MALABY / DUMOULIN / BER

10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TRIO & NEW ALBUM RELEASE CONCERT “THIS DARING TRIO IS QUITE SIMPLY ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING SMALL EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS IN CONTEMPORARY JAZZ. BLENDING THE LYRICAL AND VEHEMENT STYLE OF TONY MALABY'S TENOR SAXOPHONE (US) THE DADAIST SOUNDS OF JOZEF DUMOULIN'S KEYBOARDS (BE), AND THE MATHEMATICAL AND SENSUAL DRUMMING OF THE YOUNG SAMUEL BER (BE/FR), THIS UNLIKELY COMBINATION CREATES MUSIC FULL OF FLUID TEXTURES AND INTERTWINED RHYTHMS, BOTH DISCONCERTING AND IRRESISTIBLY ENERGETIC.” (JAZZDOR BERLIN FESTIVAL) TONY MALABY (CHARLIE HADEN’S LIBERATION ORCHESTRA, PAUL MOTIAN’S ELECTRIC BEBOP BAND, MARK HELIAS’ OPEN LOOSE, FRED HERSCH, TIM BERNE, KRIS DAVIS), JOZEF DUMOULIN (LIDLBOJ, OCTURN, LILLY JOEL WITH LYNN CASSIERS, THE RED HILL ORCHESTRA WITH DAN WEISS & ELLERY ESKELIN, PLUG & PRAY WITH BENOÎT DELBECQ) AND SAMUEL BER (PENTADOX, KARTET, BENOÎT DELBECQ, MICHAEL ATTIAS, LOUIS SCLAVIS, MICHAEL FORMANEK, MAGIC MALIK, BO VAN DER WERF) EXPLORE A MUSIC MADE OF FLOW, PULSES, TEXTURES, ANGLES, MEMORY, ROTATIONS, DISTANCES, INTENTIONS, PROLIFERATIONS, TERRITORIES, SPEEDS, ATTITUDES, CHANGES OF SCALE, AND INTERVALS. THEIR TASTE FOR PLAYFULNESS PUSHES THEM TO REDEFINE THE MUSIC AT EVERY MOMENT. “A TELEPATHIC AND FREE TRIO” – JAZZ MAGAZINE “A STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS” – STEFAN PIEPER “UNDOUBTELY A LEADING TRIO” – DE STANDAARD “A STRANGE SONIC MAGIC. ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL” – CULTURE JAZZ “BELGIAN SURREALISM AT ITS FINEST” – JAZZENZO
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