The Wrong Object

Template:Future Blending psychedelic jazz with modern rock sensibilities, the music of The Wrong Object (2002-) is influenced by a vast array of artists ranging from Canterbury Scene prog rock à la Soft Machine and Gong to Béla Bartok, Aka Moon, Charlie Mingus and Frank Zappa. While their repertoire contains mainly original compositions, they also play a special set of Zappa covers on demand. The band's current line-up features Michel Delville on guitar, guitar-synth, voice & compositions, Damien Polard on bass and electronics, Laurent Delchambre on drums, Fred Delplancq on tenor sax and Jean-Paul Estiévenart on trumpet.

Since its creation in early 2002, The Wrong Object has played some sixty gigs in various venues ranging from small pubs to big festivals. Some of them were augmented by guest performances by the likes of Ed Mann, Elton Dean, Harry Beckett, Annie Whitehead, Marc Mangen, Domguè, Marco Maurizi, Nicolas Ankoudinoff, Clementine Gasser, Frogg Café, Jaap Blonk, and pataphysician-poet-vocalist Andrew Norris, whose work with the band culminated in a show held at the Galerie 2016 in Brussels on the occasion of Serge Vandercam's 79th birthday.

After a successful mini-tour of the UK, they performed at the 2004 “Zappanale” festival where they played a special gig featuring Zappa's percussionist Ed Mann. Their next projects “Elton Dean & The Wrong Object” and “The Wrong Object feat. Annie Whitehead and Harry Beckett” were documented by two CD releases issued by Moonjune Records and Voiceprint in the Spring of 2007.

A new live project involving Lol Coxhill and Alex Maguire will see the light in the Fall of 2007.

Discography

• Platform One (Voiceprint, 2007) Elton Dean and The Wrong Object,
• The Unbelievable Truth (Moonjune Records, 2006)
• Stories from the Shed (Moonjune Records, January 2008)
• The Wrong Object at Zappanale 2008 (DVD, forthcoming)

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