Balkavik

 BALKAVIK was born in 2021 from the overflowing imagination of Brussels pianist and composer Victor Abel – founder of the group “Ananké” twenty years earlier – and his three playing accomplices: Frédéric Gairard on violin, Romain Karsenty on accordion and Antoine Maes on double bass.

Inspired by Transylvanian, Moldavian or Bulgarian suites gleaned from their travels – but also from their varied influences (from jazz to funk, from swing to musette) – the quartet offers an energizing concentrate of instrumental music, between tenderness and virtuosity, tradition and cross-breeding.

A dreamlike universe where Tim Burton and Émir Kusturica rub shoulders, frenetic dances and lame rhythms, strong alcohol and gentle madness...