Evil Rabbit Records

12/09/2025

Here's Rigobert Dittmann's review of Evil Rabbit's new release ERR06! Thank you Rigobert!

The Munderkingen Sessions / part 2
Albert van Veenendaal - (prepared) piano
Meinrad Kneer - double bass

Der Kontrabass von Meinrad Kneer und das (präp.) Piano von Albert van Veenendaal sind ein bewährter Einklang. Mit noch dem Drummer Yonga Soon 2004 bei „Songs to dance strangely with“ und 2006 mit „Predictable Point of Impact“, als Spoon 3 mit der Sängerin Jodi Gilbert 2007 bei „Seductive Sabotage“. Und 2004 auch schon beim „part 1“ in Munderkingen an der Donau, wo Kneer herstammt. 20 Jahre später knüpfen sie daran an, zwar nicht in Utrecht, wo van Veenendaal geboren ist, aber doch in Amsterdam, wo er mit dem Pavlov Trio, mit Kneer & Tobias Klein in President Of The Globe Poesie von Chlebnikov, mit Vanbinsbergen Playstation oder Rara Avis gespielt hat. Die 17 neuen Stücke, allesamt unter 5 Min., lassen in 'la langue universelle' 'my friend the rain' anklingen, eine 'night scene', ein 'ant race' oder kleine Reiseträume. Ein bloßer 'kondensationskern' genügt, dass mit bebendem Bogen eine Klangwolke entsteht. Nachdenkliches Moll weckt wehmütige Erinnerungen. Wie van Veenendaal die Tasten anrührt, lässt Feeling aufsteigen, gelben Klang aufscheinen, Töne über Stock und Stein wuseln und klimpern. Kneer plonkt, jault, knarrt, klappert, wetzt dazu, was der Bass nur hergiebt. Wie sehr da Kratzer, Krabbel- und Spaltklänge korrespondieren und kontrastieren mit spitzem oder blechernem Kling- und feinem oder stumpfem Drahtklang und wie schön da zwei Klangvorstellungen verschmelzen, alle Achtung!

Rigobert Dittmann, September 2025, Bad Alchemy 130

Bad Alchemy ist ein dem Marginalen und Peripheren gewidmetes Audiomagazin, mit jeweils einer dazu passenden 7"-Single oder EP. Ins Leben gerufen wurde BA 1984 als Projekt von Recommended Deutschland. R. Dittmann alias RBD produziert das Heft während seiner Freizeit in zäher finanzieller und kultur...

29/08/2025

Airplay by Klaus Wiedenhöft on Radio t Chemnitz: and now jazz. In great company!
14.8.25 - Thank you Klaus!

Evil Rabbit Records ERR 06: Kneer/van Veenendaal – The Munderkingen sessions / part 2

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29/08/2025

Airplay by Klaus Wiedenhöft on Radio t Chemnitz: and now jazz. In great company!
14.8.25 - Thank you Klaus!

Evil Rabbit Records ERR 06: Kneer / van Veenendaal – The Munderkingen sessions / part 2

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19/08/2025

Airplay on agorasolradio.org / 24/4/2025.
Wonderful!

featuring among others:
Evil Rabbit Records, ERR06: The Munderkingen Sessions / part 2, by Albert van Veenendaal & Meinrad Kneer

Hoy vamos a escuchar algunos grupos y músicos que han publicado música últimamente, en una vertiente experimental. Comenzamos con 500...

22/07/2025

Airplay by:
Jazz-Zeit: Italien, Radio Unerhört Marburg, 20.07.2025, 22-24 Uhr
Thank you Constantin Sieg!

Claudio Scolari: Colors of red island (Principal, title 1+2)
Andrea Massaria, Kneer, Hertenstein: The absence of zero (Setola Di Maiale, 1)
Mauro Sigura Quartet: Terra vetro (S'ard, 1+2+3) feat. Luca Aquino
Claudio Scolari Project: Cosmology (Principal, 1+2)
Sonoria: Le jardin sonore (Evil Rabbit, 4)
Mauro Sigura: Dunia (S'ard, 2+3+4)
Claudio Scolari Project: Don’t know (Principal, 1+2+3).

Freies Radio in Marburg auf UKW 90,1 MHz und im DAB+

02/04/2025

First review of the latest Evil Rabbit release by Eyal Hareuveni for Percorsi Musicali.
Thank you Eyal!

"...two long-time friends, who are masters of their instruments and the art of the moment, enjoy deep, playful, and nuanced conversations..."

