VEHICLE/PASSENGER (ALBUM RELEASE TOUR)

https://splendoramsterdam.com/

VEHICLE/PASSENGER is back in the Netherlands to celebrate their newest vinyl release: "Live In Amsterdam" (recorded in Splendor!). 

Already praised as "one of the most honest and unique recordings of 2024." (All About Jazz); The live LP  is a live-in-front-of-audience capture of a young group whose sound is as urgent, spiritual and honest as their message. Radical in both their introspection and their unapologetic clarity.

VEHICLE/WHO?

VEHICLE/PASSENGER is the intercontinental trio of Marc Alberto (NL/CW) on poetry, saxophones and modular synthesizer; Lesley Mok (US) on drums and percussion; and Florian Herzog (DE/US) on double bass and modular synthesizer. The band improvises at a deliberate pace that reveals a unified, futuristic sound. Repositioning the past, present and future of experimental music, free jazz, hip-hop, ambient, contemporary music, live electronics and {spoken-word}[poetry].

"VEHICLE/PASSENGER is basically a kind of joint trip around the Spoken Poetry of Marc Alberto. M.'s texts deal, among other things, with black experiences of alienation in a white society, though these texts are anything…