The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble has been played on NTS shows including The Early Bird Show w/ Spirit Blue, with Embers first played on 20 January 2017.

The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble (TKDE) formed in 2000 as a project to compose new music for existing silent movies. Jason Köhnen (aka Bong-Ra) and Gideon Kiers (Telcosystems), both graduates of the Utrecht School of Arts, combined their audio and visual skills to reinterpret classic movies by F.W. Murnau (Nosferatu) and F. Lang (Metropolis). They split up in 2014. Even though it wasn't officially announced, Jason Kohnen mentioned it on his new project's Facebook page.

In 2004 UK trombonist Hilary Jeffery…