Pierre Vervloesem

Pierre Vervloesem is a Belgian avant-garde guitar player and producer, and has been described as Belgium's Frank Zappa.

Career

After playing in a handful of experimental rock bands in the early 1990s, Vervloesem joined avant-garde band X-Legged Sally. During that collaboration, he appeared on the band's albums:

Slow-Up (1991)

,Immer das Selbe Gelogen (1991)

Killed by Charity (1994)

Eggs and Ashes (1995)

The Land of the Giant Dwarfs1996)

Fired (1996)

Bereft of a Blissful Union (1997)

Since then, he has been a musical partner of Peter Vermeersch in many musical expeditions, both as a performer and as a producer, for example in A Group and the theatre production Weg (by Josse De Pauw). Together Vervloesem and Vermeersch produced the first LP by Antwerp rock group dEUS.

Vervloesem has also released several solo LPs

Playing style

Vervloesem's guitar playing style has been associated with that of: Nick Didkovsky, Fred Frith, Zappa, Nels Cline, Joe Satriani, and Steve Vai.

Discography

• Home Made (1994)
• Fiasco (1996)
• Chef d'Oeuvre (1999)
• Zala Zala (2000), with John Litton Baraï
• ...plays John Barry (2002)
• Grosso Modo (2002)
• Rude (2005)
• Not Even Close (2008)
• Unchained Melodies (2009), by Kings of Belgium
• Sketches of Pain (2010), by Caca
• John Koenig (2010)
• Grotesque (2010), by Codswallop
• Très fort (2011), by Kings of Belgium
• On dirait du singe (2012), by Ray Pinson
• Silence Science (2013)
• A Carbon Copy of Secrets (2022), a cover of Pink Floyd's A Saucerful of Secrets (1968)
• Wing-Chester (2018), with teun Verbruggen
• Undeletable (2018) by Simple
• Undeletable demo album (2018)
• Live at Pelzer Jazz House (2018), with teun Verbruggen and Adrien Lambinet
• Maité, het meisje en de vogel (2018) by Orchestra Exotica
• Plays Martin Denny (2018) by Orchestra Exotica
• Pot-pourri, Vol 1 (unreleased tracks) (2018)
• Pot-pourri, Vol 2 (unreleased tracks) (2018)
• Pot-pourri, Vol 3 (unreleased tracks) (2018)
• The Art Of Going Nowhere, Part 1&2 (2018)
• The Art Of Going Nowhere, Part 3 (2018)
• The Art Of Going Nowhere, Part 4 (2018)
• Invisible Quality (2018) with Alinovsky
• The Art Of Going Nowhere 1 extended (2018)
• The Art Of Going Nowhere 2 extended (2018)
• The Art Of Going Nowhere 3 extended (2018)
• The Art Of Going Nowhere 4 extended (2018)
• Artiste Belge (2019)
• Artiste International (2019) with Morgan Agren
• Quality Streets (2019) by Kings of Belgium
• Undeletable remixed (2019) by Simple
• Wonderful Viruses (2019)
• Sketches of Pain remixed (2020) by Caca
• John Koenig remixed (2020)
• Stardom (2020)
• Africa (2020)
• 1983 (2020)
• Ponorogo (2020)
• Influenza (2020)
• Haines (2020)
• Saint-Guy (2020)
• Lou Rick’s Island (2020)
• Folklorik (2021)
• Tâla Shit (2021)
• Ruder (2021)
• Don’t (2021)
• Electronicaca (2021)
• 2020 (2021)
• Dead (2021)
• The Weight of a threatening Blue Sky (2021)
• Pierre Vervloesem’s Flambant Neuf (2021) with bruno Vansina, Teun Verbruggen, Thomas Mayade, Falk Schrauwen
• Basses of May (2021)
• Young Talents (2021) by Pierre Vervloesem/Teun Verbruggen
• Minimal Tropical (2021)
• 30 Years of Succes (2022)
• Masterpieces of irish Folklore, Vol. 12 (2022) by Pierre Vervloesem/Eric Thielemans
• Not Even Close- Remastered and revised 2021 (2022)
• Tamtams (2022) by Pierre Vervloesem/Marc Van Eyck
• A Carbon Copy of Secrets (2022), a cover of Pink Floyd's A Saucerful of Secrets (1968)
• Zgouing (2022)
• Dark Matter 1- Dark Matter 2 (2022)
• Dark Matter 3- Dark Matter 4 (2022)
• Artsy-Fartsy (2022)
• Oh ! (2022)
• New Wave (2023)
• Underwater Adventures (2023)
• Expected Noises (2023) a cover of the album Unexpected Noises by Brian Brain
• Chicxulub (2023) by Pierre Vervloesem/Teun Verbruggen
• Let Fans Pay More If They Want (2023)
• Let Fans Pay Some More If They Want (2023)
• Dark Matter 5-Dark Matter 6 (2023)
• Hit Me With Your Stochastic (2023) by Pierre Vervloesem/Teun Verbruggen
• Spacequake (2023)
• Graviton (2024)
• Saucers (2024)
• Non-essential (2024)
• Sorry Louise couldn't come (2024) by Vansina / Verbruggen / Vervloesem

External link

• https://pierrevervloesem.bandcamp.com/