Tag Archives: Pierre Vervloesem’s Grosso Modo

Keyboardist and composer Peter Vandenberghe offers appeared on numerous recordings by Belgian avant jazz and rock and roll bands because the mid-’90s. A previous student in the Brussels Conservatory, he started an extended association with composer, bandleader, and reedman Peter Vermeersch upon becoming a member of Vermeersch’s manic avant-prog-jazz group …

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 …

The leader from the pioneering experimentalist group This Warmth, Charles Hayward began playing the drums at age 11. He later on started messing around with home-taping, and became a member of Mal Dean’s Amazing Music group in the first ’70s. After conference guitarist Charles Bullen, both performed in Radar Favourites …