Michel Delville was born in Liege, Belgium, in 1969. He has been performing and composing alternative music since the mid-1980s. His most recent projects include the internationally acclaimed Nu-Rock-Jazz quintet The Wrong Object (wrongobject.com),
Belgian-Swiss punk-jazz combo Trank Zappa Grappa in Varese (Myspace
profile), Belgo-Dutch combo The Moving Tones (www.myspace.com/themovingtones), Alex Maguire Sextet (www.moonjune.com), Stanley Jason Zappa's New Texture Pan Tonal Fellowship, Ed Mann & Friends and a new power trio called Doubt (Maguire/Delville/Bianco) (www.moonjune.com).
He has played and recorded with Elton Dean, Annie Whitehead, Harry Beckett, Ed Mann, Alex Maguire, Tony Bianco, Benoît Moerlen, Geoff Leigh, Markus Stauss, Robin Verheyen, Frank van der Kooij, Guy Segers, Bart Maris, Jaap Blonk, Catherine Smet, Ivo Sans, Fred Delplancq, Jean-Paul Estievenart, Etienne Plumer, Damien Campion, Steven Delannoye, Frank Wuyts, Dirk Wachtelaere, Damien Polard, Laurent Delchambre, Sam Gertsmans, Antoine Guenet, Biagio Francia, Marc Mangen, Domenico Solazzo's PaNoPTICon, Domgue, Chris Garcia, Chris Stassinopoulos, Stanley Jason Zappa, Andrew Norris, Frank Goos, Marco Maurizi, and other jazz and prog-rock musicians.
Persistent rumors are circulating that his next official album for Moonjune Records will be almost entirely guitar-based, electronically inclined, and released under the name of BLAST 3.
In the meantime, DOUBT, a power trio featuring Alex Maguire (Elton Dean, Michael Moore, Hatfield and the North,) and Tony Bianco (Dave Liebman, Alexander Von Schlippenbach, Reggie Workman,) are hatching up plans to record their first album in the Summer of 2009 ...
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ZNR: "Michel Delville's guitar playing seems influenced more by the atmospheric explorations of players like Bill Frisell, David Torn and,
certainly, Robert Fripp but his technical ability is never in question. There are
hints of Zappa & Holdsworth in his sound, too. However the approach is all his own and never seems derivative. Like Frisell & Torn, Delville can play all around an idea and look at it from many different angles."..
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Ben Watson /HIFINEWS: "Michel Delville, leader and guitarist of The Wrong Object from Liege, Belgium, is writing tunes which emulate Zappa's taste for succinct idiosyncrasy and melodic lilt.... in a modern music scene that regularly trundles out all the paraphernalia of intelligence (laptops, bald heads, performers; desk-tops like mad electronic laboratories), this is the real thing."..
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Duncan Heining /JAZZWISE: "Guitarist Delville is quite stunning whether soloing or filling out the spaces between ... Suppose you've a friend, who thinks jazz-rock an aberration and fusion noodling its inevitable nadir. Here's what you do. Strap them to a chair, put this on at full volume and leave them a few hours. If by then they still don't get it, find another friend."..
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Matt Cibulla /CAVE 17: "Delville is pretty great both as a soloist, where he often seems to fly completely off the handle in angry-lovely ways (his temper-tantrum stuff during 'Strangler Fig' contrasts nicely to Jean-Paul Estievenart's swingin' trumpet style) and as an ambient sound-layerer, like his atmospherics on 'Rippling Stones'. If you're making a list of great guitar players, please include his name. Remember doing lists like that? Ah, the old days."..
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Pete Pardo /SEA OF TRANQUILITY: "You can hear the influence of
Zappa, Robert Fripp, and Terje Rypdal in the playing of guitarist Michel Delville,
his solos at the end of this piece literally exploding through the mix with plenty
of fire and passion. More of his distorted rumblings can also be heard on the
energetic "15/05", a real jazz burner that features plenty of tight playing from the
whole group. You might detect a slight hint of Waka Jawaka era Zappa by way of
Weather Report..'d5s Heavy Weather on the intense "Strangler Fig", while the near
7-minute "Saturn" is an exploratory journey into melodic free-jazz (if that is
possible!) with Delville doing his most convincing Zappa guitar solo on the album,
sounding impossibly close to Frank's tone & phrasing on the Joe's Garage
album."..
