Thank's to these brilliant musicians who where more or less frequently involved in giving life and soul to my scores, these past 18 years or so :
Igor Semenoff, George Van Dam, Jeannot Gillis, Edith Heudens (violin),
Wiet Van de Leest (alto), Claudine Steenackers, Geert de Bièvre (cello),
Gerry Cambier, André Klènes (D. Bass),
Anka Parghel, Marie-Véronique Brasseur, Rosa Canavatte, Beverly Joe Scott, Barbara Wiernik, Kate Karpenter, Emmanuel Rubinlicht, Veerle Lindemans, Mirela (vocal),
Alfredo Marcucci, Patrick Vankeirsbilck, Gwenaël Micault (bandonéon),
Joe Higham, Steve Houben (tenor & sop' sax), Pierre Coulon (flutes),
Willy Gouders, Dirk Descheemaecker (clarinet), Jacques Foschia (bass clar.),
Lode Cartrisse (oboe), Michel Berckmans (basson),
Gino Latuca, Luc Van Lieshout (trumpet), Vardan Hovanissian (duduk),
Jean-Luc Millot, Herman Pardon (drums), Pierre Narcisse (tabla), M.-V. Brasseur (percu)
Alain Everts (acc. guitar), Luc de Graaf, Nicolas L'Herbette (e.guit.),
N'Fally Kouyate (kora), Stéphane Ginsburgh, Catherine Smet (piano),
Cécile Maréchal (harpe), ...
Influences
Dans le désordre, au fil des ans :
J.-S. Bach, Bela Bartok, Bauhaus, L. Berio, David Bowie, A. Braxton, K. Bush, Ron Carter, D. Chostakovitch, The Clash, The Cure (les débuts), Dali's car, Miles Davis, Defunkt, E. Dolphy, Ian Dury, J. Dutronc, Brian Eno, Morton Feldman, Luc Ferrari, Ibrahim Ferrer, R. Fripp, S. Gainsbourg, Gilberto Gil, H. Chaurasia, Jonathan Harvey, Talking Heads, Zakir Hussain, Irakere, James Horner, Ictus, Japan, Joy Division, Kraftwerk, Steve Lacy, Ch. Mingus, Jony Mitchell, Eliades Ochoa, Odeon Pope, A. Piazzolla, S. Prokofieff, Alla Rakha, The Residents, Nino Rota, Fr. Schubert, Bobo Stenson, Tuxedomoon, Sarah Vaughan, H. Villalobos, A. Schnittke, Patty Smith, Tom Waits, J. Williams, John Zorn... et tout les autres.
Sounds Like
Sometimes, like billions of water particules suspended in thin air...
Most of the time like :
Born in 1966, started rehearsing with the Honeymoon Killers (Les Tueurs de la lune de miel) back in the early 80's but got side tracked : started touring and recorded 2 LP's with Tuxedomoon - from 1985 on... Always "wanted to be a serious contemporary composer" 'till I discovered nothing is so serious.
Went on, either composing, arranging or just playing, with Anna Domino, Blaine L. Reininger, Steven Brown (Nine Rain), Eddy Loozen, Geoff Leigh (the very "spirit of experimental"), Minimal Man (late Patrick Miller), The Weather man, Drem Bruinsma, Nikki Mono, Didier Odieu, some jazz bands and who else...
Than it was time to start composing for film : Anne Levy Morelle's "Le Rêve de Gabriel" was the first succesfull aventure, back in 1996 (film released in '97). Nearly 50 film soundtracks latter : with the Internet started Musique pour images.com (the "cinematic episode" is all in there).
Along with it came some refreshing adventures, like this trio with Igor Semenoff & Willy Gouders : pure contemporary improvised music - but on mondays only.
2009 sees a happy gathering of friends around the singer, songwriter Kate Carpenter. Yes, we do MySpace already (it's down below on my top friend's wall)
Well, now... what comes next. It's still all a dream, isn't it? I hope you enjoy yours and keep alive this boundless curiosity.
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