news
31 JANUARY 2026
Live in Amsterdam:
Xilent Records Presents:
Ash Zarah | Marxus
Ash Zarah
A collective exploration of sound where ambient fragility and raw noise meet in improvisation.
Marxus
– a quiet, shifting landscape of
electronic sound, shaped by tension, texture, and suspended time.
🗓️ January 31, 2026
🕖 19:00 doors & dinner · 19:30 show
📍Grasweg 41R · Amsterdam
🎟️ Sliding scale €10–20. Pay what you can, we trust you that you will make an appropriate decision on how much you can support us. All money goes directly to the artists.
Join us on our upcoming evening of immersive cross-disciplinary artistic encounters. Delicious food from 19:00h, shows start at 19:30h.
Ash Zarah
Rooted in collective listening and sonic friction, this collaborative project brings together Alba Boustanji, Omer Sigler, Assi Weitz, and Jonathan Nagel. Acoustic, electro-acoustic, and electronic instruments meet in a shared field, where sound is grown rather than composed. Performances unfold as living systems, allowing delicate ambient textures to expand, collapse, and reconfigure into dense noise.
Contrast drives both form and momentum: between silence and saturation, restraint and force, intimacy and overload. Improvisation shapes the direction of each set, with sound qualities, intensity, and atmosphere continuously influencing what follows. In this unstable terrain, structure remains fluid and meaning emerges through interaction. The result is an immersive experience in which sonic landscapes are cultivated in real time, attentive, volatile, and deeply physical.
Marxus
Working with sound as one might work with light at dusk, Marxus moves carefully and attentively, aware of how the smallest shift can alter the entire field. The music unfolds in slow currents, where restrained rhythms and finely grained textures hover between emergence and disappearance. Silence is not an absence here, but a presence, shaping what follows and allowing each detail to resonate.
During the Xilent Records evening on January 31st, Marxus presents a set that favors depth over declaration. Patterns repeat, erode, and reform, guided by a quiet internal logic rather than overt gesture. The listener is invited into a space of concentration, where time softens and movement becomes subtle yet insistent. What emerges is a poetic, immersive experience: electronic sound as a living terrain, fragile, precise, and continually in motion.
26 OCTOBER 2025
Live in Amsterdam:
Xilent Records Presents:
Maya Felixbrot feat. Maria Mavridou & Katerina Orfanoudaki
| Tzara the Machine & Carolina Gemmell | Duo Orfanoudaki – Pintó
Traveling Viola: Vibration | Crumbling | Float
Maya Felixbrot & collaborators
album launch event
video screening
Tzara the Machine & Carolina Gemmell
singer-songwriter duo
unearthly glitch through acoustic means
Duo Orfanoudaki – Pintó
harpsichord and contrabass
free forms of improvisation and original compositions
Traveling Viola: A Very Strong Woman
Maya Felixbrot – Maria Mavridou – Katharina Orfanoudaki
performance art and music exploring strength through the female body
🗓️ October 26, 2025
🕖 18:30 doors & dinner · 19:00 show
📍Grasweg 41R · Amsterdam
🎟️ Sliding scale €10–20. Pay what you can, we trust you that you will make an appropriate decision on how much you can support us. All money goes directly to the artists.
After a long hiatus, it is our pleasure to meet you again and share an evening of immersive cross-disciplinary artistic encounters. Delicious food from 18:30h, shows start at 19:00h.
Traveling Viola: A Very Strong Woman
– Maya Felixbrot / Maria Mavridou / Katharina Orfanoudaki
“A Very Strong Woman” is the fifth work in the Traveling Viola series. On this evening, Maya Felixbrot will launch the album of the series – a body of work that began in 2018 and includes solo and ensemble pieces.
Traveling Viola is a series of site-specific and stage works combining music, video, and movement, exploring the harmony between body, nature, sound, and mind through physical phenomena such as vibration, floating, disintegration, and sinking.
At the launch, the video works Vibration, Float, and Crumbling will be presented, alongside the premiere of A Very Strong Woman, performed by Maya Felixbrot with dancer Maria Mavridou and harpsichord player Katerina Orfanoudaki.
