„The Dorf“ („The village“) was founded in 2006 by Klare and has since released a bunch of internationally acclaimed albums, played some important festivals and has become the subject of an exceptional film called „Jazzsoup“. Guests as Caspar Brötzmann, FM Einheit, Stian Westerhuis or Phill Niblock have visited.
This XXL band works like a marketplace – people come together, new faces enter the scene, old acquaintances say goodbye, there are constant arguments on hierarchy and space for the individual. There are village elders, excursions and a common meal. The quite modern and therefor well sounding term „social sculpture“ should be mentioned.
„Visiting tourists“ encounter a certain proletarian roughness- and dirt factor – placative actions, decibel and energy must be accepted. Underneath this occasionally hard shell the most tender plantlets, poets and thinkers can be found.
Foto: Karl F. Degenhardt
www.thedorf.net
„The Dorf“ Alben online kaufen
The band 1000 has gone through many musical developments since it was founded in 2004 by Jan Klare, Bart Maris, Wilbert de Joode and Michael Vatcher. It actually started playing compositions mainly from the classical world by composers like Wagner Bach or Monteverdi, combined with some originals by Klare.
Although composition was always a crucial element in their music, the way these four players improvised together was the prominent impressive side of the quartet. („consistently interesting quartet that keeps evolving and getting better with each release.“ Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery). Through the years 1000 developed a very intuitive, almost telepathic musical language with an enormous instinct for form and structure.
Jan Klare – reeds
Bart Maris – trumpet
Wilbert de Joode – bass
Michael Vatcher – drums
(+ occasionaly Elisabeth Coudoux – cello, Steve Swell – trombone, Conny Bauer – trombone, Elisabeth Harnik – piano, Achim Kaufmann – piano)
Foto: André Symann
„1000“ auf Umland Records
Das Album „Unplayable“ online kaufen
Das Album „Played“ online kaufen
Das Album „Shoe“ online kaufen
Ein schillerndes Quartett aus vier bunten Hunden, Autodidakten, Nerds, Poser und Schamanen der Klänge, die ihre Identitäten hinter einem Schleier verbergen, erschaffen Klangwelten wie kosmische Explosionen. Ihre ritualhafte Musik ist die Gravitation, die chaotische Elemente ordnet, bis sie in einem finalen Akt in leuchtender Schönheit verfallen – Musik als Urknall und Vergänglichkeit zugleich.
Hier wird die Kunst der musikalischen Alchemie auf einem Niveau betrieben, das nach den Sternen greift – mit Techniken, die Transsubstantion, Klangmagie und eine Prise anarchisches Genie verschmelzen lassen.
Sehen und hören Sie selbst, wie Musik zu Gold wird und Gold zu Musik.
Foto: Hanna Retz
Together with Luc Ex and Michael Vatcher, Jan Klare had built a powerful trio, which stirs a mixture of jazz, punk and improv music.
Luc Ex´s bass playing is unique – he was a longtime member of „The Ex“ and has toured all the relevant european festivals with „Four Walls“ or „Sol 6“. Since 2017 drummer Onno Govaert joined, also Amsterdam, who gained international acclaim with „Catus Truck“.
Jan Klare – as, bss
Luc Ex – bs
Onno Govaert– dr
RoKeT auf Umland Records
Das Album „RKeT“ online kaufen
Das Album „ReKorT“ online kaufen
Shabnam Parvaresh – Klarinette
Shannon Barnett – Trombone
Jan Klare – Reeds
Emily Wittbrodt – Cello
David Helm – Bass
Bruna Cabral – Drums
KIND wants to play – and – KIND is pretentious.
The Band raises the question of whether jazz is bourgeois entertainment or a serious debate about existential needs. KIND sees the necessity for constant readjustment of human relationships in order to keep pace with the omnipresent decline surrounding us. It works towards a new quality of sensitivity, empathy, soulfulness and resilience to irritations of materialism, that denies the existence of spirituality.
Still – KIND is highly entertaining and playful, describing its music as „Controlled Deranged ProgChamber“ – compositions by Jan Klare somewhere in between Gavin Bryars, Blurt and Lindsay Cooper.
… an explosive mix from four countries. The six musical individuals fully submitted to an extremely variable and versatile ensemble with a sense of sound and nuance, which alsodid not lack humor. In a wide musical range from „kinder music“ to cacophony!’“ Patrick Španko – skjazz, 2025
Florian Walter + Jan Klare – EWIs, Live Processing & Moog Synthesizers
Karl F. Degenhardt – Sensory Percussion & SPD-X
π∆∞m∫ (AI*) – Drums
„… Ein synästhetisches Etwas aus Blut, Salz und frischem Beton, aus Ekstase und Paranoia, zerebralen und rituellen Tänzen, Farben, Funken, Bergamotte und Anthrazit, Lithium und Lichtung, Cupido und Khatarsis, Semantik und Melodie, Heldentum und Verlust. Das Cover zeigt, als fotorealistischer „Margritte“, Schaulustige, die in einer Nahbegegnung der dritten Art ein UFO begaffen, das allerdings in Gestalt eines riesigen Faustkeils erschienen ist. Eine Vision, die an Einsteins Bonmot über den Vierten Weltkrieg erinnert und ähnlich ins Futurum II vorgreift wie „#humans_of_late_capitalism (in memoriam)…“. (Rigobert Dittmann, Bad Alchemy, 108)
Foto: Dana Schmidt
Tunnel & Meadow ist ein mit Saxophon/ Gitarre/ Bass/ Schlagzeug (ähem) klassisch besetztes Quartett, das (ähem) konventionelle Klänge über lange Strecken stetig wiederholt und mäandert und auf diese Weise einen Zustand von Trance erreicht.
Jan Klare – Reeds
Serge Corteyn – Guitar
Johannes Nebel – Bass
Marvin Blamberg – Drums
Jan Klare – AltoSaxophone
Over the years, Klare has (probably as most players that deal with their instrument for a long time) has involved himself with solo performances. What in the beginning felt like having to prove that one can do it – then touching the question like how to thoroughly entertain an audience only with a melody instrument – he has freed himself from questions like these and found ways to develop drama from starting at scratch – then taking that initial flame to tell a story.
This development can very well be seen, when you compare his 2 solo records, first one released on poise records, second one called B.C.meaning „Before Corona“, because it was recorded just before the pandemic hit and was produced by long time associate Wilbert de Joode.
