WILLBERG ANDREAE BIRCHALL - Frid May 24th - 8PM

“its a welcome reminder of the idea of ‘play’ that sits at the heart of improvisation, and which all too often gets buried under po-faced high seriousness."

-Daniel Spicer, The Wire, 2018 (writing about ‘Live in Beppu’)


"Top-notch weirdo jams from the north of England…..Hair In The Chimney brings an underground sensibility to free improvisation, with the musicians using unconventional techniques to defamiliarise their instruments."

- Stuart Smith, The Quietus, 2017 (writing about ‘Hair in the Chimney’)


U welcome
Gerard Daval


Andreae / Birchall / Willberg
http://samandreae.com/andreae-birchall-willberg/
Friday May 24th

8PM

Stellarium # 1 – Kickstart - Fri, May 3th & Sat, May 4th - 8PM






Stellarium is a concept where words (poets) and music (musicians) come together.


Topped with light effects or visuals.
Freely jamming several times the evening.
A new secluded universe with intimate freely improvisations.
Serene meandering as a milky way.


free entrance

Friday, may 3 and Saterday, may 4

each time between eight o'clock and eleven o'clock in the evening, opens at six o'clock

Presentation and creation: Philip Volckaert








- - - - - - Friday, may 3 - - - - - -

• BESTAANSREDEN → → an experience; two nails that crawl gently under your skin. They sing powerlessness, a human life and the useless. One does it with guitar, the other with schizofrenic texts. And if you listen very well, maybe you hear yourself.

• KINGRAY → → power rock trio band from Ghent. With their driving rhythms and harmonic melodies, this band brings a raw sound quality to the stage that is influenced by 60s rock, punk but also blues and diverse other genres.

• TIM ALBUS → → poet. Goes to the bone and further where it is possible, if it works with tenderness. Everywhere and nowhere he edits his little book and if it possible he encounters his public with a pen as a sword. Fresh ideas taken from life and written fresh where his heart/dish is. Further he likes to take the public hostage, lock them up and subjects them to his works. The world is his playground, and with his poetry he experiences for a lifetime eternal youth.

• REINOUT RINUS DE VOS → → makes soundscapes. born in 1979 at Lokeren. His parents, she watercolorist, he music teacher and meditation teacher initiates him into art, music and philosophy. In high school he studies audiovisual formation. About humour he is influenced by Marx Brothers, about cinema La Nouvelle Vague and the surrealism of Louis Buñuel. But the inspiration of Reinout is altogether contained in his moustache. It reminds at the same time the moustaches of Diego Velasquez and Salvador Dali.

• PHILIP VOLCKAERT → → poet from Ghent. For years he searches the experiment and brings poems flexible to the public. Words are thoughts, they bow themselves down to sentences, as a kind of logic, till the world becomes a poem.

• TBA …


- - - - - - Saterday, may 4 - - - - - -

• SVEN DE SWERTS → → a true in bones, joints ans words from dead corners, survives on poetry and friendship and is outside wth the bands Ultralelluk, Swerts & Swart and himself. He is also ambassador of Drift Breda and filmmaker.



• TIM ALBUS → → Poet. Goes to the bone and further where it is possible, if it works with tenderness. Everywhere and nowhere he edits his little book and if it possible he encounters his public with a pen as a sword. Fresh ideas taken from life and written fresh where his heart/dish is. Further he likes to take the public hostage, lock them up and subjects them to his works. The world is his playground, and with his poetry he experiences for a lifetime eternal youth.

• JAN D’HAENE → → as a child: constant/music in head/endless mixtape/kind of story/film/dream. 2004, Piano. Hours and days/uncountable keys. Eyes closed/mourning process. Turbulent period/discoveries. Spiritual journey/ New Orleans/noctural jamsessions/Ghent (underground) scene. Touching people/my plan/my emotions/my grief. Childish wonder/eternal search. Today: trumpet/keys/ to experiment/electronics/effects/installation art/theater/composition.

• VICTORIA → → female pianist. Her piano rolls literally and figuratively. Upside down. Her instrument is a readymade by nature.

• REINOUT RINUS DE VOS → → makes soundscapes. born in 1979 at Lokeren. His parents, she watercolorist, he muisc teacher and meditation teacher initiates him into art, music and philosophy. In high school he studies audiovisual formation. About humour he is influenced by Marx Brothers, about cinema La Nouvelle Vague and the surrealism of Louis Buñuel. But the inspiration of Reinout is altogether contained in his moustache. It reminds at the same time the moustaches of Diego Velasquez and Salvador Dali.