While the previous works in Traveling Viola focus on external materials – water, salt water, sand, and mud – and use them to reflect on the soul, the body, movement, and sound, A Very Strong Woman looks at strength in the context of femininity and through the body itself. It employs the body, its inner strengths and vulnerabilities, and their interaction with the external environment to examine the tension between social convention and inner experience.
Tzara the Machine and Carolina Gemmell
Up-and-coming singer-songwriters Tzara the Machine and Carolina Gemmell are a duo that bring an unearthly glitch sound to life through completely acoustic means.
Tzara The Machine is the solo project of Amsterdam-based Venezuelan singer-songwriter and producer Francisco Garrido. Drawing inspiration from the likes of Björk, Animal Collective and Bon Iver, Tzara creates a fresh organic sound mixing sampled acoustic instruments and electronic elements. Using his lyrics as a journal for thoughts and feelings he tries to understand: shame, guilt, anger, depression, and self-hatred. His music becoming a safe haven during difficult times—a source of peace in the middle of the storm.
Joined by Carolina Gemmell they adapt the sampled and electronically manipulated nature of Tzara the Machine’s music to only two acoustic guitars. From loud and messy guitars to vulnerable meditative minimalistic soundscapes, this duo takes on many nuances. Working within the Art Pop genre, both artists’ backgrounds and strong aesthetics make for an eclectic mix of Folk, Free Improvisation, RnB and world music. In a formation as stripped back as it gets, their music invites listeners into an experience that is raw, intimate, and immersive.
Duo Orfanoudaki – Pintó
Katerina Orfanoudaki and Ignacio Pintó explore together the limits of the unorthodox combination of harpsichord and contrabass. Young and electric, they employ improvisation as a meeting point to create music that they find relevant. In the journey they are immersed, they strive to find links between free forms of improvisation and their own original compositions as well as material from composers like Xenakis, Satie, Bach and other forms of music like Greek Folklore and Gregorian Chant. In every performance, they take advantage of their strong musical connection to challenge themselves in the creation of a sonic environment that traverses the boundaries of pure sound.
23 OCTOBER 23
Live in Amsterdam:
Xilent Records Presents:
Beam the Bomb | Zvov | Maija Anttila & Jonathan Nagel
& album release
“BonBomb” by industrial easy listening trio Beam the Bomb
The new Amsterdam-based label Xilent Records endorses multi-faceted works, which invite to be experienced sonically, visually, physically, intuitively or intellectually.
This night will feature three different live sets of curious and daring artistic projects.
Get your tickets now on amsterdamalternative.nl!
- Amsterdam-based trio “Beam the Bomb” spawns blissful industrial easy listening music. They will present their brand new album “BonBomb“, which is released the same day on Xilent Records as cassette tape and digitally.
- “Zvov” shows their acoustic dada music-theater work “The First Bird Eurovision“. 13 birds from around the world, embodied by two musicians playing viola and double bass, come to life with music, movement and costumes.
- Maija Anttila & Jonathan Nagel released their album “Way Over Time” last spring on Xilent Records. Now finally they will play their work of ambient electro-acoustic soundscapes in a live concert.
18:30 Doors open. We will offer homemade vegan food for a friendly price, so don’t worry about coming hungry from work. We got you covered!
19:30 – 21:15 Live shows
22:00 Bar / building closes to respect the neighbors
Venue – OT301 Ventilator cinema / bar
Tickets between 8 – 20 €. Pay what you can, we trust you that you can make an appropriate decision on how much you can support us. All money goes directly to the artists.
Double release May 26, 2023
Two new albums see the light of day! Maya Felixbrot’s “I didn’t take any hearts” and Marithé & Jonathan’s “an august silence” are like two sides of a medal. They are both characterized by elements of spoken word poetry, minimal music, cinematic soundscapes and surrealistic, eccentric worldviews. Also, both are based on a cast with voice and a string instrument. But while “an august silence” focuses on a fragile, melancholic atmosphere with delicate acoustic sounds and subtle field recordings, “I didn’t take any hearts” is a firework of danceable electronic beats and complex rhythms.
Available for streaming and download on Bandcamp, or your favorite streaming platform.
“an august silence” is also available as a limited edition CD with a booklet including lyrics and illustrations.
Click on the images below to listen to the albums on Bandcamp!
