Warped Dreamer - Lomahongva (February 2022 Off - record label)

A “dream line-up” is possibly the best way to describe Warped Dreamer. Few quartets succeed in bowling over their audiences in such diverse ways as this quartet led by drummer Teun Verbruggen. This versatile Belgian percussionist puts together four top-notch musicians from the Belgian and Norwegian scenes, who bring out the best in each other on stage. Teun likes to be startled by collaborations with wayward musicians, musicians who inspire him because they rediscover and reinvent themselves each time again. He had already hooked up with trumpeter Arve Henriksen and with Jozef Dumoulin (Rhodes) previously. Guitarist Stian Westerhus is the right fit and perfectly complements the quartet. Include a big display of effects pedals and you get a music genre that defies any attempt at classification.

Free improvisation, jazz residue and electronic interventions/manipulations are woven together in an organically flowing crossover that both hints at a Northern vastness and utilises a complex inner map that guides the audience past labyrinthine horizons, intricate textures and spontaneous interactions. As such, they incorporate both crackling, whirling walls of sound and claustrophobic whispers. 

Warped Dreamer is definitely looking forward in a way that makes the question whether it’s in or out completely irrelevant. It’s everywhere at once. The band gets its name from an Othin Spake composition, another of Teun Verbruggen’s experimental bands, and also shares the same fickle, mysterious city vibe. If you like improv, you are in for a treat!

Cd/dvd/lp, a collaboration between Off and Rat Records. 

1. Kenda 11:12

2. Nahimana 09:34

3. Sahpooly 08:13

4. Odahingum 15:57

5. Tehya 09:07

Arve Henriksen: Trumpet, flute, voice and electronics

Stian Westerhus: Guitar and electronics

Jozef Dumoulin: Fender Rhodes and electronics

Teun Verbruggen: Drums and electronics

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Octurn / Magic Malik - XPs (live) October 22, 2021 Onze Heures Onze

En septembre 2006 octurn invite magic malik pour une résidence de 5 jours / malik va transformer cette session de travail et d’enregistrement en une expérience vertigineuse pour le groupe : il distribue aux souffleurs un ensemble de contrepoints mélodiques et harmoniques, et à la rythmique un ensemble de talea color avec comme règle du jeu un modus operandi unique :  les tempos sont libres et fluctuants, toutes les matières sont conçues pour cohabiter ensemble tranquillement, les formes se construisent sur le moment, les flux d’improvisation sont spontanés, aucune prévisibilité, c’est un saut collectif dans l’inconnu et les surprises permanentes, l’acceptation des collisions et la jubilation des juxtapositions éphémères orchestrées et dirigées  par malik, qui découvre en temps réel la fascination qu’exerce sa proposition de lâcher-prise sur les musiciens / ‘xps (live)’ documente 5 journées d’apnée collective autour de la naissance d'un concept arborescent qui vécut heureux et eut beaucoup d’enfants /

1. xp27 (part 1)

2. flash

3. xp23

4. talea color

5. xp26

6. irian

7. xp28 (part 1)

8. xp28 (part 2)

9. xp27 (part 2)

10. xp24

11. eleonore

12. xp25

13. Idriz junior

Magic Malik : flute, voice

Bo van der Werf : baritone sax

Laurent Blondiau : trumpet, flugelhorn

Guillaume Orti : alto saxophone

Fabian Fiorini : piano

Jozef Dumoulin : fender rhodes

Nelson Veras : guitar

Gilbert Nouno : electronics

Jean-Luc Lehr : electric bass

Chander Sardjoe : drums

All music by Magic Malik, except xp26, xp27 and xp28 by Bo van der Werf / Magic Malik

Recorded live at de Meent, belgium, by Alexandre Fostier, 1-5 September 2006

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Pj5 - I Told The Little Bird (JAZZ&PEOPLE November 2, 2018)

