Peter Vermeersch

Given birth to in 1959 in Waregam, Belgium, bandleader, composer, and reedman Peter Vermeersch started his musical profession taking part in clarinet and saxophone in the group Union, which in 1981 performed music for Echafaudages, a creation by the theatre group Radies. Vermeersch after that started collaborating with filmmaker/composer Thierry de Mey, and both published music for the 1983 dance creation Rosas danst Rosas. Out of this encounter emerged the music group Maximalist!, whose users included Vermeersch on clarinet, de Mey on percussion, Dirk Descheemaeker (Univers No) on bass clarinet, Jean-Luc Plouvier (Univers No) on piano, and Eric Sleichim on saxophones, amongst others. Maximalist! became a car for composing and executing music to accompany the dance productions of choreographer Wim Vandekeybus, and likewise to a saving of Rosas danst Rosas, the group’s discography included Maximalist! (1984) and What your body Does Not Keep in mind (1989). Apparently sense constrained with the completely scored strategy of Maximalist!, Vermeersch produced the sax-fueled avant-prog clothing X-Legged Sally (XLS) in 1988; the group’s lineup included Vermeersch on both clarinet and tenor saxophone, Plouvier on keyboards, and Sleichim on alto saxophone aswell as guitarist Pierre Vervloesem, baritone and tenor saxophonist Michel Mast, drummer Danny Truck Hoeck, and bassist Paul Belgrado. Like Maximalist!, XLS performed music for dance productions, but included improvisation and started incorporating more rock and roll- and jazz-based strategies. The band produced forays in to the NEW YORK downtown scene, executing on the Knitting Stock, and released two albums, 1991’s Slow-Up and 1993’s Killed by Charity, which were produced by Costs Laswell. Additional albums released by XLS through the ’90s included 1994’s Eggs and Ashes, 1995’s The Property of the Large Dwarfs (for the Knitting Manufacturer Functions label), the 1996 live outing Fired, and 1997’s Bereft of the Blissful Union, a cooperation using the Smith Quartet. X-Legged Sally disbanded in 1997; the group got undergone several personnel adjustments during its lifestyle, its latter-day incarnations including keyboardist Peter Vandenberghe, trumpeter Bart Maris, and vocalist Thierry Mondelaers. Upon the separation of XLS, Vermeersch shaped the avant pop/rock and roll band AN ORGANIZATION, having a lineup including Vervloesem and Mondelaers along with vocalist/keyboardist Anne Fontigny and drummer Didier Fontaine. AN ORGANIZATION released two albums, Quantity 1 and Quantity 3, and disbanded in 1999. Vermeersch released his most ambitious and longest-lasting task to day, the theatrical avant big music group Flat Earth Culture (FES), in past due 1998, although early variations of the group got performed at a children’s music event in 1997 and got also appeared for the A Group Quantity 3 monitor “Porque Te Vas.” With an 18-piece lineup including previous XLS users Maris, Mast, Vandenberghe, and Vehicle Hoeck, the big-band FES kept its 1st concerts in Ghent and Brussels in Feb 1999, accompanied by a live transmit on Belgian Country wide Radio (Radio 1), choices from which had been released on the Viakra label EP entitled Live in the Beursschouwburg in January 2000. In January 2001, the band’s first full-length Compact disc, Bonk, premiered around the Zonk label, founded by Vermeersch after Viakra proceeded to go bankrupt. Over another 10 years and beyond, while keeping a relatively steady lineup of between 15 and 18 music artists, FES released a slew of albums like the theatre creation soundtrack Larf (2001); Capture as well as the film soundtrack recording Minoes (both 2002); the Louis Armstrong tribute The Armstrong Mutations (2003); Psychoscout (2006) and Cheer Me, Perverts! (2009), both released by Crammed Discs; Solution Songs (2009); as well as the band’s 13-monitor 13th wedding anniversary 13th recording, 13 (2013). In 2004 a “best-of” compilation, comprised primarily of tracks from your Armstrong Mutations and Minoes, premiered on Mike Patton’s Ipecac label. FES in addition has been involved with numerous musical theatre, dance, film soundtrack, and unclassifiable tasks over time, like the 2008 “existential range farce” Zilke and 2011’s R.We.P. — Funeral Tracks, where the complete ensemble starts the show however the band is constantly on the shrink in proportions as the music artists “perish,” one following the other, as the efficiency progresses. Furthermore to recordings with Maximalist!, X-Legged Sally, AN ORGANIZATION, and Flat Globe Culture, albums released under Vermeersch’s name consist of De Oplosbare Vis (1995), Weg (with Josse de Pauw and Pierre Vervloesem, 1999), and Charms (2000). Vermeersch also co-produced (with Vervloesem) and performed bass clarinet on Most severe Case Situation, the 1994 debut record by Antwerp-based experimental rock-band dEUS.