BOW

*2025 stock* Icarus Records proudly presents Icarus ​Tapes #1: Bow, Icarus Live Session #59​, a live performance recorded for ​the ​Icarus Radio Show, a weekly radioshow broadcast at Belgian radiostation Urgent.fm. One afternoon in March 2019, a Ghent studio at the edge of an arm of the Scheldt river, the 5 musicians of Bow settled down and got ready. After a glance and a deep breath, the 5 fellows leap into the void. Bow takes the gamble for this recorded radio session to improvise its music en…

Brussels-based string quintet BOW celebrates musical freedom. Juggling between their own written music and pure improvisation, the ensemble has worked since its creation on a personal and modern approach, digging into their instruments' capabilities and blending a large scope of influences. Its debut eponym LP, due to be released on Sub Rosa, gathers five instantly-composed pieces that were recorded live by Christine Verschorren in the Echo Collective studio in Brussels. During the day, BOW repe…