Ananta Roosens

musician

biography


Ananta Roosens creates music, using mainly the violin, trumpet and her voice.

With her life project ‘Ceci n’est pas un violon’ (or ‘This is not a violin’ referring to the famous painting by René Magritte) Ananta breaks out of her comfort zone and with her violins, her vocal cords and some household wares she goes on an unexpected journey towards the unknown. Secondly, to intensify the experience and double the opportunities, Ananta has been inviting other musicians to interchange their musical worlds: with Mostafa Taleb on kamanche (Iranian violin) she recorded the album ‘Chapelle de Verre’ out on vinyl & Bandcamp. She also has a duo with Kaito Winse from Burkina Faso on flutes and percussion. With the Portuguese guitar player Norberto Lobo she made an album that will be released soon.  

picture by Karolina Maruszak

Apart from her own projects, she regularly writes music for dance company Studio Eclipse and collaborates with her sister and choreographer Satya Roosens such as for ‘Fallen Thoughts‘, ‘Trapped Inside’ and ‘Veni, Vidi, Venus’. They are currently working on the creation ‘labo van de tederheid’. Also for Kurt Demey’s La ville Qui Respire  she has written the soundtrack.

 

picture: Steven Vanderaspoilden
picture: Steven Vanderaspoilden

She has played with many musicians and projects such as: Benjamin Sauzereau (Remorque, duo, …), Annemie Osborne, Lynn Cassiers’ Imaginary Band, Oba Loba, Fnüssjen (avec Nicolas Chkifi, Ann Eysermans, Christian Mendoza), La Farkas (duo avec Csilla Deak), Giovanni Di Domenico, Ibrahim Ferrer (Buena Vista Social Club), Bao Sissoko, Lyenn, John Birdsong, Thé Lau, Mógil, Joris Vanvinckenroye and many more … 

 

 

 

 

South America: Ananta played in many different projects that were related to the music of Argentina, with groups and musicians such as: Melingo, Hernán Reinaudo, Gotan Project (world tour in 2010-2011), Lalo Zanelli, Pablo Agri, Pavadita, Nicolas Enrich, Julian Peralta, Tomassini-Reinaudo Project, José Balé, Luis Stazo, Alfredo Marcucci, Juan-José Mossalini, Guardia Cadenera and many others.
She founded a non conventional tango quintet called La Sieste Du Dromadaire with whom she recorded the album ‘Tango from a dromedary point of view’ in 2013 featuring special guests Gerardo Jerez Le Cam and Iacob Maciuca.

 

DISCOGRAPHY

Un, Remorque, CD, W.E.R.F. (2024, Belgium)
Breathe, CD & vinyl, W.E.R.F. (2023, Belgium)
La Chapelle de Verre, Ananta Roosens & Mostafa Taleb, vinyl and digital album, (2022, Belgium)
The List, Hi Hawai, vinyl, (2021 Belgium)
Pantufa Alcalina,
Oba Loba, digital album, Silent Water, (2021, Belgium) 
Siete vidas te daría, Ceci n’est pas un violon, digital album, bandcamp (2020, Belgium)
Forest of Pictures, Fnüssjen, CD (2020, Belgium)
The Takenouchi Documents, Free Desmyter & Bassem Hawar, CD, W.E.R.F. (2019, Belgium)
Musica per insiemi, Giovanni di Domenico, vinyl, Black Sweat Records (2018, Belgium)
Imaginary Band, Lynn Cassiers, CD, Cleanfeed records (2018, Belgium)
Insalata Statica, Giovanni Di Domenico, vinyl, silent water (2018, Belgium)
Sir Robert Williams, Oba Loba, vinyl; three:four records (2017, Belgium)
Vive, Eleonór, Elly, CD (2016, Belgium)
Olla Vogala 20y. Wouter Vandenabbeele, CD (2016, Belgium)
Along A Line CD (2015, Belgium)
Arco, Giovanni Di Domenico & Jim O’Rourke – vinyl (2015, Belgium)
Kuko, Hernán Reinaudo CD (2014, Argentina)
Oba Loba, CD & vinyl (2014, Belgium, Portugal)
Tango from a dromedary point of view, La Sieste Du Dromadaire, CD, (2013, Belgium)
Tarrareando, Fabian Rodriguez CD (2013, Argentina)
Orbitando, Jose Bale & Marcelo García CD (2013, Argentina)
tango 3.0, Gotan Project live DVD (2011, France)
ĺ stillunni hljómar, Mógil CD (2011, Iceland)
Terra che cammina, Giovanni Di Domenico CD (2010, Belgium)
Vivo, Tomassini-Reinaudo Project CD (2009, Argentina)
, Mógil CD (2009, Iceland)
Love is supreme, Kindred Spirit Ensemble CD (2008, the Netherlands)
2007, The Scene CD (2007, Netherlands)
Con cuerda, Pavadita CD (2006, the Netherlands)
Tempel der liefde, The Lau CD (2006, the Netherlands)
Farah, Petra CD (2005, Mexico)

STUDIES

Masterclasses with Dino Saluzzi, Gustavo Mozzi, Pablo Agri , Ramiro Gallo…
Trumpet lessons with Jon Birdsong, Laurent Blondiau, Henk De Loose and Michel Paré and Violin classical music and Argentinean music at the Rotterdam Conservatory (2002-2007) with teachers such as: Gustavo Beytelmann, Victor Hugo Villena, Thijs Kramer, Andras Czifra.