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Camille-Alban Spreng
Camille-Alban Spreng is a pianist and composer living in Brussels, trained by Emil Spanyi (HEMU, Lausanne), Eric Legnini and Kris Defoort (KCB, CRB, Brussels).
He's leader of the multiform band ODIL with Sam Comerford, Geoffrey Fiorese, Tom Bourgeois, and Paul Berne, quintet Mobilhome with Vitja Pauwels, Lennart Heyndels, Sam Comerford and Théo Lanau and trio Dear Uncle Lennie with Benjamin Sauzereau and Marco Giongrandi. He’s currently playing as a sideman in Jordi Cassagne's band Limite.
Camille-Alban is also writing music for theater and performance. He worked with stage directors and performers Adrien Barazzone, Nathalie Rozanes, Sébastien Corbière, Claire Deutsch, Julien Rombaux.
Camille-Alban is also the co-organizer of the Pool Sessions, a series of concerts in Brussels. With Théo Lanau and Hélène Duret, they have hosted between 2018 and 2021 artists such as Chris Speed, Pak Yan Lau, Richard Compte, Csaba Palotaï, Jeroen Van Herzeele, Lynn Cassiers, Farida Amadou, Eric Thielemans, Jozef Dumoulin...
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Camille-Alban Spreng, Benjamin Sauzereau, Marco Giongrandi: Dear Uncle Lennie
by Neri Pollastri
Un lavoro singolare da molti punti di vista, questo realizzato in trio dal giovane pianista e compositore di Bruxelles Camille-Alban Spreng, dal chitarrista francese Benjamin Sauzereau e dal banjoista italiano residente in Belgio Marco Giongrandi. La prima particolarità sta proprio nelle specificità della formazione, perché i tre strumenti di cui è composta le danno un timbro atipico, tutto suo, ancor più a causa del fatto che il pianoforte di Spreng è “preparato," ancorché in modo sobrio, così da ...
read moreOdil: Réson
by Geno Thackara
Though Camille-Alban Spreng has the chops and improvisational spirit of a jazz player, the band Odil's debut on Something (QFTF, 2016) established a wheelhouse also wide enough to include loose-form avant-garde and electric funk. This follow-up is billed entirely under the band's name instead of the leader's, which is appropriate given how well the unit has gelled in the time between. Sam Comerford steps up from guest to full member and the palette certainly benefits from a bigger dose of ...
read moreCamille-Alban Spreng: Odil - Something
by Geno Thackara
With an intuitive rhythmic malleability worthy of a drummer, Camille-Alban Spreng is the kind of pianist who enjoys playing fast and loose with meter as much as melody. The compositions on Odil -Something center around motifs that are intricate yet propulsive, which his quartet handily dashes off with easy flair. They can sound like a classic acoustic group or a funky fusion ensemble when the keys turn more electric, and the songs have no problem shifting and adjusting accordingly. These ...
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