Thanks to everybody, to all the musicians and artists that have participated to the last edition of Zinneke ! The zinnodes ‘Urban Village’ and ‘Distoring’ were a great success thanks to you all!

Fanfakids, the famous Brussels based young drum band will be reinforced during the month of July by FabotastiX, their companions from Leuven. Reinforced is to be taken literally. They do not only play together and on their familiar acoustic drums, but as well on ‘trashy’ amplified instruments they made themselves (under the direction of ZOFT) out of bicycle spokes, scrap and discarded guitars. Plug & Play! These semi-acoustic youngsters get grooves out of everything they get in their hands and transform its energy this way into extremely catchy rhythms!

Last weekend, VoiXlà performed a nice series of concerts. The excellent singers and musicians were invited to La Chapelle de Verre (Ronquières), Théatre de la Vie and Cellule 133a (Brussels). The audience was instantly captured by the onomatopoeia, the sounds and melodies of this original ensemble, directed by Olivier Thomas.

For that occasion and on the 26th of April, the Beursschouwburg presents the previously unreleased sound of 3Bas, a bizarre trio that of three Brussels bass saxophonists. The mega-reeds are fluttered by François Lourtie, Marti Mélia and Luc Mishalle. For this occasion they will be assisted by Badr Derras, Abdessamad Semlali and co, among others, and in between also a good helping of unadulterated Moroccan Sha’abi. And of course, there will also be a few surprising interventions: we don’t have diaspora every day…

The following days MET-X will be present à Jazzahead at the stand of Flanders Music Centre (F04). Don’t hesitate to step by or to contact us so we can meet and exchange information. Looking forward to seeing you!

During several workshops Guillaume Orti will select 12 members for the European Saxophone Ensemble. The selected musicians will get the unique experience to rehearse and tour through Europe in the summer and fall of 2012. Although selections take place for the tour, the workshops are open and free for everyone! Through intense collective practice, the workshops will focus on learning by heart, memorizing and analyzing some compositional vocabularies in order to use them when improvising. For information and participation send an email to: maaike@met-x.be.

Once again, MET-X will be present at Babel Med. Join us at stand 13 (Wallonie Bruxelles Musiques) and get to know our artists as well as our new projects !

What do the musicians of the Royal Flemish Philharmonic orchestra and Marockin' Brass have in common? On the 30th of March quite a lot! They will perform seperately and together, on a new composition of Luc Mishalle. More info via www.deroma.be

The musicians of Women in Jail are preparing for a tour in 4 Belgian prisons that will start on 19 Mai in the Berkendael prison (Brussels). Therefor, MET-X organises a tryout on 18/05 at 20.30h at Zinnema. Don’t miss it! More info & tickets via www.zinnema.be

… and the sky is the limit ! Here are a few dates where you can check them out : 23/03 (Byrrh), 24/03 (Antitapas), 12/05 (Recyclart), 27/05 (Brussels Jazz Marathon /Bonnefooi), 31/10 Samhain. Prépare for the inevitable, Velotronix takes care of the rest…