MOLK Factory

MOLK factory is a community empowerment initiative, multi-disciplinary performance space, record label, recording studio and artist collective.

We aim to promote outstanding local and international talent, collaborations and new ideas. Molk Factory is a gathering of performing artists and musicians from different disciplines, who all bring their own views and methods, but constantly seek closer contact with each other's art in order to exchange artistic languages. The Molk collective comes from diverse backgrounds: pop, free music, contem

porary composition, sound art, theater, mime and visual arts. Molk Factory finds poetry in the convergence of this multitude of perspectives, aesthetics and methods. This is expressed in resounding polemics, juxtapositions and harshly edited styles but also in unexpected harmonies of fairytale simplicity. Molk Factory connects the worldly with the Amsterdam, woven together with forgotten world views, voices from the margins, and scenarios for the future. It is a movement and focuses on the horizon where a wide audience listens to and shares with us.

27/02/2026

COMING OUT TODAY on MOLK Records
James McClure’s Debut Album
[A Dizziness from the Unsaid]

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We are so proud to announce this beautiful Release!
Please consider listening and supporting!

This album is a deeply personal debut release from the South African trumpet player, composer, and bandleader James McClure. An emerging voice in Amsterdam’s experimental scene, recognised for his sound, patience, and sensibility.

“At the heart of the album lies a lullaby I wrote in 2020, in response to the global unrest of that time. It has since become the thread that binds these pieces together, a message of reflection and healing that feels ever more relevant and urgent.”

Limited Classic Black 12” Vinyl
AVAILABLE NOW in Bandcamp
Link in Bio

All compositions and trumpet
Piano
Bass
Drums

Cover Photo by
Graphic Design by
Inner Sleeve Photo by
Recorded and Mixed by
Mastered and cut by
Released by Molk Records
Released 27 February 2026

20/02/2026

Coming out on Molk Records on 27 February
James McClure’s Debut Album
[ A dizziness from the unsaid ]
Pre-order now!
Limited Classic 12” Vinyl

A deeply personal debut release from South African trumpet player, composer and bandleader An emerging voice in Amsterdam’s experimental scene, recognised for his sound, patience and sensibility.

This album is anchored by a recurring lullaby written in response to the violence and global unrest, a call for change while carrying a message of reflection and healing.

🎯 Mark your calenders
Just confirmed
Release show with full ensemble
April 25 at Molk night

Link in Bio

Composition
Piano
Bass
Drums
Recording and Mixing
Mastered and cut Frank Merritt
Photo

MOLK Records

20/02/2026

BANDCAMP FRIDAY!!!

Coming out on Molk Records on 17 February
James Mc Clure’s Debut Album
[ A dizziness from the unsaid ]
Pre-order now!
Limited Classic 12” Vinyl

A deeply personal debut release from South African trumpet player, composer and bandleaser An emerging voice in Amsterdam’s experimental scene, recognised for his sound, patience and sensibility.

This album is anchored by a recurring lullaby written in response to the violence and global unrest, a call for change while carrying a message of reflection and healing.

🎯 Mark your calenders
Just confirmed
Release show with full ensemble
April 25 at Molk night

Link in Bio

Composition
Piano
Bass
Drums
Recording and Mixing
Mastered and cut Frank Merritt
Photo

MOLK Records

06/02/2026

BANDCAMP FRIDAY!!
PRE-ORDER NOW

Coming out on MOLK Records
27 February 2026
James McClure’s debut album
‘A dizziness from the unsaid’

Listen to the first single from the release
‘Lullaby (take 1)’

South African trumpet player and composer James McClure presents a deeply personal debut album.
He is an emerging voice in Amsterdam’s
experimental scene recognised for his sound, patience and sensibility. This is a bold and introspective work that invites deep listening.

Recorded live at Wisseloord Studios in the Netherlands, the album features musicians
Pat Cleaver
Nikos Thessalonikefs
Adrián Moncada Espinosa
Recorded and mixed by Alessandro Mazzieri
Mastered and cut by Frank Merritt at The Carvery, London
Graphic design by Várvara Tazelaar
Inner sleeve photo by James Symmonds
Cover photo (Cape Town) by James McClure

Limited Classic Black 12” Vinyl
Available for pre-order now!

