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12 Points!
The small festival with the big idea is back and begins next week back in its original home of Dublin with twelve of the best young groups Europe has to offer.
Beginning tomorrow, Wednesday 4th May, the festival has a line-up this year spanning the length and breadth of the continent with groups from Portugal, Holland, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, Ireland, Slovenia, and Finland.
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12 POINTS! 2011 - Project Arts Centre, Dublin
4-7 May
"A four day event hot wired into the changing dynamic of the contemporary European jazz scene.”
The Observer
"12 Points! showed just how diverse, vibrant and imaginative music has become in the Old World. Already unique, it has the potential to grow into something important, like the Sundance film festival."
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The Irish Times
12 Points! returns to Dublin after last year’s host edition in Stavanger, Western Norway, and we’re delighted to be back in Project Arts Centre where it all started.
From tentative first steps in 2007, 12 Points! has grown in stature, and punches well above its weight as an important destination for Europe’s creative young musicians. An impressive three hundred groups made submissions through our open call, from which we’ve selected twelve tall poppies. They couldn’t be more different, some comfortably rooted in jazz tradition, others defiantly kicking over the traces, some already signed to major labels, some yet to release their debut CDs.
Irrespective of the location, which for 2012 is Porto’s Casa De Musica, the artist friendly 12 Points! formula remains unchanged, with plentiful opportunities on and off the bandstand to make new friends in music, and an enthusiastic, well informed local audience keeping everyone on their toes. The 12 Points! footprint extends with each edition, and this year we welcome first time participants from Slovenia with Kaja Draksler leading her Ottoman inspired Acropolis quintet, and trumpeter Susana Santos Silva, bringing some of Portugal’s brightest talent to play her contemporary compositions. They amplify the trend toward a new gender balance in jazz, as does the impressive young Berliner saxophonist Charlotte Greve at the helm of the Lisbeth Quartett and adventurous Swedish singer Isabel Sorling.
Events are also moving quickly for some of this year’s other participants, and the lyrical Swiss pianist Colin Vallon has just released his debut album for ECM no less. We’ll have to wait a little longer for the maiden release from ReDiviDeR, whose drummer Matt Jacobson is producing some of the hippest writing to be heard in Dublin today.
The great cities that drive Europe’s jazz evolution are well represented too, with bands like Ambush Party evoking Amsterdam’s great history in the gritty improv spectrum and the rich textures of innovative Parisian trio Metal-o-phone. Rome provides the hard grooving quartet Neko and from London, Phronesis, arguably one of the finest piano trios of the post EST generation. Scandinavia remains as creative as ever, exemplified by Trondheim’s PELbO and Helsinki’s Elifantree, both prepared to unleash volatile materials with a gloss of pop sugar that’s undeniably catchy.
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12 POINTS! FOAM FEST
At 12 Points! we like to hang. if you do too, join us nightly at the festival club from 11pm til late , which this year is situated in the charming Foam Cafe, situated in Strand Street great - view map HERE.
Tapas, cake, wine, bottled beers, proper coffee, tea in a china cup are all waiting, and we have asked some of Dublin's best young musicians to help us out with a live set each night before we open up proceedings to festival artists and whoever else is up for some action.
The ones who've said yes are guitarist Chris Guilfoyle with his band Umbra (Wed 4th), singer Edel Meade with Swoo-beh (Thur 5th), Dan Jacobsen and Zoiband (Fri 6th) and Shane Latimer's O.K.O.D.O.M.G. (Sat 7th)
See you there...
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12 POINTS! ON THE MOVE
Click on the link to the right to find out more about the
12 Points! mobility project with some feedback from our peers in the industry and former 12 Points! alumni.
Filmed by Hatch 21 Productions in The Sage in Gateshead.
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