Martin Salemi – Pianist/Composer
Welcome to the website of belgian pianist and composer Martin Salemi. Here you can find tour dates, pictures, videos, discography, press reviews, scores and music. Thank you for visiting !
Martin Salemi was born in Brussels in 1988. His parents are both artists. His father, who plays the guitar, initiated him to music at a very early age. He started learning the piano aged six and, in 2013, completed his jazz piano master’s degree with distinction at the Koninklijk Conservatorium van Brussel.
Martin is currently involved in two personal projects. OPMOC, who have recorded three albums and have toured intensely all over Europe for the past ten years, and the Martin Salemi Trio, who released their first album in 2017 under the IGLOO Records label and played in festivals and stages from UK to Azerbaijan and Italy. As a sideman, he has played and recorded in different genres such as jazz, pop, funk, world music… Notably, he explores regularly the standard repertoire with doublebass phenomenon Manolo Cabras (IT) and young rising belgian star Gaspard Sicx in the trio Salemi/Cabras/Sicx, and play keyboards in the belgian band Otto Kintet, who have released three albums since 2016.
Prolific composer, he also writes music for theater and cinema. Among others, he worked with the likes of Rimini Protokoll (DE), the belgian film-maker Luc Jabon and the companies La Berlue and L’Anneau.
In 2018, Martin won the B-Jazz International Award with his trio.
A second album with the Martin Salemi Trio is coming out on 1st october 2021 on IGLOO Records.
« I really can’t praise this album highly enough. If the reader gets the feeling from the above review that I didn’t quite describe Salemi’s playing in enough detail, it is only because there is so much detail that it’s better to just listen and not analyze too much. Get it! »
Lynn René Bayley, Artmusiclounge (US), about “Short Stories” IGLOO Records
« Het spel van Salemi is echter van zulk hoog niveau, zowel emotievol als speltechnisch, en de samenwerking tussen hem en de ritmesectie zo fijn, dat dit trio net zo gemakkelijk tussen al die vernieuwende Belgische bands internationaal grote indruk kan maken. »
Dick Hovenga – WrittenInMusic
« Ca fait du bien d’écouter un album de jazz contemporain qui ne cherche pas à tout prix des sonorités inouïes […] La musique est fraîche, joyeuse, dansante »
Jean-Claude Vantroyen, Le Soir
« Van begin tot einde zuiver akoestisch zonder electronics en toch klopte het plaatje. Respect! »
Georges Tonla Briquet, Jazz’ Halo
« Les compositions du leader sont toutes délectables. Non seulement, elles ont du caractère mais, ni démonstratives ni appliquées, elles sont aussi mémorables par leur côté mélodieux »
Pierre Dulieu, Dragonjazz
« Voici à coup sûr la belle surprise jazz de la rentrée […] Fragrances variées et complètement assumées […] qui révèle un doigté subtil et volubile à la fois »
Jean-Pierre Goffin, Vers L’Avenir
« Martin Salemi est un bel exemple de ce que peut être le jazz aujourd’hui: une musique qui se nourrit de toutes les musiques, libérée de ses carcans d’autrefois. »
Laurent Graulus, Musiq3
« Le jeu est soyeux et chaleureux. Entre la contrebasse qui bat le temps en s’offrant quelques libertés et la batterie qui susurre le tempo, la complicité est parfaite.“
Jacques Prouvost – Jazzques
« On est très loin d’un jazz cérébral et hermétique […] Ce sont des mélodies qui accrochent tout de suite, sans tomber non plus dans la facilité. C’est délicat, ça swingue, tout en finesse […] absolument remarquable. »
Xavier Vanbuggenhout, RTBF La Première
« … There’s nothing cryptic about his superb playing…»
Jim Gilchrist, The Scotsman (UK)
Next Concerts
Here you can find my upcoming tour dates. Hope to see you there!
More infos about schedule, line-up and a list of past concerts on the concert page.
