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Lukas Simonis; guitarist, composer, lives in Rotterdam (Netherlands). I co-founded and work for WORM (a centre for experimental arts). For most of my musical career, I played in bands and projects that seldom managed to play 'straight' music, despite moving within the field of 'rock' (e.g. Dull Schicksal, Trespassers W, Morzelpronk, Liana Flu Winks, AA Kismet, Vril and Coolhaven). MY interests also lie in the direction of more abstract 'sound'; using electronics, improvisation, voice, field recordings and objects. I played gigs/improvised with people like Eugene Chadbourne, Eddie Prevost, Richard Barret, Jon Rose, Anne Wellmer, Trevor Wishart, Greg Malcolm, Ann la Berge, The Bohman Brothers (Apricot My Lady) and Henk Bakker (Static Tics).CURRENT PROJECTS;
SOLO ; lots of effects, a guitar, a chair; the recently released CD 'Stots' points the direction
COOLHAVEN ; a group with Peter Fengler, Hajo Doorn and LS. Two recent CD's; 'Suppe fur die Nacht (by Felix Kubin and Coolhaven) and 'Strømblocque Phantasieën'.
DUO WITH JIM WHELTON ; we almost almost finished our first CD. there's probably gonna be a bandname.
VRIL ; haven't done much with this band but there's gonna be another album i'm sure. Members include Bob Drake and Chris Cutler. One album 'Effigies in Cork' on Rec Megacorp. Twangy guitar music played by (civilized) aliens.
APRICOT MY LADY ; consists of The Bohman Brothers, Ann laBerge and LS. Conceptual Improv and other weird stuff.
KAWABATA & LS; I made some songs with the lyrics of the Japanese Poet Takayuki Kawabata. An ensemble consisting of Nina Hitz, Kumi Kondo, LS and Miki Segiura recorded it. There might be a CD out in 2007.
ANN LA BERGE & LS ; a duo that specialises in very short improvisations, sometimes even called 'songs'. We recorded lots of material and unfortunately didn't play too much gigs. But our time will come. We used to be called 'Moaning Balsa' but this might be one of the worst band names ever.
PIERRE BASTIEN & LS ; We released one CD on the french label 'InPolySons' a few years ago. (it's sold out i'm afraid, but you can download it for free on Solarseek/Soulseek) This year we're up to some new material. One of the projects will be making live-music with a string quartet to an old silent movie about Rotterdam's 'Hoogstraat'. For the rest we're working on new pieces for a CD.