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Sem Kramer Birthday & The Flow, Vol. 1 
Release Concert

On October 6th I’m marking two things at once: the release of my new album, The Flow, Vol. 1, and my 26th birthday. I wanted to celebrate both somewhere that felt right for the music: @keizersgrachtkerk , a beautiful church on one of Amsterdam’s oldest canals.

I’m entirely self-taught and read no sheet music. Everything I play is improvised live at the piano, moving between the classical and jazz legends who shaped how I hear music.

Before the music starts @mahi.meditates will lead a short opening meditation to settle the room into something quieter than a normal concert night. Then @marknieuwenhuisinsta joins me on stage on trumpet.

Whether you come for the meditation, the piano, the trumpet, or just an evening that’s a little different, young or old, this is about coming together in such a beautiful space to experience live music, and a moment of stillness, together.

Artwork made by @alexcovert.art during the studio sessions will be on display

Video credits: @aaldrikb_ 
Styling: @amstel_bleach 
Musical credits: @rufusvanbaardwijk @daniellawrenceconnolly @studio.hiddengem 

Distribution: @ambermusic.nl 

#music #piano #livemusic #improvisation #meditation
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My Adventure Rule #1: Create a loose structure… a place, a time, but leave ample space for the unexpected to unfold. 

This is how we planned our Landjuweel > Garbicz festival portal decompression. Landing in rural Poland on a farm with no visible neighbors, only fields and lakes and forest. 

It was not part of the plan that our Airbnb host would become a friend. An all-round creative, music producer, photographer - @sikora_patryk was anything but expected, wandering across the fields in his studded boots and golden wrestling shorts (see last slide). 

It was not part of the plan to stay an extra night, the night that finally found us all making music and art around the fire serenaded by hundreds of frogs and the splashes of leaping carp. Nor that we would wake up early for a spontaneous photoshoot on his family land. 

There, in the unplanned moments, is where adventure is found. 

1: our band photo (because Floris isn’t in enough bands) 
2: our first album cover 
3: 2nd album? 
4: Floris being sexy while scooping fish food 
5: Sweet & Fluffy
6: Polish Gothic
7: legendary photographer arrival pose 

Artwear by @amstel_bleach ✨
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