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Franco Saint de Bakker - Live in the AB III
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27-02-2010 : 
Coming soon:
Franco Saint De Bakker: Live At The Ancienne Belgique III
Heaven Hotel proudly presents the new album by Franco Saint De Bakker, to be released the first week of March 2010! After releasing “Live at the Ancienne Belgique” (2005) and 'Live at the Ancienne Belgique II' (2006), the band chose to name it’s new creation… 'Live at the Ancienne Belgique III'! It will be the third and last part of the “Live at the Ancienne Belgique” trilogy…
The seven-piece terror jazz-combo -sounding sweeter than ever, though- once again recorded everything live at AB in September 2009. The group initially concentrated on re-working jazz compositions by Charlie Parker, Sonny Clark, Mal Waldron a.o. After three albums, things seem to have changed. Apart from “Song Of The Universe”, composed in the sixties by the rather obscure organ player Baby-Face Willette, most of the album consists of original compositions. The result is surprisingly cheerful. Jazz is still the main root of the band, which we can hear clearly in “Leila”, a kind of tribute to Ornette Coleman/James Blood Ulmer. The rest of the tunes keep a lot of the improvisational aspect of jazz in mind, but are also influenced by African pop music, folk, 60s soundtracks (e.g. John Barry), etc. After making their own version of “No One Knows” (Queens Of The Stone Age) and “Blue Monday” (New Order), the new cd has another all-time favourite to become a Franco-classic: Richard Berry’s “Louie Louie”!
Meanwhile the personnel line-up of Franco is more impressive than ever with a.o. founding member Elko Blijweert (Wim Vandekeybus, Tip Toe Topic, The Rudy Trouvé Septet, ex-Kiss My Jazz,…), Karel De Backer (Novastar, ex-Dead Man Ray, …), Joris Caluwaerts (ex-Zita Swoon, The Go Find) and Rudy Trouvé as special guest composer/musician.
Promo photo's already available in the picture section for Franco Saint de Bakker.
You can listen to 5 new tracks from the new album: 'Live At The Ancienne Belgique III' on the myspace site from Franco Saint De Bakker ! Enjoy !
2 gigs planned:
02-03-2010 - Ancienne Belgique - Anspachlaan 110 - 1000 Brussel
05-03-2010 - Arenbergschouwburg - Arenbergstraat - Antwerpen
Tip Toe Topic news
Hot from the press: Tip Toe Topic is releasing a new vinyl in June, which will be presented in...Taiwan!
Really, big in Taiwan..excellent!
1 gig planned for Tip Toe Topic:
March 12 in Eindhoven on the Artspace Flipside festival
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Hello Strumpets
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26-02-2010 : 
Miguel Sosa has managed to gathered a bunch of musicians, hard enough within the Antwerp scene as nobody has much space in their agenda's, and recorded a great CD.
Musicians include Elko Blijweert (Tip Toe Topic, Kiss My Jazz and a million others), Mauro Pawlowski (dEUS, Mauro and a trillion others), Jeroen Stevens (I love Sarah, IH8 Camera), Jan Stoops (OW....), Pascal Deweze (Mitsibooshy Jacson, Millionaire, Creature with the Atom Brain..), Farid Zahnoun & others on backing vocals.
CD has been released on the friendly UK label Jezusfactory, and can be ordered through them only. Part description from their site:
Strumpets started originally as a solo studio project that later evolved into a band with Elko Blijweert, Jeroen Stevens, Jan Stoop and Farid Zahoun. ‘Hello Strumpets’ was recorded by Greg Brems in Begonia Studios (Antwerp). The album was co-produced by the band, the mix and mastering was done in Buenos Aires (Argentina) by Nicolas " Parker " Pucci. Special guest appearances included Mauro Pawlowksi from dEUS (who sang some lead vocals) and Pascal Deweze of Sukilove.
For live appearances the band feature alongside Miguel, Alexander van Herk, Rob Eelen and Thomas Noppe.
The music styles fluctuate between psychedelic pop, dream pop, baroque pop, art rock, electric cabaret, surf rock and romantic rock.
The lyrics contain a large sum of automatic poetry, strongly influenced by the early dada movement and the surrealist. Real experiences and anecdotes mingle with metaphors, leaving a free interpretation to the listener.
Some samples can be found on their Myspace
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Live concerts coming up
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07-02-2010 :
Some live dates coming up:
11/2 IH8 Camera in CaféCafé
2/3 Franco Saint de Bakker in the AB
5/3 Franco Saint de Bakker in the Arenberg
For Franco Saint de Bakker it will be to present their 3rd CD recorded live in the AB last summer.
The IH8 Camera listing for Café Café is quite impressive as for the last few concerts trumpettist Bart Maris has joined. Full list
Rudy Trouvé: zang+gitaar
Craig Ward: gitaar
Elko Blijweert: gitaar
Teuk Henri: gitaar
Bert Lenaerts: bass
Jeroen Stevens: drum
Bart Maris: trompet
Just found out that also Tip Toe Topic have been busy and secretly released
a great videoclip on youtube.
It's crazy this duo is not worldfamous by now, they have the songs, looks, and now a videoclip as well. Now all go and spam your radio DJ's with requests for playing Tip Toe Topic!
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IH8 Camera live in Café Café
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06-02-2010 :
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Trouvé Septet vinyl and CD available online
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12-12-2009 :
The new Trouvé Septet release 2007-2009 has arrived, as a CD and vinyl. For the vinyl I have a limited supply, and since postage will be a bit more expensive due to the nature of the package I had to
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Tip Toe Topic & Rudy Trouvé Septet on Wintervuur festival
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02-12-2009 :
Linkeroever in Antwerpen is coming alive this winter round the old/new year thanks to Wintervuur, where they organize 7 days of music, theater and da
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New Trouvé Septet CD coming up
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29-10-2009 :
On November 19 The Rudy Trouvé Septet will present their new CD in de Arenburgschouwburg in Antwerpen in a duo-concert with Dez Mona.
The Septet will start the evening presenting the new CD, prope
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Expositie Trouvé/Jespers in 1 week
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26-09-2009 :
Geplande optredens op vrijdagen gedurende de expositie (allen gratis inkom)
2/10 “Rudy Trouvé” (Solo)
9/10 “Prima Donkey” (met Gunter Nagels, Jorunn Bauwera
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Exhibition Rudy Trouvé/Bache Jespers & new release Septet
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06-09-2009 :
On Octover 2nd you can look forward to a combined exhibition of Rudy Trouvé & Bache Jespers with the name Photographs, paintings, animations & other stuff.
Rudy will exhibit his paintings and pre
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Franco Saint de Bakker live recordings
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01-09-2009 :
Karel recovered far enough to be able to drum again after quite a disastrous summer healthwise, and Franco Saint de Bakker is ready to celebrate their 10 year aniversary with the re
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Rudy Trouvé Septet part 2 secretly released as online CD
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30-07-2009 :
Finally the very long expected Rudy Trouvé Septet CD songs & stuff part 2 has been released. Actually for a while now, but it went by quite unnoticed as the CD is only available as iTunes download. If
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Franco Saint de Bakker in Salle Jean cancelled!
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16-06-2009 :
Due to a serious back-injury of Karel de Bakker (drummer) the concert needs to be cancelled.
An additional try-out concert has been planned September 6 in Trix in Antwerp.
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