| Dear Promoters,
For the first time on tour
ELTON DEAN Meets THE WRONG OBJECT
Elton Dean: saxes
The Wrong Object
Michel Delville: guitar
Damien Polard: bass
Fred Delplancq: tenor sax
Jean-Paul Estiévenart: trumpet
Laurent Delchambre: drums, percussions
Possible dates: 7 to 20 OCTOBER 2005 (Europe only) + festivals throughout the year
Legendary jazz saxophonist Elton Dean (www.allaboutjazz.com/artists/edean.htm) and experimental
rock-jazz band The Wrong Object (www.wrongobject.be.tf), which now features Belgium''s premier windplayers Fred Delplancq and Jean-Paul Estiévenart, will be joining forces next Spring to offer a new, original set logically entitled "Elton Dean Meets The Wrong Object".
Our repertoire will consist of a mixture of compositions by Elton Dean (including some Soft Machine favorites) and The Wrong Object. Although we do not have a recording for this completely new project yet, you will find mp3 s and a complete press kit on our site: www.wrongobject.be.tf and, of course, numberless samples of Elton''s music on the web.
Elton's most recent works are featured on the Cuneiform website on cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/dean.html
We look forward to hearing from you about this!
Thank you.
Cheers for now,
Michel Delville
http://www.wrongobject.be.tf
First confirmed gigs so far:
Eindhoven: Monday Oct 10
Brussels: Wednesday Oct 12
Liège: Thursday Oct 13
ELTON DEAN - from a review of Elton's recent album, "Moorsong"
Moorsong shows Dean entirely at home with an impressive range of jazz settings and styles. The CD begins with a swinging, Hammond Organ-driven session that may be seen as a nod to Medeski, Martin & Wood. The latter part of "Moorsong" - which includes the title track - features spacier, more atmospheric sets, with the music more based on moods and drones. As the 21st century begins, interest in Dean and other English free jazz players continues to rise, thanks in part to new releases on numerous labels by Dean and his contemporaries and reissues of their earlier works.
"Moorsong" shows Dean in top form throughout, exploring the varied topography of British jazz via sax. It should appeal to afficionados of jazz, fusion and free music alike.
THE WRONG OBJECT
Current lineup:
Michel Delville: guitar, synth, vocals
Damien Polard: bass
Jean-Paul Estiévenart: trumpet, flugelhorn
Laurent Delchambre: drums, percussions
Fred Delplancq: tenor sax, soprano sax
The title [The Wrong Object Play Zappa and a few Tunes of their Own] is no idle boast: Michel Delville, leader and guitarist of The Wrong Object from Liège, Belgium, is writing tunes which emulate Zappa's taste for succinct idiosyncrasy and melodic lilt.... in a modern music scene that regularly trundles out all the paraphernalia of intelligence (laptops, bald heads, performers' desk-tops like mad electronic laboratories), this is the real thing: an intelligent handling of the Zappa/King Crimson legacy, a tradition that questions the power of rock with musical, rather than moral, means. The clever title "Cunnimingus" indicates where this group is coming from, as does Andrew Norris' surreal, warped curses versus George W Bush on "King Kong". - HIFINews
Blending psychedelic jazz with modern rock sensibilities, the music of the Wrong Object is influenced by a vast array of artists ranging from Canterbury Scene prog rock à la Soft Machine and Gong to Aka Moon, Charlie Mingus and Frank Zappa. While their repertoire contains mainly original compositions, they also play a special set of Zappa covers (including the classic "King Kong").
Since its creation in early 2002, The Wrong Object has played some thirty gigs in various venues ranging from small pubs to big festivals. Some of them were augmented by guest performances by the likes of Domguè (tenor sax), Marco Maurizi (guitar), Clementine Gasser (cello), Frogg Café, Frank
Goos (sax), Jaap Blonk (vocals and sound poetry), and pataphysician-poet-vocalist Andrew Norris, whose work with the band culminated in a show held at the Galerie 2016 in Brussels on the occasion
of Serge Vandercam''s 79th birthday. After a successful mini-tour of the UK, they performed at the 2004
"Zappanale" festival where they played a special gig featuring Zappa''s legendary percussionist Ed Mann, with whom they also hope to play a few more dates soon. The Wrong Object will continue to perform in pubs, clubs and theaters next year and will play Summer festivals abroad
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