COLOUR TALK

TRACKLISTING


1 Bram De Looze - Tu Vois
2 Bram De Lo oze - Obstacle
3 Bram De Looze - Dream Box
4 Bram De Looze - Colour Talk5 Bram De Looze - Dual Puzzle
6 Bram De Looze - Hypnosis
7 Bram De Looze - Royal G
8 Bram De Looze - Circa





INFO


Bram De Looze is a Belgian pianist and composer whose distinct musical visio n has found its way through both solo projects and collaborations. His unique te chnical skill and musical maturity have earned him considerable critical acclaim back home as his work spotlights his far-ranging interests - from traditional c lassical piano music, to solo improvisations that have often been compared to Ke ith Jarrett and Jason Moran. On the 21st February 2020, Sdban Ultra will release his highly anticipated new solo album, 'Colour Talk'.

De Looze made his entrance onto the national jazz scene with LABtrio, formed in 2007 with Anne leen Boehme and Lander Gyselinck, and he immediately impressed, flirting with ur ban jazz, electronics and hip hop.

After a period of studying abroad at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York, where he studied with Uri Caine and Marc Copland, in 2014, De Looze launched the international se ptet, Septych, that once again stressed his affinity for jazz, classical music a nd improvisation. With diverse and astounding improvisors like Daniel Levin, Les ter St-Louis, Robin Verheyen, Gebhard Ullman, Bo Van Der Werf and Flin Van Hemme n, it was the start of an explorative musical journey.

Over the past few years, De Looze could frequently be heard with kindred spirits like Stéphan e Galland, Dre Hocevar and Antoine Pierre but it was a visit to the historical c ollection of pianofortes of Chris Maene that inspired De Looze to release his fi rst solo album 'Piano é Forte' (2017), and it received critical acclaim for its creativity, spontaneity and passion. He would later garner further acclaim worki ng alongside fellow Belgian Robin Verheyen and American rhythm painter Joey Baro n with whom he recorded 'MixMonk' ? (2019), a tribute to the legendary jazz pian ist Thelonius Monk.

Bram De Looze's solo career took off in an unexpe cted way with 'Piano e Forte', a project for which he approached historical inst ruments from a contemporary perspective. The switch to the Chris Maene Straight Strung Grand Piano for 'Switch The Stream' (2018) indicated a renewed search for movement, evolution and introspection. His latest solo project 'Colour Talk', c ontinues this trajectory with another revolutionary piano model, designed by lau ded architect Rafael Viñoly, and a continued attempt to renew from within.

On 'Colour Talk', what you hear is a musician who has freed himself from s tylistic constraints and limitations. While still rooted in jazz, classical musi c and free improvisation have found a new balance, a coexistence that enables th e pianist to express himself with a new vigour. Switching between shorter pieces that feel like curious, unresolved puzzles and more extended explorations, ?'Co lour Talk' ?is once again an ode to (re)invention in the grey zone were the clas sical idiom and improvisatory urges meet, with the 13-minute ?tour-de-force ?of 'Hypnosis' as one of several undisputed highlights.

If you asked De Looze about his current position as an artist, he would probably tell you that i t's all about forward movement and the need to keep evolving, about a trajectory as work-in-progress. However, if you consider ?'Colour Talk' ?as a freeze frame of where De Looze is at, it is hard not to consider it a highlight in a career that should have some more surprises in store.