Toasaves - Zwerver CD

Toasaves is a new generation of musicians who work with the rich folk repertoire of Wannes van de Velde. The group brings together artists with different backgrounds and travels along old music (trecento, Flemish polyphony, Sephardic music) and Eastern music (Greece, Turkey, Afghanistan). On their first album Zwerver, Toasaves starts from the compositions and the Groot Liedboek by the iconic Flemish singer Wannes van de Velde (1937-2008), the singer-artist who breathed new life into the oldest surviving ballads and litanies in his home town Antwerp. The album is an eclectic dialogue with the East, which fits seamlessly with the nomadic spirit and openness of Wannes Van de Velde.