TUKAN

• Gent Jazz
  Saturday 18•July•2026
  23:15•

Subverting conventional expectations has always been at the top of TUKAN’s agenda. Having barely broken onto the Belgian music scene, the Brussels quartet has rapidly built a reputation as a brilliant live act, overflowing with ideas and displaying a striking command of this mix of styles. How does it all work? The beats dance between pulsating retrofuturism and an alternative approach to dance, while the instrumentation moves effortlessly between rock combo and indietronica bedroom project; TUKAN also incorporates techno and jazz in perfectly measured accents. Anyone arriving with specific stylistic expectations gets a lesson: this band always manages to sound different, yet remain utterly unique. Even after their debut Atoll (2022), the press was full of praise, and a world tour of over 200 shows sold out in no time. The TUKAN sound was born, polished, and established. Now they are back with their follow-up Human Drift (2025), celebrating the joy of dance and ecstasy, synergy and energy according to every trick in the book. Fasten your seatbelts.

For fans of: Paul van Dyk, ATB, 4 Strings, Ian van Dahl