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A
taste of Luxembourg’s music scene … coming to London and the UK in the
near future.
To keep a record of Luxembourg musicians who played in
Britain (and who advised us of their gigs),
we want to keep old listings on this page, but show them a little further
down in grey text.
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May 2011 - Liverpool Sound City
29 May 2011 - Eurocultured Festival, Manchester
31 May 2011 - AAA,
London 8pm, FREE ENTRY
Hal
Flavin (www.myspace.com/halflavin)
Hal
Flavin was formed in Luxembourg and their music features electropop
song structures and beats, modified samples, distillations of rock
drive and a chunk of edgy synth-pop. Compared by some listeners
to Hurts, The Talking Heads or Röyksopp respectively, their sound
has a hybrid ambiguity that sets it apart. They supported the likes
of Metronomy, IAMX, The Faint, Fujiya & Miyagi, Does It Offend You,
Yeah! or Birdy Nam Nam and played at festivals like Eurosonic Noorderslag,
Rock a Field and Italia Wave Love. A series of gigs in the UK, France,
Italy, Benelux and the Czech Republic has earned them the reputation
of a thrilling live band with a sincerely electric energy.
01
June 2011 HAL FLAVIN & INBORN - The Queen of Hoxton, London (free
entry!)
INBORN!
(www.myspace.com/inborntrance) is
an ambitious art-rock collective originated from Luxor that has
all it takes to make their mark on the twenty-first century map
of modern rock music. After their creation in early 2010 they were
contacted by Ross Robinson and recorded their first longplayer at
his house in Venice Beach last autumn. Melting electronic body music
with the dynamics of recent indie-rock outfits, the band will soon
invade the stages all across the universe.
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01
June 2011 - PASCAL SCHUMACHER QUARTET - South Hill Park, Bracknell
Pascal
Schumacher Quartet
(www.pascalschumacher.com)
After
his successfull performance at the Pizza Express during the London
Jazz Festival 2010 don't miss the band @ the Vortex Pascal Schumacher
(vibraphone) has been described as a 'Goldsmith' in his art, a boundary-pushing
musician, a resourceful improviser and an imaginative composer.
Keen to explore the links that exist between many musical genres,
it is difficult to pigeonhole his talent, his taste or his musical
influences. Every musician must one day free himself from role models
and traditions if he wishes to depart from well-trodden paths. Pascal
Schumacher does this in an emphatic, sensual way. The Quartet will
be playing music from 'Bang My Can', music based on an approach
characterized just as much by the chamber jazz of the eighties as
by the rock sound of the nineties and the openness of the present.
31
May 2011 - Vortex, London 8.30pm | £12| Book
online
PASCAL SCHUMACHER QUARTET & MAXIME BENDER
QUARTET
Maxime
Bender Quartet
(www.maximebender.com)
Impressively
combining the old with the new, this young saxophonist is equally
influenced by the bouncy, compositional piano/sax interplay found
on 70’s albums like Keith Jarrett’s ‘Belonging’, and more modern,
angular, avant-garde tonalities. The blend is never jarring, though.
Maxime Bender has created a beautiful, buoyant body of work where
melodies can move in surprising directions, yet still sound familiar.
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24 March 2011 - Institut
Français
17 Queensberry Place - London SW7 2DT
T: 020 7073 1350
Describing
her music as folk-rock, though not inaccurate, hardly does justice
to the broad sweep of her brush : Claudine
Muno's songs cover every ground from "chanson" to
jazz.
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6
March 2011 - Baltic
Restaurant
74 Blackfriars Road SE1 8HA
T: 020 7928 1111
After
their successful gig at the Europe House in December 2010, the Luxembourg
duo Marc Demuth
& Sofia Ribeiro returns to London!
On Sunday 6th March, 7pm @ The Baltic restaurant,
be bewitched by the jazz vocalist Sofia Ribeiro and the jazz double
bass player Marc Demuth. The duo mixes jazz standards with Brazilian
and Portuguese music.
The entry is free, just enjoy this beautiful gig while you have dinner...
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13 November 2010
– Vortex Jazz Club, Gillett Square N16
GREG LAMY QUARTET
Greg
Lamy (guitar) Gautier Laurent (double bass) Johannes Muller (saxophone)
Jean-Marc Robin (drums)
www.greglamy.com
«
sometimes groovy-soulful, sometimes folk ballad, sometimes straight-ahead
swinging, sometimes laid-back rocking” (Gitarre & Bass)
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Greg
Lamy Quartet make their first appearance in the UK as part of the
London Jazz Festival 2010. There is a beguiling simplicity to their
laid-back delivery of tender ballads and bluesy grooves that has
drawn audiences in clubs and festivals across Europe and the States,
and most recently a tour of China.
