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track1; Reduced by Users
Greg Malcom - guitar, Lukas Simonis - guitar, electronics
Recorded, november 2003  & mixed, september 2004  by LS,  L6S Studio

track 2;  ZDF3 Better
Anne laBerge - electronics, flute, Lukas Simonis - guitar, electronics
Recorded & mixed by LS; first half of 2001, L6S Studio

track3; Menem3
Rohan Thomas - electronics. Lukas Simonis - electronics
Recorded & mixed by LS & Rohan thomas, october 2001, L6S Studio

track4; Get In The Pan Duck
Huib Emmer - guitar, Lukas Simonis - guitar
Recorded & mixed by LS, january 2004, L6S Studio

track 5;  222.222
Hilary Jeffery - trombone, Claudia Kapp - electronics, Nina Hitz - cello, Lukas Simonis - guitar, electronics.
Recorded & mixed by LS november 2003, L6S studio

track6; JULU #3
Julia Eckhardt - violin, Lukas Simonis - guitar
Recorded & mixed by LS, october 2004, L6S Studio

track7; A Cursing Brain #3
Henk bakker - electronics, Lukas Simonis - electronics
Recorded & mixed by Henk Bakker & LS, september 2001, L6S Studio

track8; H. Art. I Q late
Paolo Angeli - guitar, Lukas Simonis - guitar
Recorded & mixed by LS, march 2001, L6S Studio

track9; Their Very N Comb
Lucas Niggli - drums, percussion, Lukas Simonis - guitar
Recorded in Uster, Switserland, september, 2005, mixed by LS, october 2005 at L6S Studio

track10;  Steamboat # 61
Paul Dunmal - bagpipes, Lukas Simonis - ebow guitar
Recorded at Steim, Amsterdam by John Richards, november 2002, remixed at the Hilcave by Hilary Jeffery


total time; 57 minutes
thanks; everybody involved, leeKwang, Fonds Voor Scheppende Toonkunst
00010 Lukas Simonis: Collaborations
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Lukas Simonis has his roots as an instrumentalist and musical 'activist' in the industrial music and noise rock of the Eighties ( Throbbing Gristle, the Residents, Pere Ubu, Sonic Youth and beyond).Being a part of the Rotterdam jazzbunker scene (a collective that consisted of heavy drug induced punk rockers, freejazzers, early electronic musicians and pre-postrock combo's) he discovered the delimited world of improvisation. In the meantime he played in bands like Dull Schicksal, Trespassers W and Morzelpronk. At the same time he was writing for underground magazines like Trespassers W, Opscene, Mondain Den Haag and the Koekrandt as well as organizing concerts, events and films, first at the Jazzbunker in Rotterdam later on the Dissonanten festival, the Dissidenten festival, Popifilm, Dodorama and finally WORM, a multimedia centre for experimentel art.
‘Collaborations’ is his first ‘solo’ release, a result of the countless encounters with fellow-musicians, mostly in studio L6S, that sharpened and shaped Simonis’ thoughts about improvisation.

First of all it is a studio-record; allthough all the material is improvised on the spot, there’s been some editting and mixing; the final result being a listenable thing, rather the an ‘expressive’ or conceptual effort. 

Soon-to-be released; ‘Stots’ (z6 records) –the ‘real’ solo CD with Simonis on all instruments (mostly guitar that is).
Nowadays he is still doing a mixture of all these influences/periods, he collaborates with lots of people from different backgrounds. For instance; Apricot My Lady (with Ann La Berge and the Bohman Brothers), Vril (with Bob Drake and Chris Cutler), Goh Lee Kwang (Kuala Lumpur), Jim Whelton (London). Pierre Bastien(Paris/Rotterdam), Coolhaven (with Peter Fengler and Hajo Doorn), The static Tics (with Henk Bakker) and Liana Flu Winks (with Wilf Plum and Nina Hitz). He also makes programs and productions for WORM.
photo by roelof bos