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Orchestre International du Vetex is a crazy musical collective of 12-17 musicians coming from France, Belgium, and the Balkans. They started up as a kind of temporary marching brass band that wanted to save an abandoned old textile factory in the Flemish town of Kortrijk. But since their start in 2004, they have become one of the finest and hottest world music acts from Belgium and France. From an acoustic brass band playing weddings and funerals, they became a well-known and respected brilliant and energetic live act playing at famous festivals such as Montreal Jazz, Colour Café, Esperanzah, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Aachen, Paris, Amsterdam, ... In October 2011, they released their brand new album 'Total Tajine', a double-CD the band recorded in Novi Sad (Serbia) and where they mix up Balkan music, tarantella, reggae, afrobeat with Latin American cumbia style... Reviews are great. 'Total Tajine' is more than a record; it became a double album with 28 songs and a recipe of their own 'transborder' tajine, with flavors from Flanders, Wallonia, and the North of France...
It took quite some time to find the new studio album of Vetex in the stores, but that has its own reasons. The Orchestre International du Vetex is, as you might know, not a 'normal' band, but more like a border-crossing collective of about 15 musicians who play a large number of concerts and so spend a huge part of the time on the road. Since its first concert in April 2004 in the old "Vetex textile factory" in Kortrijk, the band has played more than 600 concerts all over the world. From neighborhood parties in Wazemmes, Beziers, or Stasegem to big events and festivals like Couleur Café, la Fête de l'Huma, Dranouter, or Esperanzah. From small squares in Sarajevo to the Underground in Prague. From the Olympic Winter Games in Torino to the prestigious jazz festivals in Nis, Bansko, or Montreal. In the last two years, Vetex has also developed itself more and more as a complete stage act, with the astonishing Bosnian diva Jelena Milusic as their favorite guest singer. For the recording of their third album 'Total Tajine', the Orchestre International du Vetex hid for 2 weeks in February 2011 in a studio in the Serbian city of Novi Sad. They were confronted with snow, ice-cold temperatures, and rakia. But it was a logical consequence of the collaboration they had for some years with musicians from the Balkans. The songs were finished afterward in August 2011 in the bloody hot basement of a restored mansion in Tournai (Belgium) and finally mixed by Vetex percussionist and Think of One musician Roel Poriau. The mastering of the record was done by Karel De Backer (Rat & Kabel).
The 28 songs on the new album 'Total Tajine' are all original compositions of the Orchestre International du Vetex, almost all of them composed by the French-Polish-Italian trumpet player of the band, Thomas Morzewski. Then again, saxophone players Lionel Raepsaet and Nathan Daems also delivered some tracks. In 'Total Tajine', the Orchestre International du Vetex strolls once more on their beloved path of eccentric and festive brass music: Balkan, klezmer, and ska, of course, but also tarantella, cumbia, or reggae... And like always, Vetex keeps some space for melancholia too. 'Total Tajine' also is a brand new recipe of a real tajine, invented by cuisinier Jean-François Damien from Mouscron, right on the frontier between Belgium and France. To taste!
It took quite some time to find the new studio album of Vetex in the stores, but that has its own reasons. The Orchestre International du Vetex is, as you might know, not a 'normal' band, but more like a border-crossing collective of about 15 musicians who play a large number of concerts and so spend a huge part of the time on the road. Since its first concert in April 2004 in the old "Vetex textile factory" in Kortrijk, the band has played more than 600 concerts all over the world. From neighborhood parties in Wazemmes, Beziers, or Stasegem to big events and festivals like Couleur Café, la Fête de l'Huma, Dranouter, or Esperanzah. From small squares in Sarajevo to the Underground in Prague. From the Olympic Winter Games in Torino to the prestigious jazz festivals in Nis, Bansko, or Montreal. In the last two years, Vetex has also developed itself more and more as a complete stage act, with the astonishing Bosnian diva Jelena Milusic as their favorite guest singer. For the recording of their third album 'Total Tajine', the Orchestre International du Vetex hid for 2 weeks in February 2011 in a studio in the Serbian city of Novi Sad. They were confronted with snow, ice-cold temperatures, and rakia. But it was a logical consequence of the collaboration they had for some years with musicians from the Balkans. The songs were finished afterward in August 2011 in the bloody hot basement of a restored mansion in Tournai (Belgium) and finally mixed by Vetex percussionist and Think of One musician Roel Poriau. The mastering of the record was done by Karel De Backer (Rat & Kabel).
The 28 songs on the new album 'Total Tajine' are all original compositions of the Orchestre International du Vetex, almost all of them composed by the French-Polish-Italian trumpet player of the band, Thomas Morzewski. Then again, saxophone players Lionel Raepsaet and Nathan Daems also delivered some tracks. In 'Total Tajine', the Orchestre International du Vetex strolls once more on their beloved path of eccentric and festive brass music: Balkan, klezmer, and ska, of course, but also tarantella, cumbia, or reggae... And like always, Vetex keeps some space for melancholia too. 'Total Tajine' also is a brand new recipe of a real tajine, invented by cuisinier Jean-François Damien from Mouscron, right on the frontier between Belgium and France. To taste!
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