TEUN VERBRUGGEN

Teun (April ’75) first picked up the drums by the age of eight. After two summer courses with drummer Dre Pallemaerts he went to the Conservatory of Brussels where he was taught by Hans Van Oosterhout. Since graduating from this school in 1999, he became one of the most in demand sideman in lots of different bands and musical styles in no time. His search for a personal touch and wanting to explore all possibilities of playing music and drums, his lack of boundaries and styles and trying to find fresh sounds and freedom in collective improvisation made him work (as sideman) with : Alexi Tuomarila 4tet and Trio (WARNER MUSIC), Jef Neve Trio (UNIVERSAL), FES (IPECAC ; CRAMMED) Fes did the first part of Mike Patton’s Fantomâs for one of the European tour, VVG trio Karanova (featuring Hilmar Jensson, Johann Johannssonn from Iceland and Mauro Pawlowski from Belgium), Molo Trio, Jambangle, Rackham, Pascal Schumacher 4tet, “4”, JojoBa, Streams, Silent Song, Jozef Dumoulin Trio,…

He worked as a sideman and leader with musicians such as Paolo Fresu (with Jef Neve trio), Uri Cain (With FES), Erwin Vann, Jean Phillippe Viret, Hilmar Jennson, Ernst Reyseger, Jimi Tenor, Toots Thielemans (with FES), Fred Vanhove, Trevor Dunn, Magic Malik, Shelley Burgon, Andrew d’Angelo, Fred Vanhove, Marc Helias, Giovanni Mirrabassi, Edouard Ferlet, Eric Vloeimans, Benny Lackner, Anton Goudsmidt, Harmen Fraanje, John Watts (Fischer Z), Matts Eilertsen, Michel Hatzi (aka moon),Louis Clavis (with FES), Peter Hertmans, Natalie Lorriers, Diederik Wissels, David Lynx, Bart Defoort, Kris Defoort, Arif Durvesh (Knitting Shawney), Kevin Armstrong (Iggy Pop), Pierre Vervloesem, Bart De Nolf, Manu Hermia, Sal La Rocca, Erik Vermeulen, Antton Walgraeve, Tom Wolf, Monsoon, Pieter Embrechts, Point Zéro, Cesarius Gadzina, Marco Locurcio,jacques Pirroton, Steve Houben, Melanie de Biasio, Toine Thys, Nic Thys, Hein Van de Gein … Teun goes on tour with some of these bands a lot.

He has played Festivals in Scandinavia, Australia, Mexico, Spain, Italy, South Africa, Portugal, Iceland, Canada, Japan, Austria, Bermuda’s, England, Tunisia, Morocco, France, Venice, Bermuda Islands, Holland, United Kingdom, Greece, Cyprus, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Russia, Poland, … He played at the EuroJazzfestival in Greece with Alexi Tuomarila, Jef Neve, “4” and Pascal Schumacher and played on the same festival in Mexico City with Jef Neve. He played a lot at big festivals such as North Sea, Vancouver, Blue Note, Jazz Middelheim, April Jazz, Gexco Jazz, Kaamos Jazz, Montreal Jazz, Dour,… Teun was also invited by Jazz Middelheim to open their 25 Jubilee Festival with the program called “Around a Drummer” and he also got a “carte blanche” at the 2005 Time Festival, Ghent.

PHILIPPE LEMOINE

Philippe Lemoine, born 1970, is a French tenor saxophone player, based in Berlin (Germany) and Marseille (France). He is active in Contemporary Jazz and Improvised Music since the early 90’s. He is exploring the expressive capacities of his saxophone, developing his own languages, with a wide vocabulary of dynamics, pitches, densities and speeds, pushing the acoustic limits of the instrument. In abstract improvisation contexts (Ensembles Squid Lux, Via Lucis Trio, Le Grand 8, duos with Simon Rose -baritone saxophone-, with Yorgos Dimitriadis -Drums-, with Wolfgang Seidel -synthesizers-, with avec Klaus Kürvers -doublebasse-), he use the saxophone as a generator of frequencies, a mechanism made of wood and metal to play with air and water, in a sound universe close to the electro-acoustic music.