ERR06: The Munderkingen Sessions, part 2, by Albert van Veenendaal & Meinrad Kneer

German, Berlin-based double bass player-composer Meinead Kneer and Dutch, Amsterdam-based pianist-composer-arranger-producer Albert van Veenendaal have played together for almost 25 years and collaborated in many musical endeavors. They founded the Evil Rabbit label, dedicated to contemporary improvised music rooted in the European culture, and collaborated in many projects, including the quintet President of the Globe, the trio Spoon 3, another trio with drummer Yunga Sun, and duo albums.
Kneer, who runs today alone the Evil Rabbit label, operates on the borders of modern jazz, free improvised, ethnic, and contemporary music. Van Veenendaal works with many national and international jazz, world, and classical musicians throughout Europe, and is considered a master of the prepared piano. He runs the Minimal Damage label, dedicated for adventurous music that doesn’t fit regular categories.
The Munderkingen Sessions, Part 1 was recorded at Kneer’s hometown, Munderkingen, in Germany during a three-day session in September 2024 (Evil Rabbit, 2007). The follow-up, Part 2, was recorded almost twenty years later at van Veenendaal’s ‘Secret House Studio’ in Amsterdam in a one-day session in February 2024.
Part 2 offers 17 short pieces that capture the intimate and introspective, exploratory, and genre-defying aesthetics of Kneer and van Veenendaal, “La Langue Universelle” as one of the pieces is aptly titled. These spontaneous and unhurried improvisations suggest instant, irreverent compositions that flow naturally, rely on profound rapport and an almost telepathic interplay, expand the sonic palette of the double bass and the piano with extended bowing techniques and distinct preparations, and never settle on familiar courses. Just two long-time friends, who are masters of their instruments and the art of the moment, enjoy deep, playful, and nuanced conversations and are not shy from occasional bold and even some noisy disagreements. Sometimes it is more than enough.

Eyal Hareuveni, 2 april 2025, percorsi musicali

German, Berlin-based double bass player-composer Meinead Kneer and Dutch, Amsterdam-based pianist-composer-arranger-producer Albert van Veenendaal have played together for almost 25 years and collaborated in many musical endeavors. They founded the Evil Rabbit label, dedicated to contemporary improv...

17/03/2025

Here's Ken Waxman's review of Evil Rabbit second latest release "Synomilies" by Peter Van Huffel, Meinrad Kneer & Yorgos Dimitriadis. -> "Free Jazz trio music at its finest."
Thank you Ken!

Standard creative music configuration for many years, the reeds, double bass and drums trio lends itself to many interpretations and considerations. In its purest form it showcases the players performing like acrobats without a safety net which in musical terms would be the addition of one or more chordal instruments. Both Van Huffel/Kneer/Dimitriadis (VKD) and the AALY Trio operate this way, with the reedists – Canadian Peter Van Huffel with VKD and Swede Mats Gustafsson with the AALY – adding to their balancing act(s) by switching among various horns while in the equivalent of mid-air.
AALY, which also includes fellow Swedes bassist Peter Janson and drummer Kjell Nordeson as well as Gustafsson playing tenor and baritone saxophones, flute and harmonica has been around since the 1990s and is named for an Art Ensemble of Chicago’s contrafact of Albert Ayler’s name, consistently shows its allegiance to unbridled Free Jazz. An ad hoc collaboration among three musicians busy in Berlin, VKD consists of German bassist Meinrad Kneer and Greek percussionist Yorgos Dimitriadis with Van Huffel playing alto and baritone saxophones. Still the eight track on Synomilies – the ancient term for salons – are no less ferocious than the 11 on Sustain.
Working out intersective variations, Van Huffel’s stentorian snorts, strained smears and slapping tongue percussion are precisely balanced by thick, sul ponticello bass string rubs and Dimitriadis’ vigorous drags and ruffs. Different tracks are set up to express the baritone saxophone’s bottom-feeding bites and the alto saxophone’s vibrating altissimo squeals. In most cases the tandem response from Kneer involve strident shudder , while the drummer proffers moderated paradiddles and pitter patter.
Operating as closely as synchronized swimmers doesn’t means that individual expression is muted though. On “A Tree Has A Thousand Ears” for instance, Dimitriadis’breaks up the time with whirls, ratchets, clatters and clunks from small instruments, cymbal scours and the noise created by lug loosening. The saxophonist’s response includes tongue slaps and reed elaboration but also straight-ahead output that keeps the exposition linear.
On “Convergence” however it’s Kneer’s slowly stroked string buzzing and sudden twangs which define the piece. Bass drum pumps and reed screeches complete the picture with timbres from opposite pitch elevations. Eventually though it become almost impossible to distinguish reed from string timbres.
Overall with a combination of ratcheting percussion asides, allied woody string strokes and fragmented reed movement from irregular doits to Aylerian screams, VKD certifies the continued validity of exploratory Free Jazz trio music.
That approach is expressed twofold by the AALY Trio with Gustafsson’s additional arsenal of horns. He’s no shrinking violet when it comes to screaming flattement and multiphonics from thick saxophones expositions. Just the same he brings the same tongue pressure and transverse splatter from flute note bending on “Your Prayer”, where his crying spills meet double bass thwacks and drum/cymbal rattles; as he does with screechy harmonica wails on “Cover Yourself”, as Janson responsively clicks stings from high up the bass strings near the tuning pegs. Raising the excitement level at points and especially on “Egypt Rock” Gustafsson yelps and whoops – often vocalizing through the saxophones’ body tubes – as Nordeson outputs Caribbean-styled drum resonations in between multiphonic reed scoops and spills.
As indicated, as with VKD, this is scarcely a one-man show, with the bassist and drummer amplifying the tunes which include subtlety as well as stress. There are instances as Nordeson’s palm slapping introduction to “Rock Out”, as well as march tempo elsewhere. There’s also Janson’s measured walking bass intro to “Why I Don’t Go Back” and his near-flamenco strums on other tracks. All of this is expressed within the raw or reflective outpourings from Gustafsson’s many horns.
Along with banshee wails and thick vibrations the AALY Trio maintains a horizontal flow in its music. Making it too another exemplar of exploratory Free Jazz trio music at its finest.
Ken Waxman, 17 march 2025, jazzword

