Bass player Jean Demey played the first Free Music Wim Festivals in the early seventies (Antwerpen and Ghent) with Peter Kowald’s brother in law, the dutch sax legend Kris Wanders (check Globe Unity 1st Lp & Fred Van Hove Requiem on Saba). Now he concentrates on sculpting with the wild string ‘n wood natural sound of his double bass. He has performed hundreds of concerts with a.o Arabesque & lutist Hasan Erraji, kora master N’Faly Kouyaté, raï singers Cheb Mimoun and Cheb Khaled. Current group is Shikari on darbukka and clarinet with sitarist Jakke Moens, also w Kris Joris/Laurent Blondiau. Performed with Alfred 23 Harth, Kees Hazevoet, Noah Howard, Beaver Harris, Kris Joris, Laurent Blondiau, A Goudbeeck, Jiji Duerinckx, Tony Bevan and Inaudible….. Solo performance with sculpture exhibitions in Flanders and Paris. Jean Demey has performed on the five continents : most countries in Europe, in Asia, Africa, North America and Australia as bass player, percussionist, clarinettist and composer.
Tag Trio. Great free improvisations recorded live in concert at L‘Archiduc, Brussels, on June 26th 2011 by Michaël W Huon. Yoko Miura is from Tokyo, Jean Demey is from Antwerpen, Ove Volquartz is form Göttingen… Cosmopolitan music, human music. Cover art by Sàndor Gyöffy. Continue reading
The SUREAU trio trio is playing free spontaneous improvisations based on mutual listening, musical invention and sound exploration. Double bass , voice and percussion. This collective music is shaped with our own very individual sounds research since years of practice and reflection with the help of our imagination. Extended techniques and tangent interactive thinking. These five new tracks of the whole concert in Leuven’s Oratorium 22 oct ’09 is a good starting point for the listener and one crucial step in our evolution. Continue reading
“Van Schouwburg… unleashes a distinctive array of throat, mouth and tonsil intonation that encompasses guttural murmuring, duck-like quacks, extended nattering, Satchmo-style growls, saliva-filled expositions, Bedlam-like mumbles and vibrating warbles. Russell responds with crossbow-like pulls on his strings, rasps beneath the guitar’s bridge and abrasive extended slides.” — Ken Waxman, JAZZword Continue reading