{"id":776,"date":"2020-02-25T10:14:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T09:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fabricemukuna.com\/?page_id=776"},"modified":"2020-03-31T20:06:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T18:06:37","slug":"the-group","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fabricemukuna.com\/index.php\/the-group\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=\u00a0\u00bb52px\u00a0\u00bb][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=\u00a0\u00bb.vc_custom_1585677886195{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}\u00a0\u00bb]<strong>In January 2018 Fabrice created the Fabrice Mukuna band.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The band, which was originally composed of 5 musicians, then 6 has now grown to 9 including the brass section.<\/p>\n<p>Together they play Fabrice\u2019s compositions in jazz bars in and around Brussels as well as around the country, (Bruges, Waterloo, La Louvi\u00e8re&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>They will soon play a showcase at the Bozar. The band plays worldmusic, afrojazz, jazz fusion, funk, latino, rumba&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>They have just released their first EP; called Bokoko Africa. A flash mob dance is planned in May in Brussels to mark the release of a single.<\/p>\n<p>Fabrice, of Congolese origin, is a songwriter, composer, saxophonist, singer, percussionist and gospel choir leader.<\/p>\n<p>His compositions offer a very original and unique style with music influenced by his Congolese roots, Belgian jazz and South American music.<\/p>\n<p>The core group consists of 6 musicians<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fabrice Mukuna<\/strong>\u00a0saxophonist, singer, percussionist,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gonzalo Rodriguez<\/strong>, \u00a0guitarist of Spanish origin,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michel Vrydag<\/strong>, \u00a0Belgian bass player,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mathieu De Wit<\/strong>, Belgian pianist,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ben Tequi,<\/strong>\u00a0Parisian drummer,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mehdi Delanoeije<\/strong>, Belgian percussionist,<\/p>\n<p>and 3 blowers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nicolas Sanchez<\/strong>\u00a0trumpet player, Uruguay<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marcelo Terra<\/strong>, tenor saxophonist, Uruguay<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hugo Dudziak<\/strong>, French trombonist.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Titles of the tracks on the EP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sawamba<\/p>\n<p>Mamborena<\/p>\n<p>Mbonge<\/p>\n<p>Maria Rosa[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=\u00a0\u00bb52px\u00a0\u00bb][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=\u00a0\u00bb.vc_custom_1585677886195{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}\u00a0\u00bb]In January 2018 Fabrice created the Fabrice Mukuna band. The band, which was originally composed of 5 musicians, then 6 has now grown to 9 including the brass section. Together they play Fabrice\u2019s compositions in jazz bars in and around Brussels as well as around the country, (Bruges, Waterloo, La Louvi\u00e8re&#8230;) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabricemukuna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabricemukuna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabricemukuna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabricemukuna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabricemukuna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fabricemukuna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":862,"href":"https:\/\/fabricemukuna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/776\/revisions\/862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabricemukuna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}