S P E E Q

Luc Ex               bass

Phil Minton        voice  

Hasse Poulsen      guitar

Mark Sanders         drums

SPEEQ is a quartet of European improvisers, which came together for the first time in March 2006 at the Banlieues Bleues festival North of Paris.  This concert was great. The four different personalities really work well together.

Other concerts has followed on jazz festivals in France, England, Finland, Germany, Holland, Denmark, Austria.

The concert of Strasbourg was very well recorded, and the music was just what we want music to be. We couldn't resist to release this 60 minutes of intense, sharp and beautiful music.

     OR · Live in Strasbourg, Red Note RN13

                                           International distribution: Konkurrent

                               French distribution  Orkhestra

concerts

11/3/6 Banlieues Bleues Festival (Endresen)

9/7/6 Festival Luz Saint Sauveur (Endresen)

12/11/6 Jazz d’Or festival in Strasbourg (Endresen)

6/5/7 à Cheltenham jazz  festival (Endresen)

10/5/7 Europa Jazz Festival in le Mans (Endresen)

19/7/7 Pori Jazz festival – Finland (Endresen)

19/8/7 Festival Offside Open Germany  (Minton)

2/9/7 Les rendez-vous de l’Erdre (Endresen)

31/10/7 Carré Bleu Poitiers  (Minton)

2/11/7 Bordeaux Jazz Festival   (Minton)

5/2/8  Bimhuis (Minton) recording and interviews for Dutch national television

6/2/8  Copenhagen Jazzhouse (Minton) SEE SPEEQ IN DUTCH TELEVISION

7/2/8  Porgy and Bess (Minton)

8/2/8  Bimhuis (Minton)

16/5/8 Pannonica (Minton

26/6/8 Besançon jazz festival (Endresen)

SEE SPEEQ IN DUTCH TELEVISION - You must click the "video" in the corner. I am afraid that you will have to let it buffer for quite a while - or watch the whole program to get to speeq in the end. But if you have nothing else to do....

or watch the two clips on : NIKOLAJ    TRINE

PRESS CLIPPINGS    see all the critics

It's a real one-off band.      John Fordham, July 27, 2007, The Guardian about OR

Or takes you somewhere unfamiliar and disorienting, and it’s an enlivening and unique experience.

Julian Cowley, The Wire august 2007 about OR

Speeq certainly produced the festival’s most adventurous set.

The Vortex Jazz Club Blog May 10th, 2007 about the concert in Cheltenham

Energy, sense of exchange, generosity and humility: that night happiness was named SPEEQ.

Luc Bouquet aug.2006 about the concert at Luz Saint-Sauveur

Certainly one of the high points of the summer.

Philippe Meziat, Jazz magazine sep.2006 about the concert at Luz Saint-Sauveur

After one hour of strange and truly original music the response was clear: remarkably dense applause.

Samizdjazz blog 12-3-6 about the Banlieues Bleues concert

This musical marriage transcends physical geography, it is really exploring our interior seasons: Speeq talks to the heart and to the head.

Veneranda Paladino, Dernière nouvelles d’Alsace nov.13 2006 about the Strasbourg concert

Speeq is one of the best musical propositions heard in 2006 !

Armand Meignan in the program of Europa Jazz Festival.

The music of Speeq operates in the borderzones between european improvised music and avant-garde rock….certainly a band to follow in the future. Herman te Loo. Jazzflits june 28 2007.  About OR