Robbe Kieckens

Robbe hit drums for the first time in the countryside hills of Rwanda where he spent his childhood, and that impressed him quite a lot! After that he kept on tapping on everything that crossed his path… But jam jars and washing powder boxes didn't satisfy any longer, so he started looking for some more 'decent' instruments to play on. During his musical journey, he played very different styles ranging from West-African percussion and latin over flamenco, Arabic and Persian percussion to jazz, funk, Brazilian and pop. In his collection are found instruments such as framedrums, riq, conga, djembe, pandeiro, callebas, darbouka, cajon, udu, tama, dounoum, bongo and a lot of small percussion. All those styles and instruments make him an extremely versatile musician with a rich percussive vocabulary and a horizon which he's not yet finished to enlarge…
He played in groups and with musicians such as Myrddin (flamenco), Maggid (klezmer jazz), Bazaar d'Orient (Turkish gipsy music with a.o. Nathan Daems), Emre "el Turco" (flamenco) and other projects.
Besides Ghent (Belgium) and Dakar (Senegal), he also studied world percussion in Rotterdam (the Netherlands).
And, in another though the same universe, he's also a fabulous sound engineer with another 'wide and wild collection', but with the same fascination for different sounds all over the world and works currently with Spocus Records and Studio Gallinella.