"Luis first picked up a trumpet when he decided to participate in a Philarmonic Association. Later he had private classes with Tomás Pimentel.He attended the Escola de Jazz Luís Villas Boas/ Hot Club de Portugal, where he had the chance to study with João Moreira, Tomás Pimentel, Vasco Mendonça, Afonso Pais, Filipe Melo, Bruno Santos e André Fernandes. During these years, he also participated in workshop with musicians such as Evan Parker, Chris Speed, Mário Laginha, David Binney, Jesse Davis, Julian Arguelles, Ohad Talmor, André Fernandes, Pedro Madaleno e Phil Grenadier.

He already played in dozens of venues and festivals in Portugal and across Europe. He performed and recorded with Carlos Zingaro, Wilbert De Joode, Akira Sakata, Johannes Bauer, Oori Shalev, Jorrit Dijkstra, Kaido Yutaka, Jasper Stadhouders, Giovanni Di Domenico, Mary Oliver, Nuno Rebelo, Jonathan Hafner, André Fernandes, Joost Buis, Marco Franco, Steve Heather, Mette Rasmussen, John Dikeman, Roberto Negro, João Lobo, Hugo Antunes, Valentin Ceccaldi, Seppe Gebruers, José Ernesto Rodrigues, Onno Govaert, Rodrigo Amado, Tó Trips, Luís Lopes, Federico Pascucci, Théo Ceccaldi.

Currently he plays his own tunes in trio and quartet and is a member of : Vicente|Marjamaki; Clocks& Clouds; Fail Better!; Twenty One 4tet; Deux Maisons; Chamber 4; W.A.S?; Jasper Stadhouders' International Improv Esnsemble."

"Jan Daelman (1990) is a Belgian flute player best known from his improv-duo Keenroh with pianist Thijs Troch. In 2014, they released their debut album 'Keenroh' on the Ghent based El Negocito Records label. In 2015, after winning the Young Jazztalent Ghent award, they extended to a nine piece band and released a second album 'Keenroh XL' (Bart Maris/Thomas Jillings/Marti Melia/Ruben Verbruggen/Niels Van Heertum/Thijs Troch/Laurens Smet/Teun Verbruggen) In april 2016 his quartet Kabas (Thijs Troch/Nils Vermeulen/Elias Devoldere) released the album 'Abel' on vinyl, again on the El Negocito Records label. Daelman functions as a tenor saxophone player in the impro/drone collective Residuum Free Unit (Dirk Serries/Thijs Troch/Nils Vermeulen/Bert Minnaert) and plays EWI in synthesizer-mayhem-formation Glin Fraktion (Thijs Troch/Seppe Gebruers/Bert Minnaert). Together with Dirk Serries and Thijs Troch he forms the minimalistic DST trio. Furthermore he is also active in the new group The Milk Factory (Viktor Perdieus/Edmund Lauret/Thijs Troch/Kobe Boon/Benjamin Elegheert), a duo called Peedved with Nils Vermeulen and an exciting new project called Les Biches De Milleseptante (Teun Verbruggen/Bert Minnaert/Thijs Troch). As a sideman he contributed to the project 'Fair is foul and foul is fair' from Italian singer Costanza Alligiani (Thomas Jillings/Thijs Troch/Armando Luongo/Danieli Cappucci). The album was released in 2014 on the Italian label 'Improvvisatore Inovolontario'."

"Thijs Troch is a Belgian piano player, mainly active in improvised music. He plays in bands such as: Keenroh, Jukwaa, Kabas, Glin Graktion, Hypochristmutreefuzz, Northern Escorts, Residuum Free Unit, Bulliphat, &c."

"Nils Vermeulen is a double and electric bass player, based in Ghent (Belgium). The variety of projects in which he plays, indicates his wide range of interest in music. The one thing that connects them all is sound. Nils Vermeulen has taken a profound interest in vibrations, production of sound and the esthetics that comes with it.

His projects include Nils Vermeulen Solo, Kabas, Jukwaa, Uma Chine, Peedved, Marta Rosa, Mdc Iv, Lamoral, Residuum Free Unit, Frame Trio, Laughing Bastards, Midnight Blue Birds."

"Elias Devoldere (1991) is a Ghent-based impro/jazz/rock drummer, who started playing the drums at the age of eight. He was mainly active in rock formations. At the age of eighteen he went to the Royal Conservatory of Ghent where he got in touch with improvised music and jazz. He took classes with Toon van Dionant, Erik Vermeulen and Bart Maris. In this period his main project Nordmann was formed, a crossover band between rock, impro and jazz. He graduated at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels where he took classes with Stéphane Galland, Lionel Beuvens, Kris Defoort and Jeroen Van Herzeele. Besides his classes in school he also took classes with Dré Pallemaerts, Teun Verbruggen and the Brussels Youth Jazz Orchestra. Currently he's playing with bands such as Nordmann, Hypochristmutreefuzz, John Ghost, Kabas, Hast, Jukwaa Double Trio, Bardo and Maya's Moving Castle. Besides these band formations he's also active for choreographer Helder Saebra."

"Carlos Godinho is a Portuguese percussionist, a member of Band À Part, Diceros, Octopus, Variable Geometry Orchestra, and Zarabatana."