The Wrong Object

The Wrong Object

The Wrong Object is an avant-garde jazz fusion band from Belgium.

Blending psychedelic jazz with modern rock sensibilities, the music of The Wrong Object (2002-) is influenced by a vast array of artists ranging from Canterbury Scene prog rock à la Soft Machine and Gong to Béla Bartok, Aka Moon, Charlie Mingus and Frank Zappa. While their repertoire contains mainly original compositions, they also play a special set of Zappa covers on demand. The band's current line-up features Michel Delville on guitar, guitar-synth, voice & compositions, Damien Polard on bass and electronics, Laurent Delchambre on drums, Fred Delplancq on tenor sax and Jean-Paul Estiévenart on trumpet.

Since its creation in early 2002, The Wrong Object has played some sixty gigs in various venues ranging from small pubs to big festivals. Some of them were augmented by guest performances by the likes of Ed Mann, Elton Dean, Harry Beckett, Annie Whitehead, Marc Mangen, Domguè, Marco Maurizi, Nicolas Ankoudinoff, Clementine Gasser, Frogg Café, Jaap Blonk, 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 percussionist Ed Mann. Their next projects “Elton Dean & The Wrong Object” and “The Wrong Object feat. Annie Whitehead and Harry Beckett” were documented by two CD releases issued by Voiceprint/Jazzprint ("Platform One") and Moonjune Records ("The Unbelievable Truth") in the Spring of 2007. "The Unbelievable Truth" (Moonjune Records, 2007), the Wrong Object's collaboration with the late Elton Dean, was included in the "Top Ten Jazz CDs of the Year" of Brazilian daily newspaper Tribuna.

A new live project involving Alex Maguire saw the light in the Fall of 2007 an led to a CD release under the name of "Alex Maguire Sextet" "Brewed in Belgium"; Moonjune 2008).

2008 has been a breakthrough year for The Wrong Object and one of the culminations of their ongoing collaboration with Leonardo Pavkovic at Moonjune Records and Management. It has seen the publication of "Stories from the Shed" (which features cover art by British artist Marc Atkins), the band's first studio album in more than five years, an album which has received rave reviews from major international publications such as Jazzwise, Guitar Player, Signal for Noise, All Music GuideDave Lynch: Allmusic|id=10:a9fixzljldde|label=Review of "Stories from the Shed", Retrieved on September 11, 2008] , Musica Jazz, Jazzreview, Exposé Magazine, Prog-resiste and more than 100 other paper and online journals.

Extensive touring followed (The Wrong Object have so far played in many different countries including England, Germany, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Czekia, Slovakia, Wales, Greece, Luxembourg and Belgium) and their live recordings have been favorably reviewed and aired by radio stations across the globe. In June 2008, the band performed the world-premiere of their "Ode to Paestum" recorded live in Paestum, Italy, right next to the 6th century BC temple of Poseidon in collaboration with Biagio Francia (aka Blaise de France) and Alexandros Hahalis. The Wrong Object is urrently mastering a professionally-recorded live DVD shot in Germany at the August 2008 Zappanale festival.

They will continue to perform in clubs and theaters in 2009 and are hatching up plans to play Summer festivals in Europe, South America and the USA in 2009 and 2010.

Discography

* "Platform One" (Voiceprint, 2007) feat. Harry Beckett and Annie Whitehead,
* "The Unbelievable Truth" (Moonjune Records, 2006) featuring Elton Dean
* "Stories from the Shed" (studio release; Moonjune Records, January 2008)
* "The Wrong Object at Zappanale 2008" (DVD, forthcoming)

The Wrong Object's back catalogue will soon be available in digital format through EMI/Astralwerks.

References

External links

* [http://www.wrongobject.com Official website]
*Allmusic|id=11:ajfexqqdldje


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