Program

Raphaël Vanoli (D/F): electric guitar, casio, loops, analogue electronics, drum and guitar dubs
Gerri Jäger (A): drums, percussion, loops, dubs
KNALPOT hails from the fertile music pastures of Amsterdam, formed by Raphaël Vanoli and Gerri Jäger in october 2007. Both musicians are unmistakably rooted in rock music, experienced in many musical genres and are reputable musicians from the vibrating Amsterdam music scene. On drums Gerri Jäger, known from extensively touring avant-funk band Brown vs Brown. Jäger extended his instrument with a set of signature percussion (chains, milk-foamer) and an effectbox for dubs and loops. Raphael Vanoli is a guitarist working in the fields of jazz, rock, electronic and contemporary classical music. He plays a setup of analogue effect boxes, loopers, using many prepared guitar techniques and partly plays guitar with his left hand and a casio toy keyboard his right one. Despite all technological trickery every KNALPOT tune is performed 100% live - no laptops are
used.

KNALPOT's music is a fresh original experience consisting of minimal songstructures, low fuzz riffs, stumbling grooves, clouds of chirps and swirls, tranquility and sonic noise parts. Their self-proclaimed rascal style has a modernizing combo sound that is reminiscent of 80's computer game aesthetics, a taste of the sound of London's WARP label and is played with Led Zeppelin rock
attitude."

KNALPOT has been touring in The Netherlands, Belgium, UK, Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Serbia, Slowakia and Slovenia several times. Some Highlights: participation on EXIT (Novi Sad, Serbia) and LOWLANDS Festival in 2009, State X New Forms, Rotterdam Jazz International, Eurosonic/Noorderslag 2010, International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Debute Release SERIOUS OUTTAKES on Eat Concrete (Rushhour distribution) in October 2009.

Press quotes:
"KNALPOT stands for development, inventiveness, acuteness and vitality. What else do you wish to get from music?" (jazzenzo)
"A highlight of Eurosonic/Noorderslag Festival 2010" (kindamuzik)
"The most exceptional band of the festival surely was Knalpot, consisting of two
experimenters of sonic worlds: Raphael Vanoli and Gerri Jäger ... It is really thrilling and pleasing to see such courageous pioneers exist." (draaiomjeoren)
"KNALPOT sounds like a motorbike race between Radiohead, Clark and Squarepusher"
(Bimhuis)

