ILDO NANDJA

Mozambican Ildo Nandja is a versatile and progressive bassist and multi-instrumentalist with an ambitiously cross-fusion approaches bent towards contemporary influenced jazz based in Rotterdam - Netherlands.

As an activist and peace builder involved in community building, Ildo’s music is an instrument and a medium which expresses awareness about the situation of the world, addressing issues such as unity, justice, equality, calamities, pandemics , gender and social cohesion etc.

IIdo uses his African rhythmical abilities and expertise to express advanced harmonic concepts to his compositions. His sound blends PanAfrican rhythms and melodies with Jazz, European and contemporary world music influences. The result is a combination of an experimental eclectic sound.

Ildo graduated with a cum laude master’s degree in jazz  double bass from the Conservatorium Maastricht - Netherlands, and was awarded the highly prestigious Henriette Hustinx prize 2018/2019.