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Zwerm is an electric guitar quartet based in Belgium and founded in 2007. Over the years the group has collaborated with various composers, performers and visual artists. Zwerm has never strived for a one-sided artistic profile. During the past 15 years the quartet dallied between English renaissance music, contemporary composed music and experimental pop/rock. The common denominator being not so much a particular stylistic view but rather a shared curiosity in all kinds of music.
They gave concerts in the UK, Europe, Mexico, Iran and the United States at major festivals such as Holland Festival, Ruhr Triennale, Musica Festival, Ultima Festival, Klara Festival and venues such as The Barbican Centre in London, deSingel, Concertgebouw Brugge, VierNulVier, Handelsbeurs, Tivoli/Vredenburg, Bimhuis… They collaborated with musicians, composers, producers, theater makers, choreographers and visual artists such as Fred Frith, Stephen O’Malley, Rudy Trouvé, Benjamin Verdonck, Claire Croizé & ECCE, Walpurgis, Post Uit Hessdalen, Bad Van Marie, Mauro Pawlowski, Joanna Baillie, Heleen Van Haegenborgh, Lucas Van Haesbroeck, La Muse en Circuit, Serge Verstockt & ChampdAction, Larry Polansky, Eric Thielemans, Yannis Kyriakides, François Sarhan, Stefan Prins... Zwerm is Toon Callier, Johannes Westendorp, Bruno Nelissen and Kobe van Cauwenberghe. Photo: Mous Lamrabat |
About Great Expectations (2021):
‘One of the most exciting voices in the contemporary music world'
Dansende Beren
‘A coherent whole with a character all its own that reveals more inventiveness listen by listen'
Enola
'At Luminous Dash we receive beautiful music every week. What Zwerm is doing here, however, is redefining the rules of the game.'
Luminoush Dash
'Great Expectations is the ideal soundtrack for a surreal labyrinth in which you want to get lost and never find the exit.’
Jazz'halo
About Badminton in Tehran (2018):
'What a sound, what an energy, what a rich imagination. Fantastic record.'
De Standaard ★★★★
'This Heat, Pere Ubu, Pierre Bastien and Red Krayola are the stars, but grooves are part of it too.'
HUMO ★★★★
'Those who can appreciate bands like The Ex, or records of, say, the Unsounds label, don't hesitate!'
De Morgen - 10 best albums of the week
About Underwater Princess Waltz (2013):
'An exciting, sometimes alienating and always quirky musical discovery you rarely get to hear.'
Goddeau
'In an nonacademic way they made a fresh translation of the spirit of the experimental avant-garde.'
De Standaard
About The World's Longest Melody (2010):
'Obvious contender for album of the year.'
The Wire
‘One of the most exciting voices in the contemporary music world'
Dansende Beren
‘A coherent whole with a character all its own that reveals more inventiveness listen by listen'
Enola
'At Luminous Dash we receive beautiful music every week. What Zwerm is doing here, however, is redefining the rules of the game.'
Luminoush Dash
'Great Expectations is the ideal soundtrack for a surreal labyrinth in which you want to get lost and never find the exit.’
Jazz'halo
About Badminton in Tehran (2018):
'What a sound, what an energy, what a rich imagination. Fantastic record.'
De Standaard ★★★★
'This Heat, Pere Ubu, Pierre Bastien and Red Krayola are the stars, but grooves are part of it too.'
HUMO ★★★★
'Those who can appreciate bands like The Ex, or records of, say, the Unsounds label, don't hesitate!'
De Morgen - 10 best albums of the week
About Underwater Princess Waltz (2013):
'An exciting, sometimes alienating and always quirky musical discovery you rarely get to hear.'
Goddeau
'In an nonacademic way they made a fresh translation of the spirit of the experimental avant-garde.'
De Standaard
About The World's Longest Melody (2010):
'Obvious contender for album of the year.'
The Wire