Dans le paysage du jeune jazz français actuel, Pj5 n’offre pas la moins pertinente des propositions musicales. Ce groupe au sens plein du terme doit son identité avant tout à un son, qui combine ses couleurs pop-rock à sa culture de l’improvisation, capable d’allier une densité dérivée du death metal avec des formes de musiques de chambre contemplative, aux confins du minimalisme et de la folk, tout en développant sa sensibilité jazz ultra contemporaine. Lauréat du dispositif « Jazz Migration », constitué depuis plusieurs années par des musiciens de la même génération particulièrement soudés, Pj5 signe un troisième disque au déroulé cinétique, dont les accents épiques alternent avec la simplicité de ritournelles, les orages électriques avec de délicats tramages sonores. Pensé en écho aux mystères et aux périls de l’existence, « I Told The Little Bird » résonne d’un état du monde qui oscille magnifiquement entre lumière et chaos, désespérance et espoirs, distorsion et résolution. Avec la participation de la chanteuse Isabel Sorling et de Jozef Dumoulin au Fender Rhodes, un album en forme d’odyssée sonore. 

In the current landscape of young French jazz, Pj5 offers one of the most pertinent musical propositions. This is a group in the full meaning of the term, whose identity comes above all from a sound: a certain capacity to densify the derivative sound of death metal, with the shapes of contemplative contemporary chamber music, the borders of minimalism and folk, fuelled with their personal contemporary jazz sensibility and improvisations. A laureate of the ‘Jazz Migration’ program for upcoming talents, composed of five French musicians from the same generation, Pj5 releases a third album displaying a band striving for purity and nuance, energy and intensity in order to accomplish a music capable of moving from epic accents to the simplicity of jingles, from electric storms to delicate sound patterns. Echoing the mysteries and perils of existence, "I Told The Little Bird" resonates with a state of our world that oscillates magnificently between light and chaos, despair and hope, distortion and resolution. Featuring Swedish singer Isabel Sörling and Belgian improv wizard Jozef Dumoulin on the Fender Rhodes, an album in the shape of a sound odyssey. 

Paul Jarret, Guitar

Maxence Ravelomanantsoa, Tenor Saxophone

Léo Pellet, Trombone

Alexandre Perrot, Double Bass

Ariel Tessier, Drums

Isabel Sörling, Voice

Jozef Dumoulin, Fender Rhodes

1. Cycles (The Egg)

2. The Nest, Part One

3. The Nest, Part Two

4. Peaceful Struggle

5. Cycles (The Flight)

6. Lilla Fagel

7. Response (For Eileen)

8. Horizon

9. Where Do Butterflies Sleep

10. Cycles (The Soil)

Concert de lancement d'album : 4 décembre au NEW MORNING

Jozef Dumoulin & Orca Noise Unit - A Beginner's Guide to Diving and Flying (YOLK RECORDS 2018)

"Orca Noise Unit is based on an anagram of —oneironautics—, which refers to the ability to travel within a dream on a conscious basis. Those who have already kept a dream journal know what it feels like to go back and read over older parts. Some dream accounts have a lot of details, others evoke not much more than just a vibe. Some can be read like a full story, whereas others have no beginning, or no end, or neither. Sometimes we were genuinely lucid at the moment of the dream - or at least had a clear perception of things - whereas at other moments we were totally immersed in the projected reality.

But together the stories always make sense in a very particular way that is difficult to describe. When I was putting this record together I understood at some point that this was the perfect image for what I was trying to do. The feeling I got when listening to the whole of the final versions of the songs was very similar to the one I get when I’m dealing with my own dream world and my dream journal.

This was a new sensation for me. I let it be the guide for the final adjustments of the music and I’m very happy and excited to have been able to turn that atmosphere into a musical form.”

“This record is dedicated to the loving memory of my father, Jacques Dumoulin.”

1 As Above, So Below 5'15"

2 The Garden 3'42"

3 Imagined Rotation 1'40"

4 The Hand 3'18"

5 Second Room 2'27"

6 Little Lemon 4'36"

7 Mild 5'06"

8 Peering And Palpation 0'55"

9 Breathing Under Water 2'26"

10 The Bristlecone Pine 2'46"

11 The Other Side Of The Month 6'12"

12 Something About A Horse 0'26"

13 Little Flower Expanding 4'56"

14 Acknowledgements 1'38"

15 As Below, So Above 6’16"

Jozef Dumoulin - piano, percussion

Sylvaine Hélary - flutes

Antonin Tri Hoang - saxophone, clarinete, percussion

Bruno Chevillon - bass

Tom Gouband - percussions

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