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until
08.07.2014until
31.07.2011until
17.07.2011until
26.03.2011Release: September 10th 2021
Produced by Dijf Sanders and Frederik Segers
Mixed by Frederik Segers
Mastered by Doug Henderson
Artwork by Dieter Durinck
Recording & Mixing: Frederik Segers at Boma Studio
Illustration: Kevin Van Wontergem
Lay-out: Pjotr
Recording & mixing: Koen Gisen at La Patrie Studio
Mastering: Karel De Backer
Producing: Koen Gisen and De Beren Gieren
Cover illustration: Kevin Van Wonterghem
Lay-out: Luchtrat
Recording & Mixing: Frederik Segers at Boma Studio
Mastering: Uwe Teichert at Elektropolis
Producing: Frederik Segers and De Beren Gieren
Cover illustration: Kevin Vanwonterghem
Lay-out: Jelle Martens
Recorded live at Ljubljana Jazz Festival 2014
Recording & Mixing: Luìs Delgado
Lay-out: Travassos
Recording & Mixing: Frederik Segers at Boma Studio
Mastering: Uwe Teichert at Elektropolis
Producing: Frederik Segers and De Beren Gieren
Cover illustration: Kevin Vanwonterghem
Lay-out: Luchtrat
Recording: Frederik Segers at Jet Studio
Mixing: Frederik Segers at Boma Studio
Mastering: Uwe Teichert at Electropolis
Producing: Frederik Segers and De Beren Gieren
Cover illustration: Kevin Vanwonterghem
Lay-out: Luchtrat
Recording: Simon Vander Beken at Bijlokestudio
Mixing: Frederik Segers at Studio Boma
Cover illustration & lay-out: Kevin Vanwonterghem
Here we have a small selection of our videos, please check our Youtube channel for more.
Albumtrack from LESS IS ENDLESS, live at Gent Jazz Festival 2022.
'Gentse Leugentjes' is the 7th track from De Beren Gieren's upcoming new album 'Less Is Endless' (September 10th 2021, Sdban Ultra).
This unique live version was recorded in Handelsbeurs Concertzaal (Ghent) as part of the GREENING STREAMING SESSION that was broadcasted on February 19th 2021.
Concept, direction & editing by Tobi Johnson
Recorded & mixed by Peter Desmedt
'Animalcules' is the third single from De Beren Gieren's upcoming new album 'Less Is Endless' (September 10th 2021, Sdban Ultra).
This special & extended live version was recorded in Handelsbeurs Concertzaal (Ghent) as part of the GREENING STREAMING SESSION that was broadcasted on February 19th 2021.
Concept, direction & editing by Tobi Johnson
Recorded & mixed by Peter Desmedt
The second single from our album 'Less Is Endless' (Sdban Ultra, September 10th 2021). Video by Victor Van Rossem.
Video by Ysbear (Felix Ysenbaert)
Puppets are dancing on an unreleased track of the 'Dug Out Skyscrapers' sessions.
Drift away on our excavated present time. This is the -almost- title track from our album Dug Out Skyscrapers.
A full live concert at the end of the One Mirrors Many tour.
Video by Dirk Zoete
One Mirrors Many (Try Out Concert)
In 2014 we appeared on Dutch national television in the wonderful slow tv program Vrije Geluiden.
We were lucky to be selected to play at the jazzahead showcase in 2013. How did we play there? Here you can see it for yourself.
Late night television. This track can also be heard on our second album a raveling.
Fulco Ottervanger is a Belgian multi-instrumentalist, composer and singer in jazz, pop and experimental contemporary music. He grew up in Brussels with Dutch parents. Ottervanger began at a young age with cello, guitar and piano and with writing music. At the Conservatory of Ghent he studied jazz piano with Erik Vermeulen and contemporary composition with Frank Nuyts. Besides the acclaimed electro-acoustic piano trio De Beren Gieren, his own projects include the krautpop band STADT, with which he has released three albums, and the electronically minded, musically boundless experiment of BeraadGeslagen. This duo, formed with drummer Lander Gyselinck, released one of the most acclaimed Belgian albums of 2018 with ‘Duizeldorp’, played Pukkelpop two years in a row and was invited as artist-in-residence and curator at Jazz Middelheim. In 2019, Fulco Ottervanger released a well-received solo album as FULCO, a Dutch-spoken singer-songwriter, which was followed by a successful release tour. Fulco can also be found in the theater and dance world: he created for and played in three awarded performances by Zonzo Compagnie (amongst others with An Pierlé) and composed for Benjamin Vandewalle’s dance company Platform-K. Fulco wrote compositions for Symphony Orchestra Flanders, B-Classic Festival, November Music (NL) and Flat Earth Society. He regularly gives free improvisation concerts and, in addition, collaborates with people from other disciplines such as writers, poets, draughts men, dancers and filmmakers. He was the city composer of Ghent between 2016 and 2018, and was nominated for a ‘Music Industry Award’ in 2018 and 2019 in the category of ‘Best Musician’.
