STEF KAMIL CARLENS: lead vocal, electric and acoustic guitars
AMEL SERRA GARCIA: percussions
HUGO BOOGAERTS: sax and flute
AARICH JESPERS: drums, percussions
Those who had the chance to attend (rather to live) one of their concerts confirm it: ZITA SWOON is an extraordinary group (group : “Combination of several characters forming an organic unity in a work of art” in “Le Petit Robert” – French language dictionary).
In the centre: Stef Kamil Carlens, founding member of dEUS (he doesn’t deny anything but does not like to have it pointed out, so much he lives in and for the moment, and his interest goes in abundance to the page he has just written and to the one he will write
tomorrow …), inspired by –amongst many others- Tom Waits.
Around him, with him: a cosmopolitan tribe, chatoyant, open and cultivated, each member offering what he is and became on his travel, fed by the wealth of presents that he got in exchange…
The result: open and intelligent music; concerts shaped by emotions, generous, sharp and coloured; full moments that stick for a long time …
ZITA SWOON is born in the 90’s, in and with the turbulence that still makes today’s Flanders a piece of Europe to keep an eye on to see what moves on the old continent (it is no coincidence Jan Fabre or Les ballets C. de la B. regularly invite Stef to share their spaces of expression…)
In the musical melting pot of ZITA SWOON: blues, catchy pop, funk, soul – ah! and that choruses that Aretha Franklin would not have disavowed! – skinned rock, afro-cuban influences, pen dipped in the English or French language, sweet folk tinted ballads … they bind the whole with an amalgamating dressing whose manufacturing secret belongs to them, so tasty that it gives the meal they serve a just incomparable taste …
Atypical, touching, alternating caressing and scratching: ZITA SWOON is and will remain for a long time “a factory” of beautiful and powerful music in continual creation, always moving …
Their performances are fully in line with their image: incandescent concerts, physical engagement, glowing groove on the largest scenes and for the palpable happiness of thousands of spectators… or… well intended intimate moments: “A Band in a Box”, the public is around and they are in the middle … just like that… ZITA SWOON seems to feel at ease in the middle of a lot of things …
*ZS: BIG SWOON - concerts on scene *
It's very obvious what prevails: it is energy, the musical quality and the contributions of each member of the group. To play strong, without drowning the spectators in a bath of decibels, to play high, play true, and especially to weave a bond of notes and emotions between the scene and the public, those are the characteristics of Stef Kamil Carlens. Result: unique concerts lived like intense momenbts of truth.
* ABIAB: A BAND IN A BOX - concerts in the middle of the public *
A very simple concept but a powerful originality and a frightening effectiveness: the group is "in the middle", the public is "around"...and everyone is "in the musical box"!...Joined together in the same space, close relations almost until touching distance, musicians and spectators - who are free in their movements - perceive and receive the same sound...and energy, always present, circulating in soft or breaking waves on the tide of the emotions, musical journeys and rythms.
Dancing with the sound hobbyist is the result of a meeting between dance company
Rosas and the band Zita Swoon, and more precisely of its creative leaders Anne Teresa De
Keersmaeker and Stef Kamil Carlens.
They joined forces and now invite us to a trip through unheard compositions by Stef Kamil
and the sound universe of his cosmopolitan collective Zita Swoon. Guided by Anne Teresa
De Keersmaeker, notes and sounds became movements. The choreographer coached Rosas
dancer Simon Mayer and Zita Swoon’s backing vocalists. The result is a unique danced music
concert, a dialogue between energy and emotions.
J'étais au festival de la Cassine et j'ai beaucoup aimé votre concert, du coup je vous ai retrouvé sur Itunes et maintenant sur myspace... J'aime beaucoup beaucoup ce que vous faites! Des bizZz
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The album "Around Robert Wyatt" Orchestre National de Jazz Daniel Yvinec is OUT !
With ROBERT WYATT, CAMILLE, YAEL NAÏM, ROKIA TRAORE, ARNO, DANIEL DARC and IRENE JACOB Arranged by VINCENT ARTAUD
They liked it, we wish you'll like it too ! les Inrocks, Le Monde, Jalouse, le Nouvel Obs, Muziq, Disque d'émoi Jazz Magazine, Choc Jazzman, Qobuz, Sélection FIP, Playlist TSF, France Inter, France Culture, France Musique...
Concert 23th of May in Paris With Erik Truffaz and live pictures by Antoine Carlier With the recorded voices of the disc's guests +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
ragazzi una meraviglia a poggibonsi!!vi ho visto anche al circolo degli artisti a roma l'anno passato..in continua evoluzione!!bravi bravi bravi..però il pranzo lo avete saltato...vabbè alla prossima ciao!!
yeahhhh ! ... thrilled to be part of your MySpace friends after being long time fans ! thanks for the add coz' that means a lot to us !! Hear you soon Live ! NEVER STOP PLAYING !!
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