Recorded via ZOOM H4N during rehearsal 4 September 2021. Didn't know this was going to be the only recording of this week's rehearsals so the quick and dirty microphone placement only catches one piano and almost no bass.

Leo Svirsky piano 
Reinier van Houdt piano
Germaine Sijstermans bass clarinet
James Hewitt baroque violin
Marielle Groven violin 
Mark Morse lapsteel guitar
Jeroen Kimman pedalsteel guitar
Aaron Lumley double bass
Seamus Cater concertina

River Without Banks: The Night Barque (rehearsal recording)

Solo lapsteel in a tuning based on a memory of an Ustad Mohammad Omar solo rabab recording.

Amplified Bow.

Solo lapsteel in a tuning based on a memory of an Ustad Mohammad Omar solo rabab recording. No amp.

Unamplified Bow.

a compilation from our CD 'Make with the Feet' on Trytone records, released in 2016
You hear the songs Make with the Feet, Brainfood Rag, HoodooJive and Believe in It in a shortened version. The full record you can find on Spotify and i-tunes.
Pumporgan is:
Mikael Szafirowsky- guitar, bass guitar, Wilbert Bulsink- hammond organ, Christian Ferlaino - baritone sax, Dirk Bruinsma- alto sax, bass guitar, compositions, Nout Ingen Housz - drums, percussion.

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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.

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