Teun Verbruggen

Delivered in 1975, Teun Verbruggen offers emerged among the most intriguing drummers on Belgium’s avant jazz and creative improvisation picture, looking much beyond his country’s edges for collaborators. Verbruggen graduated from your Royal Conservatory of Brussels in 1999, as do Finnish pianist Alexi Tuomarila, as well as the drummer quickly became a member of Tuomarila’s quartet, which received 1st reward at Belgium’s worldwide Jazz Hoeilaert competition that 12 months. Making one of is own first recorded looks within the Alexi Tuomarila Quartet’s 2001 debut recording Voices of Pohjola, Verbruggen would continue to record with Tuomarila on following times including 2003’s 02 and 2008’s Runo X. While Verbruggen would discover sideman/collaborator functions with pianists to be always a fruitful part of exploration in his music profession, one of is own longest-running music group memberships started when he became a member of Peter Vermeersch’s experimental huge ensemble Flat Globe Society soon before FES documented their 2002 Louis Armstrong task The Armstrong Mutations. Verbruggen continuing performing and documenting with Vermeersch and firm on such following FES albums as Psychoscout (2006), Reply Music and Cheer Me, Perverts! (both 2009), and 13 (2013). While occupying the drum seat from the FES big music group, Verbruggen also performed and documented in more close jazz settings, attaining particular see for his account in Belgian pianist Jef Neve’s trio. He initial appeared in the trio’s Blue Saga record in 2003, and continuing his use Neve on such produces as It’s Eliminated (2004), Nobody Is certainly Illegal (2006), Spirit in an image (2008), Imaginary Street (2010), and Sons of the brand new Globe (2012). The drummer also collaborated with FES users in smaller sized groupings; he created the experimental digital duo P.V.T.V. with acoustic guitar/combining/learning phenom Pierre Vervloesem, showing up within the 2007 recording Wing-Chester released by Vervloesem’s Off Information label, and in addition became a member of Vervloesem’s Caca octet (a music group with impressive similarity to FES antecedent X-Legged Sally), which released the recording Sketches of Discomfort on Off Information in 2012. And with FES keyboardist/composer Peter Vandenberghe and bassist Kristof Roseeuw, Verbruggen created the rather warped piano trio As well Noisy Seafood, whose premiere documenting, Fast Easy Ill (with combining and learning by Vervloesem), found its way to 2011; a sophomore As well Noisy Fish recording, entitled Battle Eat Rest, was planned released in Sept 2013. In the middle-2000s, nevertheless, Verbruggen formed an organization that would start new avenues, getting into the world of free of charge improvisation, consumer electronics, and sound — or the actual music group phone calls “emofreejazznoizesweetpunk” — while also sketching collaborators from outside Belgium. Othin Spake presented Verbruggen on drums, playthings, and various other implements along with dEUS guitarist Mauro Pawlowski and keyboardist Jozef Dumoulin on Fender Rhodes; having hardly ever played jointly before, the three music artists were given free of charge rein to execute a totally improvisational occur March 2005 at Brussels’ L’Archiduc jazz place. They might have got bewildered a number of the customers, but still engendered curiosity from Antwerp’s Jazz Middelheim and Bruges’ Flemish Jazz Reaching celebrations, where they performed afterwards in 2005. More than the next many years, Othin Spake started playing pieces with asked guests from the brand new York Town/Brooklyn avant music picture, bassist Trevor Dunn, harpist Shelley Burgon, and saxophonist/clarinetist Andrew D’Angelo, and in addition played a arranged at Rotterdam’s 2007 North Ocean Jazz Event with iconic Belgian free of charge improvising pianist Fred Vehicle Hove. Othin Spake possess released four albums: 2007’s The Ankh includes recordings from two Belgium concerts; 2008’s Live @ Archiduc paperwork their 1st ever arranged from March 2005; Kid of Deception and Skill (also released in 2008) also features the primary trio from early in its living; and 2011’s The Nethack Dictionary compiles choices from live times between 2006 and 2011, and features looks by Dunn, Burgon, D’Angelo, Vehicle Hove, and FES/Caca/VVG Trio saxophonist Bruno Vansina. The Othin Spake albums have already been released from the Rat Information label, co-founded by Verbruggen and saxophonist Vansina (whom Verbruggen fulfilled back the conservatory) in 2003. With Othin Spake’s associates and guests demonstrating to become sympathetic cutting-edge improvisers, Verbruggen tapped in to the task when assembling a fresh ensemble, the Bureau of Atomic Travel and leisure (aka Sail boat), to execute at Antwerp’s Stick to the Sound Celebration in November 2011. Featuring Verbruggen on both drums and consumer electronics, Sail boat also included keyboardist Dumoulin, bassist Dunn, and reedman D’Angelo, along with French guitarist Marc Ducret and Brooklyn trumpeter Nate Wooley. Using a music group name referencing the fun practice of travelling at nuclear (including incident) sites and services, the sextet toured Belgium, holland, and France with the November 2011 Adhere to the Audio concert, documenting a display in the Paradox location in Tilburg, HOLLAND for the 2013 Rat Information CD Second Regulation of Thermodynamics. Rat also released a friend limited-edition vinyl launch, Arco Idaho (called after the located area of the world’s 1st fatal nuclear incident), concentrating on improvisations through the Tilberg date. Motorboat also embarked on the CD launch tour of Belgium, holland, France, and Switzerland in Apr 2013, with Amsterdam-based bassist Jasper Stadhouders (Cactus Pickup truck, Spinifex, Lily’s Déj? Vu) changing Dunn. Recordings generally in the tour time in Geneva, along with one monitor each from Paris and Brussels, had been highlighted on BOAT’s following recording, Rotating Jenny, released by Rat throughout a springtime 2014 tour of France, holland, Switzerland, Britain, and Slovenia. The 2014 tour lineup presented Verbruggen, Dumoulin, D’Angelo, and Wooley, with Icelandic guitarist Hilmar Jensson changing Ducret on acoustic guitar and NY bassist Tim Dahl changing Stadhouders. A limited-edition vinyl fabric launch was also released for the tour; Scintigraphy presented four remastered paths from Second Regulation of Thermodynamics and cover artwork by mentioned Belgian contemporary designer Pierre Alechinsky. Hapax Legomena, a fresh BOAT recording offering the lineup of Verbruggen, Dumoulin, D’Angelo, Wooley, Jensson, and Dahl, came on Rat in August of 2015. As well as the aforementioned, Verbruggen network marketing leads the avant jazz quartet Gowk and co-leads the improvisational duo Chaos from the Haunted Spire with reedman Andrew Claes; being a sideman he provides played drums using the Christian Mendoza Music group, the Igor Géhenot Trio, as well as the VVG Trio with Vansina, amongst others. He also has drums and percussion over the 2013 Sub Rosa label record Quintet, a collaborative improvisational record also offering vocalist Phil Minton, cellist/vocalist Audrey Chen, electrical bassist Man Segers (Univers No), and dual bassist Peter Jacquemyn. And in another interesting Rat Information task, Verbruggen collaborated long-distance with Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen (Supersilent), sending digital data files of drums and consumer electronics to Henriksen, who after that added trumpet and various other tools along with examples and treatments; the effect was the electro-acoustic audio collage recording Dark Swan, released on limited-edition vinyl fabric in November 2012 and on Compact disc in Apr 2013.