• PHILIP VOLCKAERT → → poet from Ghent. For years he searches the experiment and brings poems flexible to the public. Words are thoughts, they bow themselves down to sentences, as a kind of logic, till the world becomes a poem.

• TBA ….


- - - - - - continuous - - - - - -

• THE INTERACTIVE WOMB → → The Interactive Womb is a Place-in-Space to experience Nothingness. We employ calculated noise frequency compositions (Sacral Noise), binaural tunes, asynchronous colour light gadget Lights-of-Life, hand held stroboscopes (1-15 Hz), specially designed perfume, and a biologically shaped space capsule to induce detachment from Old Reality.

The Womb is an immersive and interactive container where some magical experiences occur, which happen in the presence of an alien-artist inside (Reinout Rinus De Vos) who guides the human subjects into the New World.

• VLADIMIR KAIGORDOV → → scientist and artist, living and working in Belgium. Cross-pollination of Science and Art in Dr. Frankenstein style. BioHacking, BioRatOri. UM, Interactive Womb.

• ART EXPO → → Works from Rafaël De Bruyne, Franky Bordo en Philip Volckaert

• SLOWS TVS → → really boring television is really fascinating. Travel through landscapes, a videoprojection by Philip Volckaert. it are almost images for in a waiting room or to place on the bedside table

Miman! - TUESDAY March 26th - 8:30





'English and Indian folk music blends seamlessly with sentiments aching to free jazz and contemporary music in an organic fashion that steers clear of the dogmatic.'

The Miman trio has toured all over Europe the last years, and in early 2018 they released their debut album "Ulme".

Their second album "Stora Mängder Rymdgrus" is out March 15th 2019.

Come celebrate with us this new release!

Miman is an improvising trio consisting of fiddler Hans Kjorstad, guitarist and clarinetist Andreas Røysum and bassist Egil Kalman

Three of the most distinct and active young voices on the thriving Scandinavian improv scene.

Gerard Daval


Several links:
A gig in Lillehammer, Norway: https://youtu.be/mA-xih_PlBY
A snippet from a gig in 2018 Moscow : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=506VmSnG12E

Miman home page: http://mimantrio.com/

Inutile Témoin & Gravas's Band - Fri March 15th - 8:30PM




















Photo: Ken Werner

Two Bands on the 15th!

"Embark on a mystical journey, travel from the stomach to the little voices, reminiscent of a volcano on the brink of eruption."

Inutile Témoin- is Teresa Riemann and Amélie Legrand on cello, drums, electronics and voices.

French, German and English poetry with free improvisation to produce an energetic and abstract sound which delivers a deep and direct energy.


https://soundcloud.com/inutiletemoin/the-leaves-upon-the-street






photo: Amélie Blanc

Poetry, gracefulness and a bit of tragedy...

Pls listen: https://soundcloud.com/user-320950787

Aurélie Gravas & La Femme d'Ali:
Aurélie Gravas (vocals, guitar).
Luc van Lieshout ( trumpet),
Nicolas Thys ( double bass),

Enjoy!

Gerard Daval


Bios

Amélie Legrand

Amelie Legrand is a French cellist, singer and composer based in Berlin, Germany.

She is active within many different musical scenes, including noise rock, arabic music, free improvisation and film score composition.

She is dedicated to exploring the cello to its fullest potential and develop a form of expression which places the highest priority on the individuality of the performer and the spontaneity of each unique moment.
Her sound can be raw, noisy, minimalist or melodic. She uses her voice with electronics, working on poems between improvisation and rock and roll.

Amelie performs regularly on the European improvised experimental stage.
She collaborates with Adam Goodwin and Tatsumi Ryusui in the band Elmer Kussiac, which will release its first album in February 2018. They collaborate with various performers and artists such as Guillaume Cailleau, Britt Al-Busultan, Michyasu Furutani, Clara Bausch and Distruktur.

Amelie co-composed the music of the flm “In the Last Days of the City” by the Egyptian film maker Tamer El Said that was presented at the Berlinale 2016, more than 60 festivals and released now in 10 countries. She composed the music of the film “Les pieds sur terre” by Batiste Combret and Bertrand Hagenmuller that was released in French cinemas in 2017. She also composed the music of Rudar by Hanna Slak that will be released in Slovenia in September 2017. Amelie was one of the six composers selected on the program “Emergence Cinema” in 2016 in Paris.

