Van Merwijks Music Machine

Drummer Lucas van Merwijk brought his Music Machine to Club Mystique in June 2016. He played with Samuel Ruis on bass, Abel Marcel on piano and Ilja Reijngoud on trombone. The Music Machine is one of several projects of van Merwijk, alongside the Cubop City Big Band he founded in 1995 and the world percussion group Drums United, which he started in 2000. It has a changing line-up, and its releases include Cuban Golden Classics (2013) and Caribbean Postcard (2021). Van Merwijk set up his own label, Tam Tam Records, in 1997. In 2013 he had played timbales at the club in the resident band Los Misticos.