Michel Delville

Who is Michel Delville?

Michel Delville is a musician, writer and teacher born in Liège, Belgium, in 1969.

He has been performing and composing alternative music since the mid-1980s. His most recent projects include the quintet The Wrong Object, douBt, Machine Mass feat. Dave Liebman, Alex Maguire's Electric 6tet, the New Texture Pan Tonal Fellowship, the Ed Mann Project, and the new Belgo-Dutch combo the Moving Tones. He has played and recorded with Dave Liebman, Elton Dean, Annie Whitehead, Harry Beckett, Richard Sinclair, Ed Mann, Alex Maguire, Dagmar Krause, Benoît Moerlen, Tony Bianco, Karen Mantler, Geoff Leigh, Markus Stauss, Guy Segers, Klaus Blasquiz, Gilad Atzmon, Dirk Wachtelear and others. The last few years have been a productive period, with recording and touring taking Delville to many different countries. Radio programmes about his musical works – and about the music he has written for The Wrong Object since 2002 – have been aired by RTBF, RAI3, RTC, VPRO, and many other independent TV and radio channels, and received positive reviews from publications such as Jazzwise, Down Beat, Guitar Player, Signal to Noise, Allmusic, Musica Jazz, Jazz Review, Exposé, and others independent magazines, e-zines and blogs.