Next show: Brussels, Sat 12 Dec
A homegrown, underground ambient jazz act.
Rêve d’éléphant Orchestra – telluric jazz This atypical orchestra, composed of seven musicians, offers joyful, generous, free, sensual, poetic, and pleasantly crazy music. Their new album, entitled Jungle Binche, is an ode to dance, to trance for all, to popular tradition. This sixth opus crowns twenty-five years of exploration, which is rare enough to be worth mentioning. On this long road, a singular aesthetic emerged, one that you can identify from the first sounds. The mix of generations feeds also this album. Of course, we can recognize the touch of the old hands but the presence of the younger players sends the elephants in search of new territories, both in terms of composition and collective playing. For this album, six of them composed and Christine Verschorren, the sound engineer, recorded and mixed these personal and diverse worlds, offering us a journey into a jungle where anything is possible, but without losing the listener. Christian Altehülshorst • trumpet flugelhorn Pierre Bernard • flutes Michel Debrulle • drums percussion Nicolas Dechêne • guitars Louis Frères • bass, electronics Michel Massot • sousaphone euphonium trombone Stephan Pougin • drums congas bongos percussions https://en.collectifdulion.com/les-groupes/reve-d-elephant-orchestra
They play an exploratory blend of jazz fusion, ambient jazz, and folk traditions rooted in the Belgian Collectif du Lion.
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The seven-piece ensemble includes Christian Altehülshorst, Pierre Bernard, Michel Debrulle, Nicolas Dechêne, Louis Frères, Michel Massot, and Stephan Pougin.
They are based in Belgium as part of the Collectif du Lion arts company.