Stop That Train!

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After recording two albums as a trio, Ananke is back as a quintet with a powerful new album that blends 50s jazz with contemporary fusion, rock and film music. Created around the Brussels pianist Victor Abel, ANANKE carries on the tradition of contemporary jazz initiated by ground-breaking musicians such as Aka Moon, Greetings from Mercury or Pierre Van Dormael. For their new album, two extra musicians transform the band into a quintet: Quentin Manfroy (MikMâäk, Orange Kazoo, Fanfare du Belgistan) on flute and Yann Lecollaire (MikMâäk, Black Light Orchestra, Fonetic) on bass clarinet, instruments that bring a very particular colour to the album. "Stop That Train" is an album of modern jazz, with in-your-face but occasionally off-beat rhythms that support bewitching melodies played in turn intimately and with fire. Well-written and structured, the music nonetheless leaves plenty of room for improvisation and inventive solos. In ancient Greek, ANANKE meant “need”. The word indicates the power and vigour that the 5 musicians express through the music, and share with the audience. For them, music is a means of expression and not a goal in itself. Its role is social, unifying – and even religious and contemplative. More than anything else, ANANKE offers the music of a group, with energy, contrasts and interactions that draw on Aka Moon, Danny Elfman, Led Zepplin, Monk and Mingus.