Guy SEGERS

Music:

Member Since: 10/8/2006
Band Website: carbon-7.com
Band Members: Since April 2008, I am part of a new project including Frank VAN DER KOOIJ on saxophones, Michel DELVILLE on guitar, Ivo SANS on drums.
In June, we will have Catherine SMETS who will join us ..boards.At the moment I work from home on different projects for which I am invited.
When I got a moment, I work on this "Belgian Rain Drop", that I started especially to have something recent about me on MySpace.
The fun of it, is that it is growing and is as a surprise at each step, even for me.
There are already two musicians included as guests - Eric LEMAÃŽTRE from Ppz 30 on guitar, and Franck BALESTRACCI on drums.
“Zamran : The Angels’ Warning” is a Franck BALESTRACCI composition on which I am invited as a guest to narrate a text I wrote initially for the piece “La Faulx” when I played with “Univer Zero”.
You can find this piece on “Modified Reality”, the new Franck BALESTRACCI record released on Carbon 7 : http://www.carbon-7.com/cd/076.htm
I completed the text with some more lines to fit with the spirit of the piece.
It is a introspect feeling that guides this narration, something rearranged with probably some link to the writings of John Dee.
Hold To The Zero Burn, Imagine is an unique experience to me. To play bass on this composition written by Tim HODGKINSON was a great moment, a real challenge and an honour. You'll find this track on Tim's solo album "Each In Our Own Thoughts. This is originally written for HENRY COW and has been played live by the group, but never recorded before this version,
It has been done years after Henry Cow’s split, and what a pleasure to play besides
Tim HODGKINSON, Chris CUTLER, Lindsay COOPER and the fantastic singer that is Dagmar KRAUSE, almost the complete Henry Cow is on this track!!!.
With the title "Château Kafka" , I imagined a wine called like that ! This composition is part of what I wrote in 2000, with the idea to get it on record. Again, I propose a computer version as I did previously for “Are You Out Of My Mind ?”, but here also a few instruments have been recorded already.
On this latest version I added a real Flute played by Pierre BERNARD, and a little part of Clarinet played by Dirk DESCHEEMAEKER.
This version of Jack the Ripper by UNIVERS ZERO is only a document, nothing that you'll ever find on a record!
It has been recorded live on 26 April 1979 in Milano – Italy on a cassette recorder by someone in the audience.
The difference with the original track on the “Hérésie” album released on Cuneiform Records, and this one, is that there is no violin on this version!
The band is : Michel BERCKMANS – Bassoon, Oboe / Roger TRIGAUX – Harmonium, Guitar / Andy KIRK – Keyboards / Guy SEGERS – Bass / Daniel DENIS – Drums.
THE MUSIC ON THE BLUE PLAYER ABOVE
Another unfinished piece is "Are You Out Of My Mind ?". After the computer, here is another version, with real bass, real guitar (Matvei BILLIS), real violin (Marianne DENOÏA), and real oboe (Piet VAN BOCKSTAL). It’s a rough mix, very imperfect, but it gives an idea of where it’s going.
Still, there are 3 instruments missing, Cello, Baritone sax and Drums. For the drums, I think it would be perfect with Morgan Ã…GREN.
If any cellist, baritone sax player would like to join and work on this by exchanging Cubase readable information by mail, welcome.
A Beast Trophy is a composition (computer version) with a title inspired by “Epistrophy”, a Thelonius Monk piece, and made for The MORTON FORK GANG.
The bass line is intentionally made with a construction reminding Hugh HOPPER bass lines. I was also convinced that Pip PYLE would be the perfect drummer to play this, but instead of having the joy to do this, I can only feel sorrow.
I am dedicating this piece to him
I’ve been invited to play an improvised bass part on Bon Courage as well than Phil WAUQUAIRE. None of us knew what the other played, and discovered the result after the mix has been done.
This piece is composed by Pierre VERVLOESEM and is to find on his first solo album ”Home Made” that I produced.
It was some other experience to play with “GALILEO’S LEFT WING” with who I played and produced a Live album. The all record as been played in one take, and the music mostly turned around a mix of world music and Jazz feeling, including quite some space for improvisation.
On this track the band including Luk MISHALE on Saxophones, Danny DE CORT on Guitar, Dirk WACHTELAER on drums, and TLP singing some RAP, give me some space to add a bass solo with fuzz. It is the most fusion track of the CD.
Another composition I made a few years ago (computer version) is Bottle Opener. The name speaks for itself when you know that the all concept would be called “First Bar” ! Here a brass section would give this tune another color, there is a slower development, using strings in an almost repetitive way. With this approach there is some space left for eventual other interventions…
“Meta History In Operation” is a Franck BALESTRACCI composition on which I play bass as a guest.
You can find this piece on his latest record “Modified reality”. http://www.carbon-7/cd/076.htm
He made this song especially with some space for me to play a bass solo, something that doesn’t happen frequently for bass players !
The way we worked was a “première” for us, using Internet to exchange material.
Sending what I recorded at home in Brussels to him in the South of France was a permanent stimulation. I started doing this with the idea to get a sound approach like if I was recording in a helicopter…
Watch out the blades !!!
With GUTS ! I played for a few years enjoying the “Rock” side of music. With heavy guitars, drums, but also trumpet and violin I could play some rough bass in a mix of Rock with Chanson Française.
Le Monde Bleu (the blue world) is one of those compositions including these contrasted influences with a rough approach. Fabienne VDP is the perfect singer for this kind of music, No doubt, she could face the power, and even get her strong voice above the all band. I enjoyed especially the freedom for me to add some unusual parts to this music. After a while I produced the record Ardense on Carbon 7, which is the only recording of the band.

