Yoràn Vroom Group of Friends ft. Mehdi Nassouli

With Group Of Friends, Yoràn Vroom presents his own work from his albums ‘Across A Spectrum’ (2021) and ‘A Forgotten Story’ (2023). The music of ‘Across A Spectrum’ is mainly about the richness of Caribbean culture, which the musicians give their own take on with collective improvisation as the common denominator.

The second album ‘A Forgotten Story’, is the live album of Vrooms’ REFLEX project, the concert series of our BIMHUIS Productions department where musicians present their take on the current zeitgeist. The virtuoso drummer called together family and friends to reflect on the Covid years. Vroom took the perspective of ‘a history student from the next century, relying on backward sources’. Together with four percussionists and two dancers, among others, he told a story of dizzying repetition, hope and losing it. Now Vroom presents a combination of both albums with his Group of Friends, five virtuoso musicians that Vroom loves to play with. Special guest is Mehdi Nassouli, the internationally acclaimed Moroccan singer and player of the stringed instrument guembri.

Itai Weissman EWI, Timothy Banchet piano/keys, Nathaniel Klumperbeek bass, Yoràn Vroom drums, Yariv Vroom percussion, Fantison Araby O’bryan Mandinka percussion

Mehdi Nassouli guimbri