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Reza Labani was baptized in Iranian classical music ever since his early childhood. After studying the violin, he discovered the Tombak, also named Zarb. His father, a competent musicologist, taught him about the great masters, but Reza was soon following his own direction. He had the chance, on several occasions, to keep the most important musicians of his country company and as he goes back to Iran frequently, he has the chance to buy his instruments at the best factories of Teheran. Hardly 20 years old, this young miracle boy, very fascinated by modern art, started a big international career.

Marc Van Eyck has developed his own drum language during his 34 years old career. He developed his own way of dealing with this instrument. He was looking for and found a melodious approach of rhythm, which turned him into a drummer one of a kind in Belgium. He played with popular bands as well as unknown bands like Asoha, Itza Uchen, In The Ginza, Some Day My Prince Will Come, Excuse my french, Sttellla, Largo, Pierre Vervloesem, Sharko, Technically normal, Le Rythme Des Fourmis www.lerythmedesfourmis.be, Dalton Drum Syndicate www.daltondrum.com and StudioPagol www.studiopagol.com

TOM BACK After trying out contemporary dance and then electronic music, Marc Van Eyck chooses resolute to direct himself towards eastern culture and invites a young Iranian wonder boy of hardly 20 years old. They was an immediately complicity between them. As a matter of fact Marc really needed to give it all if he wanted to be at the same level of the wonder boy that is accompanying him, or is it him accompanying the wonder boy. You tell us. Reza Labani plays the Tombak so divine that many were amazed by his virtuosity. The freshness of his beats gives a new color to the drum lines of his partner. Their music becomes pure poetry and that leaves no one indifferent: the softness of the Tombak (or Zarb) mixed with the beats on the drums, as a pertinent metaphor of the actual world, stimulates a trance and/or meditation .

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