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Born in 1986 in Braine l'Alleud, Damien Brassart starts at 16 years old to learn African and Afro Cuban percussions. After 4 years of experimentation, he starts at 20 years old to learn different wind instruments (Irish flutes, oboe, English horn) by following a training at the academy of Braine l'Alleud and by participating in various training courses in the fields of "world music" and jazz (AKDT, Lundi d'Hortense, St Vaast, etc).

In 2012, he created the non-profit organization La couleur des sons to promote and develop all forms of arts as well as music therapy. Fascinated by the power of sounds, both emotionally and physically, Damien is writing a thesis in Anthopology (ULB) on trance, ecstasy and the bridges between jazz and Sufi music. He will continue to explore this dimension of sound through various musical projects, workshops, encounters (notably with dance and theater) as well as by training in music therapy (AMB of Dijon), cognitive trance with Corinne Sombrun for 4 years (beginning of 2021) and healing sounds in different cultures with Pat Moffit Cook for 1 year (beginning of 2022)

During this time Damien worked as a music therapist in a psychiatric hospital part time for 7 years.

At the age of 25, Damien started learning the soprano saxophone on his own. At 29, he enters the Royal Conservatory of Brussels to learn jazz and improvisation with, among others, Fabrice Alleman and Manu Hermia. He will obtain his master degree in 2022. Currently, Damien performs in various artistic projects combining music, dance and theater: Saouta (oriental music-jazz with saxophone/oud/counter bass/tabla), , " Belle époque ! "(swing/new orleans jazz trio with saxophone/counter bass/guitar), D'ouest en Ouest (West African music with saxophone/balafon/counter bass/Ngoni/percussion), The song they play (dance/saxophone duet), Hydrol (dance/music), The First Breath Of An Unknown Reality (dance/music), Dudziak-Brassart quartet (jazz), Elle parle. (poetry/music), PLUME (jazz duo/trio/quartet) and many others...

Damien Brassart's first album " Ode to travel " (of which he signs the compositions) was released by Homerecords in 2022 with the project SAOUTA and was greeted by the critic:

Selected among the 5 best albums of the week at the time of its release, "Ode to travel" gets 4 stars in Le Mad (Le Soir newspaper). It was also praised by the Flemish magazine The Moorsmagazine. It also gets 4 stars in the newspaper L'Echo with a very nice review. The more specialized press will also say very nice words about it like in the magazine Jazzmania.

Following this, Damien Brassart will be invited in the program "Le monde est un village" (RTBF) by Didier Mélon as well as on Musiq3 in the program "Jazz" of Philippe Baron to speak about his music and his artistic universe.