The Wrong Object
Encyclopedia
The Wrong Object is an avant-garde
jazz fusion
band from Belgium
. Its current line-up is Michel Delville
(who founded the band in 2002 and who has authored nearly all of its published work ) on guitar, guitar-synth, voice and compositions, Bart Maris on trumpet, Joe Higham on saxophone and clarinet, Antoine Guenet on keyboards, Pierre Mottet on bass and electronics, and Laurent Delchambre on drums. Former members include Fred Delplancq on tenor sax, Damien Polard on bass, and Jean-Paul Estiévenart (winner of the Django d'Or award for best young jazz musician in 2007) on trumpet.
tribute band, and have since played some sixty gigs in venues ranging from small pubs to big festivals such as Zappanale (2004 and 2008), the Gaume Jazz Festival, the Jazz à Liège festival Jazz à Liège and the European Jazz Festival in Athens. Some were augmented by guest performances by Elton Dean
, Harry Beckett
, Annie Whitehead
, Jaap Blonk
, Zappa's percussionist Ed Mann and others.
After a mini-tour of the UK, the Wrong Object performed with Zappa's percussionist Ed Mann
at the 2004 Zappanale
festival. Their next projects, "Elton Dean & The Wrong Object" and "The Wrong Object feat. Annie Whitehead
and Harry Beckett
", were documented by CD releases from Voiceprint
(Platform One) and Moonjune Records (The Unbelievable Truth, a collaboration with Elton Dean) in the spring of 2007. The Unbelievable Truth was included in Arnaldo de Souteiro's, "Top Ten Jazz CDs of the Year 2007 (category: special projects)" of the Brazilian daily newspaper Tribuna da Impresa.
The band are now managed by Leonardo Pavkovic at Moonjune Records and Management in New York. In 2008, they released Stories from the Shed (with cover art by British artist Marc Atkins
), their first studio album in more than five years. Throughout the year 2008, the CD has received positive reviews from publications including Jazzwise
, Guitar Player
,Signal to Noise
, Allmusic, Musica Jazz (July 2008), Jazz Review, Exposé
(September 2008), and others. Their music has also been aired by radio channels all around the world; in November 2007, the Dutch National Radio devoted a one-hour program to the band's discography and their collaborations with Elton Dean
, Annie Whitehead
, Harry Beckett
and Alex Maguire VPRO
.
Since its creation in 2002, The Wrong Object have played in many different countries outside Belgium (including Britain (2004; 2007), Germany (2004, 2007, 2008), France (2005, 2006, 2007), Italy (2008), The Netherlands (2005, 2006, 2008), Luxembourg (2005), the Czech Republic (2007), Slovakia (2005), and Greece (2008). On June 15, 2008, the band first performed their "Ode to Paestum", recorded live in Paestum
(Italy), next to the 6th century BC temple of Poseidon in collaboration with Biagio Francia (a.k.a. Blaise de France) and Alexandros Hahalis.
jazz with modern rock sensibilities. Their music is influenced by artists ranging from Canterbury scene
bands such as Soft Machine
and Gong
to Béla Bartók
, Aka Moon
, Charlie Mingus
and Frank Zappa
. While most of their repertoire is original, they also play some Zappa covers on demand.
Avant-garde
Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
jazz fusion
Jazz fusion
Jazz fusion is a musical fusion genre that developed from mixing funk and R&B rhythms and the amplification and electronic effects of rock, complex time signatures derived from non-Western music and extended, typically instrumental compositions with a jazz approach to lengthy group improvisations,...
band from Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
. Its current line-up is Michel Delville
Michel Delville
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...
(who founded the band in 2002 and who has authored nearly all of its published work ) on guitar, guitar-synth, voice and compositions, Bart Maris on trumpet, Joe Higham on saxophone and clarinet, Antoine Guenet on keyboards, Pierre Mottet on bass and electronics, and Laurent Delchambre on drums. Former members include Fred Delplancq on tenor sax, Damien Polard on bass, and Jean-Paul Estiévenart (winner of the Django d'Or award for best young jazz musician in 2007) on trumpet.
History
The Wrong Object were created in early 2002 as a Frank ZappaFrank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...
tribute band, and have since played some sixty gigs in venues ranging from small pubs to big festivals such as Zappanale (2004 and 2008), the Gaume Jazz Festival, the Jazz à Liège festival Jazz à Liège and the European Jazz Festival in Athens. Some were augmented by guest performances by Elton Dean
Elton Dean
Elton Dean was an English jazz musician who performed on alto saxophone, saxello and occasionally keyboard....
