SOUFIFEX – Spinifex
Tobias Klein – alto saxophone
Bart Maris – trumpet
John Dikeman – tenor saxophone
Jasper Stadhouders – guitar
Gonçalo Almeida – bass
Philipp Moser – drums
In October 2018, we spent two days at the Room 13 Studio in Ghent to record the SOUFIFEX cd, beautifully mixed and mastered by Philipp Moser, with great artwork by Gonçalo Almeida.
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In 2017, Spinifex adapted two pieces and recorded them for the CD ‘Amphibian Ardour’: a Sufi traditional of Kurdish/Iranian origin, and a Qawali traditional from Pakistan. We liked this music so much that we decided to create a whole project, SOUFIFEX, dedicated to music inspired by Sufi traditions. Deeply rooted in our musical approach of combining cutting-edge composed structures with free improvisation, Spinifex dived into the magic of ritually repeated patterns and concentration on the beat.
The SOUFIFEX première took place at the Moers Festival in May 2018. The Belgian music journalist Guy Peters “… a band of extreme contrasts which moves freely at one moment, only to abruptly and mercilessly strike with ultratight interplay the next moment…”