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