AALY Trio Sustain Silkheart SHCD 167 Standard creative music configuration for many years, the reeds, double bass and drums trio lends itself to many interpretations and considerations. In its purest form it showcases the players performing like acrobats without a safety net which in musical terms w...

04/03/2025

I'm happy to see two Evil Rabbit Records releases pop up between all these masters of the double bass... pure bliss!
Thank you Klaus Wiedenhöft!

ERR21: Sequoia - "Rotations" (w/ Antonio Borghini, Klaus Kürvers & Miles Perkin)
ERR30: Meinrad Kneer - "Vocabularies"

playlist “and now jazz – BASS” 22-23 Uhr 06.02.2025

Sequoia „Interlude I“
Barry Guy „She took the sacred rattle and used it“
Arild Andersen „Ghosts/Old Stev/Landloper“
J.F. Jenny-Clarke „Scott“
Sebastian Gramss „Was ist da“
Bassmasse 45 „Spicca II“
Sequoia „Lifts & escalators“
Meinrad Kneer „Musik für Schmetterlinge“
Barre Phillips „Quintaddendum“
Joelle Léandre/Rafal Mazur „V“
Szilard Mezei Tubass Quintet „Osaka blues“
CD „Sequoia - Rotations“ evil rabbit ERR 21
CD „Barry Guy - Portrait“ Intakt CD 123
CD „Arild Andersen - Landloper“ ECM 2826
CD „J.F. Jenny-Clarke - Unison“ CMP CD 32
CD „Sebastian Gramss - Atopie“ JHM 213
CD „Bassmasse 13/45“ rent a dog rad 2018
CD „Sequoia - Rotations“ evil rabbit ERR 21
CD „Meinrad Kneer - Vocabularies“ evil rabbit records ERR 30
CD „Barre’s Trio – No pieces“ Emouvance emv 1003
CD „Joelle Léandre - Beauty/Resistance“ Not Two MW 1013
CD „Szilard Mezei Tubass Quintet – Rested turquoise“ no business NBCD 142

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01/03/2025

Wonderful review by the one and only Herman te Loo for Jazz Flits!
Thank you Herman!

Evil Rabbit Records, ERR37:
"Synomilies", by Van Huffel / Kneer / Dimitriadis

Hoewel saxofonist Peter van Huffel en bassist Meinrad Kneer samen optrekken in het kwintet van de laatste, waar composities het uitgangspunt zijn voor hun im- provisatie, houden ze allebei ook van het vrije werk. Op dit nieuwe album (dat verscheen op Kneers label Evil Rabbit) vinden ze de Griekse slagwerker Yorgos Dimitriadis aan hun zijde, die net als de Canadees en de Duitser een plek heeft gevonden in de vruchtbare improscene van Berlijn. De acht stukken die ze op ‘Synomilies’ brengen, bestrijken een breed scala, van ritme- en melodieloze soundscapes op de randen van de stilte (zoals ‘A Tree has a thousand ears’) tot ou- derwetse, energieke freejazz (‘Beasts and creatures’). Van Huffel kiest vooral voor de baritonsax, en met zijn lange lijnen combineert hij dan perfect met de gestre- ken bas, die in handen van Kneer altijd loepzuiver is. Dimitriadis kleurt en rommelt en laat zijn bekkens zin- gen waar dat kan. Bovenal wordt er met oren op steeltjes geluisterd, zodat het eindresultaat steeds veel meer is dan de afzonderlijke bijdragen.

