°°°Walter's Finest°°° Amadou + Dumoulin

Farida Amadou is a self taught bass player based in Brussels. The electric bass is her main instrument since 2011. In 2013, she has started playing a lot of different musical genres, including blues, jazz and hip-hop. Soon Farida started to dive into impro and got noticed quickly. After one year as a bass player in punk band Cocaine Piss, Farida decided to focus on her solo improvisational practice and collaborations with musicians like Steve Noble, Thurston Moore, Peter Brötzmann, Terrie Ex, Lukas Koening, Pat Thomas, Julien Desprez and many others.

Jozef Dumoulin is often cited for his pioneering work with the Fender Rhodes (mythical keyboard of the 70s), an instrument that he redefined through a contemporary, eclectic and very personal artistic field. He was the first to present a solo program with this instrument, recorded on the album 'A Fender Rhodes Solo', which has become cult since its release 10 years ago.

Dumoulin is known for his open and luminous approach to music, always anchored in tradition without being burdened by it. Highly-demanded as a sideman, he has recorded and toured with the finest of musicians in the domain of jazz, improvised music, new music, rock and traditional music. He currently lives in Paris and lands from time to time at Walter, eg for the 24h impro events Vexations (2018), Trojan Panda (2022) or a week of diving into Walter resident Bo van der Werf's musical universe (2021, 2023).

Today he presents a new solo opus entitled 'This Body, This Life', released on Carton Records (Lyon). This work juxtaposes the Fender Rhodes, the acoustic piano and synthesizers, or even drum machines, for a journey that explodes and deepens the previous ones. An excursion towards mysterious and highly original territories, without open references but connected to a whole field of possibilities.