Yves Peeters Gumbo / Skordatura

GROOVY JAZZ & PUNKJAZZ

YVES PEETERS GUMBO: 'THE BIG EASY REVISITED' (CD-RELEASE)

For this new project, the musicians make an imaginary trip to the pre- and post-Katrina New Orleans. The music they compose, arrange and play is a melting pot of influences and styles from The Big Easy: powerful gospel and soul vocals, mixed with second-line grooves, bluesy piano licks, funky horn riffs and haunting voodoo rhythms, with a lot of room on top for improvisation. The Big Easy Revisited is a personal and contemporary interpretation of the inexhaustibly rich musical heritage from New Orleans.

Yves Peeters Group is brought together March 2007 by drummer Yves Peeters. After a series of concerts in jazz clubs and festivals at home and abroad, including Jazz in ‘t Park (Ghent, Belgium) and Bamako Jazz Festival (Mali), the band tours with Jazzlab Series in 2010. Their debut album Sound Tracks is released the same year on the W.E.R.F. label and is enthusiastically received by press and public.

In 2012, the band starts working together with visual artist Joop Pareyn on the creation of Hallucinations, an audiovisual performance they start touring with in spring 2013. The music Yves Peeters Group composes for this project leads to the recording of their second album All you see, which is released March 2013 on cd and vinyl. The repertoire of Yves Peeters Group consists of original compositions by all band members and is characterized by a colorful mix of influences such as americana, rock and African music, with jazz as its basic ingredient.

Francois Vaiana (voice), Nicolas Kummert (tenor sax), Dree Peremans (trombone), Bruce James (keys & voice), Axel Gilain (bass guitar), Yves Peeters (drums)

SKORDATURA (CD-RELEASE)

Skordatura was founded in 2005 by four ambitious jazz musicians. Bound by their love for fresh and challenging music, these musicians built their repertoire with a passion for experiment and the out of the ordinary. Their debut album How to chase a minute in one second was released in February 2014 and received rave reviews from all over the globe. Its successor Empty the Headbin has just been recorded and is coming out early 2016.

Scordatura was shown the way by great bands and musicians such as Aka Moon, Fieldwork, Greetings from Mercury, Steve Lehman, Vijay Iyer, Steve Coleman, Wayne Shorter.

Thomas Vanhauwaert (keys), Jakob Haghebaert (guitar), Joshua Dellaert (bass), Sebastiaan Vekeman (drums