KAU is joining Odessa Maison d’Artistes!
11/12/25 - 10:00 maxime Booking
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- contenu : <span style="font-weight: 400;">To fully appreciate KAU's music, you'll have to be willing to surrender in order to rise, to forget preconceived formats and stylistic chapels in order to simply reconnect with the primal love of music, the one that makes an inexplicable link between body, brain and heart.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Born in Brussels, KAU brings together a German keyboardist (Jan Janzen), an Italian bassist (Matteo Genovese) and a Norwegian drummer (André Breidlid), all determined to escape the shackles of the past to create pure, personal music. Trained at the conservatory, while working on rock aesthetics with their previous band, the three instrumentalists came together at Covid with the idea of creating a free, travelling tape, linking their influences and reviving the creativity and audacity of the format so dear to hip hop. Let's not be too hasty and pigeonhole KAU in the catch-all category of new school jazz. In fact, the trio's racy, hypnotic syncretism of synthetic music, heady melodies, electronic groove and witty beatmaking is a success.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Unknown Waveforms is aptly named, as it embodies a plunge into the unknown, favoring vibe over the sometimes restrictive format of the pop or jazz album. Atmospheres that hark back to free music, where tonal breaks and sonic discoveries lead to unexpected dancing. Recorded at the Woluwe Park freehouse in Brussels, while snow was falling outside the studio, Unknown Waveforms is a sound film concerned with the links between human and machine, the contrast between a luminous future and the fear of darkness. In the image of its entirely acoustic outro, KAU holds on to its humanity, its spontaneity, embracing its imperfections and touching without thinking on the ecstasy of every musician: that of a creativity that is never restrained, that speaks to as many people as possible, without denying its artistic demands.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">After The Cycle Repeats, their debut album released in 2023, and concerts all over the place (including an appearance on the Dour mainstage), KAU is back with Unknown Waveforms, and presents itself as a new centerpiece of Brussels Sound, as well as a hopeful sign of a new music scene on the cusp of hip hop, synth jazz and club music. </span>
<a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/6qj3YQkOT39KWw0n1f7WbH?si=D2LxfSEsQJajAAvR4CVJFA">Stream here</a>
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