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Belgian avant rock, jazz, and experimental guitarist Pierre Vervloesem (X-Legged Sally, Toned Earth Society) had many albums to his name — including DO-IT-YOURSELF (1994), Fi asc o (1996), and Chef-d’Oeuvre (1999) — when he assembled the exploratory prog music group Grosso Modo to record an eponymous album at Brussels’ Growing …

Guitarist Pierre Vervloesem continues to be referred to as “Belgium’s Frank Zappa,” although his inimitable abilities — he’s a fine electric powered bassist and in addition noted for his abilities in anatomist, mixing, and/or understanding his very own recordings and the ones of his co-workers — place him in his …

An experimental, Zappa-influenced group from Belgium, X-Legged Sally’s regular membership included Peter Vermeersch, Paul Belgrado, Pierre Vervloesem, Danny Vehicle Hoeck, Peter Vandenberghe, Bart Maris, and Michel Mast. In 1990 the music group contributed a monitor towards the Live in the Knitting Manufacturing plant, Vol. 4 collection, which led to an …

Belgian guitarist, bassist, and mixing/understanding whiz Pierre Vervloesem wished to keep things easy with this electrical avant jazz-rock quartet — hence the band moniker, Basic, is normally a one-word manifesto of sorts — but sometimes the best-laid plans could be at least momentarily sidetracked by circumstances. Regarding Simple, Vervloesem decided …

Belgian guitarist/bassist, composer, and studio room wizard Pierre Vervloesem 1st garnered worldwide attention in the avant rock community back the first ’90s as an integral person in Peter Vermeersch’s crazed jazz-rock outfit X-Legged Sally, a fiery, high-energy ensemble that presented avant-proggy but tightly concentrated composing, a rock-solid electrified rhythm section, …