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Nathan Daems
Nathan Daems is a Belgian multi-instrumentalist who plays saxophone, flute and the Turkish reed flute ney, among other instruments. He began his career as a band member of Antwerp Gipsy Ska Orkestra, Bazaar d’Orient and Maguaré, among others.
In 2010, with the Nathan Daems Quintet, he won the Young Jazz Talent competition at the Gent Jazz festival. The band released the album Praten dialect in 2010.
Daems then immersed himself in the dialogue between jazz and Eastern music and founded two successful ensembles around it. The Ragini Trio creates jazz based on Indian music and consists of Nathan Daems on saxophone, Italian Marco Bardoscia on double bass and Lander Gyselinck on drums.
Daems’ second project Black Flower features compositions inspired by the music of Ethiopian jazz greats such as Mulatu Astatke and Mahmoud Ahmed.
Nathan Daems also founded the Nathan Daems Karsilama Quintet, which plays Turkish Roma music, and, more recently, Echoes of Zoo and Trans Plantations.