Link in Bio 🩶🤍🩶🤍

30/01/2026

ANNOUNCEMENT!!!

DEBUT ALBUM A Dizziness from the unsaid
By JAMES MCCLURE
OUT ON MOLK RECORDS 02/27/2026

OUT NOW SINGLE Lullaby (Take1)
PRE-ORDER TODAY ON BANDCAMP

The moment of birthing your own musical space is a special one; you expose something about yourself for all to see. It can be an act of generosity and laying bare a bit of your soul. We are elated to support our dear friend and fellow musician James McClure (featured trumpetist in Mestizx), who does so on “A dizziness from the unsaid”. We see the importance of his ideas, and we are moved by his deep care for contemplation in sound. James not only enriches the Amsterdam music community, but he is able to hint at celebratory, South African resistance songs, then make you gasp while covering you with a blanket of deep-sea-water like sinuosity. It is as dizzying as it is revelatory. Indeed, this is it. We get this one chance to live in this body, in this presence, in this moment. It is through his music that we get the chance to detach from the banalities of distraction, take a deep breath, and you are in!

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South African trumpet player and composer James McClure presents his deeply personal Debut Album. He is a powerful emerging voice, known for his mesmerising sound, patience and sensibility. This is a bold and introspective work that invites deep listening. The music is rooted in emotion, free improvisation and progressive thought with traces of heritage. The album is held together by a recurring lullaby written in response to violence and global unrest. It is a call for change, reflection and healing that feels ever more relevant and increasingly urgent. It is a moving introduction to his world

Link in Bio

Photo Portrait: Teemu Kekkonen
Photo Edit: Várvara Tazelaar

11/11/2025

almost weekender!!

Our beautiful space and community -Plantage Dok- hosts a variety of events, every week!

We would like to highlight the upcoming!
Nov 13
Benefit Dinner for Gaza
17:30 Screening film “Gaza Fights For Freedom”
19:00 Dinner
20:00 Two solo concerts by Djorie and Hiske from their new electro-acoustic repertoire
DONATION based

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Nov 14
LOKAAL EDITION #6
COLLAB W/ MOLK FACTORY

DINNER 18:30
START 20:30
€8 - €20 Sliding Scale
Tickets & info available in bio
FOOD by John Pastinaak (vegan)

LOKAAL & MOLK Factory present:
PROGRAM
20:30 T’IJU T’IJU
21:15 M.TAKARA & C.BOREGAS
22:20 JEREMIAH CHIU & MARTA SOFIA HONER

Event pister screen printed by & available for purchase!

09/11/2025

AND OPENING THE NIGHT!!

LOKAAL EDITION #6
IN COLLAB W/ MOLK FACTORY

PRESENT
JEREMIAH CHIU & MARTA SOFIA HONER
MAURIZIO TAKARA & CARLA BOREGAS
T’IJU T’IJU

14 NOVEMBER
DINNER 18:30 John Pastinaak (Vegan)
DOORS 20:00
START 20:30
€8 - €20 Sliding Scale
Plantage Doklaan 8-12
Tickets & info available in bio

T’IJU T’IJU AKA JOCHEM VAN TOL - modular synth and electronis
“Jochem’s work with the renowned The Paper Ensemble has shown audiences that music is
always simmering beneath sounds of everyday life, like a phantom appendage waiting to be
revealed. T’iju T’iju, meanwhile, explores the relationship between sound and time in a more
playful way. It’s significant to note that in many of his bands, Jochem performs the drums, which I reckon has played a part in him avidly debunking the act of keeping time; the myriad ways humankind has developed all kinds of metrics to capture our perception of it.

It feels playful to name the project after his spirit animal, the grasshopper, a creature who keeps time instinctively without being aware of time’s existence. Though the dragon is still alive consists of just two tracks, the music itself feels nonlinear, like a fully realized environment to endlessly explore and get lost in. It’s a place where modern electronic sounds can descend into the primordial, and organic melodies rouse into blissful sentience. The possibilities are, indeed, endless.”
– Jasper Willems

03/11/2025

ANNOUNCEMENT!!