AL was invited by the Bibliotheca of Alexandria in March 2017 to give a workshop called “Improvised music in filmscore composition”.

Amelie studied cello in France at the Conservatoire in Bordeaux with Laurence Dufour and Etienne Peclard.

amelielegrand.com


Teresa Riemann - Berlin

(*1988 in Dachau) lived and worked as performance-artist, 
musician (compositions /improvisations: drums, piano, voice), writer and psychologist since 2012 in Berlin.

Since 2010 she has been organizing and staging numerous concerts, readings and performances from Poland to Tunisia. She has been touring with various bands throughout Europe, and presented very intense solo or two-people performances on festivals, e.g. "Choufthouhonna", 2016, Tunis; "Queerfest" 2015, Poznan; "Zwischenraum Festival" 2015, Sotodo Berlin 2017, Onomatopoesietage Innsbruck 2017 (...) 2010 she has been co-founding the cultural space "Café Decentral" in Innsbruck, Austria.

Since 2012 she is part of the association XB-Liebig (Berlin), and has been curating various concerts, readings and interdisciplinary events.

Since 2017 January she is constantly on the road, living art and realizing projects to break the pullulating attitude of bystanding.

Sprung from the dark caves of the collective german subconsciousness, forging an outlet via the Berlin Noise scene, Berlin based musician, poetess and performance-artist Teresa Riemann explores, through her creative output, the darkness and even more-so the light, which can be found in the spaces we like to keep locked up far away from where anybody can see them.

After being taught how to play the piano in a classical way, excluding all passion from pure perfection, she started to evolve a genuine art of playing by learning the instruments by herself, starting with the electric guitar, later discovering drums.

From 2013 on she is active in different musical collaborations to be situated inside the broad field of new music that yet come with a raw energy and find themselves far from a hygienical tidiness of pure intellectualism.

She has played with various musicians in improvised music throughout Europe, mainly as a drummer with a strong voice. Apart from that, she developed her own compositions on piano with vocals.

In 2013 she recorded her first solo album "She has lost control again", partly composed, partly improvised, using guitars, voice and drums.

She has been part of various theatre projects, and in 2015 her play >punch me< was staged for the first time.

Since 2017 she's playing in ›Inutile Témoin‹ (Amélie Legrand - cello, voice / Teresa Riemann - drums, voice) and ›Naked in the Zoo‹ (Ruben Tenenbaum - violin / Teresa Riemann - drums, voice).

Every dogma is a coma would best describe her artistic approach.

Papilloon - Fri Feb 15th - 8:30PM

We welcome Papilloon.
A great step for Haekem, moving closer towards hard-rock, notably improvised one. 

A pleasure to welcome so talented band.

As an introduction, pls listen:
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-37587914/sets/ep-circles
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/013iAFwSHDIODunZqTY6OT?si=W-L_okIVRHKDFYqTu9S2nQ

But live performance sounds much more amazing! Just try by yourself !

See U
Gerard Daval

Papilloon - Fri Feb 15th - 8:30PM
Wim Boddin, one very fervent saxofonist, decided to play out his expertise as a frontman.
Therefore, he needed a guitargod, our favourite gingerhead Enrico Van Cleemput.
Ben D'hoore and Jan Feyaerts, followed soon: a piece of wood with synthesizers and a fat singing bass emerged on the Papilloon stage.
Drummer Ruben Goossens earned the job because of his doge, which is the main reason why we have groupies.
And also because of his drum skills.
To make sure the five guys won't get too chaotic, they decided to get Freya Dasseville to keep things in control. This musical lady plays all instruments, but had to limit her options to guitar. Sometimes she may sing. Now and again.

Reminiscence - Solo VI -Fri Jan 18th - 8:30

Next Friday, improvisation by Kevin Lam, guitar.
As a foreword, pls listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP4EQMKhq7s

Highly promising Artist.

See U,


Gerard Daval


Friday January 18th

8:30
Reminiscence - Solo VI
Kevin Lam: Guitar
Haekem, Lakensestraat 66 rue de Laeken 1000 Brussels
Metro: Sint-Katelijne - Sainte-Catherine

kevinlam.fr

https://jazz-a-babord.blogspot.com/2018/10/magic-malik-festival-la-petite-halle.html

Heat Obscures Light - Wed Jan 23th - 8PM


Comprising musicians from Australia, Russia and Germany, based in Weimar and Leipzig, ‘Heat Obscures Light’ is a collective dedicated to exploring new approaches to making music.