Influences:MUSIC
Alban BERG.................................Krzysztof PENDERECKI,
SOFT MACHINE.............................HATFIELD & THE NORTH
Jimi HENDRIX..............................CREAM
KOLINDA.....................................Enrique MORENTE
Olivier MESSIAEN......................... Albert HUYBRECHTS
VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR...........MAGMA
Diamanda GALAS..........................ZENI GEVA
Jack BRUCE..................................Julie DRISCOLL / TIPPETTS
Miles DAVIS.................................Tony WILLIAMS
Jannick TOP..................................Béla BARTÓK
Peter BRÖTZMANN.........................ZU
Karl Amadeus HARTMANN................Charles IVES
Hector ZAZOU..............................MASSIVE ATTACK
THIRD EAR BAND..........................David SYLVIAN
MATS & MORGAN..........................CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
Jeff BECK....................................Maurice RAVEL
BLUE CHEER................................CAN
Arrigo BARNABE............................Martha ARGERICH
Pierre VERVLOESEM.......................PRESENT
Nguyen LÊ...................................THIS HEAT
Mike RATLEDGE............................Dagmar KRAUSE
Hugh HOPPER...............................Dave HOLLAND
EGG...........................................PRINCE
Arthur BROWN..............................ART ZOYD

LITTERATURE.............................OTHER
John DEE.....................................Dalaï LAMA
FULCANELLI.................................Jeronimus BOSCH
Gustav MEYRINK...........................Patrick McGOOHAN
René GUÉNON..............................Maurits Cornelis ESCHER
Margerite YOURCENAR....................MANNEKEN PIS
Franz KAFKA................................David LYNCH
Hermann HESSE...........................BOURVIL
HERGÉ........................................Harpo MARX
Jacques STERNBERG.......................DRUILLET
H.P. LOVECRAFT...........................Terry GILLIAM
James JOYCE................................Aleister CROWLEY
Pauline RÉAGE..............................Peter GREENAWAY
Anaïs NIN.....................................Nicole MOSSOUX
Marcel MOREAU.............................Carl Gustav JUNG
Mircea ELIADE..............................Andreij TARKOVSKIJ
Luc DIETRICH...............................ROMAN POLANSKI
Aldous HUXLEY..............................MERCATOR
Saint-Yves d'ALVEYDRE...................George Ivanovitch GURDJIEFF
Bernard WERBER...........................Eddy MERCKX
Nick HORNBY...............................Stanley KUBRICK
Douglas HOFSTADTER....................Harvey KEITEL
Jacques VAN LENNEP.....................Vanessa REDGRAVE

Sounds Like: SUB LOW
Record Label: CARBON 7
Type of Label: Indie