Michel Delville has been performing and composing alternative music since the mid-1980s. His recent projects include the quintet The Wrong Object, Machine Mass feat. Dave Liebman, Markus Stauss's TZGIV, Comicoperando, douBt, Ensemble Mosae and The Gödel Codex.
He has played and recorded with Dave Liebman, Elton Dean, Annie Whitehead, Harry Beckett, Richard Sinclair, Ed Mann, Tony Levin, Alex Maguire, Dagmar Krause, Benoît Moerlen, Tony Bianco, Karen Mantler, Geoff Leigh, Markus Stauss, Guy Segers, Klaus Blasquiz, Gilad Atzmon, Robin Verheyen and many others leading jazz and rock musicians. The last few years have been a productive period, with recording and touring taking Delville to many different countries (including Japan, The United States, Canada, England, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Wales, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Greece, Luxembourg and Belgium).
Radio programmes about his musical works have been aired by RTBF, RAI3, RTC, VPRO, and many other national and independent TV and radio channels, and received rave reviews from publications such as Jazzwise, Down Beat, Guitar Player, Signal to Noise, Jazzit, Allmusic, Musica Jazz (July 2008), Jazz Review, Exposé, and hundreds of magazines, e-zines and blogs.
In the Summer of 2009 he teamed up with Alex Maguire (Michael Moore, Elton Dean, Sean Bergin, ...) and Tony Bianco (Dave Liebman, Paul Dunmall, Evan Parker, Peter Brötzmann) to create a new power-trio named douBt. Their debut release, Never Pet a Burning Dog, features Richard Sinclair on guest vocals and bass. The project toured Japan and Europe, and their latest offering, Mercy, Pity, Peace & Love, has been described, rather hyperbolically, as the answer to "the question of how Soft Machine might have sounded with Jimi Hendrix in their band" (Something Else; 2013).
Delville was voted one of the 10 best electric guitarists of the years 2014 and 2017 by Arnaldo DeSouteiro's Annual Jazz Station Poll, which also voted Machine Mass 4th best Instrumental Group in 2014.
In 2010 he was invited to join and coordinate Comicoperando, a tribute to the music of Robert Wyatt whose line-up includes Dagmar Krause, Richard Sinclair, Annie Whitehead, Gilad Atzmon, Alex Maguire, Chris Cutler, John Edwards and Cristiano Calcagnile. In 2011 the band toured Europe and Canada as a sextet, a period documented in Pavel Borodin's film "Comicoperando in Amsterdam," which was co-produced by the Dutch national radio.
From 2011 to 2013, Delville was part of the international collective 48 Cameras, with whom he released a studio album and a collaboration with Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner and launched two new projects: the blues-rock oriented Ensemble Mosae (with Laurent Delchambre et Damien Campion) and The Gödel Codex (an electro-jazz quartet featuring Etienne Plumer, Antoine Guenet and Christophe Bailleau).
In the Spring of 2014, The Wrong Object collaborated with the Brussels Philharmonic and the Flemish Radio Choir on a live rendition of Zappa's 200 Motels.
In 2014, Machine Mass, an electro-jazz band founded with Tony Bianco in 2010, joined forces with sax player extraordinaire Dave Liebman: INTI, their debut album was released by MoonJune Records to worldwide critical acclaim. Machine Mass Plays Hendrix followed in 2017, and new studio albums by The Gödel Codex, Dominique Vantomme's Vegir project (Vantomme/Delville/Levin/Lenssens) and The Wrong Object appeared in 2018 and 2019. 2021 saw the publication of a new Machine Mass CD, Intrusion (Off/MoonJune).
He has played and recorded with Dave Liebman, Elton Dean, Annie Whitehead, Harry Beckett, Richard Sinclair, Ed Mann, Tony Levin, Alex Maguire, Dagmar Krause, Benoît Moerlen, Tony Bianco, Karen Mantler, Geoff Leigh, Markus Stauss, Guy Segers, Klaus Blasquiz, Gilad Atzmon, Robin Verheyen and many others leading jazz and rock musicians. The last few years have been a productive period, with recording and touring taking Delville to many different countries (including Japan, The United States, Canada, England, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Wales, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Greece, Luxembourg and Belgium).
Radio programmes about his musical works have been aired by RTBF, RAI3, RTC, VPRO, and many other national and independent TV and radio channels, and received rave reviews from publications such as Jazzwise, Down Beat, Guitar Player, Signal to Noise, Jazzit, Allmusic, Musica Jazz (July 2008), Jazz Review, Exposé, and hundreds of magazines, e-zines and blogs.
In the Summer of 2009 he teamed up with Alex Maguire (Michael Moore, Elton Dean, Sean Bergin, ...) and Tony Bianco (Dave Liebman, Paul Dunmall, Evan Parker, Peter Brötzmann) to create a new power-trio named douBt. Their debut release, Never Pet a Burning Dog, features Richard Sinclair on guest vocals and bass. The project toured Japan and Europe, and their latest offering, Mercy, Pity, Peace & Love, has been described, rather hyperbolically, as the answer to "the question of how Soft Machine might have sounded with Jimi Hendrix in their band" (Something Else; 2013).
