- Michel Delville
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Michel Delville Born 1969
in Liège, BelgiumGenres jazz fusion, progressive rock Occupations musician, teacher, writer, songwriter Instruments guitar, electronics Associated acts The Wrong Object, douBt, Comicoperando Website http://www.myspace.com/micheldelville Michel Delville is a musician, writer and teacher born in Liège, Belgium, in 1969.
He has been performing and composing alternative music since the mid-1980s. His most recent projects include the quintet The Wrong Object (which he founded in 2002 and for which he has written nearly all the songs that have been released so far [1]), Belgian-Swiss punk-jazz quartet Trank Zappa Grappa in Varèse, Alex Maguire's Electric 6tet, the New Texture Pan Tonal Fellowship (under the direction of Stanley Jason Zappa), the Ed Mann Project, and the new Belgo-Dutch combo the Moving Tones. He has played and recorded with Elton Dean, Annie Whitehead, Harry Beckett, Richard Sinclair, Ed Mann, Alex Maguire, Chris Cutler, Benoît Moerlen (who joined the Moving Tones for a series of gigs in 2008), Tony Bianco, Karen Mantler, Geoff Leigh, Guy Segers, Dirk Wachtelear and others. The last few years have been a productive period, with recording and touring taking Delville to many different countries (including Japan, England, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Wales, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Greece, Luxembourg and Belgium). Radio programmes about his musical works - and about the music he has written for The Wrong Object since 2002 - have been aired by RTBF, RAI3,[2] RTC,[3] VPRO,[4] and many other independent TV and radio channels,[5] and received positive reviews from publications such as Jazzwise,[6][7] Downbeat,[8] Guitar Player,[9]Signal to Noise,[10] Allmusic,[11] Musica Jazz (July 2008), Jazz Review,[12] Exposé (September 2008),[13] and others independent magazines, e-zines and blogs.[14]
In the Summer of 2009 he teamed up with [Alex Maguire] (Michael Moore, Elton Dean, Sean Bergin, ...) and [Tony Bianco] (Dave Liebman, Paul Dunmall, Evan Parker, Peter Brötzmann) to create a new power-trio named douBt. Their debut release, Never Pet a Burning Dog, features Richard Sinclair on guest vocals and bass.[15] The project toured Japan and Europe in 2010.[16]
Delville was voted one of the 10 best electric guitarists of the year 2010 by Arnaldo DeSouteiro's Annual Jazz Station Poll, which also voted douBt 3rd best Instrumental Group.[17]
In 2010 he was invited to join and coordinate Comicoperando,[18] a tribute to the music of Robert Wyatt whose line-up includes Dagmar Krause, Richard Sinclair, Annie Whitehead, Gilad Atzmon, Alex Maguire, Chris Cutler, John Edwards and Cristiano Calcagnile. In the Spring of that same year, Delville officially joined the international collective 48 Cameras.[19]
Delville currently teaches literature and comparative literature at the University of Liège, where he directs the Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Poetics.[20] He is the author of several books pertaining to comparative poetics and interdisciplinary studies (see the selected bibliography below). He has also edited four volumes and published about one hundred articles dealing with contemporary poetics and interdisciplinary studies.[21] His awards and distinctions include the 1998 SAMLA Book Award, the Choice Outstanding Book Award, the Léon Guérin Prize, the 2001 Alumni Award of the Belgian American Educational Foundation</ref>BAEF 2001 Alumni Award, the rank of Officer of the Order of Leopold (Belgium) [22] ]][23] I (2009), and the 2009 Prix Wernaers pour la recherche et la diffusion des connaissances.[24][25]
Contents
References
- ^ Credits
- ^ RAI3
- ^ RTC
- ^ VPRO - Dutch National Radio
- ^ Links to interviews and special programs
- ^ Jazzwise CD Reviews June 2008
- ^ Jazzwise Poll
- ^ Downbeat review
- ^ Guitar Player review
- ^ Signal to Noise
- ^ Allmusic
- ^ Jazz Review
- ^ Exposé
- ^ Reviews
- ^ douBt
- ^ Japan tour
- ^ Annual Jazz Station Poll
- ^ Comicoperando
- ^ 48 Cameras
- ^ CIPA
- ^ The three awards: "Fabula
- ^ Officier de l'Ordre de Léopold
- ^ Ordre de Léopold
- ^ Prix Wernaers
- ^ The three awards: "Academics specialized in American subject matter", Center for American Studies, KBR. Accessed 27 May 2010.
Selected discography
- The Wrong Object, The Wrong Object feat. Ed Mann - Zappanale 2004 (Maximalist Records, promo CD, 2004)
- The Wrong Object, The Unbelievable Truth (Moonjune Records, 2006) featuring Elton Dean
- The Wrong Object, Platform One (Voiceprint, 2007) feat. Harry Beckett and Annie Whitehead
- Trank Zappa Grappa in Varèse, More Light (Fazzul Music, 2007)
- The Wrong Object, Stories from the Shed (studio release; Moonjune Records, January 2008)
- Alex Maguire Sextet, Brewed in Belgium (Moonjune Records, 2008)
- Trank Zappa Grappa in Varèse, TZGIV Play Zappa (Fazzul Music, 2009)
- PaNoPTiCoN, Dawn of the New World (After-Z Productions, 2009)
- PaNoPTiCoN, Dusk of the New World (After-Z Productions, 2009)
- The Wrong Object feat. Stanley Jason Zappa and Nick Shrowaczewski, Live at Zappanale 2008 (Fazzul Music, 2009)
- douBt (Alex Maguire/Michel Delville/Tony Bianco), Never Pet a Burning Dog (Moonjune Records, 2010)
- Machine Mass Trio (Tony Bianco/Michel Delville/Jordi Grognard), As Real as Thinking (Moonjune Records, 2011)
- 48 Cameras, So Like My Father in Our Fathers' Absence (Interzone, 2011)
- douBt (Alex Maguire/Michel Delville/Tony Bianco), Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love (Moonjune Records, 2011)
- Tony Bianco & Michel Delville, As Yet Untitled (forthcoming, 2012)
Selected bibliography
As author:
- Eating the Avant-Garde (Routledge, 2008)
- Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and the Secret History of Maximalism (cowritten with Andrew Norris; Salt Publishing, 2005)
- Le Troisième corps (Le Fram, 2004) (poetry collection). Translated into English by Gian Lombardo as Third Body (Florence, MA: Quale Press, 2009)
- Hamlet & Co (cowritten with Pierre Michel; Editions de l'ULg, 2003)
- The American Prose Poem (The University of Florida Press, 1998)
- J.G. Ballard (Northcote House/The British Council, 1998)
As editor or co-editor:
- L’œuvre en morceaux : Esthétiques de la mosaïque (Paris : Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2006)
- Le Rossignol instrumental : Poésie, musique, modernité. (Leuven, Paris, Dudley, MA : Peeters/Vrin, 2004)
- Sound as Sense: US Poetry &/In Music (Brussels, Bern, Frankfurt, New York : Presses Interuniversitaires Européennes-Peter Lang, 2003)
- Postwar American Poetry: The Mechanics of the Mirage (Liège: L3, 2000)
External links
Categories:- 1969 births
- Living people
- Belgian academics
- Belgian composers
- Belgian poets
- Belgian jazz guitarists
- Belgian music critics
- Order of Leopold recipients
- Belgian writers in French
- People from Liège (city)
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