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Frederik Leroux

With a great respect for tradition, Frederik Leroux is trying to tread new paths continuously. He not only draws inspiration from jazz, but contemporary concert music, minimalism, surrealism and free improvisation seep through in his music. Leroux explores the endless possibilities of his instrument. From romantic Ennio Morricone songs to experimental soundscapes - a wide range of styles are invoked and are systematically approached till it unmistakably sounds like Frederik Leroux .

Secular Psalms

By Dave Douglas

Label: Greenleaf Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: Arrival; Mercy; We Believe; Agnus Dei; Instrumental Angels; If I'm In Church More Often Now; Hermits and Pilgrims; Righteous Judges; Ah Moon; Edge of Night.

Dave Douglas: Secular Psalms

by Jerome Wilson
May 30, 2022

Trumpeter Dave Douglas has worked with religious themes in the past, notably on Be Still, (Greenleaf Music, 2012), and he gets back into that realm on this wide-ranging 2022 album. The music is a suite commissioned by the city of Ghent, Belgium to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the creation of an altarpiece for its St. ...

Ruben Machtelinckx: Sualme

by Mark Sullivan
October 1, 2019

As a local resident, Belgian musician Ruben Machtelinckx was asked to contribute to Kunst en Zwalm (Art and Zwalm) 2019, a contemporary art festival that happens every two years in Zwalm, a small village on the Belgian countryside. Machtelinckx settled on a sound diary format, taking a digital recorder and instruments he could bring with him ...

Aspen Edities: The Album as a Work of Art

by Jakob Baekgaard
July 9, 2019

It's a paradox of the digital age that it has spawned some of the most beautiful physical editions of music, but perhaps it's quite logical. In an age where almost everything becomes available digitally, it's a good thing for a physical product to distinguish itself. This is exactly what the records from the Belgian-based label Aspen ...

Poor Isa: let's drink the sea and dance

by Mark Sullivan
June 27, 2019

At first glance, Poor Isa is primarily a banjo duet. But the actual sound of the album belies any assumptions about how such a project should sound. As on their joint album When The Shade Is Stretched (Aspen Edities, 2017), Belgian banjo players Frederik Leroux and Ruben Machtelinckx tend to subvert the traditional style of the ...

Linus + Skarbø / Leroux: Linus + Skarbø / Leroux

by Dave Wayne
April 21, 2016

In the seven years since its inception, El Negocito Records, based in Ghent, Belgium, has established itself as one of the most adventurous and far-ranging independent labels on the European new music scene. The phrase “new music" is operative here because the label concentrates on improvisation in all of its musical guises. There are modern jazz ...

Ruben Machtelinckx & Linus: Belgian Experimental Music, Strings Attached

by Mark Sullivan
March 5, 2016

Belgian guitarist/composer Ruben Machtelinckx has built an impressive catalog of recordings as a leader since graduating from the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp in 2010. He tends to work in groups with no drummer, a chamber jazz approach that suits his lyrical, sometimes minimalist compositions well. His guitar style is tasteful and devoid of flashy pyrotechnics: even ...

Leroux - Landfermann - Burgwinkel

By Frederik Leroux

Label: W.E.R.F. Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: 01. Unresolved; 02. Stumble; 03. Ample; 04. One; 05. Brume; 06. Ambitransitive; 07. Two Voices; 08. Toxy; 09. Morb; 10. Two; 11. Adrift.

Leroux - Landfermann - Burgwinkel: Leroux - Landfermann - Burgwinkel

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 17, 2013

Frederik Leroux, Robert Landfermann, Jonas Burgwinkel scelgono l'approccio diretto e senza compromessi che i critici americani solitamente definiscono con il tag 'take no prisoners,' ma lo fanno seguendo non la lezione hendrixiana, come sarebbe facile presupporre, vista la strumentazione: lo fanno invece cercando di catturare le brume dell'avanguardia e i sussurri dell'improvvisazione più creativa e iconoclasta. ...