Philip Gibbs & Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg - Stringing The Bridge Over The Air - CD
A wonderful album of serious improvised guitar and voice.
The album consists of a 23 min live track recorded at the L'Kectic and 8 studio tracks.
Jean Michel Van Schouwburg improvising singer from Brussels region. Has developped a large voice - mouth - throat musical & sound techniques and music since the nineties. Throat singing, overtones, jodels, mouth sounds, almost 3 octaves, falsettos, multiphonics and invented languages. Groups : Sureau with bass player Jean Demey and percussionnist Kris Vanderstraeten. MouthWind with Lawrence Casserley, live signal processing TRIO 876 with Marcello Magliocchi percussion & Matthias Boss violin + Jean Demey bass. Duos w Yoko Miura piano w Adam Bohman- w Sabu Toyozumi- w Audrey Lauro. I Belong to The Band with Oli Mayne Adam Bohman and Zsolt Sörès. Has worked with Adelheid Sieuw, Mike Goyvaerts, John Russell, Phil Wachsmann, Gianni Mimmo, composer Dario Palermo, Paul Hubweber, Katalin Ladik, Nils Gerold & Mano Kinze, Pascal Marzan, Klaus Kürvers, Work with Berberian Sound Studio movie director Peter Strickland as acting his own singer persona , J-M VS. Berberian Sound Studio was awarded and was featured in many festivals as the UK cult movie 2012. Has organized +160 improv concerts in Brussels since 2000... Holding voice workshop in many cities (Turin , Budapest, Liverpool, Nitra, Brussels)with his own techniques and conductions. Writes in Improjazz (F) Jazzaround (B) and Oro Molido (E) and in his own Orynx-Improvandsounds.blogspot.com Performed in Belgium, France, UK, Germany, Spain, Italy, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Holland, Scotland in festivals, galeries, clubs, concerts and movie festivals.