Arts Centre Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium

20:00 Domzaal – Eric Thielemans & Josse De Pauw: Rops Snare
20:00 Balzaal – Joëlle Léandre
21:00 Theaterzaal – Flat Earth Society feat. John Watts
22:30 Balzaal – Elliott Sharp’s Carbon
and with performances KASK parcours through Vooruit

You’d like 4 days of Jazz & Sounds? With the 4day ticket you can go to all the concerts at Vooruit, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke and the conservatorium. Get the 4day ticket for €60 (€ 65 adk)

You’d like the 2 days at Vooruit? Get the 2day ticket for €35 (€40 adk)

Eric Thielemans & Josse De Pauw: Rops Snare

20:00 Balzaal

Actor/author Josse De Pauw and drummer Eric Thielemans guide you through a surreal story, a magical experience.

Actor/author Josse De Pauw and drummer Eric Thielemans first met each other during the rehearsals of Liefde/Zijn Handen, a performance by De Pauw for LOD with music by Jan Kuijken. During several late night talks, they discovered that they had a lot in common on a creative and personal level, and decided to work together. Rops Snare was born. The basis for the collaboration is a free verse poem written by De Pauw about the birth, life and the slaughter of a pig, it is not surprising that the story is told by the pig itself. As the text is inspired by Pornocrates, the colour etch by the Belgian painter Félicien Rops.

Thielemans accompanies De Pauw with perscussion, and at the end of the story (the pig is lashed to a ladder as his soul floats towards the skies above the snowy fields) Thielemans commences his. What follows is the steady crescendo of death. As the snare drum ruffles and rolls, the overtones are amplified by the voices of Eric and Josse.

Eric Thielemans (drums & percussion) & Josse De Pauw (spoken word)

• www.myspace.com/ericthielemans

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Joëlle Léandre

20:00 Domzaal

One of the leading figures of contemporary European jazz. Several composers, including John Cage, Giacinto Scelsi and Steve Lacy, have written music especially for her.

French double bass player Joëlle Léandre is one of the leading figures of contemporary European jazz. Several composers, including John Cage, Giacinto Scelsi and Steve Lacy, have written music especially for her. She has performed live with some of jazz’s biggest names, such as Derek Bailey, Anthony Braxton, Evan Parker, Fred Frith, John Zorn, etc. She has also composed scores for plays and dance performances herself. In her career of nearly 30 years, she has already made more than 150 recordings. She’s a member of the European Women’s Improvising Group and the feminist improvisation trio Les Diaboliques. As Les domestiques( with Jon Rose) she made one of the weirdest records ever: a collection of domestic noises set to musical effect.

Joëlle Léandre (double bass)

• www.joelle-leandre.com

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Flat Earth Society feat. John Watts

21:00 Theaterzaal

Premiere of the remarkable collaboration Flat Earth Society and John Watts, singer and guitarist of legendary rock band Fisher Z.

A big band and an old rocker? It works, as Flat Earth Society proves with John Watts, singer and guitarist of legendary rock band Fisher Z. At Jazz & Sounds, you can catch the premiere of this remarkable collaboration. What to expect? Old Fisher Z tracks newly arranged by FES head honcho Peter Vermeersch, old FES songs that have been refreshed and new FES songs with lyrics by John Watts.

Peter Vermeersch (clarinet), Bart Maris & Luc Van Lieshout (trumpet), Peter Vandenberghe (keyboards), Kristof Roseeuw (double bass), Marc Meeuwissen & Stefaan Blancke (trombone), Berlinde Deman (tuba), Tom Wouters (clarinet, vibraphone & percussion), Michel Mast (tenor saxophone), Bruno Vansina (baritone saxophone & flute), Benjamin Boutreur (alto saxophone), Wim Willaert (keyboards & accordion), Teun Verbruggen (percussion), Pierre Vervloesem (guitar) & John Watts (vocals & guitar)

• www.fes.be
• www.johnwatts.co.uk

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Elliott Sharp’s Carbon

22:30 Balzaal

We had to wait more than 15 years, but in 2009 guitarist Elliot Sharp and his experimental rock band Carbon finally released their new album.

We had to wait more than 15 years, but in 2009 guitarist Elliot Sharp and his experimental rock band Carbon finally released their new album. Sharp has been one of the most important figures of the downtown New York experimental music scene, which constantly seeks to renew itself. Sharp calls himself a music and science nerd because he tries to apply geometrical concepts, genetic metaphors and even chaos theory to his music. He also likes to broadenhis horizons regularly by working with African musicians, such as Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and pop stars like Debbie Harry. For Carbon, he uses his guitar as a percussion instrument and creates a raw and dark sound. Zeena Parkins is another important figure in Carbon, not only as a harpist in a rock band, but also because of her past work with Björk, Jim O’ Rourke, Lee Ranaldo, Nels Cline and Courtney Love’s Hole.

Elliott Sharp (guitar), Zeena Parkins (harp), David Weinstein (electronics), Marc Sloan (bass) & Joseph Trump (drums)

• www.panix.com/~esharp

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