Kafkaesque
Last year marked the one-hundred-year anniversary of the premature death of the author Franz Kafka. No better moment for the Rotterdam-based band Coal Harbour to start exploring his surrealistic and absurd work in Kafkaesque. As a self-proclaimed ‘cage in search of a bird,’ Kafka illuminated issues that remain painfully relevant. Because even today, alienation and dehumanisation permeate deeply, and finding an antidote is becoming urgent. Coal Harbour is an eleven-person collective walking the exciting line between modern classical and modern jazz. ‘Coals Harbour is a new buttress in our country’s jazz,’ says JazzNu.

Merel Junge – violin
Hadewijch Hofland – violin
Yanna Pelser – viola
Thomas van Geelen – cello
Yoran Aarssen – alto saophone & clarinet
Jesse Schilderink – tenor & baritone saxophone
Tom Ridderbeekx – trumpet
Oliver Emmit – trombone
Robert Koemans – piano & composition
Thomas Pol – double bass
Willem Romers – drums