UTOPIC CITIES : PROGRESSIVE JAZZ IN BELGIUM 1968-1979

TRACKLISTING


1 Placebo - S.U.S.
2 Solis Lacus - Uto pic Cities
3 Open Sky Unit - Open Sky
4 Brussels Art Quintet - Vas-y Voir< br>5 Koen De Bruyne - Pathetic Dreams
6 Raphaël - Archangelo

1 Philip Catherine - Memphis Talk
2 Jacques & Micheline Pelzer Quartet - Face Reality< br>3 The Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band - Sakara
4 Marc Moulin - Tohuboh u pt. I
5 Babs Robert - Pro Forma I
6 Lou MacConnell - Naima




INFO


On June 11th, independent groove label Sdban Re cords will release Utopic Cities: Progressive Jazz in Belgium 1968-1979 featurin g twelve essential compositions from a highly creative period in Belgian jazz. T he release follows Sdban's critically acclaimed Let's Get Swinging: Modern Jazz in Belgium 1950-1970, released back in 2017.

Utopic Cities is an ecle ctic selection of forward-thinking jazz from the Belgian underground, including the left-field fusion of Marc Moulin's Placebo, Koen De Bruyne and Solis Lacus; the intense post-bop of Jacques Pelzer and Lou MacConnell; the cutting edge soul jazz of Philip Catherine and Open Sky Unit or the otherworldly avant-garde of B abs Robert and the Brussels Art Quintet. Recorded in the aftermath of the revolu tionary year 1968, this music is the fruit of a highly creative momentum in Belg ian jazz history that produced a unique sound which distinguishes itself from it s American source of inspiration by an indefinable characteristic that can be ha rdly better described than 'Belgian'.