COLLABORATIONS

"Activiste musical durant les années 80 (Throbbing Gristle, the Residents, Pere Ubu etc), aujourd'hui proche de Bob Drake, Chris Cutler, Pierre Bastien Première publication sous son nom, ce cd-r pour témoignage de quelques rencontres avec des camarades-musiciens, la plupart du temps au studio L6S."

"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.