Wherever you were in the building, something was in full flight or starting, which made for a deliciously disorienting four-hour happening.
Mike Barnes, the Wire. 2007 (UK) ( download .pdf)
It’s all very alternative. One man wears a T-shirt bearing the legend “drop beats not bombs!”. People are very free and easy, with whispering couples in dark corners, and lots of drinking. At particularly striking moments everyone stops what they’re doing and pays attention. It’s like an 18th-centrury opera audience without the wigs.
Ivan Hewitt, Telegraph 2007 (UK) ( download .pdf)
The batton is passed to the center of the space, where FourTet’s Kieran hebden plays surrounded by an ecstatic audience. With two laptops and a mixing desk he slides effortlessly between glitch and funked-up beats, putting beaming smiles on the faces of teh swaying circle that gathers around this unexpected wiry DJ in flipflops and shorts.
Nick Southgate, the Wire, 2005 (UK) (download .pdf)
It might have been the mysterious hints thrown at me, but as I entered the vetibule of ParadisoI wasn’t entirely suprised to find harpsichordist Anne Faulborn suspended a few meters above the ground encased in an exhuberant steel and gauze structure. But when the belly of the venue swung open and the crowd splayed into the acoustically sculpted darkness of the reconditioned church interior, I was total;ly unprepared for the compulsive charge of Louis Andriessen’s Hoketus, which was already ricoting between the far aisles.
Matt Ffytche, the Wire, 2004 (UK) (download .pdf)
Low: Holland-Flamand Kultfeszt, Budapest 2008
Program review (download .pdf)
Low: Holland-Flamand Kultfeszt, Budapest 2007
Program review (download .pdf)
"Come on, feel the noise", Ivan Hewett
Daily Telegraph, 10 November 2007 (download .pdf)
On Location, Mike Barnes
The Wire, 2007 (download .pdf)
Madrigalen op het balkon van Paradiso, Jacob Haagsma
Vraag & Antwoord, NRC, September 2006 (download .doc (NL) | download .pdf (NL))
On Location, Nick Southgate
The Wire, 2005 (download .pdf)
Geen gewoon concert, maar een mix van extremen, Kees Arntzen
Trouw, 2 September 2005 (download .pdf (NL))
Piep-en kraakmuziek, Jacob Haagsma
NRC, 11 September 2004 (download .doc (NL) | download .pdf (NL))
On Location, Matt Ffytche
The Wire, 2004 (download .pdf)
