After his debut The Hermit Sessions for which he received an Edison and the Eurosonic / Noorderslag Popprijs, and the extensive tour with his Kyteman's Hiphop Orchestra, it was time for trumpet player Colin 'Kyteman' Benders to do something new. He decided to invite his former teacher Eric Vloeimans and his band Gatecrash, rapper Pax and two other musicians for a stay of five days in his Kytopia
… studio. During the subsequent sessions, the musicians strived to create maximum artistic freedom with minimal preparation. These Kytopian conversations degenerated into a number of intriguing pieces in which the tension is stretched to the limit. It is striking that Vloeimans is responsible for the modest, melancholic, downtempo pieces, and that Benders the explosive, takes care of grooving, uptempo songs, while the collective compositions are right in the middle. Kytecrash cannot be described more strongly than Vloeimans 'own words:' A playground full of adventure where worlds come together. We tumble over each other, we slide down the slide and jump into the air. ' (AD)more
