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Artists overview

Las Lloronas

When World music meets Slam poetry

Only 5 years ago, the trio Las Lloronas were working on their first album, Soaked. Since then, the group has released a second album, Out of the Blue, and played hundreds of concerts in Europe and beyond. The group even won the award for ‘Outstanding Live Performance’ at the Belgian Worldwide Music Awards 2024. With Sura Solomon having decided to take time out to develop other projects, the trio has evolved into a duo. Marieke Werner and Amber in ‘t Veld carry on with the typical ingredients of Las Lloronas: beautiful polyphonic voices, influences from many musical traditions and poetic, powerful multilingual lyrics.

Las Lloronas are searching for depth in simplicity, vibrancy in emptiness, beauty in rawness and playfulness in detail. They continue to explore what it means to be human in a so-much-more-than-human world, and what it means to be ‘Lloronas’ in times of unseizable crisis & grief: “To communicate through poetry and sounds. How humbling and mind-blowing it is to be alive. Through emotion music can offer a sense of consolation, connection and beauty. This is the underlying driving force of our musical research at the moment.

THE Musicians
  • Amber in ‘t Veld – vocals, guitare (ES/NL)
  • Marieke Werner – vocals, clarinet (DE)

Albums

Video

Press

Las Lloronas is a Brussels-based duo that merges world music with slam poetry. Two voices assert their intimate lyrics, they soak in harmonies and melancholic melodies. In their performance, Las Lloronas share a moment of powerful vulnerability, on the verge of lament, daydream and battle cry.

Amber was born in Spain, on the Mediterranean coast, in a village called Altea, from Dutch parents that moved there in the 70s. During her studies in sociology and political sciences in the Netherlands she was living in a cultural hub, a vibrant squatted community centre. Her passion for politics, activism and the collective made her found Chaordica in 2018, an organisation working with youth of diverse backgrounds to create spaces of exchange and critical thinking. Living in Belgium since 2017, she developed as a singer-songwriter, founding Las Lloronas. She is also collaborating with two circus companies to compose music for their shows.

Marieke holds a degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences from Maastricht University and studied Performance Research (Szenische Forschung) in Bochum. Her artistic career took its course in the theatre. While working as an assistant director at Schauspiel Essen, she started creating her own plays and performances. Music has been a central part of her life from an early age and became her main focus when she joined Las Lloronas in 2019. In 2021, she was awarded a scholarship to further explore her interest in composing live music for performance. Marieke has collaborated with Slovenian director Vlado Repnik, the inclusive performance collective Starlab, and performance artist Federico Luz.

 

 

De Subjectivisten (NL)
26/12/2024
Jan Willem

“It is all extremely subtle and of a mesmerising beauty.”

FINANCIAL TIMES (UK)
20/03/2024
David Honigmann

“The 40 minutes of Out of the Blue swerve from flamenco to jazz to klezmer to chanson and spoken-word poetry, sometimes within the same track.”

Mixed World Music (NL)
11/03/2024
Ton Maas

“Given the consistently high level of the performance, it is difficult to pinpoint a peak moment.”

Le Monde (FR)
08/03/2024
Patrick Labesse

“The freshness and delicacy of the melodies, the interweaving of voices, the harmonious musicality of the instruments, the subtlety of the arrangements: the charm works once again.”

Folk: Muziek met Traditie (BE)
23/01/2024
Bart Vanoutrive

“A timeless universality therefore creeps into their
repertoire.”

Heaven Magazine (NL)
01/01/2024
Kees van Wee

Out of the Blue is complete in every aspect and powerful in its intimacy.”

Gaesteliste (DE)
25/11/2023
Ullrich Maurer

“This mix is quite unique – but at the same time so multi-layered and complex.”

MAZ (DE)
24/11/2023
Ralf Thürsam

“They sing so enchantingly, fragile and warm-heartedly.”

Jazz Thing & Blue Rhythm (DE)
22/11/2023
Ralf Deckert & Stefan Franzen

“On Out of the Blue, the Brussels trio creates a dream world.”

NEW FOLK SOUNDS (NL)
21/11/2023
Bart Vanoutrive

“The poetry they perform in their songs is quite sharp, sometimes a bit dark and raw, with a touch of humour and absurdity, but mostly full of tenderness and to the point.”