Lieven Van Pée already became interested in a broad palette of music at a young age. Besides an early passion for electronics and sequencers, he starts to play the bass guitar at the age of 16. After high school he starts to attend classes at the Jazzstudio in Antwerp with teachers such as Bas Cooymans and Cedric Waeterschoot. Soon he switches from bass guitar to double bass and gets more fascinated by jazz- and impro music. Four years later he starts at the conservatorium in Ghent to follow classes with Stefan Lievestro. There, he also meets up with Fulco Ottervanger and Simon Segers to found De Beren Gieren in 2009. Other than his activities in jazz- and crossover bands such as John Ghost and Echoes of Zoo, Lieven is also composing electronic music, and is active as a sound engineer and producer. He already remixed a few bands under Vectrex and released an electronic EP on the label of DJ Lefto under the moniker Annie Pleasure. His electronic experiments and musical versatility are reflected in his bass playing, which easily adds a specific sound to the music he creates. Besides that it is always a pleasure to see this passionate, cheerful bass player perform on stage.
Simon Segers folds every genre into his own personal swing. Being a drummer in challenging bands, he pushes the music forward in an intuitive way. Simon grew up in a family where it was an obvious recreation to listen intensely to music. Where his dad (and his dad’s record collection) became a great influence in listening to music, it was his older brother (guitarist Frederik Segers) that made him play the drums. From their early teenage years, they are playing together in different projects, which made Simon develop a great love for long and profound cooperations. At the age of 21 Simon started his jazz education at the Conservatory of Ghent, where he dived deeply into his rhythmical explorations. Simon has immersed himself in many styles but he never became a purist. Genres are there to be crossed: in recent years he played in rock and pop groups as well as in jazz, free and world oriented projects. He considers the jazz trio De Beren Gieren and the rock band STADT as his most personal projects in which he participates profoundly. Since 2019 Simon has also ventured into solo concerts where he strives for the perfect balance between polyrhythmic trance, melodic drumming and sound experiment. In addition, he can be heard with MDCIII, Black Flower, Sylvie Kreusch, SPOOK and Dijf Sanders. Thanks to many years of commitment to unique projects, Simon’s style became very diverse but at the same time very recognizable. He plays the drums with a propulsive power that sounds both repetitive and varied. The long tension arc prevails in his playing, but always with a surprise right on time.
In the space between expectation and surprise you will find De Beren Gieren, providing robust evidence that gold can still be mined from the union of piano, bass and drums. From 2010 to 2015 the band resided in art center Vooruit (Ghent). Their international breakthrough came with their second album a raveling (2013) and the following year a live recording with Portuguese trumpet player Susana Santos Silva was released as The Detour Fish (2014) on record label Clean Feed and was critically praised worldwide. In 2015 the third trio album One Mirrors Many was awarded as ‘most influential & accurate album of the year’ by Jazzism and marked the beginning of their electronic quest, finding its maturity in Dug Out Skyscrapers (2017), released on Belgian label Sdban. It won the Klara award of ‘best jazz album of the year’. They toured Europe and Japan to spread their overwhelming live energy. In 2019, the band celebrated its 10th birthday and released a limited edition Broensgebuzze EP on Sdban records. The accompanying tour took place in churches; acoustic live concerts with an astonishing visual and sonic atmosphere.
De Beren Gieren is a worldwide acclaimed band, besides being a must-see band on all the best BeneLux stages, they brought their transcendental live energy to France, Germany, Portugal, Norway, England, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Estonia, Morocco and Japan. They were invited to perform at major events such as North Sea Jazz, Jazz Middelheim, Trondheim Jazzfestival, Ljubljana Jazz Festival, Moers Festival, Gent Jazz, Kanazawa Jazz Street and Eurosonic.
The trio is known for its unique energetic sound, sparkling melodies, complex structures and quirky song titles. They bring a blend of polyrhythmic soundscapes, sing-alongs and elitist twists, showing an ability to change mood in a way that constantly holds one’s attention. A live experience not to be missed. That’s certainly what brought the trio to collaborate with internationally renowned Jazz artists as Louis Sclavis, Ernst Reijseger, Joachim Badenhorst, Marc Ribot, Jan Klare and Jean-Yves Evrard.
The next album Less Is Endless will be released on September 10th 2021 via Sdban Records.
Daan De Bruyne from DAAN Agency
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Gilles Dierickx from Aubergine Artist Management
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