Member Since: 24/02/2007
Band Members: Jean Demey - Clarinets, Darboukas:
Jean started out in the 70's with folk music in Antwerp. Later on he met the jazz musicians of that time. He set up a trio with alto player Mike Zinzen, and formed several bands with Chris Joris, Michel Mast (X-Legged Sally), Luc Mishalle and other respectively. In the same milieu Jean met the great Arabian oud player Hassan Erraji (see allmusic.com on the internet) and the trio Arabesque was born with Pierre Narcisse on percussion and Jean on bass. The interest in multicultural musical cooperation was a fact.
Time was ripe then for acoustic fusion, with griot N'Faly Kouyaté from Guinea, Turkish saz player Mahier Tezerdi and his father on bass drum, Italian singer Angelo DeSimoné, Algerian and Morrocan raï singers Cheb Kader and Cheb Mimoun... Most recent years have been an intense search for ethnic combinations. users.telenet.be/Jean.Demey. ******************************Yakke Moens - Sitar: Yakke was born in Brussels in 1961. At the age of 8 he developed an interest in the guitar by watching his 12 year older brother playing it.
Travelling through India & Nepal, Yakke became fascinated by the Indian sitar.
He took intensive sitar lessons from Mal Shankar, a professional sitarplayer at New-Delhi.
After he came back from trips through Europe, Asia and Africa, he formed the group Mudshark, a combination of djembé (Riffi Kythouka) violin (Stefan Coltura)Turkish saz(Roni Geboers) and Indian sitar, a kind of world music.
Played sitar with Blakapar, an African band (Sylvie Nawasadio, zap mama; Barly Baruti trio)
Yakke followed a classical & jazz education for guitar in Antwerp
Influences: Ethnic Crossover
Sounds Like: Shikari
Record Label: PARRAMATTA RECORDS 2005