Herman te Loo, 17 february 2025, jazz flits number 434

01/03/2025

Look at this playing list!
Thank you Jeff Golick from Destination Out!

INCLUDING:
ERR38: "Temporal Driftness" by Floridis / Bauer / Hertenstein

Audio & playlist from February 16, 2025

28/01/2025

And here are two playlists by Klaus Wiedenhöft from Radio T, Chemnitz - feat. Evil Rabbit Records!
Thank you Klaus!

including:
ERR10: Baars / Kneer - "Windfall"
ERR17: Mark Lotz / Meinrad Kneer - "U-ex(perimental)"
ERR18: Klare / Platz / Kneer / Elgart - "Modern Primitive"
ERR20: Baars / Kneer / Elgart - "Give no quarter"
ERR21: Saquoia - "Rotations"
ERR22: Baars / Kneer / Elgart - "Live at Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf 2012"
ERR23: The Core Trio live, feat Matthew Shipp -
ERR30: Meinrad Kneer - "Vocabularies"
ERR31: Andreas Willers - "Haerae"

playlist “and now jazz” 22-23 Uhr 09.01.2025
Dado Moroni Trio „Just one of those things“
Russ Lossing „Invention I“ / „Invention IV“
Akira Sakata/Kazuhisa Uchihashi „Don’t cry“
Satoko Fujii Quartet „Dog days of summer“
Joe Fonda Quartet „Listen to Dr. Cornel West“
The Core Trio „set 1“ (part)
CD „Dado Moroni Trio – Morges 2009“ TCB 02502
CD „Russ Lossing – Inventions“ Bl**er Music Songs 002 CD
CD „Akira Sakata/Kazuhisa Uchihashi – Patina“ innocentrecords ICR-028
CD „Satoko Fujii Quartet – Dog days of summer“ Libra 204-076
CD „Joe Fonda Quartet – Eyes on the horizon“ Long Song Records LSRCD 163/2024
CD „The Core Trio live feat. Matthew Shipp“ evil rabbit ERR 23

playlist “and now jazz – feat. evil rabbit” 22-23 Uhr 16.01.2025
Meinrad Kneer „Sketch I“
Ab Baars / Meinrad Kneer „Wood-wind“
Baars/Kneer/Elgart „Tale of the bewildered bee“
Baars/Kneer/Elgart „Nickelsdorf suite #1 – part I“
Klare/Platz/Kneer/Elgart „Puppet party“
Andreas Willers „Mnemo“
CD „Meinrad Kneer – Vocabularies“ evil rabbit records ERR 30
CD „Ab Baars / Meinrad Kneer – Windfall“ evil rabbit records ERR 10
CD „Baars/Kneer/Elgart - Give no quarter“ evil rabbit records ERR 20
CD „Baars/Kneer/Elgart – Live at Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf 2012“
evil rabbit records ERR 22
CD „Baars/Kneer/Elgart - Give no quarter“ evil rabbit records ERR 18
CD „Andreas Willers – Haerae“ evil rabbit records ERR 31
Mark Alban Lotz / Meinrad Kneer „In the mouth / Moment“ / „Movement and variation“
Sequoia „Passing by“
Meinrad Kneer „Navigation spatiale“
CD „Mark Alban Lotz / Meinrad Kneer – u-ex(perimental)“ evil rabbit records ERR 17
CD „Sequoia - Rotations“ evil rabbit ERR 21
CD „Meinrad Kneer – Vocabularies“ evil rabbit records ERR 30

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28/01/2025

Constantin Sieg with airplay of Evil Rabbit's ERR37: Synomilies, by Van Huffel / Kneer / Dimitriadis.
Thank you Constantin!

Listen to his podcast!

online until Feb, 3rd Peter van Huffel’s Callisto: Meandering demons (TremAzul/CleanFeed, title 1+2) Doug Wilde: The sixth dimension (DW, 1+2+3) Carn Davidson 9: Reverence (CD, 3+4) van Huffel/Kneer/Dimitriadis: Synomilies (Evil Rabbit, 4+5) Angell & Crane: Angell & Crane (For The Living And The D...