VI.BE

Leader of Elisa Samoy Band

and Désenchantée Duo.

Part of a instrumental house band called " I don't clean the house " ( 100 % FINTA)

Background:

I was fortunate enough to start playing guitar and singing during my childhood. During this time,

one of my teachers, an admirer of Adderley and Fitzgerald, passed on to me his

passion for jazz. Then, I deepened my jazz listening in early

adolescence; it was there that I discovered the saxophone: this instrument has obsessed me ever since.

I studied philosophy for a few years at university. The in-depth exploration

of this discipline—ontology, ethics, argumentative structure, dialectics—equipped me to develop a more demanding, activist, and assertive way of thinking about the world and our relationship to living things. I continue to engage in intellectual pursuits through my daily reading, and my writing deepens as a result, becoming my discourses, my laments, and my solutions.After my studies in philosophy, I studied jazz saxophone at the KCB, the Flemish Conservatory of Brussels. This opportunity allowed me to fully dedicate myself to the study of jazz and its related genres.

I am currently training in declamation.

elisa.samoy@gmail.com

First Album Resilience (June 2025):

First Album:

My first album, Resilience—a project in which I play all my instruments—is the product of a fusion between song, my jazz influences, and literature. Resilience was a necessary step in my artistic process: I needed to explore different musical genres, their potential blending, and experiment with declamation and storytelling to establish what was important to me as a storyteller.

The songs on my Resilience project, and those yet to come, are, in essence, an expression of my general disenchantment, my ideals left in ruins as I experience the world and human relationships. They are also demands, poetic propositions, fragile shelters where everything must be rebuilt. I proclaim my demands on the rubble of what is lost. From rage to contempt, gentleness, and hope, I use a range of emotions to bear witness to our attempts at revolt, acceptance, and resignation in the face of our weariness, which the fools still resist.

The upcoming second album (Spring 2027):

It is still a call, an address, a modest desire to make people see and feel, through words set to music. My new compositions, in the same vein as my album Resilience, are a focused portrait of the violent banalities of our society: fascism, slavery and the mass murder of animals destined for consumption, the impossibility of unearthing profound meaning beneath the layers of simulacra that are the city. In these compositions, I affirm all the more my desire for declamation, sometimes assertive: a diagnosis of the symptoms of our madness; sometimes poetic: hopes to be cultivated in art and love. Musically, I am committed to respecting the heritage of Jazz, its colors, its complexity, its stage presence. An aesthetic of tension, dissonance, and resolution. It is necessary to elevate the unease of the content to the level of the form. To be coherent, that is the final word.