The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble is a mutant mix of what has inspired us musically, and especially visually. TKDE started off as an audiovisual project back in 2000, influenced by old silent movie directors such as Murnau and Lang, but also the animations of Jan Svankmeijer or the films of the Quay Brothers. Jason Köhnen and Gideon Kiers, started creating soundtracks to old silent movies (Nosferatu, Metropolis) and progressively composed new music inspired by these images which eventually became TKDE. Trombone player Hilary Jeffery (originally from the UK, residing in Amsterdam) joined in 2004 and introduced Swiss born Nina Hitz. The debut album 'The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble' was recorded with this line up, and was released on UK electronica label Planet Mu early 2006. TKDE expanded to six when Eelco Bosman and French vocalist Charlotte Cegarra joined the ensemble in 2007. The second album is soon to be released ! Also check : http://www.youtube.com/user/parallelcorners

Terrible Songs Make Big Songs. - Abner Jay

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Agency. Sound Laboratory. Imprint.

The agency was formed in 2011 and is developing projects in the field of media art, sound art, and contemporary composition by doing performances and art installations, organising festivals and exhibitions worldwide.

The laboratory was launched in 2014 and is elaborating on projects that exist on the ground between sound studies, physiology, and social science: generative sound environments, sonic environments in public spaces, the sound agenda of cities, etc.

"tapping into signals from beyond, broadcasting into haunted cinemas..."

Inconsolable Ghost is an occult audio-visual group produced by Hilary Jeffery and Gideon Kiers, former members of The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble and The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation. Conjuring up a twenty-first century vision of spiritism and occupying a similarly spooky territory as Kilimanjaro / Fuji, this project works with several well known artists who are conceived as channellers of energies, atmospheres, ghosts, spirits, thought forms and other entities. 

Inconsolable Ghost shows are deeply atmospheric channelling events, as anyone who witnessed the early Inconsolable Ghost concerts can testify to. The first channelling took place at OT301 – the old film academy in Amsterdam – there followed two Central European tours in 2014 and 2015 which brought the group to Vienna, Bratislava, Topolcany, Budapest, Ostrava and Zagreb. These tours featured collaborations with the Japanese filmmaker Makino Takashi, the Hungarian viola player Zsolt Sőrés Ahad, the Berlin duo Hacklander \ Hatam and the Australian cellist Anthea Caddy.

The most recent channelling took place at a very haunted cinema in Singpaore on 12 December 2019...

Channeller's to date:

Zsolt Sőrés Ahad – viola, electronics, voice
Anthea Caddy – cello
Charlotte Cegarra – voice, computer
Colin Hacklander – drums
Farahnaz Hatam – computer
Alfredo Genovesi – guitar, electronics
Miodrag Gladović – guitar, computer
Hilary Jeffery – trombone, electronics, voice
Gideon Kiers – computer, electronics, video
Ralf Meinz – live sound, electronics
Gianpaolo Peres – voice
Makino Takashi – film, sound
Raphael Vanoli – guitar, electronics

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