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Camille-Alban Spreng

Camille-Alban Spreng is a pianist and composer living in Brussels, trained by Emil Spanyi (HEMU, Lausanne), Eric Legnini and Kris Defoort (KCB, CRB, Brussels).


He's leader of the multiform band ODIL with Sam Comerford, Geoffrey Fiorese, Tom Bourgeois, and Paul Berne, quintet Mobilhome with Vitja Pauwels, Lennart Heyndels, Sam Comerford and Théo Lanau and trio Dear Uncle Lennie with Benjamin Sauzereau and Marco Giongrandi. He’s currently playing as a sideman in Jordi Cassagne's band Limite.


Camille-Alban is also writing music for theater and performance

Wynton Marsalis, Yilian Cañizares, Peggy Lee, Darren Johnston & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
July 18, 2023

Ambition does not have to be an expression of self-centeredness. It may be, and should be, the pursuit of high achievements, and the realization of broad and innovative visions. This playlist is bursting at the seams with music driven by the good kind of ambition... Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz ...

Camille-Alban Spreng, Benjamin Sauzereau, Marco Giongrandi: Dear Uncle Lennie

by Neri Pollastri
April 19, 2023

Un lavoro singolare da molti punti di vista, questo realizzato in trio dal giovane pianista e compositore di Bruxelles Camille-Alban Spreng, dal chitarrista francese Benjamin Sauzereau e dal banjoista italiano residente in Belgio Marco Giongrandi. La prima particolarità sta proprio nelle specificità della formazione, perché i tre strumenti di cui è composta le danno ...

Dear Uncle Lennie

By Camille-Alban Spreng

Label: Yolk Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: About Promises Made At Funerals; Horses In Stables Relating Battlefield Stories; The Exciting Night Life Of Harvest Mice; Macha; Oppresseur / Opprimé; Lennie And George; Interlude; Le Sourire d’Oscar Ne Cache Pas Sa Profonde Incompréhension Du Monde; Souvenir; Monks Singing Holy Songs In The Wild Countryside; Small Music Box Mechanism; Après Un Court Moment D’inattention, Oscar Réalise Que Tout Est Perdu; You Left Right; Chorale I - 01:50; Chorale II - 01:31; Dear Uncle James; Le Village Aplati; Small Music Box Miniature.

Odil: Réson

by Geno Thackara
July 2, 2019

Though Camille-Alban Spreng has the chops and improvisational spirit of a jazz player, the band Odil's debut on Something (QFTF, 2016) established a wheelhouse also wide enough to include loose-form avant-garde and electric funk. This follow-up is billed entirely under the band's name instead of the leader's, which is appropriate given how well the unit has ...

Réson

By Camille-Alban Spreng

Label: QFTF
Released: 2018
Track listing: Hold Me; Marelle; Réson; Peyotl part 1; Aliocha; Crocodile; Xvila Maison-Dieu; Peyotl part 2; Spring Sprang Spreng; Pastelle Pasteque; The Edge of the Universe.

Odil - Something

By Camille-Alban Spreng

Label: QFTF
Released: 2016
Track listing: Noirmout (intro); Hip Is Dead; Avishel Codou; Hübschi Biel; EIGHT; Jofraise; Something to Be Done; Noirmout Harbor.

Camille-Alban Spreng: Odil - Something

by Geno Thackara
July 27, 2016

With an intuitive rhythmic malleability worthy of a drummer, Camille-Alban Spreng is the kind of pianist who enjoys playing fast and loose with meter as much as melody. The compositions on Odil -Something center around motifs that are intricate yet propulsive, which his quartet handily dashes off with easy flair. They can sound like a classic ...