River Jazz Night Stéphane Galland

PASS River Jazz Night 3 concerts 25€

Sat 25.01

In the past, Stéphane Galland worked with big names like Ibrahim Maalouf, Zap Mama and Ozark Henry, and he also made it his business of working with the best musicians from different cultures – from India across the Balkans to Africa. But the drummer is without a doubt most famous as a founding member of Aka Moon, one of the most talked-about jazz bands in Belgian music history. Galland is celebrating his fiftieth birthday this year, but his sound is still ageless. Over the years he has developed his own unique rhythmic approach by connecting the different musical traditions in which he has worked.

River Jazz Night Stéphane Galland

18:00 • Jazz Station

Pianist Malcolm Braff is, in fact, a living legend himself. He has already been described as the guru of the Swiss jazz scene, where he ended up as a teenager via Rio de Janeiro and Dakar, and his discography includes more than twenty albums – a couple of them on Blue Note Records. Galland and Braff started playing together a few years ago. After Braff joined Galland’s previous project “Lobi” for the live performances, and also in the international quartet “Shijin”. They decided to dig deeper into their love of rhythm and into their both organic and scientific approach to it. Together, they now revisit jazz standards like ‘Afro Blue’ and ‘Passion Dance’, while also writing their own compositions based on their unique rhythmical concepts. A unique duet, and the best way to start this journey!

Stéphane Galland – Drums Malcolm Braff - Piano

(The Mystery of) KEM

20:00 • Senghor

In ancient Egypt, Kem refers to the color Black, like the black, fertile mud of the Nile, and uproots the often negative connotations associated with the color. It is in that symbolic earth that “(the Mystery of) KEM” cultivates new rhythmical aspects whose schemes, “dances” and improvisations take roots in the Yin and Yang complementarity of even and uneven rhythmical pulses. Multicultural encounters and the enrichment of his own musical language and skills have always been the main drive behind Stephane Galland’s music. Welcome to the black and mysterious earth of KEM!

Stéphane Galland – Drums Sylvain Debaisieux – Tenor Saxophone Bram De Looze – Piano Federico Stocchi – Bass

10 €

YHI

22:00 • marni BAR

EN The Antwerp-based keyboard player Adriaan Van de Velde is one of Belgium’s best kept secrets of the electronic music scene. And yes, he has the taste – nobody is perfect – for the keytar. His own project “Pomrad” was once called the love child of Hudson Mohawke and Herbie Hancock. With Adriaan, Stéphane Galland found the perfect match and daredevil to start his new adventure YHI: a boundless, funny, creative, avant-gardish, groovy, virtuous, colorful and very musical universe in which electronica is the medium to find new perspectives on his Carte Blanche. YHI, the goddess of light and creation, The Aboriginal Goddess of Light.