"An avalanche of dub, noise, rock, drum 'n bass and jazz" (Fret)
"Probably the best rock duo that surfaced in The Netherlands in 2009. Guitar, electronics, drums and an immense dose of energy" (Stream Magazine) "Despite their limited number, they manage to sound like a bastard hybrid of a load of Rune Grammofon and Warp bands - the skronk of Supersilent, the punk of MoHa, the mathematics of Battles, and the electronic of Pivot." (Scott McMillan) "With a freshness that summons up a sunny-day-stoned Can or a jazz quartet freed from a dictatorial star player, Knalpot are onto something." (Freenoise)
Reviews:
"KNALPOT stands for development, inventiveness, acuteness and vitality. What else do you wish to get from music?" (Tim Sprangers, review of the concert at Rotterdam Jazz International 27.09.2009. http://www.jazzenzo.nl )
"In the upstairs hall of Paradiso: Knalpot put an impressive and screaming end to this year's dutch input at the `Night of the Unexpected'. Full of liveliness and dedication, with heads facing each other - the drummer and guitarist brought a smashing avalanche of dub, noise, rock, drum'bass and jazz that is unprecedented untill now. Murdering rhythms and crashing bass while alternating between the subtle and the raw. The cherry on the pie."
Arjan van Sorge/Fret Magazine on "The Night of the Unexpected", Paradiso Amsterdam 09/11/2009
"The most exceptional band of the festival surely was Knalpot, consisting of two experimenters of sonic worlds: Raphael Vanoli (guitar and electronics) and Gerri Jäger (drums). You have to admit it takes a while untill you get into their music and it isn't easy to find the right words to describe it. However, behind their sonic turbulences and the ongoing electronic performance refined listening experiences were hidden. On the one hand there were those futuristic volcano eruptions of sound, the next moment the duo drove you into a breathtaking trance. Almost dreadful psychedelia.
It is really thrilling and fine to see that such courageous pioneers exist."
Draai om je oren - Jazz & meer - Weblog
"Knalpot are a hyper-energetic Dutch two piece - Gerri Jager on drums, and Raphael
Vanoli on guitar and electronics. Despite their limited number, they manage to sound like a bastard hybrid of a load of Rune Grammofon and Warp bands - the skronk of Supersilent, the punk of MoHa, the mathematics of Battles, and the electronic of Pivot. Their set began with drilling noises and drone mutating into jazzy post-rock rhythms, before the drummer started slapping his kit with chains as the guitarist spat out bursts of noise, the two coalescing in spasmodic rhythmic fits. AFX acid electronics and casio burble were equally at home among the grooves. Speaking of which, the pair pulled their woolly hats down over their eyes and fell into a ridiculous monster of a groove for the finale, like the locked groove of This Heat's "Health and Efficiency", somehow managing to end in sync, and to huge applause from the Bimhuis crowd. Knalpot are ones to watch, no doubt."
(Scott McMillan) mapsadaisical.wordpress.com, april 2009
KNALPOT became "Hollandse Nieuwe (the dutch new ones)"
according to 3voor12. An interview and a article are online.
3voor12 mediacollective, december 2008
"At a push it'd be possible to squeeze Knalpot into the punkfunkelectro bag, but the seams wouldn't hold the duo for long. Sounding a lot more organic than other similarly tooled outfits, their music is stuffed with loops, blips and Mulder melodies. With the fat Casio bass lines, live drums and a guitar that moves between riffs and wondering, this dipped duo effortlessly slip between sonic approaches. With a freshness that summons up a sunny-day-stoned Can or a jazz quartet freed from a dictatorial star player, Knalpot are onto something."
Scott McKeating, ROCK-A-ROLLA issue 15, july 2008
"... this mind-blowing number fell on the doormat. It's an awesome little pile driver of a recording by an ferocious and insane duo. It smells entirely of the avant and beautifully fucked up world that is past, present and future Amsterdam, that jewel of (and hope for) contemporary Western culture. It's fun, it's heavy, it's tight, it's colourful and very original, in fact almost indescribable. Check out the website text rather than mine... it's all true."
Jonny Drury, freenoise.co.uk, april 2008

