Various - Utopic Cities: Progressive Jazz in Belgi (Sealed) (CD)

On June 11th, independent groove label Sdban Records will release Utopic Cities: Progressive Jazz in Belgium 1968-1979 featuring twelve essential compositions from a highly creative period in Belgian jazz. The release follows Sdban’s critically acclaimed Let’s Get Swinging: Modern Jazz in Belgium 1950-1970, released back in 2017. Utopic Cities is an eclectic selection of forward-thinking jazz from the Belgian underground, including the left-field fusion of Marc Moulin’s Placebo, Koen De Bruyne and Solis Lacus; the intense post-bop of Jacques Pelzer and Lou MacConnell; the cutting edge soul jazz of Philip Catherine and Open Sky Unit or the otherworldly avant-garde of Babs Robert and the Brussels Art Quintet. Recorded in the aftermath of the revolutionary year 1968, this music is the fruit of a highly creative momentum in Belgian jazz history that produced a unique sound which distinguishes itself from its American source of inspiration by an indefinable characteristic that can be hardly better described than ‘Belgian’. TRACKLISTING CD1 1. Placebo - S.U.S. 2. Solis Lacus - Utopic Cities 3. Open Sky Unit - Open Sky 4. Brussels Art Quintet - Vas-y Voir 5. Koen De Bruyne - Pathetic Dreams 6. Rapha?l – Archangelo CD2 1. Philip Catherine - Memphis Talk 2. Jacques & Micheline Pelzer Quartet - Face Reality 3. The Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band - Sakara 4. Marc Moulin - Tohubohu pt. I 5. Babs Robert - Pro Forma I 6. Lou MacConnell – Naima