De Keuken #8: Youki Flu, The Irrational Library, VRIHI (Lorenzo Brilli)

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Pletterij Debat en Cultuur | Haarlem

De Keuken
Publisher/HostDe Keuken
De Keuken #8: Youki Flu, The Irrational Library, VRIHI (Lorenzo Brilli)
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YOUKI FLU
Youki Flu is a singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer from Lithuania. After studying jazz music at the Prins Claus conservatory, she has transitioned to electronic music and graduated with a master’s degree in Live Electronics at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Having lived and actively performed in the Netherlands for 10 years, she has explored numerous genres due to her curiosity about sound, its physicality and connection to human emotion.
Youki Flu enriches her ethereal electronic music by building most of her sound from acoustic instruments, such as trumpet, voice, bass or piano. She fearlessly dives into the extremes of both sound and emotion, juxtaposing the large and the minuscule, the disturbing and the loving.
Next to her solo project, Youki has been actively performing in the Netherlands and abroad with various projects, such as Soon to expire, The Ensemble of Cultural Approximation, and Plan Kruutntoone x Ahura Mazda 3000.
THE IRRATIONAL LIBRARY
The Irrational Library is a Haarlem based rock band with its roots firmly planted in both the regional and international counterculture. The Dutch-American band produces a raw, dirty groove which is heavily influenced by icons of beat-, provo- and punk culture. The band‘s rhythm section -Mishal Zeera on bass and Lars van der Weijden on drums- puts the poetry packed with social criticism on a musical freight train with the velocity of acts such as The Minutemen or Gil Scott Heron. Tom de Haan‘s baritone sax then propels this freight train ever onward with tight melodies and psychedelic improvisations. The “unofficial city poet of Haarlemtown” Joshua Baumgarten is the catalyst that propels The Irrational Library forward on the rhythm and rhyme of his socio-politically engaged spoken word poetry.
LORENZO BRILLI
Lorenzo Brilli is an Italian drummer and percussionist whose work moves between jazz,
improvisation, and experimental electronic music.
His practice explores the relationship between acoustic gesture and electronic transformation
— an investigation of rhythm, space, and the physical presence of sound.
After studying drums and percussion in New York at the Aaron Copland School of Music,
he expanded his research into Balinese gamelan, batá drumming, and contemporary
repertoire.
His performances inhabit the fragile border between composition and improvisation, where
repetition and silence shape time like a breathing organism.
Brilli’s sound world is rooted in the tactility of percussion and the organic unpredictability of
electronics. Whether in solo or collaborative settings, his work seeks to reveal the tension
between body and machine, structure and decay, noise and resonance.
He has performed at festivals and venues across Europe, the United States, and Asia,
collaborating with artists across jazz, contemporary, and experimental scenes.
His latest solo project, Vrihi, was released by Esc.rec in 2025
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Pletterij Debat en Cultuur, Lange Herenvest 122, 2011 BX Haarlem, Nederland, Haarlem, Netherlands

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