LANDING GRACE
This is my personal page, but the songs are played with my band Landing Grace. I use this page to give you the opportunity to discover more songs.
About the Songs
After the Rain / Lunacy for Free
These are only demo versions used as work files for the band to prepare rehearsals: very raw material. You can hear more on the Landing Grace page.
I'll Build Myself A Bridge
The song is the result of a collaborative work with Domenico Solazzo within the framework of his Multiply Project. Domenico recorded everything based on the lyrics and a draft version created with Band-in-a-Box. The result is a part of Domenico's darker sides in music. This song will be part of our playlist.
Race Against Time
This is a "bootleg" quality live recording of a song played at a concert on February 2nd, 2005 at the DNA in Brussels with Domenico's Carpigstroke Band. This will also be part of our playlist.
About Myself
Current Project
Landing Grace
Short Biography & Musical Education
I've been playing the guitar since 1984 when I first took lessons at the Netphen music school (Germany) with Rudy Kasper. Later, I took some lessons with Mario Mammone in Siegen (Germany) where I lived until 1988. After that, I moved to Belgium to study.
Between 1999 and 2005, I took lessons with Fabien Degryse at the Evere jazz school. I was also very lucky to take some lessons with the late Paolo Radoni.
The Bands
My first band was Soundless Noise (school band, 1986, Rösrath, Germany). I joined a first rock band in 1993 (AWG, now Lantez) until 1998. I also joined some other bands as a sideman only to fill gaps for concerts. I stopped playing in rock bands between 1999 and 2006 when I was at the Evere jazz music school.
After these 6 years, I joined Domenico Solazzo's Carpigstroke Band in 2004-2005. On Domenico's mySpace blog, you can even see a short video (DNA, Feb 2005).
After unsucessfull temptations to join existing bands in 2005 and 2006, I decided that it was time to start my own project after meeting a former school mate, Natacha Wallez. She's the singer and the leader of Elliott Drop. Diane Martin, her violin player also joined my band. Marc "Loos" Lognard and Joël Bacart are the other members of Landing Grace and we are currently rehearsing and developing our set before (hopefully) starting to play live wherever possible.
Gear
Electric Guitar
My main guitar is a vintage 1976 Fender Telecaster Thinline. It sounds great, the real thing and the one I used on these MySpace records + 2005 Butterscotch BlondeFender Stratocaster Amercian Series that still needs some tweaking (setup).
Acoustic Guitars
Lakewood M-1 CP + Lakewood D-32 Custom. Lakewood Guitars are very fine instruments, check them out!
Amps
Groove Tubes Soul-o-Single single ended tube amp, (very nice to try out all the tubes that I collected) + Groove Tubes Soul-o-30 head + Groove Tubes EX112 cab.
Effects
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