Joachim Badenhorst & Brice Soniano
25 years of music together - now on a new adventure !
Brice and Joachim started to play is way back to when they met and studied at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague.
Their collaboration is most prominently featured in their duo Rawfishboys.
ORIGINS OF RAWFISHBOYS
The “Rawfishboys” name comes from their shared love of Japanese sushi and comic strips. They conceived of themselves as a sort of anti-hero or “weird mutants” who play weird instruments and make strange sounds, inspired by cartoons like Batman or Superman. They went on for about 20 years and 4 albums like that. Now they are real men. They might turn into Rawfish(old)boys later. But this is too early to say.
The duo’s core strength is their improvisational depth and their ability to blend compositional structure with acoustic originality. Their music is a “fantastic cluster” of very melodic music and very experimental or avant-garde textural works. Their style is noted for combining “silence and noise, contemplation and frenzy, all woven into a sophisticated tapestry”.
”The somewhat enigmatic title of the album can be explained: of the fourteen tracks four come from the piano song book by well-established jazz pianists, such as Thelonious Monk and Enrico Pieranunzi, and the rest are improvisations by this two very gifted young musicians that expand on it : Joachim Badenhorst on clarinet and Brice Soniano on bass….” READ MORE
Beyond the duo, Joachim plays in Brice's Electro Acoustic Ensemble, and Brice plays in Joachim's Carate Urio Orchestra
«In the beginning, there was nothing. No Swamp, no frogs, no sound, no light…». That is how the story of «Cosmos», begins, the fifth album of Belgian reeds player-composer Joachim Badenhorst’s international, experimental jazz-prog rock-post rock-ambient-noise ensemble, Carate Urio Orchestra… READ THE FULL REVIEW of Eyal Hareuveni
Brice and Joachim are now preparing a new exciting adventure...stay tuned!
Meanwhile, dive in their sonic world...many records are available:
