kotokid

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Imagine combining 80’s jazzfusion and contemporary triphop. Right in the sweet spot of those two, lies the music of Amsterdam based multi-instrumentalist and producer Freek Mulder, aka kotokid. What you get, is face-melting harmonies over murderous drums, vast synthscapes and fragile piano ballads. Performing live, kotokid plays bass while controlling a spaceship of synths, accompanied by guitarwizard Maarten Cima, and drummerbeast Jonathan Szegedi. Perfectly in tune with their electronics, this trio manages to produce a DJ-scaring wall of sound, while maintaining the musical freedom and energy of a fusion band.

After releasing his first EP Fledge in 2022, kotokid played all over the Netherlands at venues like Bimhuis, BIRD and Injazz, with his trio. Playing new music and experimenting with different setups, the band really started to live up to their full potential. In 2023 they bottled up all that goodness into a new record called ‘Fridge’, which wil be released in Amsterdam’s renowned poptemple Paradiso, on April 5th this year.

Musicians
Freek Mulder (NL) – Bass, synths, sequences
Maarten Cima (NL) – guitar
Jonathan Szegedi (DE) – drums

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