, Harry Beckett
Harry Beckett
Harold Winston "Harry" Beckett was a British trumpeter and flugelhorn player.-Biography:A resident in the UK since 1954, Harry Beckett had an international reputation. In 1961, he played with Charles Mingus in the film All Night Long. In the 1960s he worked and recorded within the band of bass...
, Annie Whitehead
Annie Whitehead
Annie Whitehead is an English jazz trombone player.-Career:Annie learned trombone at school; at 14 she was already busy playing with brass bands, local dance groups and the Manchester Youth Jazz Orchestra and began her professional career at sixteen. Among her initial influences were Miles Davis,...
, Jaap Blonk
Jaap Blonk
Jaap Blonk is a Dutch avant-garde composer and performance artist.Blonk is primarily self-taught both as a sound artist and as a visual/stage performer. He studied physics, mathematics, and musicology for a time, but did not complete his studies...
, Zappa's percussionist Ed Mann and others.
After a mini-tour of the UK, the Wrong Object performed with Zappa's percussionist Ed Mann
Ed Mann
Ed Mann has been "a drummer and piano dabbler since childhood", best known for his mallet percusion recorded and live work with Frank Zappa from 1977 to the end of Zappa's career.- Career :...
at the 2004 Zappanale
Zappanale
Zappanale is an annual music festival held outside Bad Doberan, a German town previously part of East Germany. The festival was first held in 1990, and the program features various bands performing the music of the late composer and guitarist Frank Zappa...
festival. Their next projects, "Elton Dean & The Wrong Object" and "The Wrong Object feat. Annie Whitehead
Annie Whitehead
Annie Whitehead is an English jazz trombone player.-Career:Annie learned trombone at school; at 14 she was already busy playing with brass bands, local dance groups and the Manchester Youth Jazz Orchestra and began her professional career at sixteen. Among her initial influences were Miles Davis,...
and Harry Beckett
Harry Beckett
Harold Winston "Harry" Beckett was a British trumpeter and flugelhorn player.-Biography:A resident in the UK since 1954, Harry Beckett had an international reputation. In 1961, he played with Charles Mingus in the film All Night Long. In the 1960s he worked and recorded within the band of bass...
", were documented by CD releases from Voiceprint
Voiceprint
Voiceprint can refer to the spectrogram of a voice. More specific uses include:* VoicePrint, Canada's broadcast reading service* Voiceprint Records, an English record label* The stored template used to identify a person via their voice in Speaker recognition...
(Platform One) and Moonjune Records (The Unbelievable Truth, a collaboration with Elton Dean) in the spring of 2007. The Unbelievable Truth was included in Arnaldo de Souteiro's, "Top Ten Jazz CDs of the Year 2007 (category: special projects)" of the Brazilian daily newspaper Tribuna da Impresa.
The band are now managed by Leonardo Pavkovic at Moonjune Records and Management in New York. In 2008, they released Stories from the Shed (with cover art by British artist Marc Atkins
Marc Atkins
Marc Atkins is an English artist, photographer, filmmaker and poet, born in London, England in 1962, best known for his photography of cities and nudes, also commecially for music album and book covers.- Background :...
), their first studio album in more than five years. Throughout the year 2008, the CD has received positive reviews from publications including Jazzwise
Jazzwise
Jazzwise Publications Limited is a UK-based specialist jazz music publisher and education company. It was founded in 1984 as a mail-order company promoting jazz and improvisation through catalogues and short courses and workshops for musicians...
, Guitar Player
Guitar Player
Guitar Player is a popular magazine for guitarists founded in 1967. It contains articles, interviews, reviews and lessons of an eclectic collection of artists, genres and products. It has been in print since the late 1960s and during the 1980s, under editor Tom Wheeler, the publication was...
,Signal to Noise
Signal to Noise
Signal to Noise is a graphic novel written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Dave McKean. It was originally serialised in the UK style magazine The Face, beginning in 1989, and collected as a graphic novel in 1992, published by Victor Gollancz Ltd in the UK and by Dark Horse Comics in the US.The...
, Allmusic, Musica Jazz (July 2008), Jazz Review, Exposé
Expose
Expose, exposé, or exposed may refer to:-Technology:* Exposé , a window management tool for Mac OS X** Exposé clone, computer software which mimics the Mac OS X feature-Music:...
(September 2008), and others. Their music has also been aired by radio channels all around the world; in November 2007, the Dutch National Radio devoted a one-hour program to the band's discography and their collaborations with Elton Dean
Elton Dean
Elton Dean was an English jazz musician who performed on alto saxophone, saxello and occasionally keyboard....
