Alpacas Collective
- Garden StageWednesday 17•July•2024
23:40•00:40
Alpacas Collective is an 11-person collective with Leuven as its base. Alpacas Collective combines influences from Lagos to Addis Ababa, from New Orleans to Augusta, Georgia, and from New Delhi to science-fiction worlds far outside our solar system.
The band is inspired by James Brown, Fela Kuti, Mulatu Astatke, The Meters, Sun Ra, Ravi Shankar, The Heliocentrics and many others. Just like their artistic heroes, their grooves are peppered with incisive horns, melodious keyboards and cascading percussion breaks. Funk offers the foundations, seasoned with influences from afro, jazz, kraut, soul and eastern sounds.
During the pandemic, the group retreated underground to search for soul-saving creativity and then issued two releases in 2022 and 2023.
'Seven wisdoms of Plutonia’ and 'Big Words’ took top slots on many end-of-year listings.
Alpacas Collective has shared a stage with renowned acts such as The Budos Band, Lefties Soul Connection, Cody Chesnutt, Quantic Soul Orchestra, The Poets of Rhythm, Mulatu Astatke and more.
The Alpacas Collective musicians
Stan Hennes - drums
Frederik Kühn - percussion
Joël Van Roode - sitar
Steve Vandervoort - bass
Robby Swiggers - guitar
Sander Vos - percussion
Marc Jans - baritone & trombone
Alexander Dingens - alto sax
Jérome Swevers - flute and trumpet
Jeroen Ollevier - keys
Hans van Scharen - baritone, alto and tenor sax (not attending this time)
