SPINIFEX UPDATE

Avant-garde jazz sextet Spinifex celebrates their 20th anniversary in 2025/2026, marking the milestone with a special project and album called Maxximus, featuring guest musicians for an expanded, acoustic sound, continuing their legacy of boundary-pushing improvisation that started with their 10th anniversary in 2015.

20 years and 10 albums !!

1	Spinifex Orchestra: Triodia     (2008, cd)
2	Spinifex: Hipsters Gone Ballistic     (2013, cd)
3	Spinifex: Veiled     (2015, cd)
4	Spinifex: Maximus     (2015, cd)
5	Spinifex: Amphibian Ardour     (2018, cd)
6	Spinifex: Soufifex     (2019, cd)
7	Spinifex: Spinifex Beats The Plague     (2021, cd)
8	Spinifex: Spinifex Sings     (2022, cd)
9	Spinifex: Undrilling The Hole     (2024, cd The Netherlands, trytone tt559-103)
10	Spinifex: Maxximus     (2025, cd, The Netherlands, trytone tt559-114)

The band recently performed at The Plusetage in Baarle Nassau, NL, which allowed me to complete the discography with the lates two albums: "Undrilling The Hole", and "Maxximus". Notice the double 'X' in the latter to emphasize the 20th anniversary.

Spinifex = Tobias Klein (bass clarinet/alto sax), Bart Maris (trumpet), John Dikeman (tenor sax), Jasper Stadhouders (guitar), Gonçalo Almeida (double bass), Philipp Moser (drums)/
The extended line-up for "Maxximus": Jessica Pavone (viola), Elisabeth Coudoux (cello) , and Evi Filippou ( vibraphone/percussion).

Salome Amend replaced Evi Filippou for the Baarle Nassau concert, doing an excellent job.

It doesn't get much better than this !
Check it out !!

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