, Annie Whitehead
Annie Whitehead
Annie Whitehead is an English jazz trombone player.-Career:Annie learned trombone at school; at 14 she was already busy playing with brass bands, local dance groups and the Manchester Youth Jazz Orchestra and began her professional career at sixteen. Among her initial influences were Miles Davis,...
, Harry Beckett
Harry Beckett
Harold Winston "Harry" Beckett was a British trumpeter and flugelhorn player.-Biography:A resident in the UK since 1954, Harry Beckett had an international reputation. In 1961, he played with Charles Mingus in the film All Night Long. In the 1960s he worked and recorded within the band of bass...
and Alex Maguire VPRO
VPRO
The VPRO was established in the Netherlands in 1926 as a religious broadcasting organization. Falling under the Protestant pillar, it represented the Liberal Protestant current...
.
Since its creation in 2002, The Wrong Object have played in many different countries outside Belgium (including Britain (2004; 2007), Germany (2004, 2007, 2008), France (2005, 2006, 2007), Italy (2008), The Netherlands (2005, 2006, 2008), Luxembourg (2005), the Czech Republic (2007), Slovakia (2005), and Greece (2008). On June 15, 2008, the band first performed their "Ode to Paestum", recorded live in Paestum
Paestum
Paestum is the classical Roman name of a major Graeco-Roman city in the Campania region of Italy. It is located in the north of Cilento, near the coast about 85 km SE of Naples in the province of Salerno, and belongs to the commune of Capaccio, officially also named...
(Italy), next to the 6th century BC temple of Poseidon in collaboration with Biagio Francia (a.k.a. Blaise de France) and Alexandros Hahalis.
Style
The band blend psychedelicPsychedelic
The term psychedelic is derived from the Greek words ψυχή and δηλοῦν , translating to "soul-manifesting". A psychedelic experience is characterized by the striking perception of aspects of one's mind previously unknown, or by the creative exuberance of the mind liberated from its ostensibly...
jazz with modern rock sensibilities. Their music is influenced by artists ranging from Canterbury scene
Canterbury Scene
The Canterbury scene is a term used to loosely describe the group of progressive rock, avant-garde and jazz musicians, many of whom were based around the city of Canterbury, Kent, England during the late 1960s and early 1970s...
bands such as Soft Machine
Soft Machine
Soft Machine were an English rock band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs. They were one of the central bands in the Canterbury scene, and helped pioneer the progressive rock genre...
and Gong
Gong (band)
Gong is a Franco-British progressive/psychedelic rock band formed by Australian musician Daevid Allen. Their music has also been described as space rock. Other notable band members include Allan Holdsworth, Tim Blake, Didier Malherbe, Pip Pyle, Gilli Smyth, Steve Hillage, Francis Moze, Mike Howlett...
to Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer...
, Aka Moon
Aka Moon
Aka Moon is a Belgian avant-garde jazz band. Saxophonist Fabrizio Cassol, bassist Michel Hatzigeorgiou, and drummer Stéphane Galland are the founding members of the core trio...
, Charlie Mingus
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music...
and Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...
. While most of their repertoire is original, they also play some Zappa covers on demand.
Discography
CDs- The Unbelievable Truth (Moonjune Records, 2006), featuring Elton DeanElton DeanElton Dean was an English jazz musician who performed on alto saxophone, saxello and occasionally keyboard....
- Platform One (Voiceprint, 2007), featuring Harry BeckettHarry BeckettHarold Winston "Harry" Beckett was a British trumpeter and flugelhorn player.-Biography:A resident in the UK since 1954, Harry Beckett had an international reputation. In 1961, he played with Charles Mingus in the film All Night Long. In the 1960s he worked and recorded within the band of bass...
and Annie WhiteheadAnnie WhiteheadAnnie Whitehead is an English jazz trombone player.-Career:Annie learned trombone at school; at 14 she was already busy playing with brass bands, local dance groups and the Manchester Youth Jazz Orchestra and began her professional career at sixteen. Among her initial influences were Miles Davis,... - Stories from the Shed (studio release; Moonjune Records, January 2008)
- The Wrong Object feat. Stanley Jason Zappa: Live at ZappanaleZappanaleZappanale is an annual music festival held outside Bad Doberan, a German town previously part of East Germany. The festival was first held in 1990, and the program features various bands performing the music of the late composer and guitarist Frank Zappa...
(Fazzul, 2010)
External links
- Official website
- Reviews (wrongobject.com)
- [ Allmusic]