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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

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

    Toasaves

  • Tristan Driessens & Shahab Azinmehr

    Didar

  • Levent Yildirim, Brice Soniano, Tristan Driessens

    Rituals for Peace Trio

Latest Release

FRÉDÉRIC VERCHEVAL

BAGHDAD MESSI (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, 2025)

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Frédéric Vercheval: composition, Vardan Hovanissian: duduk, Tristan Driessens: oud, Hungarian Studio Orchestra. Baghdad Messi‘s music is a journey into the heart of Hamoudi’s feelings, this passionate young boy whose innocence and dreams are shattered by […]

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Upcoming Concerts

CC Het Bolwerk, Vilvoorde, BE

Toasaves Quartet

Kas Attenhoven, Stabroek, BE

Didar / Tristan Driessens & Shahab Azinmehr

De Warande, Turnhout, BE

Michalis Kouloumis & Tristan Driessens Quintet – Music for Shepherds and Sultans

De X, Leiden, NL

Michalis Kouloumis & Tristan Driessens Duet

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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