album release: Marockin' Brass - Beats & Pieces

After years of playing with the Moroccan community of Brussels, jazz musician Luc Mishalle knows every trick of the cross-fertilization of gnawa music, jazz & brass. You can find this out yourself on Beats and Pieces, the new album of his gnawa-jazz band Marockin’ Brass.

For this new release the band worked together with Tunisian producer Sofyann Ben Youssef and Roel Poriau (Think of One, Antwerp Gipsy-Ska Orkestra). The 'beats' refer to the drums of Poriau, who has a more prominent style, and the pumping Arabic basslines are the trademark of producer Ben Youssef (Ammar808, Kel Assouf).