LOKAAL EDITION #6
IN COLLAB W/ MOLK FACTORY

PRESENT
JEREMIAH CHIU & SOFIA MARTA HONER
MAURIZIO TAKARA & CARLA BOREGAS
T’IJU T’IJU

14 NOVEMBER
DINNER 18:30 John Pastinaak (Vegan)
DOORS 20:00
START 20:30
€8 - €20 Sliding Scale
Tickets & info available in bio

JEREMIAH CHIU - modular synth
SOFIA MARTA HONER - viola
The LA-based duo of synthesist Jeremiah Chiu and violist Marta Sofia Honer have spent years refining a masterful interplay of acoustic and electronic sounds, both in live performance and ac ross three albums for International Anthem.
Drawing from their roots in Chicago’s improvisational and experimental music scene, Chiu and Honer have crafted a unique sound, melding the distinctive tonal colors of viola and modular synthesizer into a cohesive and unexpected whole. It’s a singular aesthetic that can be delightfully disorienting, with arrangements being constructed and deconstructed in real time both
improvisationally and via the duo’s extensive penchant for live-sampling. As Pitchfork put it:
“you’re never quite sure if what you’re hearing is played ‘live’ or manipulated, and sounds keep darting over the porous border.”

They are passing through Amsterdam to share their NEW LP “Different Rooms”
Album Release EU Tour 2025

It is a huge privilege to have these incredible artists be part of our small venue.
Feel welcome!!

24/10/2025

Tonight!!
Co-programmed & organized with our Molk member

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LOKAAL EDITION #5
COLLAB W/ TELL ME MORE, JOCHEM VAN TOL/MOLK FACTORY & ADE – HORST RICKELS, GIULIA PRINCIPE, FARZANÉ, LISETTE ROS, CARMEN JACI

24 October 2025
Plantage Doklaan 8-12
19:45 doors open; performance /installation in the basement by Lisette Ros
20:30 start program main hall

Tickets: Sliding scale 8-20 euro

Tell Me Me More is a showcase evening for hosting experimental electronic nights in Amsterdam. Tell Me More nights encourage a dialogue between the audience and the artists. In this special night LOKAAL, Tell Me More, Jochem van Tol/MOLK FACTORY and Amsterdam Dance Events Arts & Culture team up to present an event of adventurous audio explorations and performance art.
lokaal.lokaal me.more__

10/10/2025

Molk factory opens their doors to welcome tonight at Plantage Dok!

Program starting 20:00

🎤Introduction by Iris Cuppen & Daniël van der Winden

📙Readings by Jan van Tienen and Henrik Kongsvoll-Johansen

🎥Audiovisual intermezzo by Thomas & Jurgen

🎞️On display: Rhythms of Time by Maiami, an artist drawn to the tactile world of analogue print making

🎹Performance by Molk, interpreted score of Maiami by Frank Rosaly, using five Casios, time, and the graphic lines as guides

🧃Drinks in the bar and record selection by Frank Rosaly.

Rsvp via link in bio!!

02/10/2025

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!
October 10th Molk host the launch party of Transcript Magazine’s 4th issue. Its going to be a beautiful evening with readings, visual art and music and of course a lot of gezelligheid in the bar. For the occasion Molk prepared a tutti performance with 5 casios and the work of

Doors: 19:30
Start: 20:00
End: 21:15 > continue with bar, music and Zine sale!

TRANSCRIPT is a seasonal literary magazine, featuring literary essays, short stories, poetry, and everything in-between, edited by Daniël van der Winden and Iris Cuppen. ISSUE FOUR was printed in an edition of 100 copies, featuring writing and visual contributions by by Andrea Chapela, Ella Frears, Jan van Tienen, Nicholas Jeeves, and Ade Hanft.

RSVP via link in bio!

Adres

Plantage Doklaan 8-12
Amsterdam
1018CM

Telefoon

0642686300

Website

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