Antiduo: Erik Vermeulen; piano and Seppe Gebruers; piano.

Site: www.antiduo.com
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 No Panic ! The prefix anti- in antiduo doesn't reflect the 2 musician's troubled relation with music, particularly duos , or the world in general. Anti- rather refers to terms like antithesis, antipodos, just like counter in counterpoint.

The piano is an orchestral instrument. A piano duo can be seen as two orchestras but just as well as two voices or two characters. Erik Vermeulen and Seppe Gebruers both have very pronounced personalities, getting involved in a dialogue within one single ongoing musical story , but developing different storylines or layers. Sometimes they sound like a clash of two temperaments, at other times they speak like one person.

Both are contemporaties with an age difference , having sought ideas and inspiration in a last century of eclecticism, but also far beyond. Erik Vermeulen and Seppe Gebruers both started improvising at a young age,obsessively  looking for useful elements to shape their music.

Improvisation is to them an ideal an ultimate concept. It combines structure and chance, impulsivity and control, tonality and spectral harmony, thoughtful use of time, space and texture, and also poetry.

These duo recordings are the result of several improvised sessions over 2 years, a work in progress inquiring musical technique and meaning.

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A composition by Andrew Cyrille.

Live recording by radio klara (VRT) at Jazz Middelheim 2013

Bambi Pang Pang feat. Andrew Cyrille
Line-up:
Andrew Cyrille; drums
Viktor Perdieus; Sax
Laurens Smet; Bass
Seppe Gebruers; Piano


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Piece for solo voice, sung by Astrid Creve and written by myself!

Risonanza #1

piece for percussion, played by Jelle Van Dooren!

Musicians Seppe Gebruers, Laurens Smet and Viktor Perdieus are all members of the septet Ifa y Xango (winners Young Jazz Talent Gent 2011), which released its debut album “Abraham” last year. With this line-up they have embarked on a musical quest, in an attempt to reveal each of their personalities by means of original improvisation structures.
They started this project commissioned by the festival ‘Jazz Middelheim’ and the conservatory of Antwerp. Whereby they could play on the festival with the legendary drummer Andrew Cyrille (who worked with Cecil Taylor, Coltrane, Coleman Hawkins, Mal Waldron,…).

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Bambi pang pang

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