CINEMA PARADISO

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Cinema Paradiso is a jazz quartet based in Belgium, whose musicians are Kurt Van Herck (Saxophone), Eric Thielemans (Drums), Willem Heylen (Guitar) & Jozef Dumoulin (Piano). Originally a jazz trio playing the music of Paul Motian, now the quartet is focusing on original compositions. Blending the rich timbres and textures of both the acoustic and electric sonic worlds of the musicians, Cinema Paradiso aims to get a strong, direct, full sound that still retains enough detail and acoustic warmth. The quartet brings contemporary spiritual free jazz music. It is raw, devotional, layered and textural, warm and unapologetically beautiful. In a live setting, the quartet aims to offer more than a concert. A Cinema Paradiso show is an experience, a hypnotic trip, an opportunity to fully connect with the music and to let yourself get carried away, to feel reborn at the other end.

 

Their new album ‘Empyt Empty’ will be out on September 6th 2024 on Challenge Records.

 

“A reminder. Music is the most extraordinary force. Connecting us, bringing us together across time, space, past, present, future, here, there, centuries, continents.” Bill Frisell about Cinema Paradiso 

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LINE-UP

Kurt Van Herck – Tenor and soprano saxophone

Eric Thielemans – Drums and percussion

Willem Heylen – Electric guitar and percussion

Jozef Dumoulin – Fender Rhodes, keyboard and grand piano

 

BASED IN: Belgium

TERRITORIES: Germany