What are we doing?

Elko is currently occupied with a new play by Wim Vandekeybus called Speak Low When You Speak Of Love. The music is composed and played live by Mauro Pawlowski, Elko Blijweert and Jeroen Stevens. For this occasion they are joined by the remarkable south african singer Tutu Puoane. Jeroen does a great acting job as well!

A new Left Bank Drive album is being made during this summer. It will again contain music composed by Elko and Joris and Simon Lenski and Frans Van Isacker are being featured…

Also Angels Die hard are working on a new album! The recordings are finished and they are currently mixing it down.

Rudy is preparing solo gigs and finishing a coupe of albums…

Tape Cuts Tape will play together with Taxi Wars at Openluchttheater Oostende on 30th August!

 

 

Atlajala Land finally in our shop!

Elko Blijweert & Frans Van Isacker, Atlajala Land | Heaven Hotel Presents

Up until the year 2010 guitar hero Elko Blijweert and saxophone virtuoso Frans Van Isacker brought jazz music to the rocking masses as key members of Franco Saint De Bakker. Now they have joined forces again to bring us “Atlajala Land”, a voyage through time and space that takes the listener from avant-garde free jazz over melancholic melodies to the sensual sounds of a late-night make-out session in an abandoned castle.

This release (vinyl and cd) is brought to you by Heaven Hotel in collaboration with Teun Verbruggen’s RAT records!

“A candid, mysterious and sometimes simply beautiful album…”  (Guy Peters/cobra.be)

Read review here

 

 

New Tape Cuts Tape video!

This spring has been quite busy for Rudy Trouvé. He was featured on national television in De Canvasconnectie and he hosted some fine label nights. Tape Cuts Tape released Lost Footage in March and presented it in a few clubs.

Today Tape Cuts Tape presents it’s brand new video, called “Scales In Orange And Grey” (featuring DAAU).

Tape Cuts Tape shares the bill with Taxi Wars at Openluchttheater, Oostende on 30th August. After summer break Tape Cuts Tape will tour again. Rudy Trouvé also plans a solo tour!

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Friday 5th June…Heaven Hotel Night @ De Studio, Antwerp!

3 bands will perform during this Heaven Hotel Night…

Heaven’s Basement:

A “minimal festive impro folk jazz dub band” formed especially for this occasion with line-up:

Mauro Pawlowski: bass, vocals
Elko Blijweert: guitar
Rudy Trouvé: guitar, vocals
Milan Warmoeskerken: synthesizer
Eric Thielemans: marimba, drums
Jeroen Stevens: marimba, drums
Niels Van Heertum: tuba

Tape Cuts Tape

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The Tone Zones

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This weekend…

Saturday 23 May: I H8 Camera @ Monk, Brussels

Line-up: Rudy Trouvé, Teuk Henri, Elko Blijweert, Hugo Antunes, Jeroen Stevens, Stef Kamil Carlens, Maarten

Sunday 24 May: “De Canvasconnectie” met Rudy Trouvé om 20u35 op Canvas!

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Three shows coming up!

 

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Saturday 9 May: Elko Blijweert & Frans Van Isacker @ Audio Plant, Merksem

Sunday 10 May: Tip Toe Topic & Joris Caluwaerts: Das Triadisch Ballet @ Het Bos, Antwerp

Monday 11 May: Wij Blij Quartet featuring Rudy Trouvé @ Korsakov, Antwerp

Wij Blij Quartet is a spacejazz ensemble consisting of  Gert Wijninckx (tp, ts, effects), Elko Blijweert (g), Hannes D’Hoine (b) and Alfredo Bravo (d). For this occasion they will be joined by Rudy Trouvé!

Photography: Mark Rietveld

 

 

 

New release! Elko Blijweert & Frans Van Isacker present their new album at Het Bos in Antwerp, 2nd May 2015

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Up until the year 2010 guitar hero Elko Blijweert and saxophone virtuoso Frans Van Isacker brought jazz music to the rocking masses as key members of Franco Saint De Bakker. Now they have joined forces again to bring us “Atlajala Land”, a voyage through time and space that takes the listener from avant-garde free jazz over melancholic melodies to the sensual sounds of a late-night make-out session in an abandoned castle. This release (vinyl and cd) is brought to you by Heaven Hotel in collaboration with Teun Verbruggen’s RAT records and will presented on 2nd May at Het Bos in Antwerp…

Tenace Orchestra plays Mutiny On The Bounty (17th April @ Het Bos)

This instant composing orchestra conducted by Rudy Trouvé play their third concert! It will be an exclusive show in which the group will play improvisations inspired by the motion picture Mutiny On The Bounty.

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Personnel:

Mauro Pawlowski: vocals
Frans Van Isacker: sax
Buni Lenski: violin
Sjoerd Bruil: guitar
Milan Warmoeskerken: guitar
Elko Blijweert: guitar
Hannes D’Hoine: bass
Jeroen Stevens: percussion
Aarich Jespers: drums
Rudy Trouvé: conductor

Other bands performing on this “Tenace On Tour” night:

Why The Eye
Les Filles de Hirohito
Boris Klerx

info: www.hetbos.be