Drummer Arend Niks (a.o. Corrie en de Grote Brokken and Nenette et les Zezettes) adores musical risk. He broadens and deepens his work in a non-conforming way. The adventure in his new kwartet New Niks starts with the instrumentation: drums, electric piano, guitar and violin. Talking about challenges. You have to be well attuned to each other and that is exactly the case with these four guys (Erwin Hoorweg, Andreas Suntrop, Jasper le Clercq and Niks). This results in wayward and creative music, the Volkskrant described as: “(…) Likewise the result with Niks is both captivating and compelling and most of all more humoristic. Niks rocks a lot more and allows more relaxed cheerfulness, but what his collectively operating band displayed, was, once again, original European jazz of a high standard’.