ROCKTIMES (DE)
15/11/2023
Ulli Heiser

“The three ladies take an unconventional approach and when I say vocal acrobatics, that’s only half the truth. Vocal eroticism is a better word, and I mean that absolutely seriously. The way the vocals break into the ear canals, sonorous and full, like a mighty wave, is amazing.”

Around the World
12/11/2023
Davy Sims

“Keep and eye – and an ear – out for Las Lloronas second album.”

Fatea Magazine (UK)
10/11/2023
Adam Jenkins

Out of the Blue is full of vibrancy and colour, while never failing to acknowledge the lurking darkness. It’s an emotional experience you’ll want to relive again and again.”

BLOGFOOLK (IT)
26/10/2023
Carla Visca

“In an uncensored flow, the inner world of emotions is portrayed and, with an original and unconventional research, a vital flow takes shape.”

UN DISCO AL DIA (ES)
25/10/2023
Fernando Neira

“One of the most beautiful recent expressions of singer-songwriter song. (…) Las Lloronas are funny, witty and not without mystery. Attractive and disturbing at the same time, intensely seductive in their radical determination to resemble only themselves.”

JAZZMANIA (BE)
20/10/2023
Claudy Jalet

“Here we are, embarking on a beautiful journey full of images, encountering various folklores (Spanish, klezmer…). The atmosphere is soft, subtle, poetic and sensitive.”

EXPERPENTO (ES)
18/10/2023
Reyes Muñoz

“They give the feeling that they trust in the capacity of art to change the world.”

KEYS AND CHORDS (NL)
13/10/2023
Marino Serdons 

“Very mature folk music with storytelling and emotional polyphonic songs.  A relief in these turbulent days.”

INOUT VIAJES (ES)
21/09/2023
Catuxa Salom

“In live performance, Las Lloronas share moments of powerful vulnerability. Transiting between authenticity, fun and indignation.”

LARSEN (BE)
12/09/2023

“Backed by a stylish video, superbly directed by Maria Lorente Becerra, this new single questions the passage of time with a fine dose of poetry and a beating chorus.”

TRAF MAGAZINE (ES)
12/09/2023

“For this second album Out of the Blue, Las Lloronas have embarked on an exciting audiovisual collaboration. In this project, Maria has created an intimate documentary that explores the behind-the-scenes lives of these artists as they composed the songs for the album, bringing to life the title Inside Las Lloronas.”

DP MAGAZINE (ES)
11/09/2023

Run stands out for its originality, its absurd and endearing approach, and its singular aesthetic that evokes the essence of a short film.”

mondo sonoro (ES)
07/09/2023

“The music video for Run: a piece that evokes “the essence of a short film” and has been produced by the team of the talented Barcelona film director María Lorente-Becerra and the video clip filmed in the beautiful Aran Valley.”

 

KLOF magazine (UK)
22/12/2021
Richard Hollingham

“Cool, jazzy and with great harmonies, it is a perfect listen at any time of the day.” – Richard Hollingham’s Top 10 Albums of 2021

RTBF (BE)
12/08/2021
Brigitte Mahaux

“Accompanied by accordion, guitar, ukulele and clarinet, their voices fuse intimate lyrics with melancholic harmonies, for a simple, beautiful, strong and touching result. Voices impregnated, gorged with their XXIst century, with their fears, their sorrows and their joys… “

Le Monde (FR)
10/01/2022
Patrick Labesse

“Bringing together with ease polyphonies and slam, they sign an album of a radiant delicacy”

RNR Magazine (UK)
01/05/2021

“That the meaning is open to discussion is at the heart of what makes Soaked intriguing, whilst their musical virtuosity entertains.”

Deutschlandfunk (DE)
02/04/2021
Grit Friedrich

“It is not perfection that counts, but the story of a song.”

Blogfoolk (IT)
25/03/2021
Carla Visca

“Las Lloronas look at the world through an original and dreamy vision, revealing subtle emotions that make Soaked an authentic and refined work.”

