Pierre Anckaert vs. Monkey Robot
Presenting the album "74 Miles Away"

Laid Back Radio
Melting Pot Music

Laid Back Radio (Brussels) and Melting Pot Music (Cologne) present "74 MILES AWAY", a collaboration between Belgian jazz pianist/composer Pierre Anckaert and producers Monkey Robot (LuiGi & eric P., previously known as Infinitskills).

Pierre Anckaert composed and recorded four electric jazz tracks with his trio. MonkeyRobot have radically reworked these four songs.

The 74 MILES AWAY album has been released in Feb 2011 on MPM. A first single "Same Dream Again" will be featured on the forthcoming compilation "Lefto & Simbad present Worldwide Family Vol.1" (Brownswood. Out on Jan 3).

This album features: Pierre Anckaert Trio, MonkeyRobot, Carina Andersson, Miles Bonny, AHU & DJ Grazzhoppa.

Pierre Anckaert Quintet & Brussels Chamber Orchestra
Recording of the album "Strings Attached"

"A portrait of Pierre Anckaert, one of the most promising jazz artists in Belgium."

tvbrussel

Featuring:
Pierre Anckaert, piano
Stefan Bracaval, flutes
Guy Nikkels, guitars
Hendrik Vanattenhove, double bass
Mimi Verderame, drums
Brussels Chamber Orchestra
Produced by tvbrussel

Pierre Anckaert Trio - 'Walske'

Featuring:
Pierre Anckaert, piano
Hendrik Vanattenhove, double bass
Mimi Verderame, drums
Music composed by Pierre Anckaert

The video is an excerpt of 'On The Road, Conversations with Pierre Anckaert', a film by Jelle Annaars, Seb Wilmotte en Veerle Willems for 'Staff - Project rond jazz". The film frames into a project of "Centrum voor Beeldexpressie", "Creatief Schrijven", "Danspunt" and "Muziekmozaïek". It has been realized in collabroation with "Arenbergschouwburg" and with support from "Milo-Profi", "Option Media", "De Vlaamse Overheid"

Pierre Anckaert Trio at Feeërieën Festival 2008 (Ancienne Belgique)

About Feeërieën...

“Once a year the Warande Park in Brussels transforms into a fairy-tale forest where weird and wonderful music resounds. All that between trees strewn with colourful lights. The musicians who play here, for an as still as a mouse, usually seated, audience, are masters of melancholy. Sometimes they’re subdued singer-songwriters singing about love, other times the bitter-sweet sounds of electronica wizards strengthen the magic with feather-light beats. All that under a thick leafy ceiling on a bandstand that bathes in misty blue lights. A fata morgana such as you have never seen.”

Source: De Standaard

Featuring:
Pierre Anckaert, piano
Hendrik Vanattenhove, double bass
Produced by Ancienne Belgique