers a long-held hypothesis: what would happen if he were to experiment with sound and music on his own? The answer lies partly in its moniker, named after the Bolivian word for grasshopper, an animal the Amsterdam-based composer and artist feels a peculiar spiritual connection to.

T’iju T’iju’s debut EP 1: the dragon is still alive was written and recorded by Van Tol during a retreat in Spain. The two tracks, “Blue Birds” and “New Grass”, (a nod to Talk Talk’s seminal final LP Laug-hing Stock) were shaped by manipulating organic sounds with an assembly of synth modules and tape manipulations. Van Tol took on a tactile approach that felt novel and adventurous to him. In the past, he had completed works that were meant to be performed or vice versa, performances that were meant to put to rest on a recording. These recordings are more candid and personal, homing in on the moments themselves, music made with no audience in mind.

The dragon is still alive is the first of a series of releases in which Van Tol chases down his own curiosity through sound, without the weight of laboring over the results. Just because T’iju T’iju is a solo endeavor, doesn’t mean the music can’t attach to and interact with other disciplines. Case in point, the next chapter for the project involves a soundtrack of a film. The music is a snapshot of sounds acting like characters driven by impulse and curiosity, much like a natural ecosystem, unraveling without second guessing itself.

Liner Notes
[..] Though the dragon is still alive consists of just two tracks, the music itself feels nonlinear, like a fully realized environment to endlessly explore and get lost in. It’s a place where modern electronic sounds can descend into the primordial, and organic melodies rouse into blissful sentience. The possibilities are, indeed, endless.
– Jasper Willems