The Wrong Object
| The Wrong Object | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Belgium |
| Genres | Jazz fusion, progressive rock, Canterbury scene |
| Years active | 2002 – present |
| Labels | Moonjune Records |
| Members |
Michel Delville Laurent Delchambre Antoine Guenet Marti Melia Pierre Mottet |
| Past members | Fred Delplancq Damien Polard Jean-Paul Estiévenart |
The Wrong Object is an avant-garde jazz fusion band from Belgium. Its current line-up is Michel Delville (who founded the band in 2002 and who has authored nearly all of its published work) on guitar, guitar-synth, voice and compositions, Marti Melia on saxophones and clarinet, Antoine Guenet on keyboards, Pierre Mottet on bass and electronics, and Laurent Delchambre on drums. Former members include Fred Delplancq on tenor sax, Damien Polard on bass, and Jean-Paul Estiévenart (winner of the Django d'Or award for best young jazz musician in 2007) on trumpet.
The Wrong Object were created in early 2002 as a Frank Zappa tribute band, and have since played some sixty gigs in venues ranging from small pubs to big festivals such as Zappanale (2004 and 2008), the Gaume Jazz Festival, the Jazz à Liège festival Jazz à Liège and the European Jazz Festival in Athens. Some were augmented by guest performances by Elton Dean, Harry Beckett, Annie Whitehead, Jaap Blonk, Zappa's percussionist Ed Mann and others.
After a mini-tour of the UK, the Wrong Object performed with Zappa's percussionist Ed Mann at the 2004 Zappanale festival. Their next projects, "Elton Dean & The Wrong Object" and "The Wrong Object feat. Annie Whitehead and Harry Beckett", were documented by CD releases from Voiceprint (Platform One) and Moonjune Records (The Unbelievable Truth, a collaboration with Elton Dean) in the spring of 2007. The Unbelievable Truth was included in Arnaldo de Souteiro's, "Top Ten Jazz CDs of the Year 2007 (category: special projects)" of the Brazilian daily newspaper Tribuna da Impresa.
The band is now managed by Leonardo Pavkovic at Moonjune Records and Management in New York. In 2008, they released Stories from the Shed (with cover art by British artist Marc Atkins), their first studio album in more than five years. Throughout the year 2008, the CD has received positive reviews from publications including Jazzwise,Guitar Player,Signal to Noise,Allmusic,Musica Jazz (July 2008), Jazz Review,Exposé (September 2008), and others. Their music has also been aired by radio channels all around the world; in November 2007, the Dutch National Radio devoted a one-hour program to the band's discography and their collaborations with Elton Dean, Annie Whitehead, Harry Beckett and Alex Maguire VPRO.
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