Resilience is the new album by drummer and composer Tuur Moens. The title refers to moments in his personal life but also the life as a musician. The album emerged from the rather turbulent years of 2020–2023: a period during which the pandemic and an exhausting immigration process for his Togolese partner caused uncertainty, nerve-wracking waiting times, and financial pressure. Music provided the only outlet.
As a human, you learn to survive, to carry your emotions, to recover after setbacks. As a musician, you learn to transform that same resilience into sound, rhythm, and melody. One feeds the other: life’s challenges become material for the music, and the music helps you navigate those very challenges.
Musical Language
The music of Resilience is at once powerful and fragile: jazz with a worldly horizon, rhythmic and energetic, yet also lyrical and melancholic. Brazilian, African, and Cuban influences run like a red thread through the compositions, inseparably linked to Moens’ own musical voice.
The Compositions
Each track carries its own story:
• Mexe o Pé – An exhilarating Brazilian Arrasta Pé (one of the Forró styles); the title literally means “move your feet.”
• Sougri – Based on a driving African 12/8 groove; Sougri means, among other things, “wisdom” in Mossi, the language of the Mossi people (West Africa, mainly Burkina Faso and northern Togo). Mossi is the traditional language of Tuur’s father-in-law.
• Introspection – A lyrical and intimate piece, featuring guest flamenco vocals and alto saxophone by Antonio Lizana (ES).
• Reborn – In 3/4, a fresh and simple melody expressing rebirth.
• Fly 2.1 – A vibrant 5/8 (or 5/4) feel, a new version of a piece originally released on the album Rewind (collaboration with João Frade).
• Las Tardes – Latin jazz evoking the atmosphere of an afternoon sun breaking through.
• Spring – An ode to hope and new beginnings, in Brazilian Baião style, featuring flutist Morgana Moreno (BR).
• Domingos sin Cambio – “Sundays without change”: a musical reflection on the seemingly endless waiting during Moens’ partner’s immigration process.
• Van ’t Kaske naar de Muur – A musical translation of bureaucratic labyrinths: from a nervous groove to open, calm passages of hope and tranquility... and back again.
- Released : 15/01/2026
- Recorded : Februari 2025
- Support : digital
- Sound engineer : Udo Pannekeet