Melodiva (DE)
21/03/2021

“Their beautiful, interwoven voices, the warm timbres of guitar, ukulele and accordion, various speech melodies (English, French and Spanish) and spoken word passages make the album an irresistible listening pleasure.”

Songlines (UK)
10/03/2021
Mark Sampson

Soaked is a memorable emotional ride from melancholia to euphoria and back again.”

New Folk Sounds (NL)
27/02/2021
Bart Vanoutrive

“It elevates their music to a deeply human experience that provokes both catharsis and festivity.”

Radio 1 (NL)
06/11/2020

“Music with traditional roots and here and there contemporary touches such as slam poetry.”

 

Le monde est un village (BE)
06/11/2020

“The voices harmonize effortlessly, provoking a musical love at first sight that drives them to pursue the project professionally.”

 

Rootstime (BE)
20/11/2020
Dani Heyvaert

“The result of this intense collaboration is called Soaked, and when you hear it for the first time, you have no idea what just hit you. You’re overwhelmed, lacking any reference point.”

 

Folkcorner (BE)
22/11/2020
Dani Heyvaert

“Armed with just a guitar, accordion, ukulele, and clarinet, along with their stunning voices, the three manage to deliver a breathtakingly beautiful series of songs for over 45 minutes — all on a truly international level and in five languages: French, English, Spanish, Arabic, and Hebrew… They do it effortlessly.”

 

De Subjectivisten (BE)
01/12/2020
Jan Willem

“They now present their debut album S O A K E D, fully immersing the listener in a worldly sound bath of jazz, pop, klezmer, and fado. The spaces between the letters in the title may symbolize room for interpretation and imagination, or a conscious decision to leave things unsaid. Silence, after all, can speak volumes.”

 

Graphicfront (RO)
02/12/2020
GRIT FRIEDRICH

“This singing is invulnerable, beautiful, proud and in solidarity, sometimes even out of tune, but always soulful. A thoughtful debut. Often quietly, in these noisy times, Soaked of Las Lloronas, a discovery.”

 

Musiczine (BE)
31/12/2020
Erik Vandamme

“In their performance, Las Lloronas share a moment of powerful vulnerability, on the edge of lament, daydream, and battle cry.”

 

MDR KULTUR Folk und Welt (DE)
Grit Friedrich

“Courage and vulnerability resonate from Las Lloronas’ artfully woven songs, which combine feminist poetry slam with many influences.”

 

Sunday Times (UK)
21/02/2021
Clive Davis

“It’s light, it’s beautiful, it’s haunting.”

 

Folkradio (UK)
26/02/2021

“Instrumentally, the use of accordion, guitar and clarinet allows them to flow around Europe, sucking the influences od Moorish Spain and North Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, reinforcing the point that origins do not matter, what you care about matters.”

 

Upcoming concerts

08/06/25 Terreni Fertili Festival (Gualtieri, IT)
21/06/25 Fête de la Musique (Brussels, BE)
08/08/25 Hogeschoolplein (Leuven, BE)
07/12/25 Palais du Coudenberg (Brussels, BE)

