Zwardsick’s new lineup – Arie, Rick and Bill

PUMPORGAN

Mikael Szafirowsky- guitar, bass guitar, vocals, Wilbert Bulsink- hammond organ, vocals, Christian Ferlaino - baritone sax, Dirk Bruinsma- alto sax, bass guitar, vocals, compositions, Nout Ingen Housz - drums, percussion, vocals. 

Ever played a pump organ? Playing it is a rather intense job. You have to keep pumping the air whilst trying to impress with musical stunts. Well, this is even more the case with playing in the band Pumporgan! We call our music Psychojive, which means keeping the pulse pumping whilst playing musical constructions that make your brain ache. Your body wants to move while your brain is short-circuiting. It's the new therapy for lethargy! And Pumporgan is ready for mass treatment.


Pumporgan is a band erected in 2011 playing a blend of stompin' jive music with dissonant art rock and free jazz. Imagine where rock 'n roll and rhythm and blues would have ended up if it had evolved in a progressive way and still had kept it's rough and edgy sound. The music is wild, fast and overwhelming, pushing the players to their limits. The group leads you through crazy architecture where one would easily go astray. 
A large part of the repertoire has been written as a composition commission for the North Sea Jazz festival edition 2011. With the latest line up we first played in dec. 2011 at TryTone in Amsterdam. Fall 2012 we did a double bill with the Norwegian group Elephant9 playing concerts in clubs around the Netherlands.  And we played the Rumor festival dec 2012 sharing the bill with The Ex. 2013 we played a show with dancers at OT301, at the Houtfestival in Haarlem and opening the season at the Bimhuis, Amsterdam. 
Our Cd 'Make with the Feet' came out in 2016 on the Trytone label.

Latest News:
- They have just released their fourth CD "Alienology"
- They are preparing their tour October 2011 featuring SYLVIE COURVOISIER &amp; ELLERY ESKELIN
Check full info at: www.celanobaggianigroup.com
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The C.B.G. is one of the most exciting and adventurous bands from Amsterdam. This powerful group moves beautifully between the composed and improvised parts. Their music blends many different styles, traveling throughout improvised music, rock, jazz, folk, and contemporary music; outlining a truly new postmodern jazzstyle.
Guillermo Celano and Marcos Baggiani are two outstanding musicians from the eclectic Amsterdam’s jazz scene, where they met in 2001.
Their musical partnership is a story of constant artistic evolution, jumping from composed ideas to improvisational structures across different music styles and different instrumentation.
Both with a Master degree at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, they are at the forefront of the new generation of improvisers from this city.
Now a days playing with Michael Moore and Gorka Benitez on reeds and Sven Schuster on bass, this band has been also the home of many great artists such us: Natalio Sued, Rodrigo Rijers, Tomás Merlo, Paco Weth, Marcel Kroenker, Florien Hamer, Hernan Merlo, Rodrigo Dominguez.
They have toured around Europe and South America, and their music has been heard in podiums such us Bimhuis (Amstedam), Jamboree (Barcelona), Porgy &amp; Bess (Vienna), Lantaren Vester (Rotterdam), Notorious (Buenos Aires) and festivals like JazzFest Bochum, Hot House 40 years Fest., Trytone Fest., among others.
For more info, reviews, music and pics please go to: www.celanobaggianigroup.com


Artistiek coördinator & programmator Jazz & Global Ha Concerts Gent.
Voorheen o.a. programmator muziek van vzw Kunstencentrum KAAP te Brugge en Oostende, Melkweg en Tolhuistuin Amsterdam.

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