The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble

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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 (aka Bong-Ra) and Gideon Kiers (Telcosystems), 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. Lang (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.
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  • Wurzeltomte

    Nice and dark stuff! :)

    Tuesday evening
  • HAWK-666

    nice music

    last week
  • recur5ion

    Great perfomance at the SKIF, thanks

    10 days ago
  • Eradictor

    OMG...No,no,no... How the Fuck is Shadows not in the Top 15? О_о Their best song)

    12 days ago
  • st9ler

    Really good show @ Krasnodar, thank you very much.

    13 days ago
  • medic1985

    Hey, Fellas!!! Awesome stuff! Really like it!!! So, it'll be great if you check us out back. We are The Hysteria , and our debute LP "Paradigm of the faith". We'll be grateful for the retaliatory opinions etc.

    17 days ago
  • Vito95PL

    My God!!! The are soooo beautiful !!!!! <3

    last month
  • Arahand

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31 Jan 2011 | from www.tkde.net/tkdenet/Blog/Blog.html

THE KILIMANJARO DARKJAZZ ENSEMBLE are a project which has always been tied to films. Films are luxurious because they dispose of all these boring, unimportant, and trivial parts of our lives. …

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