KMSKA LATE Live - Too Noisy Fish

With their new album Tolstoy, Too Noisy Fish, the trio of Peter Vandenberghe (piano, compositions), Kristof Roseeuw (double bass) and Teun Verbruggen (drums), opens a new chapter brimming with freedom and adventure. Once again, the trio moves effortlessly between composition and improvisation, order and chaos, between what is prepared and what emerges in the moment.

Too Noisy Fish first made its mark on the Belgian jazz scene in 2011, when the rhythm section of the Flat Earth Society Orchestra decided to start pushing boundaries as a trio. This resulted in four acclaimed albums, including Fight Eat Sleep, named Album of the Year by The New York City Jazz Record, and Too Many Fish: 10 Years Too Noisy Fish, an album that celebrated the trio’s tenth anniversary by inviting musician and artist friends to join them in the studio and on stage. With their new album, Too Noisy Fish returns in full force as the uncompromising trio at its core.

On their fifth album, the band shows how music can be profound and light, sharp-edged and candid at the same time, echoing the apparent contradictions that are so deeply woven into Tolstoy’s work. Each piece is a journey: unruly, honest and unpredictable, guided by freedom and adventure, with no fixed destination. The compositions breathe literature: melodies unfold like sentences, rhythms collide like characters, and harmonies ask questions rather than provide answers.

Too Noisy Fish remains faithful to its distinctive sound world: sharp, playful and disruptive, yet always infused with a deeply human warmth. On Tolstoy, the music roams freely between space and silence, humour and melancholy.

Piano, compositions: Peter Vandenberghe • double bass: Kristof Roseeuw • drums: Teun Verbruggen