Past concerts

09/05/25 FolkClub (Torino, IT)
15/04/25 Kollektiv Kaorle (Wien, AU)
12/04/25 Budapest RITMO (Budapest, HU)
10/12/24 Théâtre Marni (Brussels, BE)
22/11/24 Espace culturel Saint-Clément (Craon, FR)
07/09/24 Manifiesta Festival (Ostende, BE)
06/09/24 Pas Festival (Maastricht , NL)
04/08/24 Siberian Summer Festival (Trogen, CH)
02/08/24 Waldstock (Steinhausen, CH)
25/07/24 Parapandafolk Íllora (Grenada, ES)
05/07/24 KLEIN Kbh (Copenhagen , DK)
23/06/24 Ethno Port Festival (Poznań , PL)
21/06/24 PANDA platforma (Berlin , DE)
18/05/24 Jam’in Jette (Brussels , BE)
05/05/24 Dots (Göttingen, DE)
02/05/24 Jockel Event Hall (Berlin , DE)
30/04/24 Gedok Kunstforum (Hamburg, DE)
27/04/24 Tba (Järna, SE)
26/04/24 Stallet (Stockholm , SE)
17/03/24 Art Space MALA (Cēsis , LV)
16/03/24 KK fon Stricka Villa (Riga, LV)
15/03/24 Culture house "Wiktorijia" (Liepāja, LV)
13/03/24 Espace Culturel Ronny Coutteure (Grenay, FR)
10/03/24 Studio Burgwal (Haarlem, NL)
09/03/24 Amare (Den Haag, NL)
08/03/24 Amstelkerk (Amsterdam, NL)
28/02/24 Studio de l'Ermitage (Paris, FR)
11/02/24 CC Sablon (Morlanwelz , BE)
10/02/24 Halle du Bouillon Blanc (Bouillon , BE)
09/02/24 Le ROx (Rouvroy, BE)
14/12/23 CC Wanze (Wanze, BE)
09/12/23 CC Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve (Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, BE)
02/12/23 Maison de la Culture Famenne-Ardenne (Marche-en-Famenne, BE)
10/11/23 CC Dison (Dison , BE)
03/11/23 Radiocity (Valencia, ES)
01/11/23 Altearte (Altea, ES)
31/10/23 AIS (La Nucia, ES)
29/10/23 Acéfala (A Coruña, ES)
25/10/23 Galileo Galilei (Madrid, ES)
20/10/23 MC Ath (Ath, BE)
13/10/23 l’Etable d’Hôtes (Ittre, BE)
07/10/23 Muziekpublique - Release Concert (Brussels , BE)
09/07/23 PARK, festival in Abdij van Park (Heverlee, BE)
14/05/23 Château de Carrouges (Carrouges, FR)
13/05/23 Eglise de Coudehard (Coudehard, FR)
29/04/23 Espace culturel La Forge (Portets , FR)
28/04/23 Le Cube/ Théâtre Mélies (Villenave D'Ornon , FR)
27/04/23 Centre Simone Signoret (Canéjan, FR)
26/03/23 Brosella Spring Festival (Brussels, BE)
24/03/23 CC Herstal (Herstal, BE)
23/03/23 Arsonic (Mons, BE)
12/03/23 Espace Culturel Ronny-Coutteure (Grenay , FR)
08/03/23 Le Gué Centre Thérapeutique Et Culturel (Brussels , BE)
05/03/23 Le Rex (Sourdeval , France)
04/03/23 Gymnase Le Teilleul (Le Teilleul, France)
03/03/23 Espace du Bocage (La Haye Pesnel, France)
02/03/23 Salle Emile Jeanne de Saint-Lô-d'Ourville (Portbail-sur-mer, France)
01/03/23 Espace Culturel de Lessay (Lessay, France)
28/01/23 Grain de Sel (Séné, FR)
27/01/23 Le Ponton (La Possonnière, FR)
26/01/23 Le Kiosque (Mayenne , FR)
11/01/23 Le Stock (La Louvière, BE)
25/11/22 La Peniche Spectacle (Rennes , FR)
23/11/22 CC Verviers (Verviers, BE)
18/11/22 CC Sprimont (Sprimont, BE)
22/10/22 Merodefestival ( BE)
21/10/22 Café Littéraire (Bienne , CH)
20/10/22 Salle du Cercle (Bischeim, FR)
15/10/22 Château Bouc Bel Air (Bouc Bel Air , FR)
14/10/22 Centre culturel René-Char (Digne-les-Bains, FR)
08/10/22 360 Paris Music Factory (Paris , FR)
07/10/22 tba (Mainvilliers , FR)
06/10/22 EPCC Issoudun (Issoudun, FR)
01/10/22 Le Gorille (Gap, FR)
30/09/22 FORUM des Jeunes et de la Culture (Berre l'Etang , FR)
20/09/22 Franchement Festival (Bordeaux , FR)