Delville was voted one of the 10 best electric guitarists of the years 2014 and 2017 by Arnaldo DeSouteiro's Annual Jazz Station Poll, which also voted Machine Mass 4th best Instrumental Group in 2014.
In 2010 he was invited to join and coordinate Comicoperando, a tribute to the music of Robert Wyatt whose line-up includes Dagmar Krause, Richard Sinclair, Annie Whitehead, Gilad Atzmon, Alex Maguire, Chris Cutler, John Edwards and Cristiano Calcagnile. In 2011 the band toured Europe and Canada as a sextet, a period documented in Pavel Borodin's film "Comicoperando in Amsterdam," which was co-produced by the Dutch national radio.
From 2011 to 2013, Delville was part of the international collective 48 Cameras, with whom he released a studio album and a collaboration with Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner and launched two new projects: the blues-rock oriented Ensemble Mosae (with Laurent Delchambre et Damien Campion) and The Gödel Codex (an electro-jazz quartet featuring Etienne Plumer, Antoine Guenet and Christophe Bailleau).
In the Spring of 2014, The Wrong Object collaborated with the Brussels Philharmonic and the Flemish Radio Choir on a live rendition of Zappa's 200 Motels.
In 2014, Machine Mass, an electro-jazz band founded with Tony Bianco in 2010, joined forces with sax player extraordinaire Dave Liebman: INTI, their debut album was released by MoonJune Records to worldwide critical acclaim. Machine Mass Plays Hendrix followed in 2017, and new studio albums by The Gödel Codex, Dominique Vantomme's Vegir project (Vantomme/Delville/Levin/Lenssens) and The Wrong Object appeared in 2018 and 2019. 2021 saw the publication of a new Machine Mass CD, Intrusion (Off/MoonJune).
This page is dedicated to all the musicians I have worked with throughout the years and our shared experiences :
Alain Deval
Alex Maguire
Alexander Hanson
Alexandro Hahalis
André Klenes
Andrew Sussman
Andrew Norris
Andy Kirk
Angel Ontalva
Annemarieke Schoondervaldt
Annie Whitehead
Antoine Dawans
Antoine Guenet
Bart Maris
Benoît Moerlen
Beppe Crovella
Bill Ayasse
Bobby Martin
Brussels Choral Society
Brussels Philharmonic
Calogero Marotta
Carla Diratz
Catherine Smet
Cathryn Robson
Chervin Laporte
Chris Cutler
Chris Garcia
Chris Stassinopoulos
Christophe Bailleau
Claudio Milano
Clément Dechambre
Clementine Gasser
Cristiano Calcagnile
Dagmar Krause
Damien Campion
Damien Polard
Daniel Denis
Dave Liebman
Dave Newhouse
Dave Sinclair
David Kitzinger
Didié Nietzsche
Dirk Wachteleaer
Domenico Solazzo
Dominique Vantomme
Domguè
Ed Mann
Elton Dean
Etienne Plumer
Florian Walter
Franck Balestracci
François Lourtie
Frank Camiola
Frank van der Kooij
Frank Wuyts
Fred Delplancq
Gary Lucas
Geoff Leigh
Georges Hermans
Georges Paul
Gilad Atzmon
Grégoire Tirtiaux
Guy Segers
Harry Beckett
Isabelle Doyen
Ivan Leirvik
Ivo Sans
Jaap Blonk
Jacques Foschia
James Guarnieri
Jan Rzewski
Jean-Jacques Duerinckx
Jean-Marie Mathoul
Jean-Michel van Schouwburg
Jean-Paul Estiévenart
Jean-Pierre Bouquelle
Jean-Pierre Soarez
Joe Higham
John Edwards
John Lieto
Jordi Grognard
Karen Mantler
Klaus Blasquiz
Laurent Blondiau
Laurent Delchambre
Ludovic Jeanmart
Manuel Hermia
Marc Mangen
Marcel Kanche
Marco Maurizi
Mark Beazley
Mark Hanslip
Markus Stauss
Marti Melia
Martine Verbrugghe
Martyn Bates
Maxime Lenssens
Michael Begg
Mimi Verderame
Mirko Banovic
Nick Grey
Nick Skrowaczewski
Nicolas Ankoudinoff
Nicolas Puma
Olivier Catala
Paolo Tofani
Pauline Leblond
Peer Baierlein
Pete Brunelli
Peter James
Philippe Gonin
Pierre Bernard
Pierre Mottet
Pieter Claus
Pirly Zurstrassen
Richard Sinclair
Rik Staelens
Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner)
Robin Verheyen
Roland Binet
Sam Gertsmans
Saskia Dommisse
Stanley Jason Zappa
Stephen Chillemi
Steve Kettley
Steve McCaffery
Steven Delannoye
Thierry Dupuis
Toine Thys
Tony Bianco
Tony Levin
Vit Bohal
Walter Calloni
Yves Dellicour
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