In Contemporary Jazz contexts (Quartets -ION, Philadelphie), he uses his mastery of saxophone’s sound and his proactive force to serve the sound of the ensemble. His fresh, winding and atonal phrasing, browses an almost four octaves range, included extended techniques like multiphonics, circular breathing, and voice/sound mixing. With the program ” Mélodramatic French Songs” by the trio “Le Maigre feu de La nonne en Hiver”, Philippe Lemoine plays like a singer, phrasing with care in order to stand as close as possible to a human voice singing words, looking for the exact intention of each note.

As a soloist, Philippe Lemoine uses all those aspects of his strong personality, in a expressive, generous and challenging narrrative. He was the leader of septet ‘Kassalit,’ which was awarded ‘best band’ and ‘best composition’ at La Défense Jazz Contest in 1997. From 2002 to 2005 he performed and toured internationally with the Orchestre National de Jazz under the direction of Claude Barthelemy. Playing a role in the underground arts scene in Europe, Lemoine has also been involved with numerous other collectives and collaborative bands in his home country, such as Circum Grand Orchestra, in Lille or “à plusieurs” in Argenteuil, and leaded and composed for his own quartet «Le Talent de La Colère».

PASCAL CHARRIER

Jazz guitarist by training, composer, producer, Pascal Charrier was born in 1976 in Marseille (Fr) and lives in Saignon in the Luberon (Vaucluse). Insatiable researcher of sounds and colors, as a guitarist and composer, he mixes timber research, rhythmic architecture and trance. He works on forms with a very acoustic sound referring to a traditional Jazz sound but also on forms involving electronics and sound signal processing. He plays 6-string electric and acoustic guitars as well as Oud. He also works as a composer for creations towards contemporary visual theater (Théâtre de l’Entrouvert – “Impermanence”, “Anywhere”, “Traversées Fragment”). He is the main driving force and captain of the Naï No Ship since its creation.

Collaborations: (among others) : Julien Soro, Rafaël Koerner, Bastien Ballaz, Guillaume Ruelland, Florent Corbou, Fantazio, Émilie Lesbros, Véronique Mula, Julien Tamisier, Stéphane Payen, Robin Fincker, Sylvain Darrifourcq, Frédéric Bargeon Briet, Malik Mezzadri (Magic Malik), Mark Guiliana, Médéric Collignon, Jozef Dumoulin, Teun Verbruggen, Philippe Lemoine.

JULIEN TAMISIER

In search of the sounds and textures that characterize him, Julien Tamisier mixes analogic keyboards with electronics. Co-Leader of the band Ómun (Pascal Sharrier, Robin Finker, Sylvain Darrifourcq), they record their first album in 2014 in Toulouseat the Condorcet studio. Release in 2015). Founding member of the Melc group (Gildas Etevenard, Gilles Coronado, Denis Jones), he recorded two albums (Melc 2004 and Defragmented 2013). In addition, he develops various musical projects, K274 (duo B3 wurlitzer 2013), and the collective Phosphène. He composes and realizes the music of Impermanence with Pascal Charier and Emilie lesbros (show of Elise Vigneron, co-produced by the National Scene of Cavaillon). Since 1998, he has been involved in music research with screenwriter and singer Jean Pol Fargeau (screenwriter for Claire Denis and Léos Carax), with whom he tests various forms of text/music relationship. (“Leal” at the National Scene the Volcano in Le Havre in 1999, “IWC”, France-Culture in 2002 with actor Yann Colette, “Act3” in 2003, “Curious Incident” in 2012, “Rebel Rebel”, a tribute to Pasolini with comedian Alex Descas as part of Marseille 2013).

He also performs on the jazz and improvised music scene with musicians such as Serge Lazarevitch, Eric Barret, Akosh S. Fantasio, Jeanne Added, Emile Lesbros, Frédéric Bargeon Briet … He also performed on the French chanson scene with Oshen. He recorded the second album at Studio Acousti with Vincent Ségal, Cyril Atef, Je re Boudreaux, DJ Shalom. Professor of “contemporary music”, he teaches at C.R.R in Avignon where he coordinates the “Jazz Musiques Actuelles” department.