BL!NDMAN

line-up

Eric Sleichim
artistic direction, arrangements, tubax and electronics

BL!NDMAN [sax]
Pieter Pellens: soprano saxophone
Hendrik Pellens: alto saxophone
Piet Rebel: tenor saxophone
Sebastiaan Cooman: bariton saxophone

BL!NDMAN [drums]
Hannes Nieuwlaet: percussion
Yves Goemaere: percussion
Ward Deketelaere: percussion
Gideon Van Canneyt: percussion

BL!NDMAN [strings]
Stefanie Van Backlé: violin
Femke Verstappen: violin
Monica Goicea: viola
Suzanne Vermeyen: cello

Fabian Coomans: piano

BL!NDMAN is supported by the Arts Administration of the Ministry of the Flemish Community and the Flemish Community Commission of the Brussels-Capital Region. BL!NDMAN [sax] play Selmer Paris Saxophones.

ICONS - The American Minimalists -

Concerts and release triple CD

BL!NDMAN [sax]
BL!NDMAN [drums]
BL!NDMAN [strings]
BL!NDMAN [hybrid]
eric sleichim

BL!NDMAN provides a sample of the unique timbres that the specific distribution can realize autonomously and together: saxophone quartet, string quartet, percussion quartet, piano and electronics.

The early minimal repertoire was material for many choreographers, such as A.T. De Keersmaeker and Wim Vandekeybus with whom Eric Sleichim, BL!NDMAN’s artistic director, had his first collaborations. The material included here is highly representative of the various techniques used by the icons of this movement.

The repertoire brings a wider audience that finds it hard to connect to contemporary classical music, to a different oeuvre than the traditional works of “classical music”. BL!NDMAN also finds a link here with its démarche to the renewal of “old music”; minimal music is inspired by the oldest polyphony techniques.

The choice for relatively well-known and especially less well-known works of the three icons of repetitive music gives a right to exist. The recording of a triple CD immediately aroused the interest of major record label Warner Classics. Release 2022.