Pierre Vervloesem

Pierre Vervloesem is a Belgian avant-garde guitar player and producer.

After playing in a handful of experimental rock bands in the early 1990s, Vervloesem joined avant-garde band X-Legged Sally at the invitation of Michel Mast. Since then, he has been a musical partner of Peter Vermeersch in many musical expeditions, both as a performer and as a producer, for example in A Group and the theatre production Weg (by Josse De Pauw). Together Vervloesem and Vermeersch produced the first CD by Antwerp rock group dEUS.

Vervloesem has also released several solo CDs where he experiments with unusual instruments (e.g. shaking a crate of empty beer bottles as percussion) and unfamiliar sounds to create what are essentially quite simple songs. One of Vervloessem's main influences is revealed by a song on the 1994 release Home Made, consisting of one minute of silence in memory of Frank Zappa. But tellingly, the same album also contains a cover of John Barry's composition "Ski chase", from the soundtrack of the James Bond film "On her Majesty's Secret Service". In 2002, Vervloesem would release an entire album of John Barry covers.

Discography

* Home Made (1994)
* Fiasco (1996)
* Chef d'Oeuvre (1999)
* John Litton Baraï & Pierre Vervloesem - Zala Zala (2000)
* ...plays John Barry (2002)
* Grosso Modo (2002)
* Rude (2005)

Links

* [http://www.pierrevervloesem.be/ The (un)official home page of Pierre Vervloesem]
* [http://www.myspace.com/pierrevervloesem Pierre Vervloesem om MySpace]