'THERE ARE THOSE WHO CONFORM AND THOSE WHO CONFRONT AND NEVER STOP TRANSFORMING'.

Belgian drummer/percussionist Karen Willems is active in various fields. Her expressive, physical drum and percussion technique brought her to Yuko, Zita Swoon Group, Mauro, Zwerm among others.

With her project Inwolves she took the first steps towards the discovery of the essence of her own music. Her solo project ‘Terre Sol’ elaborates on this.

Her aim is to find music in which she could find herself as a spiritual being as well as a creative artist. She is concerned with the essence of her own work, the perception of her own personality and the further development of sound as an art of fusing different aesthetics and genres.

For the Belgian, jazz is also a communicative form of music that seeks dialog and discourse in order to discover new things and explore the unknown, For that reason, Willems has added a "Four" to her "Terre Sol" in order to set out as a quartet of four in search of the essence of contemporary, improvised music and to move sure-footedly along the borderline between jazz and improvised music, pop and rock, experimental music and musical avant-garde.