CrossCurrents Festival is back!
This year we’re taking jazz even further off the beaten track over three nights, each with a different take on the future of Jazz.
27 March, 20.00-22.00
Lumiere Cinema
3 May, 20.00-22.00
Lumiere Cinema
Sensational British band GoGo Penguin is famous for their “acoustic-electronica”. Thier music is an intoxicating blend of influences from Aphex Twin to Brian Eno, Shostakovich to Philip Glass, and Massive Attack to Radiohead, they’re no ordinary jazz trio! Restless and exploratory, GoGo Penguin has just released “A Humdrum Star” to widespread acclaim. CrossCurrents Festival will be one of the first opportunities to hear their new music live!
Explosive live shows and award-winning albums have propelled Phronesis into the international spotlight with unrelenting momentum. The UK trio combines complex rhythmic layers with virtuosic improvisations over a foundation of pulsing beats. The result: jazz that’s accessible yet utterly unique.
Rock Jazz quartet Nordmann has the explosive intensity of a 70s rock band combined with the shape-shifting abilities of the best jazz improvisers. They’re a soothing drug for thrill-seeking, musical adventurers aching to hear something new, yet strangely familiar.
A bizarre 1950s cult classic, banned before it could ever be released. Dementia is the only film ever created by millionaire playboy John Parker. Between dreams and reality, the film follows the hallucinatory nightmares of a young woman, taking an intimate look into the psyche of a tormented soul. This is a rare opportunity to see one of the greatest silent horror films ever made.
A collaboration between filmmaker Joris Hoefakker and scientists Martin Paine and Ron Heeren of Maastricht University, Molecular Voyages explores the molecular battlefield on which scientists and doctors fight their war against disease. Marching in the footsteps of great explorers, this film takes an imaginative dive into the future of medicine, a future without limits.