Besides playing percussion I have a passion for sound in its different forms. I graduated as a sound engineer (RITS) and it is my dream to combine those two passions in one way or another. I have a small homestudio and I recorded several demo's up till now. The percussion songs you can hear on this page are played and recorded by me mostly in the dead of night, when the rest of the world is quiet and inspiration isn't blurred by light and the noise of life.
A word about the musicians I play with at the moment:
* Myrddin is a great flamenco guitarist who's always looking for his own language. He asked me to play with him and I'm very honored.
* The NewFoundland Band is centered around Rueben Mitchell, a singer-songwriter mostly inspired by americana, country, blues... I play a kind of Ersatz-drum set with cajon, snare drum and cymbals. I also play bendir and djembe in some songs.
* Buszjan is a singer-songwriter with whom I'm recording in my home studio. We're doing a preproduction of a CD mostly just the two of us. I love this way of working in a studio, recording every idea that comes across the mind, playing all sorts of percussion and things that aren't considered instruments.
At this moment we are forming a live band (a trio right now), with the incredible Jouni Isoherranen on the bass.
* We started with a new Gipsy-Balkan-style band. The line-up at this moment is Liesbeth Lambrecht (violin), Iris Thissen (cello), Sarah Salverius (accordion) and me playing mostly eastern percussion (Riqq, bendir, darbouka,...).
We're looking for a bass instrument, hoping to find a tuba player.
* With my house mate Karel, we just founded a Latin band. The aim is to begin by playing quite classic latin tunes and to develop a sound of our own, jazzifying the whole thing a bit. The line up is Barbro (voc), Daan (piano), Karel (bass), Bert (drums) and me on conga.
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