19/09/22 El Pumarejo (Barcelona , ES)
09/09/22 Service Culture ( Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, FR)
08/09/22 Pumarejo (Barcelona, ES)
25/08/22 De Bijloke (Gent, BE)
21/08/22 Dots (Göttingen, DE)
19/08/22 Weiße Nächte Festival (Mühlheim an der Ruhr, DE)
18/08/22 Bucht der Träumer Festival (Frankfurt, DE)
29/07/22 Glatt&Verkehrt (Krems, Austria)
22/07/22 La Balise - Pays de St Gilles Croix de Vie (Saint Hilaire de Riez, FR)
20/07/22 Été Métropolitain (Parempuyre, FR)
25/06/22 Festival des 5 Continents (Martigny , CH)
22/06/22 Librairie Letu (Geneva, CH)
18/06/22 Fête de la Musique (Woluwé-Saint-Pierre, BE)
12/06/22 Chapelle de Boodael (Brussels , BE)
08/05/22 CC Alter Schlachthof (Eupen, BE)
23/04/22 Théâtre Jules Verne (Bandol, FR)
15/04/22 Handelsbeurs - Support of Meskereem Mees (Gent, BE)
12/04/22 Melkweg - Support of Alice Phoebe Lou (Amsterdam , NL)
04/04/22 Huxleys Neue Welt - Support of Bukahara (Berlin , DE)
03/04/22 Beatpol- Support of Bukhara (Dresden , DE)
02/04/22 De Bijloke (Gand , BE)
02/04/22 Werk 2 - Support of Bukahara (Leipzig, DE)
25/03/22 De Roma - Support of Meskereem Mees (Antwerp, BE)
22/03/22 The Other Radio (Cape Town , ZA)
19/03/22 Mois de la Francophonie (Cape Town , ZA)
18/03/22 tba (Stellenbosch, ZA)
17/03/22 Mois de la Francophonie (Pretoria , ZA)
14/02/22 360 Paris Music Factory (Paris, FR)
26/01/22 Propulse (Brussels , BE )
03/12/21 Muziekpublique - Théâtre Molière (Brussels, BE)
22/10/21 La Ferme ! (Louvain-la-Neuve, BE)
16/10/21 Festival Voix de Femmes (Liège, BE)
09/10/21 Nacht van de Fair Trade (Leuven, BE)
04/10/21 Atelier 210 (Brussels )
02/10/21 Women in (e)motion Festival (Bremen, DE)
01/10/21 Women in (e)motion Festival (Bremen, DE)
19/09/21 Plan:et C Gamma (Lärz, DE)
17/09/21 Festival Le Chainon Manquant (Laval, FR)
12/09/21 CENTRALE for contemporary art (Bruxelles , BE)
11/09/21 Maison de la Création (Neder-Over-Hembeek, BE)
04/09/21 September Sessions (Hasselt, BE)
01/09/21 Propulse (Whall) (Bruxelles , BE )
22/08/21 Plan:et C Alpha (Lärz, DE)
20/08/21 Weltmuzik Fest (Eupen , BE)
19/08/21 Festival d'Art de Huy (Huy, BE)
14/08/21 Micro! Festival (Dortmund , DE)
13/08/21 Neue Arten Festival (Wir bauen Zukunft, DE)
08/08/21 Klink Festival (Dessau, DE)
07/08/21 Ancient Trance Festival (Leipzig, DE)
31/07/21 Esperanzah! Festival (Floreffe, BE)
23/07/21 Les Grignoux (Liège , BE)
21/07/21 Merodefestival (Tongerlo, BE)
17/07/21 Kaap Oostende (Oostende , BE)
15/07/21 Pianofabriek (Sint-Gilles, BE)
10/07/21 Brosella Festival (Brussels , BE)
21/06/21 Fête de la Musique (Saint-Gilles , BE)
20/06/21 Fête de la Musique (Brussels , BE)
06/06/21 Music Club 't Ey (Sint-Niklaas, BE)
28/05/21 Senghor (Etterbeek , BE)
24/05/21 Belmundo Festival (Brugge , BE )
23/05/21 Muziekpublique - Album Release (Brussels, BE)
22/05/21 Muziekpublique - Album Release (Brussels , BE)
08/02/21 Belgian World Music Network - Online (Brussels, BE)
09/11/20 Ancienne Belgique (Brussels , BE)
07/11/20 Muziekpublique - Album Release (Brussels, BE)
Label & Management

Elena Luro – elena@muziekpublique.be

Booking

Elena Luro (FR/EN) – elena@muziekpublique.be

Martha Vandermeulen (NL) – martha@muziekpublique.be

label@muziekpublique.be

Tel : +32 2 217 26 0