For more live videos, check out my YouTube channel
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BIOGRAPHY
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With an innovative approach to music, Jean-Paul De Roover is much more than a one man band: he plays everything, and right before your very eyes and ears. With the assistance of live looping, as well as various effects, multiple guitars and layers of vocals, Jean-Paul will have you second guessing yourself and wondering if you really heard what you just did.
One could compare Jean-Paul De Roover's music to a visual artist's venture, such as a painting on canvas. However, instead of admiring the finished product, he revels in the journey he takes you on over the course of a performance. Beginning with dead silence, his performance could lead anywhere, to full a capella harmonies, to rhythmic tribal beats, to orgiastic sonic explosions, to a noise layered world of ambient rock, or anything in between.
Having recently completed a tour of Western Canada with AdverseVitalSigns (www.adversevitalsigns.com), as well as several mini-tours of the region, Jean-Paul is ready to take his music and performances to the next level. In November of 2007, he recorded a 4 track EP "Dichotomy" and hopes to generate some excitement for his next CD/DVD project with these groundbreaking recordings.
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PRESS
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"I have my eye on Jean-Paul De Roover. I think he'll be as good as, as influential as, Robert Fripp - never heard of King Crimson? Then you're younger than I am. But if you have, you may want to go if only to make comparative notes, and rekindle the feeling of truly seeing something fresh."
Duncan Weller - Chronicle Journal
"Jean-Paul has a fantastic sense of melody, song craft and a devious mind when it comes to musical experimentation. As far as the songs on this EP stand, you know how you get parts of a song stuck in your head and can’t remember what it is? Well, with Dichotomy, I continually find that I have different parts of the SAME songs stuck in my head over and over. The songs have so much going on in them that only your sub-conscious picks them up the first few times around. If you love music, you need to check out this pre-cursor to Jean-Paul’s full length (and check him out if he brings his live act to your town!)."
Jason Wellwood - Program Manager & Loud Rock Director for CILU 102.7 FM
"If you haven't heard of Jean-Paul De Roover you should crawl out from under the rock you've been living under. Quit punishing yourself and listen to his music. What he creates is the most unique and original music that's ever come out of Thunder Bay. To describe it is nearly impossible and to shove it into any genre is unfeasible."
Derrick Monty - The Argus
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RADIO
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Tune in to LU Radio (102.7 FM in Thunder Bay, or www.luradio.ca) and request any of the tracks from the album!
Email:
[email protected] or visit www.luradio.ca to contact any of the DJ's directly.
Phone: (807) 766-7207
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BOOKING
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For booking inquiries, please email: j.de.roover [at] gmail [dot] com
Or view my EPK
