Michel Delville

Michel Delville
Born1969
Liège, Belgium
GenresJazz fusion, progressive rock
Occupation(s)Musician, teacher, writer, songwriter
Instrument(s)Guitar, electronics
LabelsMoonjune, Voiceprint, Fazzul
Websitemicheldelville.com

Michel Delville (born 1969) is a Belgian musician, writer and critic. Delville teaches literature at the University of Liège.[1] He is the author of books about comparative poetics and interdisciplinary studies.[2] He was awarded the 1998 SAMLA Book Award, the Choice Outstanding Book Award, the Léon Guérin Prize, the 2001 Alumni Award of the Belgian American Educational Foundation,[3] the rank of Officer of the Order of Leopold[4] I (2009), and the 2009 Prix Wernaers pour la recherche et la diffusion des connaissances.[5]

Delville has been performing and composing alternative music since the mid-1980s. His bands include The Wrong Object, douBt, Machine Mass feat. Dave Liebman, Alex Maguire's Electric 6tet, the New Texture Pan Tonal Fellowship (under the direction of Stanley Jason Zappa), the Ed Mann Project, and the Moving Tones. He has worked with Dave Liebman, Elton Dean, Annie Whitehead, Harry Beckett, Richard Sinclair, Ed Mann, Alex Maguire, Dagmar Krause, Benoît Moerlen, Tony Bianco, Karen Mantler, Geoff Leigh, Markus Stauss, Guy Segers, Klaus Blasquiz, Gilad Atzmon, and Dirk Wachtelear.

In 2009 he created the trio douBt with Alex Maguire and Tony Bianco. Their debut album, Never Pet a Burning Dog, included ex-Camel, Caravan and Hatfield and the North member Richard Sinclair on guest vocals and bass.[6] In 2010 he was invited to join and coordinate Comicoperando,[7] 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 in 2011.[8] In 2012, Delville collaborated with the international collective 48 Cameras and Robin Rimbaud.[9] In 2018 he was voted one of the 3 best electric guitarists of the year by Arnaldo DeSouteiro's Annual Jazz Station Poll.[10]

  1. ^ "Michel Delville". Cipa.ulg.ac.be. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  2. ^ Équipe de recherche Fabula. "M. Delville, Food, Poetry, and the Aesthetics of Consumption. Eating the Avant-Garde". Fabula.org. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
  3. ^ "BAEF 2001 Alumni Award". Baef.be. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
  4. ^ "Officier de l'Ordre de Léopold". Staatsbladclip.be. 26 May 2010. Archived from the original on 15 January 2013. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
  5. ^ "CAS Academics specialized in American subject matter". Kbr.be. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
  6. ^ John McGuire, Digital HD Productions, for Leonardo Pavkovic, and MoonJune.com. "douBt". Moonjune.com. Retrieved 7 January 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ "Comicoperando". Exb.it. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
  8. ^ "Comicoperando Live in Amsterdam". YouTube. Archived from the original on 15 December 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
  9. ^ "48 Cameras". 48cameras.com. Archived from the original on 7 February 2012. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
  10. ^ "40th Annual Jazz Station Awards". 31 December 2018. Retrieved 28 July 2019.