DE KOFFIE VAN MORGEN – LE RAVAGE D’ALI BABA
Simon Plancke drums/electronics, Jozef Dumoulin keys/elektronics, Els Viaene sounddesign.
Le Ravage d’Ali Baba links improvisation, electronica and cinematic music to words and visuals, with a strong social undercurrent. Not just a concert, but an intriguing and captivating performance.
Together with volunteers, jazz drummer Simon Plancke visited refugee camps in Brussels and Dunkirk. His conversations with children and adults became part of the album Le Ravage d’Ali Baba, released under the name De koffie van morgen. The accompanying book contains texts by nine authors who visited the camps as well, and who processed their impressions and reports into personal contributions. The book also contains photo material of the project Light of the Children, for which the children made photographs inside the camps.
Plancke will be accompanied on stage by two remarkable artists. Sound artist Els Viaene is a longtime collector of sounds from nature, who creates extraordinary soundscapes. Keyboardist Jozef Dumoulin is a Belgian jazz misfit and sonic traveler. He recorded the very first solo album for Fender Rhodes, which sounds authentic and futuristic at the same time.
This performance is part of the collaboration between BIMHUIS and Flemish cultural center De Brakke Grond.