Pls listen: http://www.jordanwhite.de/music/collective/

The group uses original compositions as starting points for improvisation, attempting to use unconventional tonal, rhythmic and formal ideas as organically, and above all, as honestly as possible.

Haekem is proud to welcome

Jordan White (AUS) – Guitar
Olga Reznichenko (RUS) – Piano
André Van der Heide (DE) – Drums


Wed Jan 23Th - 8PM

See You

Gerard Daval

More info on www.jordanwhite.de

Beresford+Vasseur at Haekem - Sat Jan 12th - 9PM






Charlie Beresford (guitar, voice)
Christian Vasseur (guitar, voice)

"Having known of each others work for many years Christian and Charlie finally bring together their unique approaches to the guitar for the first time.

Both guitarists have spent many years expanding their language on the guitar using both standard and extended techniques.

Moving from the textural to the melodic their improvisations have a descriptive almost film like quality."



Incredible guitar duo at Haekem on Saturday 12th January 2019.
9PM.
Please listen:
See You,
Gerard Daval


Christian Vasseur

The composer, improviser, guitar and lute player Christian Vasseur' music borrows as much from classical tradition as from popular music. It is free of any form of dogma.

As a proteiform musician he every often takes part into interdisciplinary events where music combines itself with other artistic media, such as photography, video, dance and theatre where acoustic and electronic sounds usually intermingle.

Christian Vasseur composes new original music for the lute.

Among regular or intermittent music fellows :
Jean-Christophe Lannoy, Philippe Lenglet, Gilbert Isbin, Isao Wada, Claude Colpaert,
Steve Gibbs, Didier Pietton, Pierre Mottron, Pascal Marzan, Sapho, Mia Zabelka, Amit Chatterjee, Apratim Majumdar, John Russell, Mia Zabelka, Audrey Laurau, Charlie Beresford...
Albums on Playa Sound, Humming Conch, Thirsty Leaves Music, Alina and Bandcamp.

https://soundcloud.com/christian-vasseur/shroad-movie-music
https://soundcloud.com/christian-vasseur/slide-4
https://soundcloud.com/christian-vasseur/tombeau-de-derek-bailey 


Charlie Beresford

UK based artist, musician and designer (acoustic guitar and vocals) Charlie Beresford works both solo and with the groups Fourth Page, Beresford Hammond, and Beresford Hammond Hume. He is also a founding member of the Radnor Improvisers, a group of musicians based in the Welsh Marches. They perform as well as work in the community using improvisation to promote communication and bring people together.

His musical life as a musician and studio producer has seen him work with artists spanning most genres such as Russian free jazz star Alexey Kruglov, Judy Tzuke, Patrick Dawes, Duke Garwood, M.N Hopwood, June Tabor, and the Ian McMillan Orchestra to name a few.


CANCELED! Reminiscence - VI Solo - Fri Dec 14th - 8:30PM




CONCERT CANCELATION: FRI DEC 14TH
We are terribly sorry: Due to reasons beyond our control 

'Reminiscence' Concert has to be canceled.




Next Friday, improvisation by Kevin Lam, guitar.

As a foreword, pls listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP4EQMKhq7s

Highly promising Artist.

See U,


Gerard Daval


Friday December 14th

8:30
Reminiscence - Solo VI
Kevin Lam: Guitar
Haekem, Lakensestraat 66 rue de Laeken 1000 Brussels
Metro: Sint-Katelijne - Sainte-Catherine

kevinlam.fr

https://jazz-a-babord.blogspot.com/2018/10/magic-malik-festival-la-petite-halle.html

Le Mur du Fond: Saturday Dec 8th - 8:30PM


French poetry and improvised music!
We are happy to welcome Le Mur du Fond.

Emotional Poetry, not only for french speaking people!

See U,

Gerard Daval

Le Mur du Fond
"Poésie sonore et musique improvisée"
Patrice Cazelles: Voix, textes
Jean-Michel Chartier: Sousbassophone
Francis Larvor: Electroacoustique
Jaqk Pochat: Saxophone, Trompes

Saturday December 8th
8:30PM
Contribution Towards Expenses: 10euros