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15-06-2021:

Release documentary PAST >| ORALE


As an introduction to the performance PAST >I ORALE Zefiro Torna asked film maker Mathias Ruelle to create a short documentary. Through the eyes of five characters, this film highlights a few elementary parts from which the performance originated. The music of PAST >I ORALE - a wonderful mix of Beethoven, sound art and alternative pop - resonates as a soundtrack.

> Watch the documentary here (from June 15th until July 13th)

27-05-2021:

CD release Llibre Vermell


'A summer evening in Catalonia, 1399. A group of pilgrims are sitting next to the wall of the abbey church of Montserrat. They have come in search of forgiveness, purification, a fresh start.' Zefiro Torna and Psallentes re-opened this famous "Llibre Vermell de Montserrat". You can find our intimate version of the pilgrim songs on our newest CD, out now on the label Le Bricoleur. Get your copy here, it's the ideal soundtrack for a relaxing summer evening.

11-03-2021:

BALSAM on Podium 19


Tune in to Podium 19, a new tv-channel for culture, on Sunday 21 March at 6pm for BALSAM, and let yourself be carried away by the enchanting music and images of the alchemistic concert by Zefiro Torna and Laika. Afterwards you can watch the show for another month on VRTnu.

Of course we look forward to welcome you live again into this magic laboratory. We are planning a long tour in Belgium and abroad, which we hope to start in June.

11-12-2020:

Music for the Christmas Season


Tired of yet another version of Jingle Bells or All I Want for Christmas? Maybe you'll like our 'Special Seasonal Mix' on Spotify, a selection of songs to spice up this cold December month.

Even though we celebrate Christmas a little differently this year, presents are always nice to receive and to give. Balsam's music literally works as a balm to many souls in these times, an ideal gift for under the Christmas tree. Thanks to a stock sale of the Homerecords label, you can buy the Scattered Rhymes CD with the Frank Vaganée Trio at a discount price of 5 euros. For a swinging start of 2021!

15-09-2020:

Fall 2020: Balsam and two premieres


We are all in need of cultural activities after the past months. It's something we noticed from the many moved reactions after playing Balsam at the Zomer van Antwerpen in July. The press has repeatedly called the performance "a balm for the soul." This autumn we bring you extra oxygen for the soul with the reprise of Balsam in Rotterdam and Heerlen.

On October 14, Zefiro Torna and the contemporary French Ensemble Variances will unite music from the 14th to the 21st centuries during the premiere of BACHC®AB in deSingel. And a month later we'll launch you 'im glückliche Fahrt' into a new time and space with the long-awaited premiere of PAST | ORALE: BTHVN transhumanized during the Lunalia festival. Looking forward to this special reunion!

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HYPERSENSES

— Music theatre for eye, ear, nose, mouth, skin & heart (2026)

The Lady and the Unicorn is one of the most intriguing sets of wall tapestries made in the 15th century. The work is regarded as an allegory of the five senses, but it actually consists of six tapestries. The last one in the series refers to a mysterious sense – the so-called ‘sense of the heart’.

Drawing on this historical representation, HYPERSENSES explores the modern-day sensory experience. In the over-stimulated, hectic times we live in, this multi-sensory music performance invites us to ponder what we experience.

Can tastes be audible, colours tangible, smells visible? Images, tastes, smells and textures converge with live electro-acoustic music, while sonic layers meld with mesmerizing 15th-century melodies, and the whole piece becomes a single, layered sensory experience.

HYPERSENSES subtly throws the brain off balance and plunges the audience into an intense state of euphoria in which nothing is what it seems.

After their successful collaboration on the alchemistic laboratory BALSAM and long runs of shows at home and abroad, Zefiro Torna and Laika are joining forces once again in a performance that fine-tunes the senses.

[quote author="30.05.20206, Pzazz (Robbe Beheydt)"]"'HYPERSENSES' shows that multisensory theater does not necessarily have to be bigger, louder, or more intense to make an impression. With enough concentration and imagination, the senses open up on their own; the lady with the unicorn can leave her little box open with peace of mind.""[/quote]

"The evening unfolds as a true ode to the senses - - - A series of images, tastes, melodies, and words string together into an individual experience of the fullness of life, unashamedly displayed/ We are invited to remember that the senses can also be positively stimulated on a basic level – and how satisfying it can be to rub a basil leaf and inhale its scent." 30.05.20206, Theaterkrant (Javier López Piñón)

Zefiro Torna & Laika



GENERAL CONCEPT Jurgen De Bruyn & Peter De Bie SENSORY CONCEPT Peter De Bie & Sara Sampelayo SOUND AND AUDIENCE-INTERACTIVE CONCEPT David Helbich MUSICIANS Jurgen De Bruyn (lute, mandolin, colascione, electronics, vocals), Maris Pajuste (vocals, keyboard, electronics) PERFORMANCE Jotka Bauwens, Peter De Bie & Sara Sampelayo FINAL DIRECTION Michai Geyzen SCENOGRAPHY Peter De Bie & Jana Roos COSTUMES Jana Roos DRAMATURGY Mieke Versyp SOUND Tom Van den Brande LIGHTING DESIGN Thomas Stevens PRODUCTION Pieter Smet, Helena Verbeeck

IN COPRODUCTION WITH Le Channel, scène nationale de Calais, Cultura Nova Heerlen and Perpodium | WITH THE SUPPORT OF the Flemish Community and the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government