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Martin Salemi
Martin is currently involved in two personal projects. OPMOC, who have recorded three albums and have toured intensely all over Europe for the past ten years, and the Martin Salemi Trio, who released their first album in 2017 under the IGLOO Records label and played in festivals and stages from UK to Azerbaijan and Italy. As a sideman, he has played and recorded in different genres such as jazz, pop, funk, world music… Notably, he explores regularly the standard repertoire with doublebass phenomenon Manolo Cabras (IT) and young rising belgian star Gaspard Sicx in the trio Salemi/Cabras/Sicx, and play keyboards in the belgian band Otto Kintet, who have released three albums since 2016.
Prolific composer, he also writes music for theater and cinema. Among others, he worked with the likes of Rimini Protokoll (DE), the belgian film-maker Luc Jabon and the companies La Berlue and L’Anneau.
In 2018, Martin won the B-Jazz International Award with his trio.
A second album with the Martin Salemi Trio is coming out on 1st october 2021 on IGLOO Records.
Awards
B-Jazz International Award 2018
Tags
« … There’s nothing cryptic about his superb playing…» Jim Gilchrist, The Scotsman (UK)
« Het spel van Salemi is echter van zulk hoog niveau, zowel emotievol als speltechnisch, en de samenwerking tussen hem en de ritmesectie zo fijn, dat dit trio net zo gemakkelijk tussen al die vernieuwende Belgische bands internationaal grote indruk kan maken. » Dick Hovenga – WrittenInMusic
