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And here the are, a brand new gang of four. Tiny static schematic figures on the CD sleeve, but one and all mobility on stage. Just like their music, which wildly sizzles back and forth, slidind from one arrangement to the next improvisation, from one solo to the next jam. From gutsy exccitement to melancholic murmur. From jazz vituosity, along lavish improvisation, moody soundtrack sonorities and adventurous contemporary classic to forceful avant-folk, spiced up with far echoes from the deep Italian South, the Balkan, the Middle-East..
In their more than ninety minutes long live show the four musicians of Danza surely let the beat go.
Saxophoneplayer and composer Jan Rzewski steers his band-members drummer Renaud, bassplayer Luc and electric guitarist Hughes from height to height, luring each of them into the spotlights at times. Danza is a jazzband yes. But a jazzband which invites to dance.At times they do this whilst wildly rocking all over the place, at other moments with a much more delicate and frivolous seduction of the hips, or on the century-old rhythm of a sad tarantella. A jazzband which at one moment drenches its audience in nostalgia, baffles it immediatly after that with its technical virtuosity and improvisational talent and finally draws them into an exuberant partyfrenzy . Danza si !
Luc Evens studied at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels with H. Hatzigeorgiou and A. Massart. He frequently works for Musiques du Monde, together with the Brasilian group Macau, with Keletegui and Fasselli Diabate from Mali and with the Tunisian Sinouj. In Europe, he has performed with K. Defoort, G. Orti, A. Prawerman, E. Vann, G. De Masure, Y. Youssef, F. Venerucci, and played with groups like Octum, Vegetal Beauty, O, Koba, Switch.
Hughes Kolp, at the age of sixteen, started his studies at the Royal Conservatory of Liège where he obtains the First Prize for guitar in 1993 under G. Mohino’s mastership. Three years later, the Conservatory decerns him the First Prize for flute and a superior diploma for Chamber Music. He has had the pleasure to perform as a soloist with the Orchestra of Roumania and the Brabant Orkest of Eindhoven, at the Ars Musica Festival and at the Internatinal Guitar Festival ( Brussels ). He is a member of the contemporary ensemble « Musiques Nouvelles ».
Renaud Van Hooland studied at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels with B. Castellucci, where he obtained the First Prize for drums. He has performed or performs with A. Prawerman, L. Blondiau, M. Locurcio, J. Dumoulin, L. Marthe, S. Payen, P. Vervloesem, in projects such as Studio Pagol, Vegetal Beauty, Sayma, Speaking T.
Jan Rzewski has studied at the « Scuola Popolare di Musica di Testaccio » (Rome ) and at the Royal Conservatory in Liège, where he obtained the First Prize for Improvisation in the Master Class of G. List. He performs or has performed with Koba, White Wine Dark Grapes, Arno en Fanfare, Sonic Youth, MEV , Abdo Dagher Ensemble ( Cairo )... and has composed for the Flanders’ Orchestra, as part of a hommage to F. Zappa and for the contemporary ensemble Ictus ( Brussels ).
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