RESILIENCE
Tuur Moens Quintet
Album
RESILIENCE
Location:
Netherlands
Year:
2025
Tuur Moens (BE) – drums, percussion, synths, compositions
Álvaro Artime Jiménez (ES) – trumpet
Jesse Schilderink (NL) – tenor saxophone
Xavi Torres (ES) – piano
Jeroen Vierdag (NL) – double bass and electric bass
Steven Brezet (NL) – percussion (track 1, 2, 7 & 8)
Special Guests:
Antonio Lizana (ES) – vocals and alto saxophone (track 3)
Morgana Moreno (BR) – flute (track 7)
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Recorded at Wedgeview Studios (Woerdense Verlaat, NL)
Produced by Tuur Moens
Sound engineering and mixing: Udo Pannekeet
Mastering: Carlos Freitas at Classic Master Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil
Album artwork: Guillaume Saix at WebMyArt, Paris
Videography: Felipe Pipi
The album is self-released.
Personnel:
Description:
Resilience is the new album by drummer and composer Tuur Moens. The title refers to moments in his personal life but also the life as a musician. The album emerged from the rather turbulent years of 2020–2023: a period during which the pandemic and an exhausting immigration process for his Togolese partner caused uncertainty, nerve-wracking waiting times, and financial pressure. Music provided the only outlet.
"As a human, you learn to survive, to carry your emotions, to recover after setbacks," says Moens. "As a musician, you learn to transform that same resilience into sound, rhythm, and melody. One feeds the other: life’s challenges become material for the music, and the music helps you navigate those very challenges."
Musical Language
The music of Resilience is at once powerful and fragile: jazz with a worldly horizon, rhythmic and energetic, yet also lyrical and melancholic. Brazilian, African, and Cuban influences run like a red thread through the compositions, inseparably linked to Moens’ own musical voice.