HERE THEY COME

TRACKLISTING


A1. Bram Weijters' Crazy Men - And Here C omes the Crazy Man
A2. Bram Weijters' Crazy Men - Pathetic Dreams
A3. Bram Weijters' Crazy Men - Games (Live)
B1. Bram Weijters' Crazy Men - Only Ninet een
B2. Bram Weijters' Crazy Men - Open Air
B3. Bram Weijters' Crazy Men - Unanswered Questions (Live)





INFO


Bram Weijters' Crazy Men is an adventurous take on Belgian jazz-rock and fusion from the seventies. The lineup of Crazy Men includes musicians who play in a wide arr ay of contemporary jazz bands like BRZZVLL, Dans Dans, STUFF. and Internal Sun.< br />
The spark for this special project was ignited with the reissue of Ko en De Bruyne's 'Here Comes The Crazy Man!' on Sdban Records in 2015. The origina l album was recorded in 1974 by pianist Koen De Bruyne who was initially active in classical music and worked as a session musician for artists like Will Tura, Johan Verminnen and his brother Kris De Bruyne. But in 1974 the 28-year-old Koen De Bruyne chose to focus on his own work and released his only studio album. Th e amazing result, 'Here Comes The Crazy Man!', is premium experimental jazz-rock . In that period, an inspiring crossover energy seemed to prevail in the Belgian jazz scene.

Named one of the finest musicians from the current Belgi an jazz scene, Bram Weijters mastered this seventies repertoire as a concert pr ogram with an integral performance of 'Here Comes The Crazy Man!' in combination with other mainly Belgian music from the same period closely related in atmosph ere, in terms of lineup and in terms of influences.

'Here They Come' contains three adaptations taken from 'Here Comes The Crazy Man!' and a complete ly new adaptation of Koen De Bruyne's orchestral 'Games', which was altered to t he specific lineup and timbre of Bram Weijters' Crazy Men. In addition, there's an interpretation of 'Only Nineteen', originally performed by Placebo (includin g band members who also played with Koen De Bruyne and conducted by Belgian pion eer Marc Moulin) and 'Open Air' originally from Solis Lacus, a band led by Miche l Herr and with Koen de Bruyne's trumpeter Richard Rousselet on the line-up.