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Leuven Jazz Op Zondag: Hanne De Backer & g a b b r o - As We Walk
Saxophonist Hanne De Backer walked the Belgian coastline with two fellow musicians, a camera crew and a camel.
Saxophonist Hanne De Backer presents the Belgian premiere of her film concert As We Walk. In recent years, De Backer has reached the top of the European improvisation scene. In 2017 she founded the collective g a b b r o, that aims to improvise in unusual places such as a prison or an old sewage system. For her latest project As We Walk, De Backer, drummer Raf Vertessen and pianist Andreas Bral walked along the Belgian coastline in the company of a camera crew and ... a camel. A straight line of about sixty-five kilometers.
The registration is surprisingly subdued and poetic. In quiet black-and-white images we see how the trio improvises on empty beaches, in a church or on a breakwater. Armed with backpacks, winter coats and a wagon, they defy the whooshing North Sea wind and the corrosive beach sand. The film ripples at a slow pace and shows the Belgian coast in all its battered glory. Striking are the surprised and amused looks of passers-by. The impression that reverberates most, however, is that of a concentrated peace, an attempt to slow down time imbued with a dreamy, almost melancholic poetry.
Following the film, De Backer, Bral and Vertessen will also release the third album by g a b b r o with a live concert.
In the context of Leuven Jazz.
19:30: doors + bar
20:00: start film + concert
Astrid Soetewey wrote a review (in Dutch) as part of the masterclass Leuven Kritiek. Read the review here.
Credits
FILM | music Hanne De Backer, Andreas Bral & Raf Vertessen | camera Seppe Van Grieken | sound & mixing Christophe Albertijn | sound design Yves De Mey | editing & direction Hanne De Backer | editing assistant Tine Verbist | production vzw Backi & Hanne De Backer | production assistant Esther Gruyaert & Jonathan Goyvaerts | thanks Kopi Kofi, VDD Project Development, Ferre Marechal, Kint Pianos, KAAP, Arthur Leloup, Hanne Peetermans | CONCERT | baritone saxophone & bass clarinet Hanne De Backer | keys Andreas Bral | drums Raf VertessenLocatie
- Kolonel Begaultlaan 21
- 3012 Leuven
Prijs
€14 (basis)
€10 (reductie)