The Quartet have been playing together for five years and released
their second album "I see you", in 09. Their tour of China
with the new album follows appearances in recent years at well-known
festivals such NYC Winter Jazz Festival, Nancy Jazz Pulsation, Brussels
Jazz Festival, Skoda Jazz Festival and Blues&Jazz Rallye Lux.
Considered
a talent on the rise, Greg Lamy honed his chops in New York, after
study at the Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg and Berklee
College of Music, and at clubs like 55Bar and the Knitting Factory.
As well as his Quartet he collaborates with both European and American
musicians including a forthcoming duo album with guitartist Paulo
Simoes.
“Greg's
very fluid playing settles a vast range of melodic climates. His
new album - I see you - is proof that we are in presence of a musician
with a bright future.” Lionel Loueke
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12 November
2010 - Pizza Express, Dean Street
to book phone Pizza Express Booking: 0845 6027 017
PASCAL SCHUMACHER QUARTET
Pascal
Schumacher (vibes) Franz von Chossy (piano) Christophe Devisscher
(double bass) Jens Duppe (drums)
www.pascalschumacher.com
“energy,
enthusiasm, joy and technique” (Citizen Jazz)
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Composer
and vibes player Pascal Schumacher may be more familiar to audiences
for his duo with pianist Jef Neve. His Quartet, however, has been
on the road since their first performance in 2002 at Brussels' legendary
Sounds Jazz Club, playing major international festivals including
North Sea, JVC Paris, Jazzahead, Melbourne Jazz Festival, Brussels
Jazz Marathon and Gaume, Printemps and Blues’n Jazz Cape Town. Their
tours have covered 5 continents with gigs throughout Europe, South
Africa, Australia, Vietnam and Mexico and showcased at Midem Cannes.
Pascal won the coveted Django d'Or Award for New Talent in 2005 and
in 2008 became a Yamaha Artist was selected as a Rising Star in the
European Concert Hall Organisation’s program 09-10. Pascal Schumacher
Quartet won both the First Prize and Public Prize at Tremplin Jazz
Avignon in 2005 and their third album, Silbergrau, was chosen as Best
Belgian Jazz Record of 2007 by cultural magazine Knack.
Their clear melodic motifs and palpable passion caught the attention
of ENJA Records who have released their fourth album, Here We Gong.
“an intriguing
record, one that reveals hidden layers with each listening…thoroughly
absorbing and the standard of the musicianship is frequently brilliant.”
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14
September 2010 - Pizza Express, Dean Street
LARGO
featuring GAST WALTZING
http://www.wpbooking.com/artists-largo.html
Gast
Waltzing (trumpet), David Laborier (guitar), Rom Heck (bass), Michel
Mootz (drums), Thomas Bracht (piano)
“jazz
mixed with elements of rock, electro, and even classical music.
Gast has created a 'new jazz culture' in Luxembourg, inspired new
musicians, and found a public." (Tatjana Konieczny, Letzebuerger
Wort)
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Composer
and trumpeter, Gast Waltzing is a major figure in Luxembourg, conducting
the Orchestra Philharmonique du Luxembourg, the Orchestra National
de Jazz and the annual Pops at the Phil, composing over 150 TV and
film scores, as well as founding and heading the Jazz Department
at the Conservatoire of Luxembourg. His quintet, Largo, have been
performing their powerful groove-driven pieces through Europe and
Asia since 2003, and were last heard, also on a double bill with
Leana, at Pizza Express in Luxembourg Underground presents August
2009.
Largo
feat. Gast Waltzing appear at Pizza Express, performing music from
their latest album „Its All About Us“, prior to representing Luxembourg
at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai in October.
“jazz mixed
with elements of rock, electro, and even classical music. Gast has
created a 'new jazz culture' in Luxembourg, inspired new musicians,
and found a public." (Tatjana Konieczny, Letzebuerger Wort).
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Tuesday
14 September 2010 - Pizza Express, Dean Street: Double
Bill
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14 September
2010 - Pizza Express, Dean Street
LEANA
SEALY
www.leanasealy.com
Leana
Sealy (vocals), David Laborier (guitar), Rom Heck (bass),
Michel Mootz (drums)
“a
singer who combines confident jazz phrasing with a sultry
soulfulness” Jazzmann
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Born
in Dublin and now resident in Luxembourg, with a voice reminiscent
of a young Ella Fitzgerald, Leana Sealy recently won the public’s
ear and the award of Prix du Public at the Festival des Saveurs
Culturelles du Monde.
Accessible
and soulful, her honeyed tone and style is influenced by her
training as a classical saxophonist, whilst also bringing
a jazz sensibility to her phrasing and improvisation. She
leads her quartet of masterful contemporaries, with songs
from her most recent album „Undecided“.
an
inspired musician, whose new release will seduce everyone
with the grace of its interpretations, and the 'modern touch'
which breathes new life into jazz classics." (Gaston Carré,
Letzebuerger Wort)
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