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    Sdban
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      • 5. Koen De Bruyne – Pathetic Dreams
      • 6. Phil Raphaël – Archangelo
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      • 9. Clarke-Boland Big Band – Sakara
      • 10. Marc Moulin – Tohubohu pt. I
      • 11. Babs Robert – Pro Forma I
      • 12. Lou MacConnell – Naima

      Utopic Cities is an eclectic selection of forward-thinking jazz from the Belgian underground, including the left-field fusion of Marc Moulin’s Placebo, Koen De Bruyne and Solis Lacus; the intense post-bop of Jacques Pelzer and Lou MacConnell; the cutting edge soul jazz of Philip Catherine and Open Sky Unit or the otherworldly avant-garde of Babs Robert and the Brussels Art Quintet.

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