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Gert Schmidt /IG JAZZ: "Mit ihrer Musik waren sie DIE Stars der
Zappanale 2004. Michel Delville, Gitarrist und Bandleader, kann mit dem grossen
Vorbild durchaus mithalten. Mit Zappa teilt er einen feinen Sinn für den
musikalischen Surrealismus. Davon zeugen Titel wie "Cunnimingus" oder "King Kong:
The George W. Bush Version"...
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Vincenzo Giorgo /MUSICA JAZZ: "Escono quasi in contemporanea due
registrazioni dal vivo della band di Michel Delville, vulcanico chitarrista belga
fortemente attrato da Allan Holdsworth, Terje Rypdal, Robert Fripp e Frank Zappa
oltre che (come evidenziano qui gli ospiti) dal jazz britannico."
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Rene Yedema /iO PAGES: "Kenmerkend hiervoor zijn Delville's
Mellotronstrings-achtige guitarsynthesizereffect dat de korte trompetuitbarsting in
'Sonic Riot at the Holy Palate' begeleidt en de psychedelische, naar Jimi
hendrix neigende gitaarclimax in 'The Unbelievable Truth' Part II'. Een
zowel intense als confronterende en intrigerende luistervaring."..
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Matthias Zwarg /FREIE PRESSE: "Delville beherrscht Zappas
rohrendes Gitarrenspiel ausgezeichnet, organisiert den Sound aber auf
freundlich-zuruckhaltende Art so, dass jeder Mitspieler seine solistischen
Ausfl..'9fge machen kann, die weidlich genutzt werden. ..'d1 Matthias Zwarg,"..
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MUSIC EMISSIONS: "Guitarist Michel Delville is the engine driving
this Belgian sestet. His solos send "15/05" the mini-epic "The Unbelievable Truth"
close to the edge of chaos. Improv meets tasty pysch-jazz grooves all over this
set."..
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GAPPLEGATE MUSIC: "Guitar and electronics man Michel Delville plays
an idiomatic axe that can groove as well as wail and writes much of the band's
material. Like the Later Soft Machine and Zappa, it is certainly the music itself
that sets them apart. There is much of musical merit to digest on this disk and I
recommend it highly."
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BABYBLAUE SEITEN: "Delville ist der Rocker, der zappabeeinflusste
Avantgardist ... Seine Gitarrensolos klingen fur mich als werden da ca. drei
Gitarristen mitspielen: einer auf dem Gitarrensynthesizer, der zweite beeinflusst
von F.Zappa, der dritte eher von Fred Frith." ..
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Maurizio Comandini /ALL ABOUT JAZZ Italy: "La scrittura di Michel
Delville, vero leader del gruppo, e assolutamente in grado di fornire elementi di
contiguita molto evidenti con quella di Zappa e quindi il progetto assume una
unitarieta molto evidente, ben messa in luce dalla coesione che il palco sa
fornire. L'album e stato infatti registrato dal vivo e il concerto e
davvero godibile e riuscito, con ampio spazio riservato ai solisti, ma senza mai
abbandonare il compito auto-assegnato di costruire un coerente tessuto dalle trame
zappiane che non si vergogna di abbracciare anche influssi provenienti dal rock
progressivo inglese e dal jazz-rock meticcio che ha preso piede a partire da
Canterbury, da Robert Wyatt e Ian Carr e da altri spiriti liberi europei."..
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PANPROGTIKUM: "Michel Delville, der in der Tradition von Fripp,
Rypdal und Holdsworth steht, garantiert fur virtuose Gitarrenarbeit.Das l..'8asst
auf ein hervorragendes Album im Bereich zwischen JazzRock, progressivem Rock,
Avant-Garde und Zappaeskem hoffen."..