So far KNALPOT has played:
30 jan 2010 Rotterdam Filmfestival feat. Martha Colburn, NL
29 jan 2010 Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL
16 jan 2010 Noorderslag Festival, Groningen, NL
09 jan 2010 Grand Theatre, Groningen, NL
19 dec 2009 Azijnfabriek, Den Bosch
18 dec 2009 Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
12 dec 2009 state x new forms festival, Den Haag, The Netherlands
10 dec 2009 Hafenklang, Hamburg, Germany
10 dec 2009 Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar, Germany
09 dec 2009 Kasseturm, Weimar, Germany
08 dec 2009 Postgarage, Graz, Austria
07 dec 2009 Metelkova, Channel Zero - dub-lab, Ljubljana, Slovenia
06 dec 2009 Circolo Caracol, Pisa, Italy
05 dec 2009 Elefante Rosso, Venice, Italy
04 dec 2009 KafeKult, Munich, Germany
03 dec 2009 Boellerbauer, Haag, Austria
02 dec 2009 Stimultania Art Gallery, Strasbourg, France
01 dec 2009 Reitschule, Roesslibar, Bern, Switzerland
28 nov 2009 Studio K, Amsterdam, NL
27 nov 2009 Oude RKZ, Groningne, NL
18 nov 2009 Vooruit, Gent, Belgium
21 oct 2009 EP Release Party, ADE, Trouw, Amsterdam, NL
27 sep 2009 Rotterdam Jazz International, NL (curated by A. Goudsmit)
26 sep 2009 RUMOR festival, Utrecht, NL
20 sep 2009 Incubate Festival, Tilburg, NL
19 sep 2009 MJC Colmar, FR
18 sep 2009 Akouphene Festival, Geneva, CH
17 sep 2009 Hirscheneck, Basel, CH
16 sep 2009 Stadtwerkstatt, Linz, A
15 sep 2009 Einbaumoebel, Vienna, A
12 sept 2009 de stad als podium, de hallen, Haarlem NL
11 sept 2009 Night Of The Unexspected, Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL
29 aug 2009 ZomerJazzFietsTour Festival, Groningen, NL
23 aug 2009 Lowlands Festival, Biddinghuizen, NL
25 jul 2009 Plein Open Festival, The Hague,NL
11 jul 2009 EXIT Festival, Novi Sad, SRB
21 jun 2009 fete de la musique, Berlin, DE
20 jun 2009 Horns Erben, Leipzig, DE
19 jun 2009 sound 'n' arts, Bamberg, DE
18 jun 2009 Kultkaff, Siegen, DE
28 May 2009 Pro EXIT event, OCCII Amsterdam, NL
18 Apr 2009 radio live-gig: Shouting Boots/Radio6, Hilversum, NL
04 Apr 2009 Bimhuis, Amsterdam, NL
03 Apr 2009 Antje Øklesund, Berlin, DE
01 Apr 2009 Postgarage, Sonntags Abstrakt, Graz, A
31 Mar 2009 Metelkova, Mensa, Ljubljana, SLO
28 Mar 2009 sinister noise club, Rome, I
26 Mar 2009 p.m.k., Innsbruck, A
25 mar 2009 Le hublot, nancy, FR
22 mar 2009 Worm, overtollig-vet-festival, Rotterdam, NL
21 mar 2009 La Filature, Bruxelles, BE
20 mar 2009 Logement, Antwerpen, BE
14 mar 2009 Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL
27 feb 2009 Bimhuis, Amsterdam, NL
07 feb 2009 INI-art Festival, Saarbruecken, DE
09 jan 2009 MS Stubnitz, RedNoseDistrikt, Amsterdam, NL
20 dec 2008 OT301, RedNoseDistrikt, Amsterdam, NL
30 nov 2008 OCCII, cafe pig, Amsterdam, NL
06 nov 2008 Waggonhalle Marburg, DE
05 nov 2008 sound 'n' arts, Bamberg, DE
04 nov 2008 Klub za zrkadlom, Bratislava, SK
03 nov 2008 Rhiz, Vienna, AT
01 nov 2008 Stadtwerkstatt, Linz, AT
31 oct 2008 PMK, Innsbruck, AT
30 oct 2008 Freiraum, Basel, CH
28 oct 2008 Waldsee, Freiburg, DE
27 oct 2008 Bar "les copains d'abbord" Mulhouse, FR
26 oct 2008 Molodoi Strasbourg, FR
20 oct 2008 Axes/Jazzpower, Wilhelmina, Eindhoven, NL
17 sep 2008 European TryTone Festival, Amsterdam, NL
06 sep 2008 Ground One Festival, Den Haag
21 jun 2008 resonance fm live podcast, London, UK
20 jun 2008 Freenoise, Sheffield, UK
19 jun 2008 the Klinker, Cross King's, London, UK
17 jun 2008 Marie Lloyd Bar, London, UK
07 jun 2008 Theater Kikker, SuperProeflokaal, Utrecht, NL
08 may 2008 (h)ot scenes festival, overtoom301, Amsterdam, NL
21 mar 2008 Overtoom301, volle maan party, Amsterdam, NL
18 mar 2008 Proeflokaal, Theater Kikker, Utrecht, NL
30 jan 2008 undercover surprise gig, winston, Amsterdam, NL
08 jan 2008 Karnatic Lab, Badcuyp Amsterdam, NL
11 oct 2007 try-out gig, MS stubnitz, Amsterdam, NL

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