“Franz Schubert, Erik Satie, Nils Frahm, Max Richter ... one thinks of all these geniuses when listening to this minimalist composer and pianist.” (Larsen)

Liège-based pianist Grégoire Gerstmans (BE) possesses an extraordinary power: with only a few notes, he seems able to bring a crazy world to a grinding halt. He inherited his musicality from his father, Eric Gerstmans, a viola player who even worked alongside Alain Bashung and Robert Wyatt. Eric passed on to his son a love of the marriage between classical and modern sounds. 

Grégoire himself considers Arvo Pärt, Nils Frahm, Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II, and Philip Glass, but also Bill Viola and Yves Klein to be his most important artistic references. This is all reflected on his debut Hypnagogie, a title that refers to the period between being awake and falling asleep. 

Leading mag Les Inrockuptibles spoke of “une beauté à tomber”. Magic RPM: “The magnetism of these scores is hard to explain.” Or Indiepoprock: “The emotional charge is all the stronger for its striking sobriety. Because this minimalism is so profound. Each note seems to have been stolen from another dimension.”  

Grégoire Gerstmans will perform every day of BRDCST in our brand new AB Antenna space. Our advice: headphones on, eyes closed, and back ostentatiously turned to Our Crazy World.