Like the most enigmatic of fowl, LAMBERT only shows his most beautiful colours while wearing a Sardinian mask prancing behind the piano. A situation in which even the most trained eye will never spot his most vulnerable expressions: these only will rise up sonically, through the beautiful neoclassical compositions of this Berlin-based Bird of Paradise. Together with Tilburgean guitarist Bram Stadhouders, a musical séance was developed in which German/Italian percussionist Luca Marini brings in the finishing touch. All three at their best when improvising, uncategorized and in the farest corners – that’s where this beautiful, both poppy, electronic and classical, but most of all mysterious performance is born.
Exhibition Lambert Masks
9. March 6.45-10pm TivoliVredenburg, Cloud 9
Scoop! Five ‘Lambert masks’ brought together in a small exhibition on display before and after the concert. Sardinian masks that Lambert uses to help shape his identity(s) as an artist
Music Miners Podcast – Instant Composing
9. March 7.30-8.15pm TivoliVredenburg, Cloud 9
Host Leendert van der Valk will talk to the Berlin neo-classical pianist Lambert and jazz guitarist Bram Stadhouders about how to compose ‘on the fly’. And about how the music came about in their new trio line-up with drummer Luca Marini. The podcast will be recorded live and will be available later on the Birds of Paradise website.
The live podcast is preceded by the screening of the short movie Becoming Lambert.
Lambert Radio show
9. March 9.45pm, TivoliVredenburg, Studio Pandora
Lambert plays his favorite records after the concert during a live radio program from Studio Pandora: the newly built, multifunctional studio at the foyer of the Pandora hall.
TivoliVredenburg, Studio Pandora 9. March, 9.45pm
Lambert plays his favorite records after the concert during a live radio program from Studio Pandora: the newly built, multifunctional studio at the foyer of the Pandora hall.
“Does listening to music help you to find yourself? Or does it offer a perspective that isn’t yours but is still naturally accessible for you? Music you like, might describe the times in life, in which you tried to escape the boredom of being yourself by flirting with fresh identities and perspectives.
Do you find or move away from yourself that way? Whatever it is, it feels healthy!”
Lambert
9. March, 6.45-10pm (on display before and after the concert)
TivoliVredenburg, Cloud 9
A first: five ‘Lambert masks’ brought together in a small exhibition. Sardinian masks that Lambert uses to help shape his identity(s) as an artist. Leading up to the exhibition, below is a photographic interpretation of the masks.
“Identity has more and more become a difficult term to me. People still seem to be thirsty for its definition to find out who they are. Origins and place of birth provide easy answers, while they also lead to exclusion. I wonder if defining what defines someone, also defines what someone else can’t be, according to most definitions you may find for yourself. If that is true, I wonder if these definitions will necessarily bring us together and help us to understand each other. If the never ending search for identity contains a dividing aspect, Lambert is my attempt to overcome this problem. Sounds a bit too much, I know, but maybe Lambert identifies as morally superior. That is maybe one of his weaknesses.”
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Is being brutally honest an act of violence still?
While the real world is unable to provide the freedom, to be whatever and whoever you want to be, Lambert mirrors a world in which it is no problem.
If you search for short and easy answers, you’ll be disappointed, if you search for answers at all, you can at least find some satisfaction by the process.
Lambert itself is an invention. Lambert exists because someone doesn’t agree with himself.
While you are still searching for authenticity, Lambert can only fulfill your needs by being honest about a staged and scripted way into it.
In the short movie Becoming Lambert we follow the idea of disconnecting composition from its composer. Does it lose its identity that way?
“If you search for short and easy answers, you’ll be disappointed. If you search for answers at all, you can at least find some satisfaction by the process.”
Lambert
Instant Composing (Live)
9. March 7.30-8.15pm
TivoliVredenburg, Cloud 9
The creators of the Birds of Paradise educational program are developing a series of podcasts about different ways of looking at the process of composing. This first episode is about Instant composing. Host Leendert van der Valk will talk to the Berlin neo-classical pianist Lambert and jazz guitarist Bram Stadhouders about how to compose ‘on the fly’. And about how the music came about in their new trio line-up with drummer Luca Marini. The podcast will be recorded live and will be available later on the Birds of Paradise website.
The recording and live presentation of the podcast is preceded by the screening of the short movie Becoming Lambert:
Identity has more and more become a difficult term to me. People still seem to be thirsty for its definition to find out who they are. Origins and place of birth provide easy answers, while they also lead to exclusion. I wonder if defining what defines someone, also defines what someone else can’t be according to most definitions you may find for yourself. If that is true, I wonder if these definitions will necessarily bring us together and help us to understand each other.If the never ending search for identity contains a dividing aspect, Lambert is my attempt to overcome this problem. Sounds a bit too much, I know, but maybe Lambert identifies as morally superior. That is maybe one of his weaknesses.
The album False is questioning the importance of identity in its common definitions. Every track provides another identity to Lambert, another avatar that always leads back to him, but provides freedom in style and musical approaches. False gave Lambert the freedom to be whoever he needed to be for each track.
Reception of music, fan expectations, music journalism or algorithms try to define musical identities. It seems to be important to define who someone else is and it seems to be important to find out for yourself. The question of `what if it is not important?‘ is maybe just another helpless attempt to the same question, but I like to use Lambert for this unsatisfying search for answers.
If the real world is not able to provide the freedom, to be whatever and whoever you want to be, art should at least try to mirror a world in which it is possible. I like to believe that many improvisers know that a connection between human beings is possible to overcome barriers of language, political differences, ethnic origins or country borders. So maybe Lambert identifies as an improviser. Maybe pop culture helped us to connect worldwide through music television. My generation might be more familiar with Nirvana songs and lyrics, than with traditional folk songs of the country they were accidentally born at. Maybe Lambert identifies himself in the first instance to pop culture.
In the short movie Becoming Lambert we follow the idea of disconnecting composition from its composer. Does it lose its identity that way? If you search for short and easy answers, you’ll be disappointed, if you search for answers at all, you can at least find some satisfaction by the process. Again: Lambert doesn’t provide any answers. Maybe he identifies as the unanswered question, or he just doesn’t care so much for it. Questions are fun. Answers are boring. That sounds wrong. False. Guess what Lamberts album before False was called? True! Guess what it didn’t provide? Answers for identity.
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