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Barend Tromp

BAREND TROMP (composer, bass, sitar, guitar)

About Me


Born: May 16th, 1971, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Barend plays bass guitar, guitar and sitar. Before he used to play Chapman Stick for 4 years as well.

Barend has played in many bands. Among others in Arabesque, Lemur voice, Darshan and Slow Poke Rogrigo.

Also he played guitar in an acoustic trio called Venus Monkey. Which is more singer songwriter kind of stuff, but of course in our own way.
Besides playing in bands he also composes his own music and has released two cds with his own songs. At the moment he is working on a new solo cd containing twelve new songs. The new songs have a lot of influences from world music.
Besides studying guitar and music science, he also studied 4 years of sitar with Darshan Kumari and he studied sitar in India for 6 months sitar with Jyoti Thakar.
Barend also works as a guitar teacher on several music schools.

Latest news is that Barend will be working with guitar virtuoso Joop Wolters (former Arabesque mate) again, for his live band. More soon!
At the moment he is also playing in the discoband Newz from Tilburg.
Writng workshops for the dutch bass magazine 'de Bassist'
Currently working on a new sitar fusion project.
DISCOGRAPHY Barend Tromp:
ARABESQUE:
1992 "Pistache express" (demo)
1994 "Paragraph" (demo)
1994 "Beyond the veil"
1997 "Pathway to extacy" (demo)
LEMUR VOICE:
1995 "And the question is..." (demo)
1996 "Insights"
1999 "Divided"
DARSHAN:
1998 "Trapped in this circle" (demo)
1999 "Innersanctum of a modernday bughunter"
2002 "Down"
LAFTA YOGA:
2001 "Lafta Yoga"
BAREND TROMP:
1998 "Sticks in space"
1999 "Bass instinct"

SLOW POKE RODRIGO:
2004 "Slow Poke Rodrigo"

VENUS MONKEY:
2004 "Venus Monkey"

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LEMUR VOICE - Live: Den Bosch, Willem II 1999
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Member Since: 2/3/2006
Influences: Mick Karn, John Giblin, Percy Jones, Björk, Joni Mitchell, Donna Summer, King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Ali Akbar Khan, Nikhil Banerjee, Vilayat Khan (old Recordings), Indrajit Banerjee, old hindi movies, J.S. Bach, Igor Strawinsky, Steve Reich, Talvin Singh, Brand X, Robert Fripp, Steve Janssen, Les Claypool, Pino Palladino, Bootsy, Rocco Prestia, Larry Graham, Bernard Edwards, Rutger Gunarsson, James Jamerson.
Sounds Like: Barend Tromp
Type of Label: None

My Blog

MORE SONGS ON GARAGEBAND

I have put some more songs on garageband, here is the link: http://www.garageband.com/artist/barendtromp
Posted by Barend Tromp on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:15:00 PST

NEW SONGS ON MYSPACE

I have just posted two new songs on this myspace page: "Untitled"and "Untitled 2". Curious what you think. 
Posted by Barend Tromp on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:14:00 PST

2 videos from Lemur Voice on Google video

You can watch two live videos from Lemur Voice on Google video...the songs are "Divided" (on which I play Chapman Stick) and "Memory Lane". Here is the link: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Bare...
Posted by Barend Tromp on Wed, 03 May 2006 03:05:00 PST

playing on the new Suncaged CD!

I will play bass on 5 songs of the new Suncaged CD. Also I will play a sitar solo on one of the songs. Recordings will be somewhere in May. Check their site: http://www.suncaged.com/...
Posted by Barend Tromp on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 02:57:00 PST

Venus Monkey on myspace!!

You can visit the myspace of my band Venus Monkey now, here is the link: http://www.myspace.com/venusmonkey    
Posted by Barend Tromp on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 02:58:00 PST

pictures of the headway festival with Joop Wolters trio

On this link you can find some pictures of the live gig with Joop Wolters....click on newly added and then on april 1st and then you can watch all the pictures of the festival: http://www.basementonli...
Posted by Barend Tromp on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 01:54:00 PST

Interview with Barend Tromp

You can read an interview with me if you click on the link below....it is about guitars and my equipment, with some pictures and soundclips: http://www.gitaarnet.nl/magazine/gitaarvan/barendtromp/bare. ..
Posted by Barend Tromp on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 01:46:00 PST

first gig with Joop wolters, april 1st, Headway festival

I am glad to announce our first gig with Joop Wolters, Joop playing guitar, me playing bass and Patrick Eijdems on drums. Before we even played one note together we already had this gig!!! It is...
Posted by Barend Tromp on Sun, 19 Feb 2006 04:59:00 PST

New "old" song update from Lemur Voice

The 4th track in the player: "Akasha Chronicles" from Lemur Voice, 1996
Posted by Barend Tromp on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 02:47:00 PST

News: Barend will be working with Joop Wolters again!

After a period of not playing together for years (we have played toghether in the instrumental trio Arabesque)  Barend and Joop will play together again.....I will play the bass for Joop's Live b...
Posted by Barend Tromp on Sun, 05 Feb 2006 07:44:00 PST