Bestiaal

Bestiaal's jazz can be quite potent. Originality and willfulness have always been core values for jazz musicians, but here they are natural components of a strikingly stubborn character. Bestiaal's elusiveness is largely due to the compositions of drummer Sebastiaan Vekeman, which are still anchored in the classical jazz language, but also make a run for it. The compositions on 'Absoluut' (2016) and 'Inenen' (2018), for example, were not classical structures with a familiar head and a tail as an exclamation point, but a free pass to tell stories that only follow their own, erratic logic. Just as is the case with their new album 'Het Deert'.