# Pierre Vervloesem

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

* Home Made (1994)
* Fiasco (1996)
* Chef d'Oeuvre (1999)
* Zala Zala (2000), with John Litton Baraï
* ...plays John Barry (2002)
* Grosso Modo (2002)
* Rude (2005)
* Not Even Close (2008)
* Unchained Melodies (2009), by Kings of Belgium
* Sketches of Pain (2010), by Caca
* John Koenig (2010)
* Grotesque (2010), by Codswallop
* Très fort (2011), by Kings of Belgium
* On dirait du singe (2012), by Ray Pinson
* Silence Science (2013)
* A Carbon Copy of Secrets (2022), a cover of Pink Floyd's A Saucerful of Secrets (1968)
* Wing-Chester (2018), with teun Verbruggen
* Undeletable (2018) by Simple
* Undeletable demo album (2018)
* Live at Pelzer Jazz House (2018), with teun Verbruggen and Adrien Lambinet
* Maité, het meisje en de vogel (2018) by Orchestra Exotica
* Plays Martin Denny (2018) by Orchestra Exotica
* Pot-pourri, Vol 1 (unreleased tracks) (2018)
* Pot-pourri, Vol 2 (unreleased tracks) (2018)
* Pot-pourri, Vol 3 (unreleased tracks) (2018)
* The Art Of Going Nowhere, Part 1&2 (2018)
* The Art Of Going Nowhere, Part 3 (2018)
* The Art Of Going Nowhere, Part 4 (2018)
* Invisible Quality (2018) with Alinovsky
* The Art Of Going Nowhere 1 extended (2018)
* The Art Of Going Nowhere 2 extended (2018)
* The Art Of Going Nowhere 3 extended (2018)
* The Art Of Going Nowhere 4 extended (2018)
* Artiste Belge (2019)
* Artiste International (2019) with Morgan Agren
* Quality Streets (2019) by Kings of Belgium
* Undeletable remixed (2019) by Simple
* Wonderful Viruses (2019)
* Sketches of Pain remixed (2020) by Caca
* John Koenig remixed (2020)
* Stardom (2020)
* Africa (2020)
* 1983 (2020)
* Ponorogo (2020)
* Influenza (2020)
* Haines (2020)
* Saint-Guy (2020)
* Lou Rick’s Island (2020)
* Folklorik (2021)
* Tâla Shit (2021)
* Ruder (2021)
* Don’t (2021)
* Electronicaca (2021)
* 2020 (2021)
* Dead (2021)
* The Weight of a threatening Blue Sky (2021)
* Pierre Vervloesem’s Flambant Neuf (2021) with bruno Vansina, Teun Verbruggen, Thomas Mayade, Falk Schrauwen
* Basses of May (2021)
* Young Talents (2021) by Pierre Vervloesem/Teun Verbruggen
* Minimal Tropical (2021)
* 30 Years of Succes (2022)
* Masterpieces of irish Folklore, Vol. 12 (2022) by Pierre Vervloesem/Eric Thielemans
* Not Even Close- Remastered and revised 2021 (2022)
* Tamtams (2022) by Pierre Vervloesem/Marc Van Eyck
* A Carbon Copy of Secrets (2022), a cover of Pink Floyd's A Saucerful of Secrets (1968)
* Zgouing (2022)
* Dark Matter 1- Dark Matter 2 (2022)
* Dark Matter 3- Dark Matter 4 (2022)
* Artsy-Fartsy (2022)
* Oh ! (2022)
* New Wave (2023)
* Underwater Adventures (2023)
* Expected Noises (2023) a cover of the album Unexpected Noises by Brian Brain
* Chicxulub (2023) by Pierre Vervloesem/Teun Verbruggen
* Let Fans Pay More If They Want (2023)
* Let Fans Pay Some More If They Want (2023)
* Dark Matter 5-Dark Matter 6 (2023)
* Hit Me With Your Stochastic (2023) by Pierre Vervloesem/Teun Verbruggen
* Spacequake (2023)
* Graviton (2024)
* Saucers (2024)
* Non-essential (2024)
* Sorry Louise couldn't come (2024) by Vansina / Verbruggen / Vervloesem
* Buch Der Dinge (2024) by Vervloesem/Kowalski/Verbruggen
* Lotta Boom Boom (2024)
* Cue Music For Unsolicited Movie (2024)
* Easy Solos (2024)
* Palm Bleach (2024)