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Volkmar Mantei /RAGAZZI: "Michel Delville nimmt sich nicht
zuruck und spielt, mal im Zappa-Geist, mal in eigener Intention, exklusive Soli.
Erstaunlich die personelle Parallele zu The Wrong Object, die wie In Cahoots erst
mit Elton Dean, schliesslich mit Annie Whitehead aufgenommen hatten. In Cahoots
zeigen eine starkere Rockprasenz, The Wrong Object rocken jedoch partiell
wesentlich h..'8arter. The Wrong Object klingen europaischer, In Cahoots
britischer. Der grosste Unterschied ist wohl der Einsatz der elektrischen
Gitarre. Beide Ensembles werden von Gitarristen geleitet, Phil Miller ist der
altere, abgeklarte, Michel Delville der "rockigere", härtere."..
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Alessandro Pizzin /DEBRA KADABRA: "Michel Delville ..'8f decisamente
molto interessante con il suo stile chitarristico, a meta strada tra lo Zappa
piu astratto e l'apparente geniale contorta inconcludenza di un Phil Miller
prima-maniera."..
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Thanks to: Elton Dean, Harry Beckett, Annie Whitehead, Alex
Maguire, Frank Zappa, Francis Herard, Gilbert Delville, Elisabeth Waltregny,
Romain et Louise Delville. Background photo:Marc Atkins.
Design:StudioH.
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I don't know that CD 'Al Dente'. I looked it up and notice that it's a live recording from the 70s, looks really interesting! Yeh, it's a shame that all of that crowd is no longer around, inspiring players.
I'm inspired to get some writing done when I see you're 'mood updates' and especially due to the kind discovery (b thanks to Mr Guy .S.) of the Henry Cow back catalogue - I'm up to #3 at the moment.
GIFT FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!! VIDEO:"FLIGHT OF THE CONDOR(2)" LIVE CONCERT at 23 MARCH 2009-ON STAGE club in athens greece. -(at First MINUTE Wallposter &Sound & after PICTURES OF MUSICIANS FROM CONCERT & SOUND) --CHRIS STASSINOPOULOS & EXPLORERS band. Composer -Chris Stassinopoulos. -Chris Stassinopoulos(on the RIDE Side of this video)(keyboards-strings-on indroduction-&-brass & all el. pianos-special third solo el piano-and at the finale el.piano arpegio ) -Alekos Karakandas(first solo keyboard-ON THE LEFT side of this video) -Stelios Frederikos(second solo-el guitar) -Kostas Karamitros(drums) -Maria Kotsiri(bass) -Kostas Aktypis(percussions). -----New cd: LIGHT IN THE DARK http://www.cdbaby.com/stassinopoulos5
Hi Myspace friends - Just wanted to share this with you - well look who's 'Jazz Musician of the Day'..
www. allaboutjazz. com
Hope you are all very well, Trev
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Compiled by Leaping Cat Records for Inkanish Records to benefit Jimmy Carl Black
Jon Larsen & JCB - Don Preston & Bunk Gardner - Ed Mann - Jerry Ford & Derek Dean - The Wrong Object - Captain Sensible - RagacatZZ - Southern Comfort - Corky's Cats - The Moving Tones - Zappatika - Tony Roberts
Ehi carissimo Michel...passa il tempo e non ci si sente da un po'...spero le cose ti vadano per il meglio...anche se il periodo non è dei migliori per trovare da suonare eh? ti saluto e ti abbraccio...dimmi un po' come ti va lassu' ciao carissimo...suoneremo insieme un giorno?:-) ciao Michel
Ehhhh ! j'allais oublier le meilleur ! De bonnes Fêtes à toi Michel ainsi qu'à toute a famille, la génétique et la musicale. Tu dois être aux anges: le mode 'random' est de nouveau disponible sur le player MS... ;-c
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