ZONK! 016 - 2024
THE ONE
Release March 28, 2024
HA concerts, Ghent
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1. bONEs (Peter Vandenberghe)
Part 1: wONEdering
Part 2: second to ONE
Part 3: mr. ONE the Third
Part 4: no ONE in the final
2. The Lost One (Peter Vandenberghe) - dedicated to Tom Wouters († 2021)
3. Zippo Raid (Peter Vermeersch)
4. The Previous One (Peter Vermeersch)
5. The One (Peter Vandenberghe)
6. The Last One (Peter Vermeersch)
On The One, FES, the indomitable Belgian institute, takes on the single-mindedness of truth. In a maddening world of jumbling perspectives, bawling personalities and hunger for comprehension, "The One" has become the highest good. One truth, one clarity, one version, one story.
With unstoppable ferocity, FES tackles this ridiculous reduction. Peter Vandenberghe and Peter Vermeersch composed another multi-faceted work full of feints that stress its plurality. After all, doesn't the one, once it is passed and succeeded by the next one, become the previous one? 'The One' is a delusion, an ideal for bubbles, the epitome of creative impoverishment. It is a way of thinking that must be fought by all means. Less is not always more, less is too often ... nothing at all.
Cunning, cinematic and devious as you only find them in classic films noir; The One is an antidote to a nonsensical quest as well as an ode to unbridled fantasy. Grinning from within, the virus allows itself to be corrupted by FES into an irresistible shooting gallery of possibilities.
Musicians
Gert-Jan Dreessen drums
Peter Vandenberghe piano & keyboads
Kristof Roseeuw double bass
Maarten Flamand guitar
Wim Segers vibraphone
Bart Maris trumpet
Pauline Leblond trumpet
Peter Delannoye trombone
Marc Meeuwissen trombone
Berlinde Deman tuba
Peter Vermeersch (bass)clarinet & electronix
Martí Melià (bass)clarinet
Bruno Vansina bariton sax & fluit
Benjamin Boutreur alto sax
Michel Mast tenor sax
Credits
Recorded at Johnny Green Giant Studio, Ghent, Belgium
by Dieter Claeys & Mathias Stal, November 13 to 17, 2023
Mixing & mastering by Oz Fritz at High Velocity Sound/Nevada City, CA, USA
Artwork by Marc Meeuwissen
