Watch Nordmann’s new concert film ‘In Velvet’ live here – Music

Nordmann’s third album was released in September. With the discreet Velvet the Ghent quartet has definitely shed its stubborn jazz-rock jacket. Seven months later, however, Nordmann has still not been able to present the album live. Saxophonist Mattias De Craene therefore hired photographer / director Jef Boes. With success: Boes, who had previously toured with Balthazar and Deus, took the opportunity to support the musicians with a concert film.

It is not the first time that Boes publishes his images under the music of Nordmann. Just before heading to the United States to make a documentary on Donald Trump’s first year in the White House, he saw Nordmann at the Ghent Salon. Then the group The king, a song from their second feature film The boiling ground (2017), played, he knew it: it will be the soundtrack of The good president, as the documentary would be called. And it happened.

But expect Velvet no making-of interviews, backstage parties or shots of roadies carrying drum kits. “ We didn’t necessarily want to create a whole world around the film, ” says De Craene, “ but we wanted to let our music do the talking and capture the feeling of the live, like Radiohead, for example, does in their basement sessions“. Velvet has therefore become a live registration, one in which the editing is adventurous and each song takes on a different color, as in Idiot prayer, Nick Cave’s new concert film. The film was shot in the Robot Studios in Ghent, where Eefje de Visser also shot a concert film.

Live or not, it wouldn’t be a Nordmann gig if you weren’t first gently, then transported hard and relentlessly to an ending, Boes says. The director was inspired to sign up The king, the last song of the set, from the famous saxophone scene Lost road, David Lynch’s ominous neon light. The explosion, the strobo effect and the aggressive sax release Lost highway are all reflected in Nordmann’s music.

Boes is not the only one to associate the quartet with the world of cinema. Mattias De Craene is currently working on a first solo album with “music entirely devoted to cinema”. And at the request of the Ghent music center De Bijloke, Nordmann wrote a soundtrack two years ago. Dementia, John Parker’s 1955 thriller. For those wondering: yes, Dementia it’s bloody, Lynch’s movies aren’t immediately cheerful and you could even argue that Boes’s documentary The good president has a horror figure as the main character. But no, Nordmann really has nothing to do with horror.

Nordmann’s third album was released in September. With the modest In Velvet, the Ghent quartet has definitely shed its stubborn jazz-rock jacket. Seven months later, however, Nordmann has still not been able to present the album live. Saxophonist Mattias De Craene therefore hired photographer / director Jef Boes. With success: Boes, already on tour with Balthazar and Deus, seizes the opportunity to support the musicians with a concert film. This is not the first time that Boes has edited his images under the music of Nordmann. Just before heading to the United States to make a documentary on Donald Trump’s first year in the White House, he saw Nordmann at the Ghent Salon. When the band played The King, a song from their second feature film The Boiling Ground (2017), they knew: it will be the soundtrack to The Good President, as the documentary was going to be called. And it happened, but don’t expect interviews, backstage parties, or shots of roadies wearing drum kits in In Velvet. “We didn’t necessarily want to create a whole world around the film,” says De Craene, “but we wanted to let our music do the talking and capture the feeling live, like Radiohead says, in their basement sessions. Velvet has therefore become a live recording, in which the edits are adventurous and each song takes on a different color, as in Idiot Prayer, Nick Cave’s new concert film. The film was shot in the Robot Studios in Ghent, where Eefje de Visser also shot a concert film Live or not, it wouldn’t be a Nordmann concert if you weren’t first gently, then transported hard and relentlessly toward a denouement, said Boes. The director was inspired to record The King, the last song on the set, on the famous saxophone stage Lost Highway, the disturbing neono of David Lynch. “The explosion, strobing, and aggressive sax of Lost Highway are all reflected in Nordmann’s music.” Boes is not the only one to connect the quartet to the world of cinema. Mattias De Craene is currently working on a first solo album with “music entirely devoted to cinema”. And at the request of the Ghent music center De Bijloke, Nordmann wrote a soundtrack two years ago for John Parker’s 1955 thriller Dementia. For those wondering: yes, dementia is bloody, the films of Lynch are not immediately cheerful and you might even say that Boes’ documentary The Good President has a horror figure as the main character. But no, Nordmann really has nothing to do with horror.