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ABOUT
Trough the eyes of dear friend and saxophone player alejandra borzyk:
Camille-Alban Spreng has a terrifically sensitive improvisational voice on the synthesizer, piano, and electronics. His compositional approach makes his playing rich and uncompromising, precise and intensely aware, while remaining intuitive and organic, with great lyrical beauty.
He is a multifaceted musician: influenced by all sorts of styles, ranging from niche aesthetics (Oren Ambarchi, Jim O'Rourke, Deerhoof, Building instruments) to more popular colors (The Bad Plus, ADHD, Sufjan Stevens, Bill Frisell), he is magical not only as an improviser, but also as a composer. Both composition and arrangement are rooted in a deep sense of storytelling and lyricism. The result is organic yet rich and nuanced music that explores all emotional states, often with an underlying nostalgic character.
Camille-Alban seems to offer everyone a home in music, whatever that means to each of us. Its depth permeates discreetly until it touches the bottom of the heart.
and now the boring and generic bio:
Camille-Alban Spreng is a pianist, composer and curator living in Brussels and trained by composer Kris Defoort. He is active in such varied fields as jazz, improvised and electronic music, art performance, theater.
Together with his longtime band ODIL, he released three albums (Something, QFTF, 2016 / RESON, feat. Leïla Martial, and Valentin Ceccaldi, QFTF, 2019 / Unheimlich, feat. Nina Kortekaas, W.E.R.F. Records, 2023).
He’s also currently playing and composing for post-rock band Limite (Mountains Inside, Off Records, 2020 / A thought went up my mind, WERF, 2026), and quintet Mobilhome (That Tough Tender, Mokuhi Sonorities, 2026) alongside top Belgian players Vitja Pauwels, Sam Comerford, Théo Lanau and Lennart Heyndels.
He also released two albums with his trio Dear Uncle Lennie on Yolk Records (2022) and BMC Records (2025) guest starring Joachim Badenhorst. the band features Benjamin Sauzereau on guitar and Marco Giongrandi on banjo.
As a side musician, Camille-Alban is currently collaborating with An Pierlé’s Firestarter, and with Alejandra Borzyk’s band Bodies.
Beside his musical practice, Camille-Alban is also the co-curator of the Pool Sessions, a series of concerts dedicated to improvised music. Since 2028 and with Théo Lanau and Hélène Duret, they hosted artists such as Chris Speed, Pak Yan Lau, Richard Compte, Csaba Palotaï, Jeroen Van Herzeele, Lynn Cassiers, Farida Amadou, Eric Thielemans, Jozef Dumoulin, Julian Sartorius, Loverman, Joachim Badenhorst and many others.
Camille-Alban Spreng is a pianist, composer and curator living in Brussels and trained by composer Kris Defoort. He is active in such varied fields as jazz, improvised and electronic music, art performance, theater.
Together with his longtime band ODIL, he released three albums (Something, QFTF, 2016 / RESON, feat. Leïla Martial, and Valentin Ceccaldi, QFTF, 2019 / Unheimlich, feat. Nina Kortekaas, W.E.R.F. Records, 2023).
He’s also currently playing and composing for post-rock band Limite (Mountains Inside, Off Records, 2020 / A thought went up my mind, WERF, 2026), and quintet Mobilhome (That Tough Tender, Mokuhi Sonorities, 2026) alongside top Belgian players Vitja Pauwels, Sam Comerford, Théo Lanau and Lennart Heyndels.
He also released two albums with his trio Dear Uncle Lennie on Yolk Records (2022) and BMC Records (2025) guest starring Joachim Badenhorst. the band features Benjamin Sauzereau on guitar and Marco Giongrandi on banjo.
As a side musician, Camille-Alban is currently collaborating with An Pierlé’s Firestarter, and with Alejandra Borzyk’s band Bodies.
Beside his musical practice, Camille-Alban is also the co-curator of the Pool Sessions, a series of concerts dedicated to improvised music. Since 2028 and with Théo Lanau and Hélène Duret, they hosted artists such as Chris Speed, Pak Yan Lau, Richard Compte, Csaba Palotaï, Jeroen Van Herzeele, Lynn Cassiers, Farida Amadou, Eric Thielemans, Jozef Dumoulin, Julian Sartorius, Loverman, Joachim Badenhorst and many others.