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To read the full review: click on UKVIBE or on the pdf document to the right.
Justin Turford gives 9.5/10 to 3'Ain's album Sea Of Stories!
To read the full review: click on Truth & Lies or on the pdf document to the right.
3'Ain's Yamen Martini and Piet Maris were on Music Matters, radio Klara (VRT). They talked with Olav Grondelaers about the new album SEA OF STORIES. And if you want, you can relisten (in Dutch):
https://klara.be/luister/select/music-matters/sea-of-stories-van-3ain
pictures by Dries Pauwels (radio Klara) and Piet Maris
"A wonderful album! One can only remain silent and say: listen for yourself. A touch of music that fully claims to be art and that with its essence will touch the most delicate strings of sensibility."
To read the full review: click on Jazz Fun or on the pdf document to the right.(German)
"The combination of these three instruments and the music they bring to Sea of Stories - a cross-pollination of jazz and sounds from the Balkans, the Middle East and the Méditerranée - immediately sent me on a musical rediscovery journey."
To read the full review: click on Stereotype or on the pdf document to the right (Dutch).
"With this redemptive "Sea of Stories", dancers will lament the sounds of a desolate tango and sway to sad waltzes."
To read the full article: click on Jazz Mania or on the pdf document on the right (French).
"A new "message in a bottle" sent out into the wide world from Ostend," says the artist."
"A mostly melancholic soundtrack with impressive cinematic accents. As if sounding out the desolation of existence in an intoxication of dreamy visions."
To read the full review: click on Jazz'Halo or on the pdf document to the right (Deutch).
"Yamen blends western and eastern sounds with his trumpet, just as Otto provides the necessary depth on his self-assembled double bass. Maris then creates a gipsy-esque atmosphere with his accordion."
To read the full review: click on Keys and Chords or on the pdf document to the right (Deutch).
"Through seven new compositions, 3'Ain continue their jazz-rooted journey through the scenic musical imagery of Byzantine Syria and the Levant, using their acoustic instrumental configuration to take listeners with them on their journey"
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"Jazz of the highest order. With "Sea of stories", the band 3'Ain has released a very good first album. Musicians Yamen Martini (trumpet), Piet Maris (accordion) and Otto Kint (double bass) offer an intense and captivating journey with intelligent and infectious music that was not recorded in Ostend by chance ."
To read the full review: click on Cutting Edge Magazine of the pdf document to the right.