Bram De Looze // Colour Talk - 2020

Bram De Looze’s solo career took off in an unexpected way with​ Piano e forte​ (2016), a project for which he approached historical instruments from a contemporary perspective. The switch to the Chris Maene Straight Strung Grand Piano for ​Switch The Stream​ (2018) indicated a renewed search for movement, evolution and introspection. The newest solo chapter, ​Colour Talk​, continues this trajectory with another revolutionary piano model, designed by lauded architect Rafael Viñoly, and a continued attempt to renew from within.
The seeds that were planted on ​Switch The Stream​ are blossoming on ​Colour Talk​. What you hear is a musician who has freed himself from stylistic constraints and limitations. While still rooted in jazz, classical music and free improvisation have found a new balance, a coexistence that enables the pianist to express himself with a new vigour. Switching between shorter pieces that feel like curious, unresolved puzzles and more extended explorations, ​Colour Talk​, is once again an ode to (re)invention in the grey zone were the classical idiom and improvisatory urges meet, with the 13-minute ​tour-de-force​ of “Hypnosis” as one of several undisputed highlights.
If you asked De Looze about his current position as an artist, he would probably tell you that it’s all about forward movement and the need to keep evolving, about a trajectory as work-in-progress. However, if you consider ​Colour Talk​ as a freeze frame of where De Looze is at, it is hard not to consider it a highlight in a career that should have some more surprises in store.
Bram De Looze - Colour Talk
Release date: 21.02
Stream 'Tu Vois': fanlink.to/TuVois
Pre-order: sdbanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/bram-de-looze-colour-talk
℗ & © 2020 SDBAN / N.E.W.S.
Recording/Mixing/Mastering Colour Talk: Vincent De Bast
Video: Lisa Tahon (Studio Sandy)
Artwork & Design Colour Talk: Mireille Robbe
Booking: www.insidejazz.be

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