• 16/10/2021 – Martin Salemi Trio – Centre Culturel – Rossignol, Belgium
• 24/10/2021 – Théo Zipper Quartet – The Music Village – Brussels, Belgium
• 01/11/2021 – Martin Salemi Trio – New Album Release – Riches-Claires – Brussels, Belgium
• 06/11/2021 – Martin Salemi Trio – Jünglingshaus – Eupen, Belgium
• 07/11/2021 – Martin Salemi Trio – Relais Jazz – Tourinnes-la-Grosse, Belgium
• 13/11/2021 – Martin Salemi Trio – Jazz9 – Mazy, Belgium
• 17/11/2021 – Martin Salemi Trio – Rideau Rouge – Lasne, Belgium
• 18/11/2021 – Martin Salemi Trio – Le Club – Comines, Belgium
• 19/11/2021 – Martin Salemi Trio – L’An Vert – Liège, Belgium
News
My new album is here ! :)) 🥳
Releasing this friday October 1st ! And the single « Doubt » is now on all streaming platforms -> link in bio !:))
The album is already available on pre-order at IGLOO Records http://www.igloorecords.be 👀
With @borisschmidtmusic on doublebass, #danieljonkers on drums, @debastvincent for thé sound, @jeanclaudesalemi for the cover, #vincentblairon for the picture and @sandra.corbisier for the design ! And of course @igloorec for the whole ! :))
And now for the release tour made possible by @leslundisdhortense 🎵🎵
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Mothership at @bonnefooimusic last week 🎹🎹🎹👀
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New tune on Spotify and other platforms too :)) check it out ! 🎹 link in bio !🎵🎵
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New single out now !
« Doubt » - Martin Salemi
Available on all platforms -> link in bio !
Here’s a little teaser to the full music video coming soon :))
New album coming out in one week on @igloorec ! 🥳
A bit of soloing on the Prophet06 😝 From yesterday night at the jam at @bonnefooimusic with Free Funk Boogie Backlash ( @gaspardsicx and #jacobmiller ) 🎹 thanks to @saad_keys for the video ! 🙏
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En couverture des magazines ! 😀 😜 Merci beaucoup aux Lundis D’Hortense pour cette couverture et cette grande interview 🙂 Mon nouvel album « About Time » sort chez IGLOO Records le 1/10 ! 🥳 En tournée à partir du 16/10 :
• 16/10 – Centre Culturel – Rossignol
• 01/11 – Riches-Claires – Brussels
• 06/11 – Jünglingshaus – Eupen
• 07/11 – Relais Jazz – Tourinnes-la-Grosse
• 13/11 – Jazz9 – Mazy
• 17/11 – Rideau Rouge – Lasne
• 18/11 – Le Club – Comines
• 19/11 – L’An Vert – Liège
Plus d’infos sur mon site en bio ! 👀
Photos de Vincent Blairon et Patrick Clerens
@leslundisdhortense @igloorec #jazztour #leslundisdhortense #igloorecords #martinsalemitrio @borisschmidtmusic @debastvincent @clerenspatrick
New album releasing on @igloorec in one month ! Here are a few pictures taken by @borisschmidtmusic during the recording in Gam Studio :)) more info soon !! 😀
Toys toys toys 😜
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News ! My next album « About Time » will be released on @igloorec on 01/10/2021 ! Can’t wait 😀
Here’s the artwork made by Jean-Claude Salemi 🙂
Featuring:
Martin Salemi : piano, compositions
Boris Schmidt: doublebass
Daniel Jonkers : drums
Recorded, mixed and mastered by @debastvincent
Please visit my website www.martinsalemi.com (link in bio) for more infos and tour dates 😀
Stay tuned ! 🤪
@borisschmidtmusic #igloorecords #jazzinbelgium #martinsalemitrio #leslundisdhortense #jazzinbrussels #linocut @1030cultuur
