Samuel Ber - Pentadox feat. Sylvaine Hélary

With Pentadox, Samuel Ber has created a unique vehicle that gives free rein to his creativity. The core of the band – Samuel Ber (drums), Sylvain Debaisieux (sax) and Bram De Looze (piano) – has been focusing on long-term exploration of new concepts an ideas about composition, improvisation and interaction and navigation for some years now. Since its birth in 2015 during a residency in Brussels' Jazz Station, Pentadox has been mixing elements of jazz, classical, avant-garde, improvised, electronic and contemporary music and has been regularly creating alternative ensembles by inviting other artists, engendering adventurous collaborations which each time reshape the musical vision of these artists. For their first album "Between", the group is joined by saxophonists Bo Van der Werf and Guillaume Orti (FR). The album was released at the end of 2018 in BOZAR. One year later, Pentadox transforms into an electro-acoustic sextet called "Fragments of Expansion" with the addition of 3 new adventurous minds who are all composers, improvisers and performers: Lester St Louis on cello, Nick Dunston on double bass and Weston Olencki on trombone and electronics. The eponymous album was released on WERF label in january 2020, during a tour in Belgium and Netherlands (JazzLab series). Today, Pentadox continues its investigations, both focusing on the trio and inviting interdisciplinary artists such as flutist and composer Sylvaine Hélary, filmmaker Jeanne Cousseau, actor Yoann Blanc, light artist Sam Mary, and bassists Felix Henkelhausen & Soet Kempeneer.