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The Netherlands (2000 – present)

The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble (TKDE) formed in 2000 as a project to compose new music for existing silent movies. Jason Köhnen and Gideon Kiers, both graduates of the Utrecht School of Arts, combined their audio and visual skills to reinterpret classic movies by F.W. Murnau (Nosferatu) and F. Langs (Metropolis).

In 2004 UK trombonist Hilary Jeffery and Swiss cellist Nina Hitz joined TKDE to record the self-titled debut album which was released on Planet Mu Records in May 2006. The ensuing tour saw Eelco Bosman and Paris based vocalist Charlotte Cegarra join, forming the Ensemble into a sextet. London based violinist Sadie Anderson joined in 2008 to supply the group with extra power on stage.

The Netherlands has been TKDE’s homebase since 2007, while members have moved closer to each other to make composing and producing easier.

Apart from the mothership which is TKDE, there is another entity; The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation is a live improv jazz / drone / doom side project consisting of TKDE members and a host of interchanging guest musicians.

Due to the vast possibilities within the band, the sound spectrum of TKDE is hard to capture within one specific composition. Moreover, the project will lean towards various styles depending on the respective members working together at a given time. A good mix between atmosphere and technique is always the strong basis for a TKDE composition.

Live TKDE fuse analog and digital as much as possible.

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jazz, experimental, dark jazz, ambient, electronic
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AdvocatedApocal wrote:
Friday evening

http://www.adnoiseam.net/news/live-dragons-more-free-tracks-from-tkde..html 2 live tracks to download and a great video here.

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BleedBeliever wrote:
Wednesday morning

here be dragons and mutations.

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falsewander wrote:
Tuesday morning

Which tracks/albums have vocals? Only heard from embers so far.

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tape_rewinder wrote:
Monday evening

i love them

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Aeroaviones wrote:
7 days ago

Yeah Mendigo01, Here Be Dragons is easily their best this year, at least for me.

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InASafePlace wrote:
7 days ago

Cant choose a favorite between Succubus and Here Be Dragons. Both very solid.

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a_bleeding_star wrote:
10 days ago

[I'm Ssseriously Mindtrippin']

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hadohy wrote:
10 days ago

one week of rain - one week of TKDE in my ears

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Tyr_morituri wrote:
11 days ago

This just blew my mind.

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falsewander wrote:
11 days ago

so calming...

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Mendigo01 wrote:
11 days ago

actually THREE incredcible records if you count the Mount Fuji album and the EP. But Here Be Dragons is still easily the best one they've done so far in my opinion.

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pinkalba wrote:
12 days ago

Two incredible records in one year - sorcerers. Can't wait to see them live.

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Funeraliaa wrote:
12 days ago

great....

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krumbledkookie wrote:
13 days ago

I've just started listening to this band tonight, and as I sit here listening to Here Be Dragons, I am needless to say very impressed- enough to order the 2xLP from Darla Records. There is beautiful and interesting material here, that cuts into one's soul with the tensions and majestic transfigurations involved, each change leading not only to the next but to whole new realms of fantasy and fiction. The music is, as previously mentioned, majestic - yet not grand and self-congratulatory. It feels like jazz, with that sort of wounded mentality and haunting emotion, but the electronic and ambient passages really accentuate the dynamics, the interplay between the instruments and sounds involved, bringing this sort of experimentation into a category of its own. Some will go on about the debt supposedly owed to Portishead, but to me (and I’ve listened to Portishead quite a lot since their debut was released), this music goes places that Portishead only dreams of going.

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TKDE wrote:
14 days ago

its got nothing to do with the filesharing issue. illegal downloading is part of the norm in music, and we have no problem with it. the point stated was that its tasteless for someone to post the link to a download on this page, run by the artists. the person has taken down that link in question, probably because he/she knew it wasn't cool. as for buying music and illegal downloading, that should be up to the individual if they feek they want to support the artist they like enabling them to continue making music.

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SonOfThirteen wrote:
14 days ago

very very good

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MechanoFraktur wrote:
14 days ago

Agree with InASafePlace on this. In the end more people would end up buying their music with filesharing than without.

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InASafePlace wrote:
15 days ago

Is TKDE a member of the band? Anyway. I don't agree with his position. I don't think TKDE would be known at all without filesharing. Sad but true. We aren't in 1960.

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katjusza wrote:
16 days ago

Caravan! ! ! ! <3 <3

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FilmoreHolmes wrote:
17 days ago

I'll be buying Here Be Dragons as soon as I see it on vinyl.

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Events

Dec 3 The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble Kino Šiška, Ljubljana, Slovenia
4 shouts | 34 attendees
Dec 4 The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble European Tour, Budapest, Hungary
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Dec 8 The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble Rotunda, Kraków, Cracow, Poland
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News

Here Be Dragons :: OUT NOW!

1 Nov 2009 | from www.tkde.net/tkdenet/Blog/Blog.html

For their second full length album, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble set their sails towards uncharted territories and unveiled a new symbiosis of warm electronica and dusky yet clear acoustic instrumentation. …

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