BIO
The Orchestre International du Vetex is a crazy brassband with musicians coming from Belgium, France and the Balkans. The band created its own musical universe: their music is a loco combination of latin inspired Balkan music mixed up with tarantella, polka or cumbia. All settled in a nice punky package!
Within 19 years (2004), they performed more than 900 concerts. From the streets of Brussels, Lille, London or Sarajevo to the World Music stage of Sofia, Graz, Beijing, Belgrade, Budapest, Praha, Milano, Buenos Aires, Zürich, Amsterdam, Paris, Malaga or the Montreal Jazz Festival.
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But Orchestre International du Vetex is also the perfect band for an amazing theatre show. In 2009 they presented "Balkan Banquets", an original performance where the band is backed up by the incredible Mostar-born singer Jelena Milusic and several other musicians from the Balkans. Since 2011 they also collaborate with several musicians from Argentina presenting the performance 'Rumbabalkanika'.
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"Winner of the Beyond World Music Award 2006"
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"Amazing, definitely the Mano Negra within the brassbands"
(Stefan Pejovic, Radio BH1, Sarajevo)
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"Expect the unexpected, but expect it to be stimulating"
(fROOTS)
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'If this is Belgium calling, please keep this country together!"
(Bernard Perret, Radio Jazzman, Paris)
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LINE UP
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Jacob Willem
Barytone Sax
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Matthieu Levecque Trumpet
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Loes Coolen Trumpet
Annelies Remaut Bass Drum
Mathieu Gassie
Alt Sax
Tomas Bulcaen
Trombone
Benoît Blanc
Trombone
Jan Cuvelier
Buggle
Dries Degrande
Sousaphone
Laurent Dionet
Alt Sax
Pieter Dubois
Trombone
Dimitri Simoen
Percussions
Stan Neman
Accordion
Thomas Morzewski
Trumpet
Lye Bruyneel
Percussions
Mounier Ziabat
Percussions
Jean-Baptiste Lison
Accordion
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