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Interludium II

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Exactly one year after ‘Engines’, their critically acclaimed album featuring Anthony Joseph, BRZZVLL releases its fifth album; ‘FIRST LET’S DANCE, A ‘Nuff Said celebration ft. Amir Sulaiman’. Indeed, this album is a celebration in honour of their longterm collaboration with ‘Nuff Said, featuring Amir Sulaiman (Oakland, US, known from Def Poetry Jam, a.o.), who could be considered ‘Nuff Said’s godfather. Expect a reborn BRZZVLL who take their sound and playing to the next level, accompanied by the thrilling, contemporary and spiritual poetry and rap of Amir Sulaiman. “I know that everything is wrong, but first let’s dance.”

‘First let’s dance’ will be released on Zephyrus Records, February 3rd & on Vynilla Vinyl, April 2016.

Amir Sulaiman - vocals & lyrics
Vincent Brijs - baritone & tenor sax 5, 6 & 7
Andrew Claes - ewi, handsonic on 6 & 7, soprano & tenor sax on 2 & 3
Stijn Cools - drums
Dries Laheye - bass
Dries Verhulst - guitar
Jan Willems - keys & synthesizers
Monique Harcum - backing vocals 
Chantal Kashala - backing vocals 

All tracks produced by Brzzvll
Recorded at Studio Kip Kaas, Mortsel, Belgium
Additional arrangements & editing by Jan Willems & Vincent Brijs
Mixed by Werner Pensaert 
Mastering by Darcy Proper
Artwork & lay-out by Victor Robyn

www.brzzvll.com
www.amirsulaiman.com
www.nuffsaid.be


06 - LUCID LUCIA

BRZZVLL - I am Glory (Internal Sun Remix)

I am Glory

BRZZVLL feat. Amir Sulaiman - I Am Glory (Internal Sun Remix)

BRZZVLL (pronounced Brazzaville) are a seven piece fusion band from Antwerp, Belgium. They play psychedelic jazz and funk with a modern twist. Belgium has quite a tradition for jazz and funk infused leftfield grooves. From Marc Moulin's ingenious Placebo to library funksters Les Chakakas / El Chicles to the much sampled JJ Band (ask Lord Finesse or Marley Marl), Belgium has always been a great place for diggin' deeper. So when our friend Lefto (Brusseles' premier beat ambassador and Brownswood cohort) told us about this great little band from Antwerp, our ears were wide open. After BRZZVLL band-leader Vincent Brijs played us the first demos of what would later become the album HAPPY LIFE CREATOR we had no other choice than offering the band a deal. Recorded in Antwerp and partly mixed by Ben Ladmin aka Nostalgia 77 (Tru Thoughts) in Brighton, HAPPY LIFE CREATOR has little in common with the cool retro sound mastered by Daptone or Truth & Soul. BRZZVLL are rooted in jazz, funk and afrobeat, but their music has an unmistakeably now sound. It is freaky, it is trippy and it follows no rules. Nine songs deep with vocal contributions from Ghanaian Spoken Word artist Joy Frempong ("Lucky Haircut") and Dez Mona frontman Gregory Frateur HAPPY LIFE CREATOR simply doesn't fit in any of the usual boxes! 
BRZZVLL have gigged with the likes of Neville Brothers, Young Blood Brass Band, Marcus Miller and Alice Russell. Their debut album has been labeled "Best Belgian jazz album of 2008" by "Le Soir".

Lucky Haircut (featuring Joy Frempong)

Like Someone In Love

Founded by saxophonist Vincent Brijs, BRZZVLL have been a household name in Antwerp and the Belgian jazz scene since 2008 but after a fifteen-year period, the sextet has decided to embark on a new chapter in their story with a name change and new line-up. Enter Lucid Lucia, named after Brijs’ eldest daughter and also the name of a track which first appeared on BRZZVLL’s 2016 album ‘First Let's Dance’. It also symbolizes a brighter, clearer sound. 

On the 8th October, Lucid Lucia are set to release their self-titled debut EP via Belgian tastemaker label Sdban Ultra. Searching to unwrap the bundle of complexity, contradictions and mystery that is a human life, across six tracks of jazz and space funk-infused grooves, Lucid Lucia look to the sound of Herbie’s ‘Head Hunters’ and Miles’ acid funk of the mid-70s for inspiration. 

Continuing with an instrumental core, ‘Lucid Lucia’ is a mind-expanding celebration centred on freedom and rhythm. Free-spirited saxes, futuristic-sounding keys, monstrous bass lines and shifting drum beats fuse, resulting in an uplifting and joyous celebration of jazz, funk and groove. 

The Vincent Brijs story began in 2007 when BRZZVLL won Jong Jazztalent Gent – a competition that taps into the unbridled creativity of one of the most creative music scenes in Belgium; the jazz scene. A performance at the prestigious Gent Jazz Festival followed with the band releasing their debut album ‘Days of Thunder, Days of Grace’ in 2008, which included contributions by Zap Mama's Marie Daulne among others and was voted ‘Best Jazz Album of 2008’ by Le Soir newspaper. 

As musicians, the band honed their sound performing with numerous artists from home and around the world as part of the monthly ‘Nuff Said’ evenings in Antwerp as the house band, performing with artists including Ursula Rucker, Joseph Bowie (Defunkt), Amir Sulaiman, Anthony Joseph, Zena Edwards, Ayanna Witter Johnson, Baloji, Mo & Grazz, Kain the Poet (The Last Poets), Marie Daulne, Dizzy Madjeku, Ida Nielsen and many others.

They would go on to release five more albums including teaming up with Trinidad-born poet, novelist and musician Anthony Joseph on the 2014 critically acclaimed album ‘Engines’ and with hip-hop MC, writer and producer Amir Sulaiman on the 2016 album ‘First Let’s Dance’. The 2017 album ‘Waiho’, the band’s first instumental album and final album received glowing praise from numerous tastemakers including UNCUT magazine, The Line of Best Fit, XLR8R and Record Collector magazine.

And so to 2021 and Lucid Lucia. A new chapter for Vincent Brijs and his band - a marvellous jazz-funk odyssey that strikes the perfect balance between the freedom of jazz and the repetitions of funk. Enjoy the luminous sounds….

Lucid Lucia are:

Vincent Brijs: Saxophones
Bart Borremans: Saxophones
Andrew Claes: Saxophones & EWI
Stijn Cools: Drums
Dries Laheye: Bass
Dries Verhulst: Guitar
Jan Willems: Keys
James Williams: Drums and percussion

Bookings:

Griet De Blende [griet@rumoer.be]

Rumoer!

Vekestraat, 9
2000 Antwerpen – België
VG.1732/BA
BTW BE0818.833.022

 tel: +32 (0)3 825 84 46
 email: post@rumoer.be

Maya Dofo ft. DJ Grazzhoppa live @ Het Bos, Antwerp, 17/02/2024

LUCID LUCIA (f.k.a. BRZZVLL)

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