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  • "Tristan Driessens found his calling east of the Bosphorus, becoming one of the West’s few masters of the oud." HÜRRIYET DAILY NEWS (TR)

    Tristan Driessens

  • New album "Memories of Istanbul" coming out soon

    Tristan Driessens & Levent Yildirim

  • **** Une musique qui remue l’âme, mélancolique et apaisée, avec des orages intérieurs soudains. Le Soir

    Soolmaan Quartet

  • “If modal jazz had flourished under the Ottoman Empire, it might have sounded like this.” TED GIOA (US)

    Shepherds and Sultans

  • Hildegard von Bingen - Codex de Termonde

    Illuminans Tenebras

  • **** "Multicultural medieval meanderings from Belgium" SONGLINES (UK)

    Toasaves

  • Looking for New Horizons

    Hirundo Maris

  • Tristan Driessens & Shahab Azinmehr

    Didar

  • Levent Yildirim, Brice Soniano, Tristan Driessens

    Rituals for Peace Trio

Latest Release

HIRUNDO MARIS

Looking for New Horizons, Book I (Seyir Muzik, 2025)

Label: Seyir Muzik

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Arianna Savall: soprano, romanesque harp, gothic harp, kravik lyre Petter Udland Johansen: tenor, viele, hardingfele, kravik lyre Tristan Driessens: oud, soprano oud, lavta Derya Türkan: kemençe Efrén López: wheel fiddle, oud, lavta, medieval lute, Afghan […]

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Upcoming Concerts

Theater Gütersloh, Gütersloh, DE

Toasaves Quartet

Jazz Schmiede, Düsseldorf, DE

Toasaves Quartet

Paterskirche Franziskanerkloster, Kempen, DE

Toasaves Quartet

Hanger 21, Detmold, DE

Toasaves Quartet

Latest Videos

Illuminans Tenebras

Soolmaan

Illuminans Tenebras / Soolmaan

De Bijloke, full concert video, 14th of December 2024

News

TOASAVES ON TOUR – FALL 2025

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FROM WOMEX TO KLANGKOSMOS We are delighted that Toasaves, the Belgian collective acclaimed for their boundary-defying interpretation of Flemish folk songs, has been selected to perform a showcase in WOMEX Tampere ! Their debut album, Zwerver, was notably awarded “Best Album” […]

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