Club Des Belugas

Club Des Belugas is one of the leading Nujazz projects in Europe, probably in the world combining contemporary European Lounge & Nujazz Styles with Brazilian Beats, Swing and American Black Soul of the fifties, sixties and seventies. Featuring guest appearances from Swedish vocalist Anna Luca and multi award winning Californian jazz impresario Brenda Boykin. Recorded at the Rex Theatre, Wuppertal 2010 and the Grillo Theatre Essen, Germany, June 19, 2009. Club des Belugas started their career in 2002 with their first album "Caviar at 3 a.m.". In 2003 they released their 2nd album "Minority Tunes", which included the German Club Charts no.1 hits "hip hip chin chin" and "Gadda Rio". In 2006 Club des Belugas enriched the world of music with a real masterpiece called "apricoo soul". The 12” vinyl "Wildcats gotta move" reached German Club Charts #3 and stayed in the Top Ten for 8 weeks (march & april 2006). The included Club des Belugas Remix of Dean Martin's "Mambo Italiano" is the first worldwide legal remix of any Dean Martin track, authorized by Capitol/EMI and the Dean Martin Family themselves. Tracks from Club des Belugas have been released on more than 4 Million CDs in total. Between June & September 2007 the Club des Belugas Quartet has performed 89 gigs in China. They released a special China Edition CD called “Best of Club des Belugas” in cooperation with the "Shangrila Hotels", "Moet & Chandon" and "La Perla". Since the end of 2007 Club des Belugas has performed more than 100 concerts all over Europe, also at Jazz festivals. The album Apricoo Soul has been chosen for "Best CD of the year 2006" and the album SWOP has been chosen for "Best CD of the year 2008".