Macondo Trio with Wajdi Riahi

The music of Macondo Trio makes you lose all sense of time and space. It makes your blood boil bit by bit and slowly rises to your head. Macondo blends modal and improvised jazz with African rhythms and melodies from childhood. It brings together the life experiences and backgrounds of each musician. They feed each other musically and spiritually and offer us enchanting jazz that begs to be shared. The adventure began when the Beninese drummer Angelo Moustapha de Belgische met saxophonist Sylvain Debaisieux. During artistic residencies in Belgium and Benin, they developed a shared rhythmic language, in which improvisation and sonic exploration come together. The arrival of the Italian bassist Federico Stocchi completed this cosmopolitan trio and added a deep, organic foundation to their musical world. On their JazzLab tour, they are accompanied by none other than the Brussels pianist Wajdi Riahi. A true comet within Belgian jazz who made a big splash both alongside, among others, Stéphane Galland (The Rhythm Hunters), and on a JazzLab tour with his own Wajdi Riahi Trio in the autumn of 2024. With his Tunisian roots and poetic playing, Riahi adds a narrative, Gnawa-inspired glow to the Macondo Trio. The new album Morayò, which was released in March 2025 on the Dutch label Challenge Records, was enthusiastically received by both the press and the public during the release tour in Wallonia and Brussels, at the Propulse festival and in Flagey. Macondo Trio Sylvain Debaisieux (saxophones) Angelo Moustapha (drums, percussion) Federico Stocchi (double bass, electric bass) Wajdi Riahi (piano)