Pierre Vervloesem is a Belgian avant-garde guitar player and producer, and has been described as Belgium's Frank Zappa.

Career

After playing in a handful of experimental rock bands in the early 1990s, Vervloesem joined avant-garde band X-Legged Sally. During that collaboration, he appeared on the band's albums: Slow-Up (1991) ,Immer das Selbe Gelogen (1991) Killed by Charity (1994) Eggs and Ashes (1995) The Land of the Giant Dwarfs1996) Fired (1996) Bereft of a Blissful Union (1997) Since then, he has been a musical partner of Peter Vermeersch in many musical expeditions, both as a performer and as a producer, for example in A Group and the theatre production Weg (by Josse De Pauw). Together Vervloesem and Vermeersch produced the first LP by Antwerp rock group dEUS. Vervloesem has also released several solo LPs

Playing style

Vervloesem's guitar playing style has been associated with that of: Nick Didkovsky, Fred Frith, Zappa, Nels Cline, Joe Satriani, and Steve Vai.

Discography

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