Lobo/Di Domenico/Eimermacher (drums/piano/sax) - live recording!

Three fantastic musicians from the Brussels jazz/improv scene will be at POM to make alive recordingof the concert. This will later be released on various media and websites. In short, be there to help them reach their full potential. All three have played at POM before, in various formations.

Giovanni Di Domenico (piano)

Giovanni Di Domenico (IT) is a pianist, performer, and composer. With a background in jazz, he has carved a unique path in the field of experimental music, drawing from a variety of influences: non-Western traditions (he spent his childhood between Libya, Cameroon, and Algeria), figures of free piano such as Borah Bergman, Cecil Taylor, and Paul Bley, as well as Debussy and Luciano Berio. His prolific output is expressed through numerous ensembles (Abschattungen, AufHeben, Bonjintan, Cement Shoes, Delivery Health, Going…), critically acclaimed solo recordings, and close collaborations with Jim O'Rourke, Tatsuhisa Yamamoto, Akira Sakata, Arve Henriksen, Alexandra Grimal, Nate Wooley, and Chris Corsano. He has also founded his own label, Silent Water, which hosts an eclectic and unclassifiable body of work.

João Lobo (drums)

From jazz to gnawa music, electro-acoustic trance to total improvisation, in solo or in a big band, collaborating on dance and theatre productions and making soundtracks for movies, João Lobo maintains a versatile career as a musician mainly playing the drums. He has released two records under his name: “Nowruz” in 2017 and “Simorgh” in 2020. He is the co-founder of Oba Loba, Going, Tetterapadequ, Norman, Mulabanda, and a proud member of Giovanni Guidi Trio, Manuel Hermia Trio, Punk Kong, An Pierlè&La Lumière, Daniele Martini Quartet. He has recorded more than 60 albums, some self-produced and others for labels such as ECM, Clean Feed, CamJazz, De Werf, El Negocito, three:four records, Challenge, NEOS. He has performed and/or recorded in many countries around the world with many musicians including Enrico Rava, Marshall Allen, Roswell Rudd, Carlos Bica, Nate Wooley, Maalem Hassan Zogari, Tatsuhisa Yamamoto, Thomas Morgan, Chris Corsano, and collaborates intensely with Norberto Lobo, Giovanni Di Domenico, Lynn Cassiers, Manolo Cabras and Giovanni Guidi.

Johannes Eimermacher (altsax)

Johannes Eimermacher (*1981 Münster, DE) studied jazz saxophone at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen (Germany). During this time he began collaborating with other disciplines like dance, theater, performance and film. For six years he was regularly working as a musician and performer at the Hessisches Landestheater Marburg. Since 2008 he lives in Brussels where he is involved in a wide variety of projects as a saxophonist, composer and improviser. He is the initiator and composer of a quartet with Gaspard Sicx, Emanuel Van Mieghem and Frans Van Isacker, as well as the saxophone quintet La Nuée (english: The Flock). Inspired by flocks of birds they research various modes of interaction between the musicians, as well as exploring the endless possibilities of soundproduction on the saxophone. Besides his projects he is constantly exploring and deepening various creative fields like taking classes in opera singing, saxophone, acoustic and electro-acoustic composition, counterpoint and harmony, and meditation.