Pierre Van Dormael
Pierre Van Dormael
Selected Discography
NASA NA Live 91, Outhere Music, 2016
SOLOS DUOS, Mogno Music 2008
NORTH COUTRY SUITE, De Werf 2006
VICACES, Igloo 2001
DJIGUI, Igloo 1997
A LOVER’S QUESTION - James Baldwin Project, Label Bleu1999
L’ETENDUE DES EXTREMES, Art Public 1982 LP
As Guitarist
BURNIN’ with the Chris Mertens Jazz Van - De Werf 2007
21.EMANATIONS Octurn - Yolk 2006
WORK ON AXIS Thôt Agrandi - Quoi de Neuf Docteur 2004
DRIVIN’ with the Chris Mertens Jazz Van - AZ productions 2003
DIMENSIONS Octurn - De Werf 2002
GUITARS Aka Moon - De Werf 2002
THE BOOK OF HOURS Patrick Zimmerli and Octurn - Songlines Recording 2002
TRIBU Geoffroy De Masure - Musivi 2001
SNAKE EAR Deep in the Deep - J.A.S. 2000
HOMMAGE A RENE THOMAS - Igloo 1997
ELOHIM Aka Moon - Carbon 7 1997
GANESH Aka Moon - Carbon 7 1997
L’ETE INDIEN L’âme des poètes - Igloo 1994
CHATTERTON Bashung - Barclay 1994
GALILEE La Grande Formation - Carbon 7 1994
L’AME DES POETES - Igloo 1992
ANYONE LIVED IN A PRETTY TOWN La Grande Formation - Igloo 1991
PASIONES Cos - Clic Music 1983
Film Score Composer
Maedeli la Brèche, 1980
E pericoloso sporgersi, 1984
Toto le Héros, 1991
Le Huitième Jour, 1996
Essaye-Moi, 2006
Mr Nobody, 2009
Influences
Trees, light, Lizz Wright, flowers, stars, traffic, Miles Davis, dance, Anne-Teresa De Keersmaeker, paintings, Monet, Kandinski, Picasso, beauty, values independent of time, love, principles of life, Joni Mitchell for expending the breadth of extreities in her songs, Bach in the morning, Haydn and Mozart on sundays, Duke Ellington for the polyphonic melody & rythm, Charlie Parker and Steve Coleman for changing the guards, Toot Thielemans for his completness, Bill Evans, Keith Jarret, Herbie Hancock for their playing’s teachings, Pat Metheny the bright size player, Bob Dylan the diamond jeweler whose works look simple like glass and rough like stone, Quincy Jones, Youssou N’Dour, african rythm, the music of Mali, Cassandra Wilson for spectrum, Ralph Towner, Michael Gregory Jackson, Django Reinhardt, Jimi Hendrix, Philip Catherine, John Mc Laughlin, Bill Frisell... for their specific and beautiful approach of my favourite instrument landscapes, changing skies, clouds and weather, snow, Louis Armstrong, american folk music, afro-american culture and creativity in gospel, early blues, jazz, soul, AACM, motown, R&B... Chopin, romantic strings, Walt Disney and fairy tales, something in all music related to life and spirit, surprises, new combinations in cooking, interviews of musician, phrases of wisdom ...
by Pierre Van Dormael
Teacher
Conservatoire de Namur
Jazz Studio Antwerpen
Conservatoire de Dakar (Sénégal)
Koninklijk Conservatorium Antwerpen
Lemmensinstituut Leuven